Requiem for a Dream (2000, Darren Aronofsky)
Marion Silver: I love you, Harry. You make me feel like a person. Like I'm me... and I'm beautiful.
Harry Goldfarb: You are beautiful. You're the most beautiful girl in the world. You are my dream.&nbs...
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I can easily say that Denis Villeneuve's Prisoners starring Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Paul Dano and etc is one the best films in 2013. With its daunting premise and knit-tight screenplay provided by Aaron Guzikowski, Prisoners tells a story about the way a person can become unhinged by losing a loved one and the lengths they will go to get "justice." The more I think about it, the more incredible...
Nicole Holofcener's new film Enough Said, starring Julia Louis Dreyfus and James Gandolfini is one of the most genuinely hilarious films I have seen as of lately. This is a good final role for Gandolfini as it portrays himself in a different light that showcases the range of talent he truly had as an actor. Sadly, there is not much substance to this film besides huge laughs but who cares! B...
I haven't seen any of Jonathan Glazer's previous films like Sexy Beast and Birth but his new film, Under the Skin starring Scarlett Johansson is definitely something I would want to watch. Adapted by Michel Faber's novel of the same name, Johansson stars as an alien seductress who lures men to capture and presumably send home their human bodies. The first teaser came out weeks ago but this is an extended version and...
Salinger the film is directed and produced by the book biographer Shane Salerno, a Hollywood screenwriter who wrote Armageddon, Shaft, and Savages to name just a few. Considering I am probably the very few who have never read Catcher in the Rye, it's astonishing to see a glimpse into the life of an iconic man in American Literary history even if it is scarcely limited. The film seems like...
Denis Villeneuve's new film Prisoners starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal just came out this weekend but already the bromance between Villeneuve and Gyllenhaal has started. It is brilliantly adapted from the late Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago's 2002 novel, The Double. Gyllenhaal plays Adam Bell, a glum, disinterested history professor who stumbles into his doppleganger, an actor named Anthony Clair. How...
Age of Innocence (1993, Martin Scorsese)
Ellen Olenska: I think we should look at reality, not dreams.
Newland Archer: I just want us to be together!
Ellen Olsenska: I can't be your wife, Newland! Is it your idea that I should live with you as your mistress?
Newland Archer: I want... Somehow, I want to get away with you... and... and find a world where words like that don't exis...
From the guy who brought us La Femme Nikita and Leon: The Professional is back once again with another crime/mob dramedy starring Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dianna Agron, and John D'Leo. The premise is quite simple (no joke) as it is about a mob family who is put under witness protection after Giovanni (De Niro) rats out his friends and on the run from them (& that's it). The film...
I've been meaning to see more of Jim Jarmusch's films considering the only one I've seen was The Limits of Control (2009) and seeing that Only Lovers Left Alive is coming out soon, I need to catch up on his filmography. Here are two clips from OLLA and it is already apparent that he is approaching this film with his usual beautifully drawn out and stillness filmic style that he has been exercising to almost an extreme in...
Lee Daniels' The Butler is loosely inspired by the real-life story of Eugene Allen who served as a butler to eight presidents (Truman through Regan, 34 years), the film stars Forest Whitaker as Cecil Gaines as an unassuming man who witnesses history close up and personal. The Butler is a classic Hollywood film in that it hits every mark to be considered as Oscar bait: a incredible ensemble cast,...
The Seven Year Itch (1955, Billy Wilder)
The Girl: Your imagination! You think every girl's a dope. You think a girl goes to a party and there's some guy in a fancy striped vest strutting around giving you that I'm-so-handsome-you-can't-resist-me look. From this she's supposed to fall flat on her face. Well, she doesn't fall on her face. But there's another guy in the room, over in the corner. Maybe he's nervous and shy...
I was not even a fan of the Riddick series before the third film, appropriately and simply called, Riddick. But after watching The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), I was slightly excited to see what the film had in store considering it got resurrected from the dead after nine years! But wow, this is beyond anything I have ever seen. And in a bad way. I never wanted to tear my eyes out as much as...
Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005, Miranda July)
Christine Jesperson: I mean, they kind of rub my ankles, but all shoes does that. I have low ankles.
Richard Swersey: You think you deserve that pain, but you don't.
Christine Jesperson: I don't think I deserve it.
Richard Swersey: Well, not consciously maybe.
Christine Jesperson: My ankles are just low...
Richard Swersey: People think that foot pain is a fact of...
If you haven't watch Richard Ayoade's breakout film Submarine (see my review here!) already, get to it! You are seriously missing out! I fell in love with the film and now, I am so overly pleased and honored to present his next film which embody the same kind of quirkiness and tenderness that brought my cold soul to its knees. Ayoade wrote the script with Avi Korine (brother of Harmony Korine),...
When you have a Youtube channel, they insist you to have a little trailer for your channel. So after being constantly reminded by the huge empty space in which they "subtlety" suggest you put that content, I finally decided to make a little video (still 5 minutes! Sorry, I blab!) introducing myself as well as the channel. Considering I have a plethora of social media, I decided to do a breakdown...
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Ben Stiller directs, produces, and stars in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, a new adaptation of James Thurber's short story. If you haven't seen the trailer yet, check it out below. And of course, there are two new posters for the film that obviously showcases Stiller in a more whimsical and quirky light than the usual cynical shadow he's usually cast under. The film stars Kristen...
