Streaming
Blackness, greed and one step further
Play dirty. (Amazon Prime), directed by Shay Blake, starring Mark Wahlberg
Film
Like salami to be cut
Sedef-fog, directed by Milorad Milinković, starring Petar Strugar, Miloš Timotijević, Milena Predić, Siniša Dugalić
Cinema
A director who can do anything he wants
One battle after another, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson,
starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tiana Taylor, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro
Streaming (HBO Max), Documentary
The invention of family and identity
In her daughter's film, Jane Mansfield gets the chance for the first time to be seen as a real woman of flesh and blood, with all the virtues and flaws, and not a mere projection of men's sexual fantasies about an insatiable busty blonde. On the other hand, Ashley April and Amanda Lear bring their multiple identities to the stage, embracing and rejecting them. Actually, playing with them
Cinema
The dark path of Snow White and other failures
Snow White, "Disney", directed by Mark Webb,
screenplay by Greta Gervin and Erin Cressida Wilson,
starring Rachel Zegler, Andrew Burnup and Gal Gadot
Documentary film
What is and what should always be
Becoming Led Zeppelin, directed by Bernard McMahon, Sony Pictures Classics (121 minutes)
Cinema - Lust
A little about the pain of sensuality in the era of intimacy coordinators
In a Europe with already canceled borders, France and the Netherlands do not have a common border (the one of the old coin), and it could be said that the Netherlands does not fall into the sphere of cultural and cultural influence of France, which is significantly larger and more significant, and as a primary common content, a divided and functional Belgium
Cinema: Better man
Evolution in the guise of a chimpanzee
Better man is certainly a huge step forward on the path to full authorial daring, which in turn cannot be an end in itself
Cinema: Nosferatu
Essentially unnecessary
New Nosferatu is a solid film in which excellent cinematography, costumes and scenography stand out, but which, when everything is added and subtracted, is not even comparable to its predecessors
Cinema (2): Spoon
Green lives matter
Spoon it definitely deserves to be seen on the big screen, it is an adaptation that has a lot to offer, but which is actually quite shallow and superficial
Cinema - Parthenope
In the jaws of material fatigue
Parthenope, as Sorrentino presents and directs her, is essentially an unlikable character who is essentially a paper construct and not much more or wider than that.
Author's Film Festival 2024 (2)
Five not so easy pieces
Naturalism is present as a common content in all five films that will be discussed here
Cinema: Adjacent room
About friendship and death
Film Adjacent room represents a new phase in the career of the seventy-five-year-old author: it is his first feature film in English and the first film with a (mostly) non-Hispanic cast.
Author's Film Festival 2024: Emilia Perez
Do you like masterpieces?
The musical, as always a somewhat forced and theatrical form, requires considerable suspension of disbelief and extreme benevolence of the audience, which requires that the plot deals with typical, tried-and-tested, commonplace and reduced themes, and here Odijaru succeeds in creating momentum of an operetta range, where everything somehow larger than life, and on the other hand, strongly and thoroughly imbued with life and reality
Cinema: Gladiator II
Pretty silly… but a spectacle
When it was already decided to film the sequel, it could have been done a little more elegantly
Cinema: The Apprentice - The story of Trump
No fists over the face
This film by Abbasi is, it seems, a sufficiently sincere and thoughtful attempt to remove Trump's fists from his face, and then as convincingly as possible to present a portrait of a man who, even when he suffers, does not give up the possibility (which is not only a reflection of alpha male and competitive urges) to suffer inflicted on others as well, even if they belonged to the circle of his closest "satellites"
Cinema - Monster i Aeneas
On the landslide of vague identities
We could also introduce "gentrification of the soul" as a motive, which then brings us to the conclusion of two more "exotic" arthouse films that have quietly crept into the repertoires of the few cinemas still willing to deal with films of that genre.
Cinema: Substance
Dysmorphia, or white people's problems
Substance in the first place and in the conceptual sense, it is a superb presentation of the nightmare of dysmorphia, that is, a serious mental disorder and the endemically widespread inability to have a realistic image of one's own appearance (and shape).
Cinema: All faces of goodness
He wanted a lot, started a lot
Lantimos' new film certainly "has its moments", but it is certainly one of the weakest achievements in his filmography so far. It's not a point-blank shot, but it's far from hitting the center of the target. It is obvious that Lanthimos rushed the new film without paying enough attention to the script, and that he filmed a three-hour bizarreness that is, more or less, an end in itself.
From the translation workshop
We are sinking, but we are catching up
Great beauty the story is about eternal Rome, perhaps such a film could not be created outside of Rome, about the beauty and emptiness of Rome, the eternal Rome of wisdom and the everyday Rome of stupidity. It is - as the main character says - a place where the most interesting people are tourists. The Romans are thus drowning in their brocade wasteland, in the barrenness of discotheques, killing the remnants of the time given to them by escapist dancing at collective dance parties or having bourgeois conversations about Marxism with expensive drinks.
Cinema: Beetlejuice, beetlejuice
Slime everywhere
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice is a perfectly decent and usable repertory film which will be enjoyed by fans of the first part and which, perhaps most importantly, will get some new kids interested in Burton's directorial oeuvre
Cinema - The eighth passenger: Romul
The eighth passenger, the ninth journey
With some smarter moves and re-edits, this could have been a much better movie. But its derivativeness and the need to "hang on" to famous role models is so great that it kills any possibility of getting something that is at least partially original.
Cinema: 3211
A hybrid hit
Realization 3211 is a combination, actually a braid made up of drama parts and documentary, i.e., monologue confessional segments in which Stefan Đurić Rasta talks about his life and biography, as well as his incorrigible nature
Cinema: Oppenheimer
Apocalypse at the push of a button
Oppenheimer is the story of a man who put a weapon of mass destruction in the hands of politicians, a bomb the likes of which the world had never seen before. Playing with time flows, black and white and color photography, Nolan slowly builds his story. The three-hour duration of the film should give him enough space to say and show everything he wants. However, a lot of it is just skimmed over
Cinema - Broker
Next stop: Proximity
Within a naturalistic expression, and with enough tact in terms of a convincing bifurcation of both the story and its meanings, Korieda se A broker returned to settings known from the fund of effective solutions from American independent film