Best director of all time secondo DeBaser.

❝ Let’s clarify one thing right away: Orson Welles was the greatest of them all.

❝ Masterpiece. You never stop learning.

❝ He had a greatness of his own, but he kept it all to himself.

❝ "Don't you remember anything? Well, I had already seen him in the morning in the hotel lobby... HE looked at me as he passed by, just a glance..."

❝ War is too important a matter to be left to the generals.

❝ Watch closely, brother, watch closely

❝ “The Trouble with Harry” is a film by Alfred Hitchcock from 1955.

❝ “The Birds” is Hitchcock's metaphor for the human condition.

❝ Sabotage is a Hitchcock from '36.

❝ This is a film of old men.

❝ "This place makes me think. What would be better, living as a monster, or dying as a good man?"

❝ YOU DIDN'T KNOCK ME DOWN... DID YOU HEAR, RAY!?!?… YOU DIDN'T KNOCK ME DOWN

❝ “My attitude can sometimes be childish. But if an artist loses the joy in what they do, they will no longer be an artist” (Ingmar Bergman).

❝ “the hour when many people die, and many children are born”.

❝ “Now we see through a glass, darkly; then we shall see face to face”

❝ "crime is just a sinister form of the struggle for life."

❝ "The Asphalt Jungle (1950), based on the novel by William R. Burnett, is a masterpiece of American noir, even a prototype, in the sense that everyone who attempts this genre later will have to reckon with it."

❝ "a real shambles."

❝ If Ball of Fire were a wine, we would say it is a vintage Hawks (we are in 1941). But it is not a real wine... it is champagne.

❝ Bringing up Baby, from 1938, a beautiful and crazy film much like its protagonist, is the quintessence of screwball comedy.

❝ It is the first time that organized crime is portrayed on the big screen with all its violence and arrogance.

❝ “I don’t care, it’s their business. I just want a nice, clear recording”

❝ “My nightmare is to slip, crawl like a snail along the edge of a razor blade... and survive”.

❝ “I believe in America. America made my fortune. And I raised my daughter in the American way, giving her freedom, but I also taught her not to dishonor her family. She had a non-Italian boyfriend, they would go to the cinema together and come home late, and I didn’t protest. Two months ago, he invited her to a car ride with another friend of his. They made her drink whisky and then tried to take advantage of her. She resisted, she kept her honor. And they beat her, like an animal...”

❝ The Third Man is a timeless classic, they don’t make films like this anymore.

❝ "His mountain. His peace. His great hunts. His young bride. With all that, it would have been different."

❝ "never trust your work colleagues"

❝ "does not report the truth but only what people say"

❝ Talking about a film like "On the Waterfront" means talking about history.

❝ Meanwhile, Kazan does not refrain from caustically representing the power of mass media in modern society to the point of influencing the public who convincingly follow modes and skillfully influential characters (then, after radio, television was establishing itself and today we find ourselves with the predominance of the Internet and social media).

❝ Kazan was one of the most influential directors of all time, author of great titles like "East of Eden," "On the Waterfront," "Viva Zapata!"

❝ “Midnight Cowboy” (1969) remains one of the finest films of those years alongside “Easy Rider” and “The Graduate.”

❝ A tense thriller full of suspense, aged very well (which is no small feat, considering I watched it on videotape with all the commercials from those years), and featuring that great torture scene, a nightmare for people with sensitive teeth.

❝ A frantic use of zooms by director John Schlesinger (well-deserved Oscar for Best Director in 1970) perfectly conveys the chaos of the Metropolis—capital M—of the United States.

❝ An icon of western cinema like Clint Eastwood and one of the most famous directors of the genre, that is John Sturges ("Gunfight at the O.K. Corral", "The Day of the Outlaw", "The Magnificent Seven").

❝ Fear can hold you prisoner, hope can set you free.

❝ Frank Darabont and Stephen King. Two names that work great together: good old Frank is one of the few who successfully managed to bring King's literary works to the big screen...

❝ Do you think you’re clever, Joe Frady?

❝ Seven Oscars all deserved for a truly formidable work.

