Time: 99 Minutes Age Rating: Violence, offensive language, sexual references & nudity Cast: Ralph Fiennes as Monsieur Gustave H. Tony Revolori as Zero Moustafa F. Murray Abraham as Mr. Moustafa Adrien Brody as Dmitri Willem Dafoe as J. G. Jopling Saoirse Ronan as Agatha Tilda Swinton as Madame D. Edward Norton as Albert Henckels Mathieu […]
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) Review
Viewed – 10 October Blu-Ray Everyone knows the song… ‘Born To Be Wild’ by Steppenwolf – it’s probably the most famous thing about this 1969 classic road movie, and along with its cast of Hollywood rebels like Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson – the movie was destined for the history books. Yet does […]
Easy Rider
Welcome to The Best Movies I’ve Never Seen! This is the part of the blog where I work my way through 100 films I’ve neve seen that are generally considered to be great. You’re invited to watch along with me if you can find a copy or find it streaming. So grab some popcorn and let’s […]
97 – In the Mood for Love
Beth (Sophia Lillis) is an impressionable young woman starting college in New York City, which is just about as far as she can get, both physically and mentally, from her hometown, the small working-class hamlet of Creekville, South Carolina, where the spectre of the past still lingers, despite being well into the 1970s. As a […]
Uncle Frank (2020)
Audrey Hepburn wears the crown as golden age actress of class from her era. In every role, she carries herself with the ethereal grace of a princess. Even in her quintessential black leggings and flats, she remains the icon of fashion, elegance, and simplicity. In Sabrina, she plays the innocent chauffeur’s daughter in love with […]
SABRINA (1954) movie review
MY CALL: Despite being a practically witchless witch movie with clunky storytelling, much of Argento’s unique style reserves a place in the halls of classic horror film appreciation. As far as “witch movies” go, I’d consider this the weakest of his Three Mothers trilogy. MOVIES LIKE Suspiria: Well, there’s the original Suspiria (1977) and its […]
John’s Horror Corner: Inferno (1980), another of Argento’s ‘style over substance’ classics about a witch.
Hannah Arendt is a biopic about the political theorist and author of The Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, among other scholarly works. It’s not a study of her whole life, however, or even close to it; at least 90% of the film concerns Arendt’s aforementioned book […]
Hannah Arendt [subtitled in part]
“Elimizde Kalan Sadece Duygularımız” Oscar’lı yönetmen Paolo Sorrentino’nun yazıp yönettiği Youth adlı film, içleri ısıtacak bir sinema şöleni. Yetenekli yönetmen 2013 yılında Muhteşem Güzellik filmi ile Oscar kazanmıştı. 2015 yılına gelindiğinde ise Paolo Sorrentino; başrollerinde Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz gibi isimlerin bulunduğu Youth ile beyaz perdeye geri dönmüş ve büyük başarı yakalamıştır. Belirli bir […]
Günün Filmi; Youth, 2o15 (Paolo Sorrentino)
“She was the wrong wedding planner!” says Detective Jones (Vivica A. Jones) in the Lifetime film, The Wrong Wedding Planner, and Detective Jones has a point! Typically, a good wedding planner will put together a memorable wedding without trying to kill the bride. I mean, I’m sure that there have been murderous but talented wedding […]
Lifetime Film Review: The Wrong Wedding Planner (dir by David DeCoteau)
Jason Segel, Dakota Johnson ve Casey Affleck’in yer aldığı gerçek bir hikayeden uyarlanan “Our Friend” filmi sinema severlerin tatlı bir heyecan yaşamasını neden oldu. Aynı zamanda bu gün itibariyle fragmanı yayımlanan film için beklentiler yüksek. Gravitas Ventures, Gabriela Cowperthwaite tarafından yönetilen, Jason Segel, Dakota Johnson ve Casey Affleck’in oynadığı gerçek bir hikayeyi anlatan eserin 22 Ocak […]
