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The King of Fellini Films

Advantages: autobiographical, symbolic, surreal, heavy, dramatic, italian
Disadvantages: none at all

...film is loosely based on Fellini's own life and fast times in 1950s Rome. Marcello Mastroianni portrays Guido who is desperately trying to get his film finished, but has no idea how to end it. Throughout the film, Fellini uses (and creates) some of cinema history's most amazing images through techniques like flashbacks, slow dissolves and the shadowplay should have won it's own award. This film also marks a change in the style of film Fellini himself ...
...of his career. Gone are the Neorealistic masterpieces of his younger years "I Vitelloni" "Il Bidone" and "Nights of Cabiria" were all amazing films, but to watch 8 1/2 you wouldn't believe its by the same man. Fellini began heavily visual films after this movie, and went to some extremes with this as well ( see "Satyricon"). This is one of those movies that anyone interested in the true masterworks that changed the face of world cinema should not ...

snag2772 22.05.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Fellini's 8 1/2 (DVD)

"Only two kinds of creatures get fun in the desert."

Advantages: A film in which you can smell, see and feel the desert - perfection.
Disadvantages: Some think it's too long - they are wrong!!

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA DIRECTED BY DAVID LEAN INTRODUCTION Anyone who has been following my recent film and DVD reviews (and if you have, thank you!!) would be forgiven for thinking that this was David Lean season!! David Lean has produced so many of my favourite films and is without doubt one of our finest directors. I am nearly at the end (stop cheering) of my reviews of his work - although there are still a couple tucked away ...
...film making ever. Lawrence of Arabia gained a grand total of 7 Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Musical Score, Best Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Sound and Best Art Direction) in the Academy Awards ceremony of 1962. This review is about the adaption of Lawrence of Arabia on the Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2 disc DVD released on 9 April 2001 When the original film was made it was 222 minutes long, which is close to 4 hours! ...

oldchem 11.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Lawrence Of Arabia (DVD)

A Sweet, Innocent Yet Corrupted Man

Advantages: Excellently acted and written, great storyline, great ending
Disadvantages: None

...having heard excellent things about Lolita it is likely that I would have stayed up to watch it anyway. Although the subject matter sounded a bit perverse, the fact that the film is over forty years old and is still hailed as being brilliant made me more than a little interested to watch it. So I settled down with a couple of friends at 1am to watch a classic film about paedophilia. No, really. 'Lolita' is the 1962 film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's ...
...Sue Lyon playing Humbert and Lolita respectively remaining believable and true to character throughout. Sue Lyons was a pretty teenager, but not overwhelmingly gorgeous, which makes Humbert's infatuation seem more innocent and childlike than if she'd been an overly beautiful girl. Lyons plays the part of Lolita superbly, and is utterly convincing as a tease with a mix of maturity and immaturity that makes her a fascinating character. Ok, so many ...

charlsayslol 16.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Lolita (DVD)

Still Astonishing Today - w/ DVD UPDATE

Advantages: Hypnotic film with an understated yet compelling performance by Florence Carrez.
Disadvantages: -

...illiterate, 19-year-old peasant woman in the early 15th century become such a headache for the Bishop of Beauvais and his English controllers? Well, that 19-year-old just happened to have made history by leading thousands of French soldiers to triumph over the English occupiers in the final phase of the Hundred Years' War (1337 to 1453). Even more amazing, that same woman had had no previous military training whatsoever. And yet the armies followed ...
...big, history-making results, as in the eventual retreat of the English from France in 1453. That woman, as you might guess, was Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc to the French). Some Background. So how exactly did she accomplish such feats? We get some illumination on the enigma of Joan from the amazingly preserved transcripts to her Trial of Condemnation held in Rouen in 1431. After a string of victories, Joan's fortunes began to turn, until her capture ...

zerbine28 25.03.2006 · Read full review
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Review of The Trial Of Joan Of Arc (DVD)

Excellent movie but not as a first choice

Advantages: very different
Disadvantages: very specific, very russian

well... if you haven't seen Tarkovsky movies before I wouldn't recommend to buy this movie as a first choice Ivan Childhood is v-e-r-y Russian so you might find it too long and too boring. I did when i watched this video for the first time. If it happened to you as well you wouldn't probably consider to view Tarkovsky' movieagain. And it would be a shame because his is a great figure in Russian and European video cultures. His movies are not really ...
...in it - i personally finds things daunting if they are about 1 or 2 major thoughts stretched over considerably long time. Tarkovsky's movies are very long and they are nearly all about one two ideas that his is methodically and very artistically presents. I can compare his movies with books by Proust or Joice. You you like this type of reading you will be over moon Ivan Childhood. But if you are not into someone's reflection about social and cultural ...

sleepybaby 25.07.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Ivan's Childhood (DVD)