❝ Elegant, clean, and light.

❝ Suck on this chicken.

❝ What hasn’t aged is the solid direction (I mean, we’re talking about Friedkin...)

❝ In conclusion, an excellent gem of the thriller genre and GLBTG-themed cinema, as well as another milestone in W. Friedkin's filmography, often, unfortunately, remembered only for his contribution to the horror genre.

❝ It’s a Polanski from ’66, and it is an absolute masterpiece of cinema!

❝ A must-watch.

❝ “Repulsion”, dated 1965, is Polanski’s second film, and the first of his “Apartment Trilogy” which includes “Rosemary’s Baby” and “The Tenant”.

❝ Neorealism is more a necessity than a genre.

❝ Umberto D. can be calmly recognized as a masterpiece of neorealism and a treasure of world cinema, although the director had to deal with poor audience reaction, but not critical.

❝ Light and enchanting, Miracle in Milan is continuously suspended between dream and reality.

❝ You will laugh as a child, you will cry as an adult

❝ City Lights is definitely the most beautiful among all Chaplin's films. The most painful, the cruelest, and the sweetest.

❝ Wars, conflicts: all business... One murder is a crime, a million is heroism. Numbers legalize, my dear friend

❝ Freedom. Rebellion.

❝ Genius cannot commit murder.

❝ It won 8 Oscars (best film, best director, best leading actor, best costumes, best sound, best makeup, best production design) all, to be honest, impeccable, and gave Forman his second huge Hollywood success, which, alas, he squandered in subsequent films while maintaining good quality (excluding the excellent "Man on the Moon", 1999).

❝ An essential film, that has generated many clones and followers, and which retains its allure unchanged even after thirty years.

❝ Ridley Scott offers us a film as sumptuous as it is disappointing.

❝ Ridley Scott follows it step by step with a handheld camera and uses every blade, every drop, every ray. He will never again be capable of giving me such emotions.

❝ "pure cinema"

❝ Everything works perfectly in "Il Sorpasso."

❝ "A Difficult Life, like all Italian comedy films (of which, albeit in a very particular way, it is a part), is not a film about the future, but about the past and the present: or rather about a present overshadowed by the nearly fifteen-year disappointment of a generation that wanted to change the world and finds itself having to be careful not to be changed by the world instead" (Dino Risi).

❝ BRUNO CORTONA HAS RISEN TO POWER (and apparently, they have stayed there)

❝ Where life had no value, death sometimes had its price. This is why the bounty hunters appeared

❝ There are many bounties on you gentlemen: and bounties mean money. And I, when it comes to money, never spit on it

❝ Mwaaah - Waa - Waa - Naa

❝ “Nobody's perfect.”

❝ “I killed him for money and for a woman. And I didn't get the money. And I didn't get the woman. Great deal.”

❝ “I am still big, it's the pictures that got small!”

❝ Let me explain Tarantino to you. The greatest film by Tarantino. Greater than Pulp Fiction, greater than Inglourious Basterds and Kill Bill.

❝ "The important things to remember are the details, the details make the story believable!"

❝ QT is a billionaire pig and pisses on the hippies.

❝ Without any doubt, a five-star film.

❝ Scandalously, the film will be nominated for the Razzie Awards and the director will win the award for worst direction.

❝ Destroyed by criticism from a country where President Reagan was emerging, tormented by cuts that resulted in numerous different but never complete versions, paradoxically, defined as one of the most beautiful western films in cinema history.

❝ Someone called it The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime.

❝ Don't try to understand Mulholland Drive. Live it.

❝ I am alone. I cry.

❝ A man's life is the bonds he builds. A man's life is that he is not alone, but from each action depend the actions of many other people.

❝ One of Capra's few not perfectly optimistic films, Lost Horizon gained favor over time, thanks to the indisputable utopian momentum of the subject.

❝ The film showcases positive feelings that will move the viewer many times.

