Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
A brilliant and very original film that may need intelligence, some knowledge of history and a good sense of humor to be fully appreciated, but works at all levels. The rain sequences at the end may be a little too long but this observation is made with reservations, as I have not seen it on a big screen but on a highly questionable DVD transfer where the last 8-10 minutes of the film also appear to be totally out of…
In the good old days of Hollywood this film would have been classified as a big budget “B” picture. In the newer Hollywood, catering to less demanding audiences, it wins the Oscar for Best Picture at the 2013 Academy Awards. I fail to see what earned it this distinction: the one-expression performance of Ben Affleck; the caricature performance of Alan Arkin (also winning an Oscar); or the depiction of an illiterate Revolutionary Guard reading Variety and phoning Hollywood to verify…