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The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
UK/Italy Television Film Director: Richard Loncraine Writers: Hugh Whitemore, William Trevor Cinematographer: Marco Pontecorvo Composer: Claudio Capponi Cast: Maggie Smith, Ronnie Barker, Chris Cooper, Benno Fürmann, Giancarlo Giannini, Timothy Spall, Libero De Rienzo, Emmy Clarke Although some of the performances (not to mention the plot) are less than convincing, and visually, despite the locale,...
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, will screen eight films by Italian director Dino Risi (1916–2008), from December 10 through 17, 2009 in the exhibition "Dino Risi: Comedy with a Twist". Among the acclaimed films presented here are Risi’s masterpiece 'Il sorpasso' (The Easy Life) (1962); 'Profumo di donna' (Scent of a Woman) (1974), which was remade as the 1992 English-language...
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24 FRAMES PER SECOND (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
I've made a few edits, but this is largely the review I wrote on seeing Casino Royale on its cinema release. Casino Royale (2006) Dir: Martin Campbell Newly promoted double 0 agent James Bond (Daniel Craig) is sent by MI6 to play in a high stakes poker game against terrorist banker Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen). He's to make sure Le Chiffre loses all his money so he'll have no chice but to seek asylum...
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nourishing obscurity (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
Who was it who said that if it hadn't been a James Bond film, it would have been acclaimed? On Her Majesty's Secret Service, with soundtracks like this , was very strong as an action romance, it didn't enter the realms of the improbable [not a lot anyway] and it had all the required elements of a top film. I'll go out on a limb and rate these my five contenders for best Bond films of all time: 1. Casino...
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Toronto Sun - News (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino was one of six inducted into the inagural Italian Walk of Fame yesterday, on the same street he walked a beat as a rookie police officer.
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Fair Proxy Web (Free subscription) | 08/28/2009
On an average shopping trip to Milan from her house in Umbria, English born Emily Delahunty (Maggie Smith), an author of romantic novels, shares a train carriage with other travellers. When an explosion rips through the carriage, Emily, a retired English General (Ronnie Barker), a young German (Benno Furmann) and 12 year old American girl, [...]
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SLANTblog (Free subscription) | 08/05/2009
War movies are another cup of tea, when it comes to making a list. Most of the best war movies, in my book, have at least a hint of anti-war sentiment in them. Some might call it sanity; war isn’t just hell, it’s crazy hell. Still, to me a traditional war movie is about the quest to bravely fight through that crazy hell as part of a larger purpose. Whereas, an anti-war film is more about...
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Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 08/02/2009
arcane \ar-KAYN\, adjective : Understood or known by only a few. Arcane comes from Latin arcanus, "shut, closed, secret," from arca, "chest, box." Wait, shit Something someone would say after realizing what they just said or did was idiotic or bad. "Dude, my dick is so big that if I laid it out on a keyboard, it would go from A to Z. ... Wait, shit." Trivia Which of the...
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downloadmovs | 07/04/2009
007 Quantum of Solace 2008 , UK , USA Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller Actors: Mathieu Amalric Dominic Greene Jesper Christensen Mr. White Joaquín Cosio General Medrano Daniel Craig James Bond Glenn Foster Henry Mitchell Giancarlo Giannini René Mathis Fernando Guillén Cuervo Bolivian Chief of Police David Harbour Gregg Beam Neil Jackson Mr. Slate Simon Kassianides Yusef Rory
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nourishing obscurity (Free subscription) | 06/28/2009
Well, despite protestations from certain ladies about how poor the choices were which had echoes of those famous words 'never satisfied' ringing around the head and plunging me into darkest despair, the poll went ahead and it seems that at least some of the candidates do pass muster. So far, last I looked, George Clooney has his nose in front, with Giancarlo Giannini and Pierce Brosnan in hot pursuit....
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giallo fever (Free subscription) | 06/13/2009
Having been surprised by Claudio Fragasso’s mafia thriller Naples-Milan One Way earlier in the week, the chance of watching After Death AKA Zombie 3 or 4 (depending upon who's counting and from where) was too good to pass up. Was he a hack who had struck lucky on one occasion, or someone whose work I had unfairly dismissed in the past? On this evidence here, he’s more the former than the...
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downloadmovs | 07/04/2009
007 Quantum of Solace 2008 , UK , USA Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller Actors: Mathieu Amalric Dominic Greene Jesper Christensen Mr. White Joaquín Cosio General Medrano Daniel Craig James Bond Glenn Foster Henry Mitchell Giancarlo Giannini René Mathis Fernando Guillén Cuervo Bolivian Chief of Police David Harbour Gregg Beam Neil Jackson Mr. Slate Simon Kassianides Yusef Rory Kinnear Bill Tanner...
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