❝ It’s a funny thing: they make me look like a criminal because I refuse the money

❝ A man is dead. Another man's life is at stake. If there exists a single doubt in your minds about the accused's guilt, then you must render a verdict of innocence. However, if such reasonable doubt does not exist, then you must in good conscience declare that the accused is guilty. Whatever your decision, the verdict must be unanimous

❝ TV is showbiz.

❝ “Ran”, namely chaos.

❝ “The poor hope for justice, the rich for injustice.”

❝ “Once again we have lost... the real winners are them”

❝ "M.A.S.H." is a schizophrenic, daring, contradictory, and in some ways unique work.

❝ The ending of Nashville remains one of the most artistically and conceptually elevated moments of the Seventh Art: from that tragedy exorcised by the familiar and warm notes of old country, from that disheveled blonde who in her unexpected and impromptu number seems to bear the trauma of an entire people, from that indistinct crowd singing "It don't worry me" pass moments of clear sociology and bitter poetry.

❝ In my opinion, it is Robert Altman’s masterpiece, one of the most beautiful I have seen.

❝ A stunning film by one of the greatest directors of all time and place (did you get that, Mr. Bergman?).

❝ Amarcord is one of the most important and greatest Italian films of all time, and rightfully so, it belongs to the category of milestones, invaluable works from which you can appreciate something new with each viewing.

❝ Rome was no longer that of Antonio Ricci trying to steal a bicycle or of Umberto D living on alms, but that of Via Veneto, just as that Rome, just as the films, were thus for Fellini a continuous game, the possibility of delaying serious things and the entry into the world of grown-ups

❝ “Don’t you smell the sickly sweet scent of matrimonial bliss? Haven’t you noticed the bovine expression of resignation on their bored faces? Goodbye love...”

❝ “You think I'm a scoundrel, don't you? I could also be a socialist if socialists believed in God.”

❝ “Then the Lamb of God will ascend the altar. It’s the last judgment, the cage that imprisons sin will close for the last time and it will be for eternity.”

❝ Body Double is a typical example of how an extraordinary visual talent can fully redeem the flaws and banalities of a not-so-solid script.

❝ The first victim of war is the truth.

❝ Not just a simple gangster movie, but a moral and psychological fresco, a true work of art disguised as a genre film.

❝ When Orson Welles was asked to name three important film directors, he replied: John Ford, John Ford, John Ford.

❝ “This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”

❝ The Whole Town's Talking is a film worth revisiting, and behind it are some beautiful and dramatic stories, like those concerning the lives of the two lead actors.

❝ The film is exciting, especially on the conceptual level, and the 'classical' acting of the performers perhaps makes it distant from the typical patterns of today's science fiction cinema, but the story is in itself undeniable and is enough alone to support the entire film.

❝ bastards, I'm still alive,

❝ Lovely film but above all, a wonderful book.

❝ What's more punctual than a Japanese high-speed train? The answer is simple: Trading Places on Christmas Eve.

❝ They are on a mission from God, and no one can stop them.

❝ Full moon night, what do I see?

❝ The film is a mix between drama, gothic horror, and thriller that tells with bitterness the deeply hateful relationship between 2 sister-divas and the world of showbiz.

❝ Because it gives a movie lesson: the angles of shooting, the use of lights, the staging make each frame so rich that you don't know where and what to look at, with the awareness and fear of having missed something fundamental.

❝ The direction is minimalistic and leaves room for photography to delve into the characters' characteristics (both Davis and de Havilland at very high levels of acting), the screenplay is skillfully crafted to lead the viewer into a psychological spiral that seems constantly misleading but eventually proves relentless.

❝ FROM HERE TO ETERNITY!

❝ Sometimes classic greats deserve to be dusted off, especially in this era where cinema is giving way to music video ugliness, stuffed with botox and computers, all for the modest sum of 170 million dollars.

❝ Duel, Spielberg's first feature, will remain in the history of cinema as the true jewel of a director who, unfortunately, for a long time, wastes his talent in blockbuster productions with results sometimes overly-sweet and banal, sometimes admirable but invariably destined for public success at the expense of the actual quality of the work, with some exceptions.

❝ When the horizon is high, it’s interesting; when it’s low, it’s interesting. When it’s in the center, it’s fucking boring!

