Casino (10/10)
It's sort of like The Wild Bunch of gangster movies. That whole sense of things coming to an end. And if I'm honest I don't know if DeNiro has
ever been better than he is here.
Il Divo (4/10)
I liked Consequences of Love but this disappointed me a bit, primarily because of Sorrentino's decsion to cover everything in such a thick layer of entirely inappropriate visual trickery. CoL worked because visually it was so controlled, so sparse. On Il Divo it just seemed like he was trying just that bit too hard to make a topic that would never have a really broad appeal as multiplex friendly as he could. Imagine Hype Williams directing All the President's Men and that's sort of what you get here. It's not simply a case of being all style and no substance so much as what substance there is being hidden
beneath all the style.
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Originally Posted by atsonicpark
I'd reccomend all of [Godard's] films aside from Detective and Les Carabiners. Seriously. Maybe you can skip a few shorts and a television series. But everything else is indispensable. He's easily the best director ever.
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I completely fail to connect with Godard. I respect what he's achieved but most of his actual films leave me stone cold. His films never stay with me after I've watched them, atleast not in any kind of emotional sense. I hate the way he directs people in his movies, with absolutely no (to my mind) empathy for them (the same problem I have with Kubrick and Hitchcock).