Best director of the eighties secondo DeBaser.

❝ 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

❝ 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

❝ "The best science fiction movie ever made." Harlan Eleison

❝ Asking Terry Gilliam to be strict is like expecting a sphere to have edges.

❝ This is not a dark fairy tale: this is a film about imagining and the imaginative; and it is also a film heart-wrenching and incredibly moving, because Terry Gilliam's message is clear: imagination goes hand in hand with loneliness, more precisely, the more one is alone, the more an imagined reality becomes powerful, to the point of confusing and ascending to reality.

❝ "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

❝ "I no longer want possessions, memories, friends, loves, or ties: they're all traps"

❝ The film closes with the father's defeat and a tragedy already foretold.

❝ This film is a Masterpiece of grace and sensitivity beyond all measure.

❝ Ultimately, "Heimat" is a majestic masterpiece that brings into play the intimacy of family, Germany, and all of humankind, and gives us a chance to reflect on Time, the cycles of life, and feelings, while also reminding us not to overlook those small moments which too often, considered insignificant, are erased from history and our memory.

❝ 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.

❝ “Ran”, namely chaos.

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

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

❝ Komorebi is a Japanese word that means: "the light filtering through the trees."

❝ "We are everything we have"

❝ "A cowboy always makes an impression"

❝ “The television screen is now the only true eye of the human mind”.

❝ “I loved the illusion of a woman created by a man,”

❝ “Bless me? Do you know what God did for me? He threw an eighteen-wheeler at me, knocked me into oblivion for five years; when I woke up, my girl was gone, so was my job, and my legs were basically useless. Bless me? Yes, God has been a real benefactor to me...”

❝ Someone called it The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime.

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

❝ I am alone. I cry.

❝ “Time is an abyss, profound as long as endless nights. Centuries come and go... To not have the ability to grow old is terrible... Death is not the worst; there are things much more horrible than death. Can you imagine it? Enduring through the centuries experiencing the same futile things every day...”

❝ “if I, Aguirre, want the birds to fall down dead, the birds must drop dead from the trees! I am the wrath of god. The earth I tread sees me and trembles.”

❝ “Every man for himself and God against all”: this is the terrible warning that Werner Herzog, one of the most visionary and radical living directors, chose as the original title for this film of his from 1974.

❝ Game, Set and Match.

❝ Welcome back, Woody.

❝ A masterpiece.

❝ "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."

❝ What exactly happened in the Vatican during the Second World War and particularly during the systematic extermination of the Jews by Hitler?

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ The Conformist is technically superb.

❝ All this, and much more, is "The Sheltering Sky," in my personal opinion the best of Bertolucci’s films.

❝ it’s a really crappy film.

❝ “It’s sad to die without children.”

❝ “I love this bridge. I have to cross it at least twice a day.”

❝ “I can’t do it!”

❝ “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...”

❝ When I first saw "The Big Chill," I hailed it as a masterpiece: the actors were exceptionally in tune and exuberant, the screenplay well-written, the direction experienced and attentive to weighing each character so that the ensemble cast appears balanced, and then there's the soundtrack, which is perhaps one of the most beautiful among non-original scores in history.

❝ 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.

❝ “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.”

❝ It is narrative fast food, but without even the advantage of being quick.

❝ Yet, in the end, the feeling is one of magnificent emptiness, a lack of ideas dressed up with the most astonishing special effects.

❝ The first thing I feel like saying about Terminator 2 is that the special effects are terrifying; after almost thirty years, I challenge anyone to say that the T-1000 has aged poorly.

❝ The real art, however, is in the direction: in particular the majestic choreography of the shootouts, where Woo's skill and talent manifest fully, from the effectiveness of the frames to the study of details and individual devices, elements that would become important influences for future productions of the genre.

❝ Old Woo fans will have no trouble recognizing the director's hand from his independent period.