❝ a “woman with balls” before it became trendy.

❝ It's the choices we make that define who we are.

❝ A gay melodrama directed by James Ivory in 1987 and written by E.M. Forster in 1917, published posthumously in 1971.

❝ “It’s not my fault, I’m just drawn that way”

❝ “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get...”

❝ “It means that our future hasn’t been written yet. Our future is what we make it. So, make it a good one.”

❝ Michael Powell, the great English director (with Hungarian Emeric Pressburger) of immortal masterpieces like 'A Matter of Life and Death', 'Black Narcissus', and 'The Red Shoes', drags us into an atmosphere of sick voyeurism in his amazing cursed cult: 'Peeping Tom' (the British definition of 'voyeur').

❝ The Underground Life are one of the most important Italian groups of the '80s.

❝ This Soave Sabba is the album recorded in Milan (Studi Radius) that encloses the moment of greatest communication and creativity of the Monza band in terms of quality and content.

❝ Speaking of the film, one cannot overlook the fantastic performance of Robert Mitchum (Max Cady) and his incredible serenity.

❝ “You take a big risk by encouraging them to become artists, John. Once they realize they are not Rembrandt, Shakespeare, or Mozart, they will hate you for it.”

❝ “What we see and what we seem are but a dream, a dream within a dream”

❝ “Good morning, Truman!”

❝ Men like Nicholson would make the world better.

❝ But Lean also presents another protagonist, always present at every moment: the Desert.

❝ Lean, a great aesthete of spaces and images, transfers “Doctor Zhivago” to film with an almost disproportionate grandiosity:

❝ The film by American director Milestone has been considered by many as the first epic of history.

❝ A master of the genre, capable of transforming darkness into pure cinema.

❝ Menschen am Sonntag is a time capsule: a 73-minute silent film, often regarded as a forerunner of neorealism, which takes us back to 1930s Berlin with an almost documentary-like immediacy.

❝ "The Children's Hour" presents itself in the history of cinematographic art as one of the first works hinting at a true taboo for the world of celluloid and beyond: homosexuality.

❝ "Roman Holiday" is, in fact, a skillful mix of romance and irony that will influence such comedies in the future, the famous "Mouth of Truth" scene in which Joe Bradley (Peck) scares (a reality that happened, as the scene was never repeated) a poor Princess Anna (Hepburn) by showing her his apparently amputated hand has entered all our hearts and is just one of the many insights of a screenplay rendered on film in a sublime way.

❝ A pinch of suspense, a bit of glamour, a few drops of comedy, and two fabulous actors.

❝ Known to be one of Hollywood's most eclectic professionals (among others, he directed the film adaptation of Star Trek and the musicals West Side Story and The Sound of Music), Robert Wise was also an excellent horror director, and this 1963 gem undoubtedly bears the marks of Wise's apprenticeship with producer Val Lewton, renowned for his suggestive, evocative style, relying more on doubt and uncertainty than on the overt revelation of horror.

❝ We are talking about The Day the Earth Stood Still, a masterpiece of 50s sci-fi, based on the novel Farewell to the Master.

❝ Game, Set and Match.

❝ Welcome back, Woody.

❝ A masterpiece.

❝ “Me dispiace… Ma io so’ io, e voi nun siete un cazzo”

❝ “COL SISTEMA DEL BUCO RUBANO PASTA E CECI”

❝ “Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way...”

❝ "Lots of choc'lates for me to eat, Lots of coal makin' lots of 'eat. Warm face, warm 'ands, warm feet, Aow, wouldn't it be loverly?"

❝ Of In Cold Blood by Capote, nothing should be wasted. And along with the novel, this film is the very best bottle.

❝ “There’s more to life than a little money, you know. And here you are, and it’s a beautiful day. I just don’t understand it..”

❝ “Take it easy, Dude!”

❝ LOOK AT ME! I WILL SHOW YOU THE LIFE OF THE MIND!

❝ “The world is a beautiful place and worth fighting for. I agree with the second part...”

