Due immigrati provenienti dall’Europa dell’Est arrivano negli Usa per saldare un conto con un connazionale che li aveva traditi facendoli finire in prigione. Poi, interpretando un po’ liberamente il mito del Sogno Americano, decidono...

A typical American city where everyone lives with a constant and nasty fear of violence. Usually noirs in the fifties were settled at nights; it is the continous rain that creates here the sensation...

Un anonimo commentatore ha iniziato la sua recensione su IMDB dicendo “probabilmente è il più bel film che ho visto”. Tre quarti del pubblico presente in sala l’altra sera si è fatto scappare dichiarazioni...

An anonymous commentator started his review on IMDB writing “probably the best movie I’ve ever seen”. Three quarters of the audience last night was telling to the neighbour things like “horrible”, “how did they...

If Jim Carrey hadn’t been playing in this movie, it wouldn’t have been worth buying the ticket. Unfortunately he wasn’t the protagonist, so the movie became a flop. The ex-Jim Morrison and ex-Top Gun...

It was such a long time since I have been seeing this kind of movie. I imagine what you are thinking:”the typical american movie, full of sensational plastic scenes”. Well, I don’t agree: I...

Going to the cinema, you can always learn something, even with rubbish. “Liar liar”, for example: the story in itself is out, but, once again, we can admire Jim Carrey as a good performer...

A movie by: Jennifer Alleyn Manon Briand Marie-Julie Dallaire Arto Paragamian Andrè Turpin Denis Villeneuve A little canadian movie, independent on the production but, most of all, independent from the fist draft. Made by...

“Cuba Libre” is a movie about Italian passion for Fidel’s island, but it is not at all a political movie: everything is based on the relationships between Italians and Cubans, showing different types of...

by Peter Cattaneo Life’s drama is well told through a correct use of the mechanism of comedy. This allows the movie to alternate funny situations and reflection on today’s pains. The outcome is of...

by David Fincher An eerie sensation struck me at first when I saw the new David Fincher film: a kind of bewilderment mixed with a faint anxiety, and a bad suspicion: I had a...

Starring Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Bridget Fonda and Robert De Niro. Directed by Quentin Tarantino (Miramax) Tarantino confirms his mastery in setting up dialogues and his extrordinary ability in giving life to characters...

A poor but interesting movie. A badly written story, somewhat unoriginal, hardly funny and exciting. Nonetheless it’s well shot, with a particular use of colours and, in an agreeable way, typically Aussie. The players,...

by Curtis Hanson It’s an outstanding movie, re-proposing one of the genres in which cinema has always expressed itself at its best: the fifties’ noir. A great director of photography reconstructs gingerly and with...

by Joel & Ethan Coen The Coen bros. confirm their cinematographic culture. Principally the first part of the movie raises a wholesome fun in the audience. I have to say that in the second...

by Joel & Ethan Coen After two disappointing works like The Hudsucker Proxy and Fargo the Coens come back with this new film to the high levels customary in their first movies. No moralistic...

Directed by Joel but, as usual, written by both the Coen brothers, The big Lebowski is once again a spot-on movie: ironic, intelligent, masterly grotesque, played by absolutely-extraordinary actors, written and directed in a...

Original title Meia Noite Directed by Walter Salles Daniela Thomas Written by Emanuel Carneiro Walter Salles Daniela Thomas Produced by Haut et Court (fr) Almost a short, but a very well made short: in...

by G. Verbinsky A convincing start on the big screen for the director of the very pleasant commercial with beer and ant-eater vs. ants. An unbiased mix among American slapsticks from the thirties, the...

(words, words, words) by Allan Resinous I had fun all through the movie laughing away that big mess that life is. Some great authors don’t disappoint. Severity always drives them higher. Not many of...

by B. Levinson Sure enough there’s nothing classic or traditional. Direction is nothing of your usual comforting slop, but, instead, a concoction of experiments and camera movements (interesting and well thought through). Screenplay is...

(Figli di Annibale) by Davide Ferrario A good movie? A horrible thing? Innovative? Boring? I’m hardly at ease in describing this latest work by Ferrario, an author that — I have to concede —...

by Mario Martone Usually Italian movies are bad, often horrible, at times disgusting indeed. Who emerges from this slime is habitually the serious, educated, learned professional; but seldom he or she’s really talented, so...

by Ciprì & Maresco When the talk, particularly an appreciative one, is about new Italian authors, names of directors such as Ferrario, Calopresti, Mazzacurati, Virzì and Soldini are singled out while Ciprì & Maresco...

by Danny Boyle This is really a tremendous movie, because it sinks an author, Danny Boyle, that had raised high expectations with a promising film like Trainspotting. He has utterly sold off to the...

di Abel Ferrara(U.S.A., 1995) Premetto che ho visto il film al cinema per fortuna… Come è noto infatti, la distribuzione di questa pellicola di Ferrara in Italia è stata praticamente inesistente. E’ molto probabile...

compralo ! Airbag è quel congegno che ci salva la vita (a Trussardi meno) gonfiandosi d’aria in caso d’incidente. Questo è il nome di un film che viene dall’immaginario americano e arriva, filtrato da...

compralo! Dal tracollo alla risalita. Dalla fotografia dello squallore più marcio all’ottimismo naif dell’adolescenza. In un’unico racconto, miserie e rivincite della borghesia americana/mondiale condite da torbide vicende condotte da terribili lolite di inizio secolo....

compralo! Dolorosa presa di coscienza della dissoluzione della famiglia, American Beauty, è la scomoda rappresentazione di una umanità prostrata e dolente, approdata ormai da tempo al porto della finta sicurezza. È la tragica storia...

di Mimmo Calopresti(Italia, 1998) Un film italiano dalle atmosfere francesi. Un po’ perché è una co-produzione, un po’ perché Valeria Bruni Tedeschi si divide tra i due paesi, un po’ per il simpatico cameo...