My Favorite Movies

Absolutely magnificent in any way -- and you can't help falling in love with the soundtrack. features some pretty fucked-up, visceral rock n'roll, the way rock n'roll is supposed to be. simply brilliant !!!!!!

P.S. Notes on the Soundtrack:
If the "Origin of Love"doesn't make you wanna sing or "the angry inch" probe you to dance and jump till you break your neck... then there must be absolutely someting wrong with you. LoL

there is only one rule of the fight club you should know of: don't miss this film.

we all love lola :) a breakthrough film for Tom Tykwer, a big step for film-making

Excellent! That's the word, and it's been a great while since it was the first and only word in my review :)

Tonight I feel like writing more, so here it is: if you've heard from people that this film was "slow" or "not funny", they simply don't get it. Don't trust them. See for yourself.

If nothing moves you: the silent choreography of a step by step acquaintance, the music, the sparkling nights of Tokyo, then we can tell definitely tell... you're not a romantic.

This film speaks from the heart, and it speaks without being verbose. Release your pent-up inner ear and listen: sometimes silence has too much to say.

simply brilliant!

excellent. one of those films that make you feel like flying when you get out of the theater. a great comment on burgeuoisie.

Essential Terry Gilliam ... and more. you want to watch this a few times to realize everything that has been going on.

you watch it again and again and you can never get enough of it!

awesome

great

unmissable

some of the best Hollywood adventures of all time.

excellent biopic!

can they repair the fucking film print? thanks

right on jason! oh wait a minute... that was his fake name or what?

because great adventures are like this!

i adore david fincher. I think this is a great film, a classic film, a film that makes you gasp no matter how many times you see it. I honestly think it's a masterpiece. even though it may seem too much to say for a young director who mainly did videoclips. I think Fincher is excellent. Morgan Freeman's role is a landmark for his career, and Kevin Spacey portrays one of the villains that will remain characteristic in the movie history. All in all, a great film. 5 out of 5 without any hesitation

oh well, you can't live without the usual suspects!

find the toilet, spike!

tobey spidey makes my day!

testing you to see where would you put your limits for liberty, V for Vendetta is excellent, in my huble opinion

an ode to liberation. almost perfect!

clever, well written, well acted, well shot! whatever you need to know about rhetorics in a nutshell.

good fun

you know you'll be laughing your ass off!

exceptional! the kind of film you need to see at least twice -- and this tells all you need to know :)

one of the most honest films about sex, ever, shortbus dares to reveal sexual and emotional problems, habits and passion, touching the human psyche, where it hurts the most. it's shocking, in a good way, and if you give it your attention for the whole 1 hour and 42 minutes, you'll never regret it. a few films have managed to talk about sexual orientation and sexual phantasy, laying open at the same time, the emotional depth behind them. it's an excellent piece of film-making and I believe John Cameron Mitchell managed to rise above himself after "Hedwig".

Of David Lynch's films, this one is my favorite by far. It made sense to me, even though apparently it didn't make sense to a lot of people... It was an emotional rollercoaster. I won't write much as I don't want to spoil anyone's experience. Anyhoo as in all Lunch's films, you have to look for an inner thread of sentiment rather than plot. It's all like a dream- choose your version of what is real and what is not and just ride along.

what a story. you just hope there was more of this kind of film-making today!

excellent- so funny and so beyond its time.

The director's absolute tour de force. Amazing staging, great performances, excellent script. A classic.

Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo), protagonist and anti-hero, is a young criminal on the run from the police, after stealing a car and killing a cop. He has an affair with a beautiful young American, Patricia (Jean Seberg), an aspiring journalist who sells the New York Herald Tribune in the middle of the Champs Élysées (Eva Green in Bertolucci's "The Dreamers" paid her tribute for this scene). Patricia is also expecting Michel's baby. She helps Michel to dodge the police, while they steal cars together in order to raise money for a trip to Rome.

Breathless is all style. The story line is interesting, but it is just an excuse. It's Godard's aesthetics, production modes, subject matters, and storytelling methods that are key. First of all, the whole movie was shot on a hand-held camera, just like most all New Wave pictures. It was, however, only shot by two people (Godard and his cinematographer, Raoul Coutard) on a budget that did not top $50,000, a mere fraction of what most pictures cost at the time (another facet of the New Wave). It was shot completely on location in Paris, and utilized new film-making techniques that would be used by film-making students for decades to come (such as putting the camera in a mail cart on the Champs Elysees and following Belmondo and Seberg). Note Godard's use of American cinema influence, and how the montage art of the 1950s impacted this aesthetic. [with thanks to a. parondi and izmatt]

I first paid attention to Iain Softley's work when I saw "K-pax". "Hackers" and "wings of the dove"... I thought they were ok. I even liked "the skeleton key" quite a bit.