❝ “Ernest Hemingway once wrote: 'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part.”

❝ “You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank, you're not the car you drive, you're not the contents of your wallet, you're not your fucking khakis, you're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world!” - Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt)

❝ Oliver Stone is a pain-in-the-ass director because he's always chasing sensationalism in his films as he realizes the fickleness of the masses and how they're in the hands of the media.

❝ Wall Street is a cinematic work that's as relevant as few others: it's evident by the fact that a sequel is in production.

❝ A bold filmmaker in his ways, in his thinking, and in the substance of his art, who escapes any categorization and is immune to both standards and fashions, who is at the same time both author and historian (also confirming the role of cinema as a valid and effective divulgative source, alongside literature) has succeeded in the daunting task of narrating a difficult character, in public and in private, using the "medium" in every form: archival images and footage, flashbacks, introspective deliriums, dream visions, and abrupt cuts that punctuate a decidedly complex and sophisticated narrative structure.

❝ Sally Field delivers one of her most intense performances (awarded with a well-deserved Oscar), her talent is remarkable, and she manages to give her character a real soul in all her roles: worker, unionist, mother, and partner.

❝ The film, dated 1978, is the first to tackle the delicate topic of McCarthyite persecutions that devastated the American artistic-intellectual scene.

❝ Groucho: "do you accept tips?" Waiter: "yes sir" Groucho: "do you have 15 dollars in change?" Waiter: "yes sir" Groucho: "then you don't need the 10 cents I was going to give you!"

❝ Not so long ago, in our own galaxy, Star Wars made us dream and radically changed the world of cinema.

❝ It’s an ugly film, and varied in its ugliness.

❝ A digital toy, a new Star Wars in short.

❝ "Everyone in Rome talks about death."

❝ "Going beyond the frame's boundaries and the slavery of the lens. Paraphrasing Picasso, filming what you think and not what you see."

❝ "This narcissism is starting to get rather boring, isn't it?"

❝ Sheridan deserves credit for successfully using dramatic situations and moments of simple intimacy to ultimately shatter the "American dream" without moralizing.

❝ It's just a colossal stupidity, among the most vehement disappointments that have come my way recently along with "The Double".

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This 1953 version, directed by Mankiewicz with the participation of very well-known actors and with a considerable starting budget, represents everything that should be avoided when deciding to bring a literary work to the screen.

❝ Wes Anderson is like milk: some can digest it and some can't.

❝ Cinema as the whim of a genius who wouldn't even consider telling a story in a plain, linear way.

❝ Wes Anderson is not present on DeBaser.

❝ One of the great films protected by History (Unesco included it among the 'World Heritage' works and even the UN selected it for the 'Memory of the World' in '94!)

❝ a bold and inconvenient novelty in Lang's film is the portrayal of brutal and coarse criminals as more courageous, efficient, and capable than the police.

❝ Measured, sharp, unconventional, violent and nihilistic; terribly modern.

❝ A slow, boring film where almost nothing happens. Masterpiece.

❝ It was like an explosion of dynamite in the theater: one could see a film that was not believed possible to be seen.

❝ A colossus of 44 minutes, with endless logistical difficulties, the filmmaker’s manic accuracy, rich scenography, yet our vision flows with utmost harmony, because the directorial talent hides the complexity, bears the burdens, and gives us only the pleasure of seeing and enjoying everything.

❝ It's a hell of a thing, killing a man: you take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.

❝ “Every now and then I like to lend a hand to you negros”.

❝ Make that four.

❝ With this film, America's most independent director conveys all his love for cinema and theater by blending them with life:

❝ Paul Thomas Anderson means Cinema.

❝ Loving this film requires an act of faith that's a bit foolish, a bit desperate.

❝ Ladies and gentlemen, the new masterpiece by PTA.

❝ “In Los Angeles, a man dies on the subway. Who will notice?”

❝ “don’t get involved in anything you can’t walk out on in thirty seconds flat”

❝ “the press is free...for those who own it.”

❝ "The more you love, the more you'll suffer from parting. It's very painful, but you must learn to accept it."

