algonpedro Reviews

The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)

very, very, enjoying

[8/10 · 14 July 2002]

Is my favorite Pink panther movie, simply delirant. specially some scenes like the interrogation to the servants of the professors house, the moment when clouseau disguises himself as a hunchbacked, with a hump of helium, or when he's trying to get inside the castle, and then when he fakes as a dentist. it's a shame, the middle of the film, hasn't the level and rhythm of the rest, is a little boring. But a great movie though.

Amélie (2001)

the best of decade

[2 May 2002]

The best film in last ten years, Amelie is all a prodigy of talent, with a director who comes from the advertising world. A film that has created an style, that tells a lot about life -this is very important- and uses the visual effects for a reason of script or for the art of tell, not as simple firewarks. The cast is very full, the supporting roles are many and very good, with a lot of characters with nuances. The film is very beauty visually, and morally too, with the hippy spirit. Each story is round. I love it! The main actress looks terribly good!!, but that doesn't count much. wish there were more like this. . . movie

Vivre sa vie (1962)

a masterpiece

[10/10 · 2 May 2002]

It talks about feelings and people, how short life is, and how people kill people as if they were shooting dishes. this film is a long way from classical movies in the visual aspect ( that's nouvelle vague), the director frames totally outside of the classical way,filming people backwards in conversations in bars, with the character below of the frame, or simply in the middle. All of this with sudden camera movements. This could desparate any viewer, who has only seen todays pictures (american films the most), they would say what a s**t!, but they don't have the fault, they haven't the chance of being teached about filmmaking. Advertising in this world influencies most of people, and the films that are advertised today are mostly a s**t (99%), but the massmedia puts the advertisement anytime, any channel, and you are almost forced to view the "film", because they put it easy for you, the best cinemas puts it in the best room, with the bigger screen, and people swallow it completely and then says: "is amusing", but they don't think about they have losen an hour and half or more. I love this kind of cinema (vivre sa vie), because it tells you the raw reality without masks, and doesn't lie you with the same old shit that rots cinema, with scriptbuilders that think little the stories and let producers change their plans, so there are millions and millions of dollars inverted in visual effects that don't tell anything, characters completely senseless, and definitely a script with thousands of holes. Vivre Sa Vie, doesn't lie you, tells you that you are watching a movie, and that the person who is filming is a person like you. Tells you the filmmaking is something universal, and that with only a few money and much of imagination you can reach very far. Sorry for the sermon. But that's the cruel trueth

Vertigo (1958)

The absolute 10

[10/10 · 2 May 2002]

The best of the best. 10 gets short to qualify this eternal and infinite film, can't be a better film, the number one of the number ones. Incredible to see, blufs like Shawshank Redemption, forward of this intouchable and unanswerable masterpiece. A shame

Vertigo (1958)

best film ever

[10/10 · 12 September 2001]

Contains Spoilers This movie i´m talking about, is for me and many more people the best film ever done. Why? there are thousands of reasons: Starting from the opening titles, Saul Bass put us directly in the spiral of love and death that is Vertigo, also with the red eye. The screenplay is perfect, each image, look, note from the great Bernard Herrmann's soundtrack, color, or any ditail in the screen, is correlated with all the story and gives it a tremendous dimension. There is a fact that, assuming that is a classic movie, reveals that it´s breaking with the way to tell stories of the classic cinema. When the film seems to be over with the fall of Madelaine from the tower, Hitchcock goes further and another film bagins. The point of view changes from Scotty to Judy, and we now that Judy is Madelaine but not Scotty. But all on this final part is related to all in the first, creating an eternal spiral.

Wonderful, perfect, is really a very surrealistic picture. Although is a detective story, exceeds it by all sides from the start.

With this film you can watch it ten times and continue discovering ditails. Is inexhaustible. The photography is sublime, many times blurred as it were a dream. Definitely any factor in the film is right: The music, the photography, the credits, the actors, the story, the planification, the effect of vertigo, the flachback, the nightmare, that moment on the forest. . . and of course the one and only Hitchcock.

Bringing Up Baby (1938)

best comedy ever

[10/10 · 10 September 2001]

The best comedy ever done. Each moment of the film is delirious: The golf match, the party, the dinner at Connecticutt, the leopard Baby, The dog George, and, of course, the actors: Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and all the rest. Perfect.