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Dragged Across Concrete (2018)
See Mel Gibson as the new Jean Gabin
I have a thing for these classical crime dramas with Jean Gabin and Alain Delon. Either as partners or opponents, such as cop against criminal, criminal against criminal or cop against corrupt cop. Vince Vaughn, as he always does, is doing a great job. Looks like these two will not make me look for B&W French crimis of the 60s for today.
Otto+Anna (2003)
A boy and a girl fall in love. The story is about their love, separation, and struggle to get back together.
A typical European movie wandering on the edge between being dull and interesting. Movies like this oversee the fact that life can not go on concentrating on one single and boring subject like a relationship for nearly ninety minutes, without even spending any words or having some serious conversations. It is romantic of course. Beautiful sceneries, interesting historical facts/fictions as well as geographical spots and facts. Many surprises, that make the spectators happy and sad. It is interesting to see how a young loving couple can deal with their crisis so different when their parents can not. The scenario and direction are nice pieces of work in that sense. Some repetitious events can get on your nerves! Try and oversee them, and enjoy!
Unagi (1997)
First it was hard to keep concentrated, then came the resistance to the unusual, finally it was over.
I have had a hard time finishing this movie. All the technological aids that Hollywood would not omit, while creating even the cinema of the most influential themes and we are used to seeing, make us harder to watch the cinema in it's purest form. And this transformation of pleasure from the pure form to the polluted is not necessarily a change for the better. I am personally a movie eater! Not a watcher. Movies are my only form of spending time when I am not at work. I have seen works (masterpieces for most) of Kurosawa. I can understand why he has not chosen a technologically more complicated making of cinema. Contemporary japanese cinema may not be suffering from financial difficulties, the decision to make a movie like "The Eel" is probably depending on raising or even erecting the cinema on its essential natural elements, rather than corrupt, artificial ones.
Get Carter (2000)
What I have hoped for, I did not get...
Frankly "Cop Land" was the first movie that made me think Sly IS an actor who can act differently, he IS able to give a different taste than the one he gave in "First Blood" and "Rocky" series. This thought made me watch "Get Carter" which was a disappointment, because it gave me a certain "ROCKY CAME BACK" feeling. His make-up did not help to change this image nor did the small parts of Mickey Rourke (which was too repetitious!), and Michael Caine. I think the best thing about this movie is the production crew who made a work of art out of a hopeless script, and worn faces.
Waking the Dead (2000)
A film standing out in the American movie industry
Although you might think it's close, any sampling you would take from the "Twilight Zone" series would prove to belong in their own clichée.You will have a hard time fitting Waking the Dead into any of the known clichées if you try.Unless of course you accept that anywhere the name Jodie Foster goes in ,the difference has already been made!