❝ I adore this splendid film by Louis Malle from '57, a noir with a nouvelle vague twist, a film about the dangers of passion and the allure of certain Parisian atmospheres.

❝ those who have been damaged are dangerous because they know they can survive.

❝ Malle is like an explorer: he stages strong situations, sometimes even racy, presenting them with extreme kindness and grace, in order to shock the viewer or perhaps simply to craft a new and original way of making cinema.

❝ Where Quentin gives us a Disney-esque cartoon, Claude presents the true essence of mockery.

❝ there is often something unspeakable in Chabrol's cinematic women, a deviation, a marginality compared to the scene, the presence of a radical alienation from the normality of life.

❝ Chabrol follows the story with a scientist's eye, adhering to reality and psychological data,

❝ "Love is" cannot be said; just like "life is", "faith is", or "music is", those three words cannot stand in the same sentence in that order.

❝ Don’t look away.

❝ The fact that your gun says R.E.P.L.I.C.A. and mine says DESERT EAGLE 5.0. should have you and your droopy balls understand that you got the wrong person.

❝ People ask... what is a RocknRolla? And I say it’s not just about sex, drugs, or crazy hospital rides. There’s much more than that, my friend.

❝ Fifty-six years later, "The Graduate" remains a refreshingly contemporary film.

❝ “Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me!”

❝ The water element is at the forefront throughout the film, whether it's an aquarium, a swimming pool, or rain, it permeates the lives of the restless protagonists.

❝ Vigo creates from his depths a work that transcends the very concept of film; he could have made a record or painted a picture, and his urgent expressiveness would have reached our hearts just the same.

❝ “Aesthetic filmmaker and realist filmmaker, Vigo avoids both the pitfalls of aestheticism and those of realism” (Truffaut).

❝ Virtually perfect, this innovative documentary work on the swimmer Jean Taris, restored in 2017 and the first sound experience by Jean Vigo, was commissioned by the recently formed Major GFFA (Gaumont, Franco-Film, and Aubert).

❝ All this is skillfully captured by Gregory Hoblit's direction, which suffuses each modern and luxurious shot of Los Angeles with twilight, pleasantly intertwining shadows and reflections of light.

❝ "if you want justice, go to a whorehouse; if you want to get screwed, go to court,"

❝ Edward Norton, however, will be "sentenced" to be a celebrity!

❝ “Kramer vs. Kramer” is a classic.

❝ Directed by Robert Benton, Oscar winner for “Kramer vs. Kramer” a couple of years earlier.

❝ Robert Douglas Benton, who made 11 fine films throughout his career (not to mention being awarded 3 Oscars) and wrote the screenplay for 15, including this very “Twilight”.

❝ "children are resilient: they crash into everything, against life but they have a guardian angel. They have thick skin."

❝ “Rain Man” was an exaggerated success, one of those films that everyone had to go and see and process.

❝ 4 Oscars: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Leading Actor (Dustin Hoffman), and Best Original Screenplay.

❝ Perhaps a bit too moralistic, perhaps a bit too presumptuous, but “The Bay” remains, in any case, a valid example of both technique and storytelling.

❝ Director Luhrmann, the author of other interesting films like "Moulin Rouge", offers us the rise, success, and decline of the legendary Elvis (notably portrayed by Austin Butler) in a dazzling and flamboyant way from the perspective of his manager, Colonel Tom Parker.

❝ With the help of dazzling sets, suspended between historical reconstruction and dreamlike settings (sometimes overly contrived), the film unfolds through a well-balanced recipe of genres: melodrama, comedy, and musical.

❝ Luhrmann's film (which uses a soundtrack halfway between jazz and hip hop) undeniably has great merits that are not only tied to the rich and sumptuous set design, as well as the excellent performance (perhaps it's obvious to mention) of an actor of Leonard DiCaprio's caliber (perfect as Jay Gatsby) and also Tobey McGuire as Nick Carraway, the protagonist's fortunate neighbor.

❝ If anyone needed an answer about the real capabilities of the Mexican filmmaker, Biutiful is an even too strong a response.

