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Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001)
Wonderful!
Is very obvious that this movie has been chosen as one of the nominees for this year's Oscar academy award.During the last two years France has been given good movies at all but there was nothing more better than this one.Audrey Tautou gives life to a somewhat sofisticated but shy and sweet at the same time young woman.She passes all the day imagining and dreaming things to get away from the rutine of her life.But suddenly she start to have some changes in her own world by metting a man whom she regards like the boy she couldn't met when she was a young little girl.She then decide to help everyone by changing their truth by a lie..but a lie that could even give life to a moribund old man or giving eyes to a blind man.Then after she is happy with her by helping almost everyone in a small town of Paris,she discovers Love.Now this will be a difficult work cause here there will not be any other Amelie...well who knows? The treatments of colour,the camera,the screenplay,the directing,soundtrack,actors and actresses,and almost all of the whole movie deserves a world wide success.
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Stayin' Alive
Who doesn't remember that song?¿? ah ah ah stayin' alive stayin' alive. Yeah! this movie was a classic!.If we are here to compare it with such movies as The Godfather,Apocalypse Now or Gone with the wind,of course most of the people or cinema critics will think this movie as a joke.But it isn't.Saturday Night Fever was considered in 1977 for liberal or funky people an icon movie such as Rebel Without A Cause was for young people in the 1950's.Today it can even be considered a cult movie.Of course that's only my opinion,but i can tell u i'm also a fan of The Godfather.John Badham made a great job directing this movie.He didn't made only a serious discomusic movie about,but also a movie where problems of young people were having on those days.John Travolta made the lead character of one of those young guys.With his ups and downs during the whole movie Travolta expresses a guy who have urges on being "someone" in this world,and yeah,he did a great job.So good that he was even nominated that year for Best Lead Actor.Need to say more...
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Un unforgettable trio
I have to tell that i was a great fan of Brando in The Godfather movie.But i nearly wasn't of his first movies he made.I mean i'm not a great fan of classic old movies...until i saw this Street Car named Desire.I suddenly was looking to all kind of old movies such as Cary Grant ones and even much older stuff.This movie at first looks like a typically family tragedy one.But no,it's more deep and even tragic than that.It's Tennesse Williams story and also Elia Kazan's direction that made this movie so controverted in that days.It was even censored part of it but now this can be helped cause it has been realesed on DVD with no cuts.Marlon Brando represents the anger and insatisfaction of a Kim Hunter husband,maybe even frustrated because of his social economic status in that ol' days.Kim Hunter makes a great performance representing her wife so that she won an oscar as best supporting actress.Hunter is a wife who's so in love with her husband that she can accept however he is.But she also sometimes can stand for Stanley(Brando's character) because of his rudeness even with the coming of Stella's(Hunter's character) sister,Blanche.Vivien Leigh made the character of Blanche.She is maybe with Brando and of course Hunter the three wonderful and of course unforgettable trio of this masterpiece made by Elia Kazan.
Magnolia (1999)
Chase that camera...
Chase that camera,please chase it...and Big Paul Thomas Anderson will introduce you to a world of freaks and nuts,or would i say to a world of normal human beings such as we are??.When you see this movie at first you'll probably know that for the first ten minutes it's gonna be a different movie than others.Of course we are talking of P.T Anderson,and he's not what we can call a normal director,isn't it?.The way he treats the characters and the scenes are marvellous exotic and at the same time very natural,so natural that it can even hurt you.Magnolia remembers me too much to the movie of Robert Altman Short Cuts or even Tarantino's Pulp Fiction.But only in the way of choosing many different characters exposing their lives and the way the camera show us their acting.Tom Cruise makes an excellent role of a somewhat Jimmy Swaggart of Sex Guru.Julianne Moore is also great giving life to a contradictory and neurotic regret wife who is terribly ashamed for how she has treated her husband,a millionaire moribund Jason Robards and finally the great pair of the movie,John C.Rilley and Melora Walters,a two different-world people falling in love cause their lives are so none-sence and sad to continue on.Magnolia will always be in your minds cause more than a simple and entertained movie...Paul Thomas Anderson has made A Little Piece Of Art.