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Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
Federico Fellini
Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
Federico Fellini
Reviews 54
Stage Fight
for To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Do you know Ernst Lubitsch and the Lubitsch touch ? If you don't, great pleasures and delights of cinema await you. Elegance and subtlety ! Let's start with a masterpiece : « To Be or not to Be »....
Written on May 02, 2022
Angry Hearts
for Wuthering Heights (2011)
First of all, I must say that this novel is one of my favorite books ever. But when it comes to adapting a novel for the screen, the fact of it being accurate or faifhtful is irrelevant. Indeed any...
Written on May 03, 2022
An island Called Desire
for Wild River (1960)
An America torn between two eras, a world replaced by another one, causing a fear of the unknown and of the future, an insularity. All this sounds very modern and reminds us of the recent elections...
Written on May 05, 2022
The Least of Eden
for Il giardino dei Finzi Contini (1970)
1970. Vittorio de Sica directed what is unanimously regarded as his last great movie. The script was written, let's not forget it, by Valerio Zurlini, whose work MUST be rediscovered, among which «...
Written on May 09, 2022
Two Lovers
for Two for the Road (1967)
Everybody knows Stanley Donen and his famous «Singing in the Rain", or "On the Town », even « Charade » maybe. But, comparatively, only a few have seen « Two for the Road » ; The movie tells about...
Written on May 18, 2022
Red Harvest
for Days of Heaven (1978)
In 1974, Terence Malick released his first movie : Badlands, the murderous drifting of two juvenile lovers in a deserted and rural America. A rare gem where, if we look back, we can see the seeds...
Written on November 07, 2022
Be Kind, Rewind!
for Tenet (2020)
After watching Tenet, I am quite puzzled. It's not a bad movie. It's well directed, has its peak moments, operatic and virtuosic. The actors do a really good job. Then where does my feeling come...
Written on November 11, 2022
Arizona Dream
for Broken Arrow (1950)
«Broken Arrow», the first western movie by Delmer Daves, was released in july 1950. In september came «Devil's Doorway», the first western by Anthony Mann. Coincidence ? Something was in the air...
Written on March 01, 2023
Highway To Hell
for Devil's Doorway (1950)
In september 1950, «Devil's Doorway», the first western by Anthony Mann came out. «Broken Arrow», the first western movie by Delmer Daves, had been released in july. Coincidence ? Something was in...
Written on March 02, 2023
Monsters, Inc.
for I mostri (1963)
1963. Dino Risi at his best. In two years he shot six (!) movies, among which masterpieces such as « Il sorpasso » and « Una vita difficile ». In 20 sketches, Risi reinvented Italian comedy :...
Written on August 15, 2023
