The last film was shot and I put my camera and flash in my bag. One last cigarette before I would head home, and I watched the buzz around me that got slowly muted by the upcoming dawn. The waiters started picking up glasses and shards around the pool; carefree beauties swimming and kissing between …
The now cryogenized Walt Disney, awaiting his resurrection at minus 180 degrees Celsius, conceived and realized a deep-frozen infantile world full of regressive imaginations and phantasms through his movies. Movies that taught especially American society on how to notoriously sugar-coat, and which established an entire unhealthy system of values and ideals, mostly beauty ideals that …
#9 Naomi Watts & Laura Harring. Mulholland Drive is the gift that keeps on giving. Like most of David Lynch’s non-linear storylines, there is something new to be seen or deduced with each viewing. Long before Black Mirrors ‘Bandersnatch’ got everyone’s panties in a twist, Lynch had been inviting us all to choose our own endings by travelling through …
You may haven’t seen any or very few of his films, but I assure you that you have heard his name before: Alfred Hitchcock. The British director (with American nationality), is recognized as one of the greatest minds in cinema history as “The Master of Suspense.” With films in his repertoire such as Spellbound (1945), …
#8 Jack Nicholson & Jessica Lange Lana Turner described this remake of James M. Cain’s novel (1931) as ‘pornographic trash‘. Having portrayed the alluring Cora Smith already in Tay Garnett’s 1946 remake of the same novel, she seemed qualified to say this, despite not seeing the remake in completion herself. The novel is steamy and fierce. …
#6 Robert DeNiro and Bridget Fonda Tarantino’s Jackie Brown is my AK-47. Accept no substitutes. Aside from the slickness of the script, the funky unstoppable score throughout, the film just exudes sex and style. There is not much to say about the 10 second sex scene between Robert De Niro and Bridget Fonda, but its …
#4 Mickey Rourke & Lisa Bonet Never before has a film captivated me as much as Angel Heart. At an early age I started a polygamous relationship with it, marrying three of my favorite things: Mickey Rourke, the Occult and Chicken. My relationship with the latter is really quite simple, each Sunday a chicken is …
“American Beauty”, directed by Sam Mendes, tells us the story of Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey), a middle-aged man who fears getting old, loses faith in true love, and is not respected by those who know him better. Lester is despised by his teenage daughter, ignored by his wife, and not satisfied with his work. “Somehow, …
bUniversal Pictures producers Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown purchased the film rights for JAWS in 1973, before the book by Peter Benchley was published and became a huge bestseller. They were fascinated by the thrilling plot, though in retrospect they admitted that if they had given the novel a second read, they would have …
