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Notes: I haven't seen this one yet...
“Well, it had been more than a decade since Nick Park had delivered a new movie so, of course, I was quite eager to check his latest directing effort. I had to admit that I was slightly worried after my 11 year old daughter made me watch the trailer but, fortunately, it was still a decent watch. Firs” read more
“Since this movie had been a huge box-office hit in 2017, I was quite eager to check it out. Well, to be honest, even though I wasn't completely bored while watching this, it still didn't really blow me away though. First of all, even if the classic animated version from 1991 has a really stellar r” read more
“When I heard that RZA, the leader of the Wu Tang Clan, was coming with his own martial-arts flick, it sounded like something quite amazing. Eventually, it took me longer than expected to watch the damned thing and, after all, it turned out to be a decent watch but not much more, I'm afraid. First of” read more
Notes: First of all, let's be obvious, would anyone really care about it if it would have been directed by another really obscure artist? I seriously doubt it but I have to admit that it was still an interesting watch though. First of all, it did help that I did read 'A Clockwork Orange' and saw Kubrick's version a couple of times, otherwise, I would have been completely unable to follow the damned thing. Concerning the directing, was it really artistic or just really amateurish? Again, it is hard to tell but it is something that might be said about all the Art work delivered by Warhol. And, yet, there was still something quite mesmerising about the damned thing and, somehow, he did manage to bring other the nihilism and the oppressive feeling from this classic book. Still, I'm glad that it was fairly short as it became increasingly random and chaotic towards the end. 
Notes: I haven't seen this one yet...
Notes: Back in those days, after making only one full length feature in Poland (the also brilliant ‘Nóz w wodzie’), Roman Polanski didn’t hang around very long and took off pretty much right away to start an international career. Eventually, his first stop would be in England and, there, he made his first genuine masterpiece. Indeed, if his directing debut was pretty impressive, this sophomore effort was just quite mind-blowing. Basically, there was no much plot whatsoever, but instead, you were immersed into the nightmarish world of the main character played by the ultimate Ice Queen, Catherine Deneuve. The juxtaposition of her incredible natural beauty with her obvious mental meltdown was just one of a kind and one of the most spellbinding depiction of madness you'll ever see on the silver screen. From the very beginning, it was pretty obvious that Polanski was not interested in stereotypical righteous heros and he would rather give us some twisted and rather messed up characters, something I always found much more compelling to behold. 
“Yesterday, I saw 'Byzantium' which was the most recent movie directed by Neil Jordan so I decided to watch afterwards another movie he made which I still hadn't watch so far. Well, before watching the damned thing, I was actually aware of its rather lame reputation and, unfortunately, it turned out ” read more
Notes: ‘A bout de souffle’ is and will remain one of my favorite movies forever and I have been following Godard ever since his masterpiece really blew me away but, unfortunately, no one of his movies have reached this level of awesomeness, at least not in my opinion. The point is that, pretty soon in his career, his movies started to get pretty cryptic really soon and become harder and harder to follow and, nowadays, except for a few die-hard fans, we all pretty much agree that his work has become some incomprehensible pseudo-intellectual and political mix. This movie is a pretty good example. Indeed, it has in fact a really good reputation and maybe I should give it a second chance at some point in the future but, to be honest, I really had a hard time to care about the whole thing. Basically, 5 years after ‘A bout de souffle’, Godard was working again with Jean-Paul Belmondo and I was expecting something amazing. In fact, this movie was really similar to this impressive debut but while this great classic was inspiring and mesmerizing, this follow-up was rather pretentious and just way too cryptic for my taste.