With "Inkheart" he's probably doing some of his best work.

Great story- a good choice (Brendan Fraser is excellent) and even though it gets too "crowded" around the end, it's touching and thouroughly entertaining.

A very good film and by all means accessible to anyone, which is more than one would expect from Van Sant who's been experimenting in "Elephant" and "Lost days" the last few years. Decent performances, a good script and sound cinematography that has its small, superb surprises- like the "whistle" shot (no more spoilers) :) Watch it anyway and not only for the social albeit very important message of the fight against intolerance and homophobia.

Heartbreaking and honest, this is a great story. And it's told very well, too. Bravo to Emile Hirsch and Sean Penn.

I found myself not wanting it to end, even though it's a 2 and a half hours long film. no one should miss this movie. It's truly amazing.

I was waiting for this film to be released (like a proper Neil Jordan fan) and I was really glad I didn't miss it on theaters: an excellent effort to capture the psyche of an avenger. the only problem for the wider audience is the academic approach to it. Jodie Foster is as gripping as ever; yet another above-the-average Neil Jordan film, which I strongly recommend.

I had the luck to watch this years ago on the silver screen,during a retrospective of Cassavetes work. I watched this again on dvd and I would watch it again countless times. Far more than just a star's guilt trip or raging madness, this film was made for the love of the theatre. Painful, at times, very personal, seriously life-altering, and honest, with all the best qualities of John Cassavetes' work. Simply marvellous, beyond words.

one of my personal favorites. I adore this film. go watch why.

hilarious, over-the-top, genius comedy. excellent!

wow.what a tour de force. excellent story, excellent direction by Tony Gilroy, and excellent delivery by Clooney and everyone else, including all the supporting cast, Wilkinson and Swinton.don't miss this.

Atonement is a cinematic triumph. It uses every trick in the book and I think it even invents new ones... So that you actually watch what you'd think it'd be impossible to transfer to the screen. It's a literary movie --I don't think there is actually such a term, but this is just what describes it best. I enjoyed it as much as I would if I was reading a text.

It deserves every bit of the praise for the Oscar nomination it received, concerning the screenplay. I cannot think of a single film that has managed to make it to the screen SO WELL without the use of the voice-over. Brilliant screenwriting, Thumps up for Christopher Hampton..!

"Sideways" is a film about personal accomplishments - and what it means to be able to distinguish the good stuff from the bad stuff. Just like wine.
It's also about courage and moving on- and accepting one's failures. In retrospect, it's a brave, honest film that can also entertain you. Quite an accomplishment, if you ask me.

A typically underrated sci-fi flick, that also has something to say. Don't skip it, you'll be rewarded. I left the theater feeling very impressed (and still remember the experience). I think this says enough!

DDDDDUUUUDE is the KING!

this is great fun - esp. for music buffs

so very cinematic

"this is a robbery"! does anyone know who originally wrote the music theme? hahaha

you can't deny Bryan Singer's a mastermind. come on I think he's one of my favs even though I don't credit him othen enough. With this Wolverine... his Xmen films are simply impossible to resist

a punch in the stomach.

disturbing, and therefore, precious.

beautiful. mesmerising, joyful film-making, of the kind that you wish there was more. reality and dream mix - Percy Adlon knows the right doses. a happiness pill for easy riders and cool viewers. in my opinion, excellent. 5/5

as if not praised enough...! a movie to watch when you need to know what cinema is all about as an art and not only as merchandise.

a modern classic, and a work of art that remains with you long after you've experienced it. it's worth every second of viewing. Terry Gilliam's pride and joy.

one of the early Bertolucci masterpieces- immaculate cinematography, and a theme that has been theoretically analyzed SO much by academia that is reason enough not to mention more about it here. absolute classic and a must-watch-it for any serious film buff.

Very funny and NEVER boring, this smart piece of film-making plays on both industry standards: high school movies and investigative journalism. and it does so magnificently.

I had the luck to meet one of the writers, Kevin, back in UCD Ireland, and attended the same Film Course with him. His talent was evident even back in the day. One of his projects was choosen for filming - "Clarence" was the short film he did and it was a piece of excellent writing. Kevin's academic background is probably one of the reasons there is a reference to quite a few film classics ("Chinatown"and "Usual Suspects"among them).