❝ A very well-made film, perfect from a technical point of view and touching in its message.

❝ A monstrously technical film, very talented actors starting with Keaton who delivers the performance of a lifetime, to Edward Norton real on stage and fake and an asshole in life just as they say he is in reality, to Birdman’s daughter, a Emma Stone ex-addict, alienated, beautiful.

❝ “In a not too distant future, wars will no longer exist. But there will be Rollerball”

❝ This film doesn’t provoke, intimidate, or shock. It is “only” refined and elegant entertainment - qualities now lost - yet also concise, with only 102 minutes of runtime and none wasted.

❝ A romantic comedy with fairy-tale tones; a modern fairy tale performed by a host of great actors.

❝ Tati was a convinced dissident regarding the customs and behaviors of consumer society.

❝ A nostalgic look to the past and a more worried one to the future, hilarious scenes that with a few frames strike and make you reflect, all always revolving around in a somewhat naive and tragicomic manner of Tati.

❝ "According to certain religions, it is believed that the egg is the symbol of the soul... Would you like an egg?"

❝ “Alan Parker has always been a genius at filming madness and obsessions.”

❝ "The Irish are the blacks of Europe, Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland, and we of the suburbs are the blacks of Dublin. So repeat after me: I'm black and I'm proud of it."

❝ Nolan is an exceptional storyteller and a great entertainer, a director who creates grand and excessively ambitious works, aiming to introduce the general public to the complexity of the world, matter, and quantum mechanics in an accessible way, combining demanding (and obviously recurring) themes with blockbuster spectacle.

❝ This "Memento" is not a film, it's a logic exercise, it's a very subtle game that conceals and reveals the truth, that makes you believe it's leading you towards it and then mocks you, that challenges your logic and mocks your intelligence… it’s brilliant, in every single detail.

❝ The most cruel time is the one Nolan runs to pack everything into two and a half hours.

❝ In "Do the Right Thing" Spike Lee reaches his stylistic maturity, his direction is original, dynamic, realistically raw, unadorned, and provocative...

❝ succeeds in an initiative bordering on the impossible: making an American crime thriller with less than 5 minutes of shootouts and chases.

❝ “25th Hour” is an emotional, intense film, probably Spike Lee’s most mature work, which deviates from his previous films...

❝ All of this is shown through a hallucinated and hallucinating montage, enhanced by an absolutely perfect cinematography.

❝ His is a precise direction, visually captivating and notably able to avoid fixating on the filmic spectacularization of events:

❝ Aside from the star parade, this film has nothing else that might induce one to talk a moment more than necessary

❝ Greengrass manages to render this icy, almost unreal panic with fierce perfection, thanks to the choice of using a handheld camera.

❝ Greengrass is one of the most overrated directors around, at least in my humble opinion.

❝ Ex-partisan, a genuine Gaullist, a right-wing man due to his pessimism about the destinies and feelings of man, Jean Pierre Melville (1917-1973) is certainly the best director of the "noir" genre in the history of French cinema.

❝ If you love the cop-and-criminal chases of the best American cinema, then you can't miss the prototype, the inimitable, famous "chase" on the streets of San Francisco by Lieutenant Frank Bullitt - Steve McQueen in the iconic Ford Mustang in the cult film "Bullitt" from 1968.

❝ Some men get the world, others get an ex-hooker and a trip to Arizona.

❝ Wall Street has a gambling problem and if we save them, these gamblers will never learn their lesson

❝ "When you're educated like I was and like most people in this country, I assure you that no one comes to talk to you about homosexuality or, as you call it, an alternative lifestyle. As a child, you're taught that gays are weird, gays are funny, gays dress like their mother, they're afraid to fight, they're... they're a danger to children, and they only want to get into your pants. This more or less summarizes the general thought, if you really want to know the truth."

❝ I better go... I have an old friend for dinner (and this time he's buying...)!

❝ Demme skillfully uses the video footage from the concert at Massey Hall, giving the audience an idea of Neil’s immortal art, who, at 65 years, still gracefully handles his faithful instruments: the harmonica, the guitar, and the piano.