Jason Segel, Dakota Johnson ve Casey Affleck’in yeni filmi; Our Friend
I’m not sure what any of us expected from Hillbilly Elegy, but if it was a good film, it seems to have been something of a tall order, and one that simply could not be met in any conceivable way by a film that seems, more than anything else, entirely unnecessary to begin with. Naturally, […]
Hillbilly Elegy (2020)
Robert Wiene’nin yönettiği Dr. Caligarini’nin Muayenehanesi, Alman dışavurumcu sinemasının en önemli örneklerindendir. Film, bankta yanında biriyle oturan Francis adlı bir adamın, geçmişte yaşadığı korkunç anılarını anlatmasıyla başlıyor. Korku türü olan Dr. Caligari’nin Muayenehanesi, bölüm bölüm ayrılmış şekilde ilerliyor ve altı bölümden oluşuyor. Sessiz sinema dönemine ait, bu yüzden konuşma yok. Oyuncuların konuşması ekrana ara yazı […]
Alman Dışavurumculuğuna En Başarılı Örnek: Dr.Caligari’nin Muayenehanesi (1920), Robert Wiene
Rus sinemasının en önemli yönetmenlerinden olan Andrey Zvyagintsev, yaptığı filmlerle tüm dünyayı etkilemeyi başarıyor. Oyunculuk ile başladığı sinema kariyerine hem senaristlik hem de yönetmenlik yaparak devam eden Zvyagintsev, bu kararının ne kadar doğru olduğunu kazandığı ödüller ile gösteriyor. Bugünkü yazımda sizlere, yönetmenin kendi ülkesinde oldukça eleştirilen 2014 yapımı “Leviathan” isimli ödüllü filminden bahsedeceğim. Film, deniz […]
Rusya’nın Kabul Görmemiş Filmi: Leviathan (2014), Andrey Zvyagintsev
A lot is simmering below the surface of Proxima, the daring space drama (which doesn’t actually show the proverbial “final frontier” at all, one of several fascinating directorial decisions made in the creation of this film) from Alice Winocour, who plucks a number of timely, incredibly relevant themes and throws them together into what can […]
Proxima (2020)
Title – The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Director – David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia) Cast – William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa Plot – A group of British and American POW’s during WW2 find themselves helping the Japanese forces build a giant bridge to accommodate the Burma-Siam railway as the fiercely […]
Classic Review – The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Güzel bir anın hemen öncesinin tadına varmak istediğiniz zamanlarda izlenmesi gereken bir film. Miles Raymond, bütün hayatı bir yazar olabilme hayalleriyle geçmiş, ama evliliğindeki gibi mesleğinde de başarısız olmuş, bir İngilizce öğretmenidir. En yakın arkadaşı Jack ise, hiç kimse tarafından tanınmayan bir televizyon oyuncusudur ve evlenmek üzeredir. Miles’ın son yazarlık denemesi de başarısızlıkla sonuçlanınca en […]
SIDEWAYS ( ALEXANDER PAYNE, 2005)
When composing the canon of great American films, there is one in particular that occupies a very strange space – Elmer Gantry is a film mostly remembered for the dynamic performance given by Burt Lancaster, who was already one of the industry’s most interesting leading actors, and very little else. Richard Brooks was a filmmaker […]
Elmer Gantry (1960)
Christopher Nolan’ın yazıp yönettiği bir bilim kurgu filmi Inception! Leonardo DiCaprio, yetenekli ve zeki “Dom Cobb” karakteri ile karşımıza çıkıyor.
INCEPTION
On a hilly stretch of French road, American friends Kyle (Kyle Marvin) and Mike (Michael Angelo Covino) puff and gasp through a bike ride that’s just hit its toughest patch. Kyle is getting married. Mike is his best man. The two have been friends since childhood, and their banter is easygoing and cheerful. Or at […]
The Climb – Movie Review
Image Courtesy of Wikipedia This movie was based on a comic book character named Bloodshot. Bloodshot was originally an US Marine, named Ray, who was kidnapped along with his wife by mercenaries. The leader Axe killed his wife and him when he wouldn’t comply. Or so he thought….. Ray wakes up to find himself in […]
Movie Review: Bloodshot