I wish Kevin the best of luck, as he seems to be ready to embark on a pretty interesting creative career.

excellent! another Billy Wilder great piece of film-making, makes you go "ah... they don't make films like that anymore". Kirk Douglas is EXCELLENT as the opportunist reporter Chuck Tatum. I prefer him when he's playing the villain, I think his "heroic" persona is less convincing.

Of course this story has to do with media ethics and the exploitation of people as sources of information, that's why I like it so much. It is one of my favorite subjects and also the one I based my thesis on, so I can't be very objective- hahah. Anyway, this morality tale plays the hand to the end- just like the protagonist, with some very interesting results- for the audience.

Don't miss this film- rent it, download it, steal it... do what to have to do to watch :D

touching and magical. the best combination ever in a S. King's adaptation you'll ever see.

If you read Thomas Harris's novel, you'd be surprised how much of what the story is really about managed to make it into the film even though many of the original plot's details were disregarded or altered for the sake of a immediacy. we all know it's an excellent film- it's certainly a Jodie Foster/Anthony Hopkins blast, so why don't people give it more stars, I dunno.

Wow! All you twats out there, Rebecca is in town. Watch out... And learn to pronounce her name: it's Rebecca Neuenswander, and she kicks ass. Literally!

This amateurish film is a perfect dyke vehicle. Forget the Million Dollar Baby. There is no ring here, no gloves, just the street, a couple of hard fists tied up with tape and a lot of blood.

Unfortunately there isn't a director, too. Not of the caliber of Eastwood, of course. Considering that this is Dillon's first film, the outcome is impressive, though. The script itself is not so bad, it's actually quite smart- but the photography is uneven. Good at times, and very bad when you don't expect it to be. Chad Ortis delivers just fine. I wish the ending was different too- and not happy-go-straight, so that I could rate this with a 5.

loved it

"The Black Widow played by Stanwyck is an archetypal construction. Evidentally, Wilder deeply apprectiated the ambivalence of Cain"s novel and followed the narrative closely. While respecting Chandler's contributions, Wilder used the noir structure to color and restrict the romanticism of Neff's character and emphasize instead the doomed and obsessive qualities of his entanglement with Phylis's web. Supported by Seitz's photography and Miklos Rozsa's score, the ultimate noir statement of Double Indemnity is the characteristically unrelenting fatality of Neff's ride to the end of the line" (by B.L. in Film Noir-An encyclopedic reference to the American Style, Alain SIlver, Elizabeth Ward, eds.)

Film noir at its best. Stanley Kubrick in one of his earliest works, that is evidence of his genius. Haunting images fill the screen. A clown robber. An old Russian chess-loving wrestler. A parrot squaking next to his master's dead body. And once you've seen those bloody scars, running down on the face of a simpleton, it's a thing you'll never forget.

I won't say more about the plot or the characters cause I don't want to spoil it for others. I just want to point out that this film works on ALL levels and it features some unforgettable characters. As a story, as a performance, and as a cinematic piece of art. I hope you had the luck to watch this in theater when it was released again, in 2004. It would make an unforgettable experience for anyone on the silver screen. I would also most definitely watch this again on DVD (and I have). It's a film you want to see more than once.

Combining equal doses of drama and comedy, this entertaining piece of the crime genre is a must-see, not only for Ray Milland's star performance, but for the story's timing as well as execution. Based on Kenneth Fearing's novel, and directed by John Farrow, here is a suspenseful tale of a man racing against time, and as the proverb has it, eventually against his own boss (time=money=boss). If you loved "His Girl Friday" then this one won't disappoint you. Elsa Lanchester in the role of painter Patterson is a delight.

Another addition to Lang's masterful dark universe, this tale, of a professor going rogue for a night by circumstance, is gripping and thoughtful at the same time. The fact that it's all a dream sequence is Lang's way of winking at an older man's daydream. A resolution that you'd easily turn down in hands of other directors, yet here you can't help but enjoying it from the hands of the auteur. Recommended.

Watching Joan Crawford in this iconic role, you can't help admiring her natural talent. She gives Mildred Pierce a soul. She's got an integrity and the spirit of a fighter. Compared to this version of the story, the latest mini-series with Kate Winslet starring as Mildred seems depressing and colorless. Michael Curtiz's Oscar winning film is another original of unparalleled authenticity.

Criss-Cross is excellent on every technical aspect, has a story that's interesting enough, and so much star material that anyone can still sit down and watch it today, 63 years after it was originally conceived. What really shines through, though, is not the story, or the characters, but Robert Siodmak's great eye, from the interplay of shadows on the wall of Steve's favorite hangout pub, to the last second of the film, a tableu vivant of the two protagonists entangled in death, just like they did in life. Awesome!