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Cinema
Chinese films can be up to the Hollywood film
27 giugno 2007 06:00
da: The New York Times Homegrown blockbusters were supposed to be China\’s answer to Hollywood. And, to some extent, the extravagant budgets and eye-popping special effects of \”Curse of the Golden Flower,\”... [ Leggi tutto → ]
28 weeks is not enough to destroy a virus…
11 maggio 2007 06:00
da: The New York Times Nothing satisfies the appetite for allegory quite like a movie about flesh-eating zombies. Somehow the genre, at least as practiced by its masters, has the capacity to illuminate some brute facts about... [ Leggi tutto → ]
The hidden secrets of small Jindabyne
27 aprile 2007 06:00
da: The New York Times In the 1960s the town of Jindabyne was intentionally flooded by the damming of a river and left at the bottom of a newly created lake in the middle of the Snowy Mountains in southeastern Australia. Leggi... [ Leggi tutto → ]
A man looking out of a neighboring window!
13 aprile 2007 06:00
da: The New York Times In the sleek, paranoid world of “Perfect Stranger,” the Internet and the ugly side of human nature converge to evoke a treacherous corporate climate of multiple identities, high-tech spying, obsessive... [ Leggi tutto → ]
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Conflict between science and religion
13 aprile 2007 06:00
da: The New York Times The handsome wooden courtroom that has been erected on the stage of the Lyceum Theater is Christopher Plummer’s personal playground. This may sound like a frivolous description of a forum for the lofty and abidingly important debate that occupies “Inherit the Wind,” the 1955 drama that opened last night, also [...]
[ Leggi tutto → ]The inner revolution of a spy
9 febbraio 2007 06:00
da: The New York Times \”The Lives of Others\” is haunted by a piece of music called “Sonata for a Good Man,” composed for the film by Gabriel Yared and, at the same time, magically familiar to some of its characters. Like the story that surrounds it — a suspenseful, ethically exacting drama, beautifully realized [...]
[ Leggi tutto → ]Paul Verhoeven returns to fight again
7 gennaio 2007 06:00
da: The New York Times THERE are directors who are prone to controversy. And then there is Paul Verhoeven, a connoisseur of sex and violence whose four-decade career has played out against a more or less continual backdrop of condemnations and protests. Leggi l’articolo originale
[ Leggi tutto → ]Is that right obey our country or our feelings?
7 gennaio 2007 06:00
da: The New York Times THE obvious novelty of Clint Eastwood’s “Letters From Iwo Jima” is that this quintessentially — you might even say iconically — American filmmaker has made a World War II movie from the Japanese perspective. This does not mean, of course, that he is on the side of the enemy, but [...]
[ Leggi tutto → ]Lives under the regime in East Germany
7 gennaio 2007 06:00
da: The New York Times FOR years, at times almost obsessively, German cinema has been examining this country’s Nazi past and its troubled conscience. Yet the 45 years that East Germany spent under Communist rule has remained largely unexplored. Leggi l’articolo originale
[ Leggi tutto → ]England in 2027 by Alfonso Cuarón
7 gennaio 2007 06:00
da: The New York Times POP mythology meets political allegory in \’\’Children of Men,\’\’ one of the most vivid and plausible dystopian films ever made and among the most agonizingly beautiful. Agonizing because this is a film about the end of our world, a world that the film\’s director, Alfonso Cuar?insists — despite everything, despite [...]
[ Leggi tutto → ]The magic world of Beatrix potter
5 gennaio 2007 06:00
da: The New York Times In “Miss Potter,” Renée Zellweger, her face pickled in cheeriness, is Beatrix Potter, the creator of Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin and Mrs. Tittlemouse, among other beloved characters in children’s literature. Leggi l’articolo originale
[ Leggi tutto → ]What children learn from movies
5 gennaio 2007 06:00
da: The New York Times \’\’Mothers of America, let your kids go to the movies!\’\’ Always good advice, but the exhortation has dated a bit since 1960, when Frank O\’Hara made it the first line of his poem \’\’Ave Maria.\’\’ \’\’Going to the movies\’\’ has a quaint ring in the age of the plasma-screen home [...]
[ Leggi tutto → ]Claude Chabrol\'s \"Commedy of Power\"
5 gennaio 2007 06:00
da: The New York Times \”commedy of power\”is the name of Claude Chabrol’s latest film to be released in the United States, but the phrase could describe much of this director’s work. Though his films tend to be witty and ironical rather than laugh-out-loud funny, they often concern themselves with the behavior and misbehavior — [...]
[ Leggi tutto → ]The power of \"Perfume\" makes a man a murder
4 gennaio 2007 06:00
da: The New York Times Adapted from Patrick Süskind\’s clammy, high-toned international best seller, \”Perfume: The Story of a Murderer\” is of interest mainly as an example of what might be called the sensory imperialism of cinema. Leggi l’articolo originale
[ Leggi tutto → ]De Niro spy the CIA …
22 dicembre 2006 06:00
da: The New York Times \”The Good Shepherd,\” a chilly film about a spy trapped in the cold of his own heart, seeks to put a tragic human face on the Central Intelligence Agency, namely that of Matt Damon. The story more or less begins and ends at the Bay of Pigs. Leggi l’articolo originale
[ Leggi tutto → ]The war through the eyes of the enemy
20 dicembre 2006 06:00
da: The New York Times There are certain assumptions that American audiences, perhaps without realizing it, are likely to bring to a movie about World War II. The combat picture has been a Hollywood staple for so long — since before the actual combat was over — that it can sometimes seem as if every [...]
[ Leggi tutto → ]Rocky with hard body and soft heart
20 dicembre 2006 06:00
da: The New York Times Aw, ya can’t help but love da big Palooka! Under all dem muscles the champ’s still got a heart o’ gold. Leggi l’articolo originale
[ Leggi tutto → ]Obey the country or listen to feelings?
20 dicembre 2006 06:00
da: The New York Times There are certain assumptions that American audiences, perhaps without realizing it, are likely to bring to a movie about World War II. The combat picture has been a Hollywood staple for so long — since before the actual combat was over — that it can sometimes seem as if every [...]
[ Leggi tutto → ]L\'abilità di Resnais in \"Cuori\"
1 dicembre 2006 06:00
da: Corriere della Sera Sei personaggi (più uno che non si vede) in cerca di una trama che fa incrociare i rispettivi destini. Questa è la sintesi di Cuori, il film di Alain Resnais tratto dalla commedia «Private Fears in Public Places» di Alain Ayckbourn. Messo in scena dall\’ autore stesso due anni fa nel [...]
[ Leggi tutto → ]The life of young Mary
1 dicembre 2006 06:00
da: The New York Times It’s best to think of “The Nativity Story” as a Hollywood version of the kind of Christmas production some of the “Peanuts” kids put on in “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” This is not meant as a criticism. Quite the contrary. Leggi l’articolo originale
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