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"Men are incapable of seeing... they remain anchored to the ground and only see what’s under their nose. When the ground trembles beneath their feet, then they panic. And that is the moment they give their soul to God or Buddha. We don’t realize we are immersed in a flow much greater than us. Scientists always make grand calculations. An absurd amount... infinite time... unimaginable energy... and in the end, what remains of all this? The name of some scholar, nothing more. Yet that flow runs right before our eyes... What does a man do when he tries to look at something far away? He squints... and when faced with something greater than himself? Opening his eyes is useless. The universe is floating towards its final stage, what is high lowers, what is dense becomes rarefied and disperses. The direction is uniform and irreversible. Humans are living beings and, as a herd, they try to oppose this principle; however, in the grand scheme of things, they too find themselves within the flow. The only thing that can contrast this flow is "power": manifesting "power" can stop the flow, but it is temporary, because when it resumes its course, it increases its speed and returns to the starting state. When men manage to see the flow, they are overcome by great terror. You yourself have seen it... Appearance is nothing but a shell. Akira is not within the flow... Those who live within the flow cannot understand."

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"A metropolis (Tokyo), a sun exploding in its center, no noise or background commentary... just silence, this is how \"Akira\" opens."

❝ “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.”

❝ 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).

❝ 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?

❝ 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.

❝ “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!”

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

❝ "If Nancy doesn't wake up screaming she won't wake up at all"

❝ La nostra generazione ha fatto schifo.

❝ The smells are real, the colors absent. You finish the film and feel the need to take a shower.

❝ A delicate, poetic, touching, moving film with two extraordinary performers and first-rate direction.

❝ "If I do something wrong, it's because God didn't give me the grace to do what's right. Nothing happens without His permission. So, if this world sucks, it's His fault..."

❝ "Willem is impressive. At times I thought I was seeing Pier Paolo"

❝ "An iconic cult movie for a disturbing but necessary work, which in just under 100 minutes, manages to strike the viewer in such a powerful and unique way that I don’t think much more needs to be said."

❝ The only solution is madness.

❝ Have you seen the people in Haddonfield? Women, children, families like mine, living in peace all quietly in their homes. And you want to tell me they’re destined for a massacre?

❝ We’re not living in a Sutter Cane novel!

❝ Yes, because Elle is one of those works that tries to give its audience an additional cognitive element.

❝ Apart from being a great classic, 'Robocop' will appeal to those who, like myself, are madly in love with the sci-fi/action combo.

❝ Nevertheless, a small great masterpiece, Verhoeven will never reach these levels again. Among the top 5 science fiction films of all time, for sure.

❝ It’s not a blasphemous movie as many have presented it: "Life of Brian" is not a work against Christianity, but rather a manifesto against political and religious fanaticism.

❝ 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.

❝ No, Misery must not die!

❝ Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father, prepare to die

❝ Reiner’s best film without a shadow of a doubt.

❝ 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...

❝ Lunatic and unpredictable, the line of success rarely takes the shape of a straight line on the Cartesian plane.

❝ Because "by telling his stories over and over, a man becomes those stories. They continue to live on after him. And, in this way, he becomes immortal..."

❝ Since he's been here, the snow has never stopped falling...

❝ “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!

❝ “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...”

❝ It is and will remain the most disturbing thing I have ever seen.

❝ It is indeed a unique, original, unhealthy, morbid, disturbing film.

❝ Pupi Avati proves to be an adept screenwriter, aided by his trusted allies Antonio Avati (his brother) and Maurizio Costanzo (yes, him).

❝ A beautiful film in perfect Nanniloy-style, almost entirely filmed in the still clean and welcoming corridors of an express train.

❝ Now behind the camera was the good Nanni Loy, to make a long story short, the one who introduced Candid Camera in Italy.

❝ Excellent work by Nanni Loy, assisted by a brilliant Giancarlo Giannini and a beautiful/talented Lina Sastri among the protagonists.

❝ “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.

❝ “No one will ever be ready for Paranoid Park.”

❝ “Gerry” is a cruel film, reckless, not at all entertaining.

❝ Honestly, this is a film that perhaps shouldn’t exist.

❝ The debut work of Brian Yuzna, a kick in the face to the American bourgeoisie, here represented by monstrous rubbery beings, slugs intent on feeding on the poor and mating in frenzied and blasphemous orgies.

❝ We probably wouldn’t be discussing it if Helen Mirren hadn’t played the queen, in a memorable acting performance.

❝ Everything takes place in Chicago inside a record store, Championship Vinyl, where strange characters wander, all united by an unbridled passion for music of all genres.

❝ Maybe I did not sing well, but I sang.