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Tajne przez poufne (2008)
Sensationally droll & black & worldly, "Burn" is simply the best
pic I've seen fr US in 20 years. But then, I'm eccentric. The NY
critics razzed pic, so I dismissed unseen, alas alack, forgetting
that
Jak zostać królem (2010)
Oscar voters like actors who play the 'afflicted.'
So, shoo-in Colin Firth. Here's a rote BBC period
piece about a king who stutters and, hey, doodie,
WW2 is approaching! Ya got rid of Nazi-symp
brud
The Social Network (2010)
An odious but smart li'l creep cheats and steals his
way into the ownership of the FACEBOOK site. The setting
is Harvard where the Big Steal happened a few years ago
and director David Fincher keeps
Wszystko w porządku (2010)
From Hollywood, shoveling out monsters, guns,
special DEfects and the cartoon brands, comes
are ya ready? -- an adult movie. And, still there?
It's doing excellent biz. For sweaty New Yorkers, "The
Kids.."
'A Single Man'
This Ford is an Edsel.
Kradzież na South Street (1953)
"He's as shifty as smoke, but I love him," says the
stoolie Thelma Ritter (Oscar-nominated role)
about petty criminal Richard Widmark in Sam Fuller's
spare and zippo-fast espionager made during
the
Schody (2004)
A spellbinding documentary of a true crime from a French
team led by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade. The 2-disc film, titled
"The Staircase" in US, focuses on the mysterious death of
a wealthy married woman
Rzeźnik (1970)
A critic on Cahiers du Cinema, Claude Chabrol was the first among
Cahiers scribes to make a pic and then produce for Godard,
Rivette and Rohmer. A filmmaker now for 50 years, he has made
as many movies.
'Paris' (2009)
The Grand Masters of the Grand French 'New Wave' are
dead or wearing trusses... and who are the French newbies?
Dir. Cedric Klapisch is not one of 'em, you can be sure of that.
This croissant got comme
Daj, proszę (2010)
US indie from Nicole Holofcener is getting 'adult' attn in NY & LA
as a bittersweet 'dramedy' -- without special defects or a comic
book brand -- yes, a rarity today fr Hollyfools. An excellent cast
Shortbus (2006)
A hilarious & sexually explicit mount
into the life of a sex therapist who explores
the worldliness and style of -- well, any damn
sexual penchant. (Surely a fav w the Vatican;
shall we prance -- or
Madame de... (1953)
Philistines beware: this tragedy of love isnt for
you. The beauty of Max Ophuls' pic -- camera,
decor, costumes, nuance of acting -- is heart-
stopping. You have to be a 'cinemaddict' and know
something
Pogarda (1963)
Proceed with caution: This is a difficult,
cerebral pic which is always gorgeous to
watch. It vexed the philistine NYT critic who
asked, What's it about? To beg the question
arouses contempt. Bardot
Matka (2009)
From SoKorea, this psychological thriller - now
only playing NY-LA, has flaws, like a dead
mid-section, but it's nonetheless sorta wonderful.
(I wouldnt be surprised if it wasnt remade as an
Osc vehicle
Bez wyjścia (1987)
Espionage anyone, with accidental murder?
A fav combo, but the last time I saw it done
--sizzling on the grill, perfect -- was in this
Roger Donaldson pic in which Kevin Costner
(still hot), finds
Kieszonkowiec (1959)
Robert Bresson's cinematic world moves with
elegant formality between the austere and
the sensual. He often uses unknown or non-
professional actors, because, he says, 'Acting
is for the theatre -
'Les Liaisons Dangereuses' (1959)
Decadent, delovely, delicious -- head over heels
or heels over head of the 2 'recent' versions
of a brutally amoral & devious tale by Choderlos
de Laclos, this Roger Vadim 'modernized' take
on sexual
Mężczyźni wolą blondynki (1953)
Howard Hawks had a sense of humor
that let him survive the studio system
and its despots. He did mellers, screwballs,
westerns, easterns, gangsterns -- you name
it. Here's his version of the Anita
Osławiona (1946)
Grant & Bergman are thrust by cher maitre
- Hitch - into suspenseful s&m exercise, and
they're tops in one of the best pics ever.
Secret agent Grant blackmails Bergman
into sleeping w Claude Rains
Szkarłatna ulica (1945)
The formidable Fritz Lang who saw and knew
too much gives us cinema of the nightmare.
Admired by Hitler, Lang - in mid'30s - was
offered key slot in the New Order. He packed
for Paris. In Hollywood