Best director of the nineties secondo DeBaser.

❝ 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.

❝ To The Wonder is in all respects a superfluous appendix to The Tree Of Life: the calling card is the same, the director's imprint unmistakably unchanged, but the entire work is presented in such an affected and absurd manner that it left me both disgusted and amused.

❝ "The Thin Red Line" is Terrence Malick's very free adaptation of James Jones's autobiographical volume, an account of the Guadalcanal conflict during World War II, but applicable to any type of war, and is one of the most beautiful films ever made.

❝ Thus begins the fifth feature film by Terrence Malick, now a mysterious, almost "legendary" icon of world cinema.

❝ 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

❝ The Coen brothers are an institution in contemporary cinema, and they know it well.

❝ Ed Crane is us when we do not listen to ourselves and course steadily on our smoke skates in search of the solution.

❝ 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.

❝ "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.

❝ “It is preferable not to travel with a dead man” (Henri Michaux)

❝ “It’s a sad and beautiful world!...”.

❝ “Notice, we are the coffee and cigarettes generation, if you think about it. While those from the ’40s were the cake and coffee generation.”

❝ “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!”

❝ It's a flat rejection, without appeal, because practically nothing works in this film.

❝ In the vein of committed civil cinema, which in Italy has had great authors like Rosi, Petri, Lizzani, Bellocchio (just to name a few), Amelio's latest work takes us back to what was, in the 1960s, the distressing case of Aldo Braibanti, an unorthodox Marxist intellectual and distinguished myrmecologist, who was tried in 1968 for allegedly manipulating a young student (who was already of age at the time) and was sentenced to nine years in prison, although he only served two.

❝ A masterpiece, that with a sober and essential language knows how to offer moments of true poetry and beauty in depicting the wrenching humanity of the defeated.

❝ "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.

❝ "What does real mean? Give me a definition of real. If you refer to what we perceive, what we can smell, touch, and see, that real is just electrical signals interpreted by the brain".

❝ "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

❝ 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...

❝ 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,

❝ 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.

❝ 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).

❝ “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.”

❝ 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.

❝ “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)

❝ "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.

❝ 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.

❝ «A film should be like a pebble in a shoe.»
L. Von Trier

❝ "Nymphomaniac is a four-hour porno. Long live Lars Von Trier."

❝ KATABASIS!

❝ The end is within us, we just have to explain it to ourselves, each in our own way.

❝ Haneke is mocking you: there is no salvation, no happy ending, there’s only the nightmare, even if you’re on the good side, the victory will be for the bad guys.

❝ Violence must be present, but it should never be shown.

❝ "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.

❝ “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...”

❝ 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.

❝ "Your name is Rosetta" - "My name is Rosetta"

❝ "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."

❝ 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.

❝ Someone called it The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime.

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

❝ I am alone. I cry.

❝ Happiness is a flower that explodes in a firework that seemed would never burst.

❝ The purity of the violence is obscene.

❝ It's one thing to tell stories about swords, another to "be" the "sword."

❝ The gallery is unexpectedly crowded. Yet, looking at it, it's not that beautiful.

❝ A work very distant from expensive (often negligible) Hollywood productions.

❝ The relationship between human beings. This is the foundation of Mike Leigh's film.

❝ Almodóvar, you either like him or you don’t, a genius or a fool;

❝ After "All About My Mother" and "Talk to Her", Almodóvar slightly deviates from his usual style and themes to create a "noir melodrama."

❝ Spectacular also for the absolute lack of prejudice towards anything and for how, from a sad and degenerate context, it manages to draw a story rich in humor and pathos until the end.

❝ “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!”

❝ A bad episode of "Homeland".

❝ Ultimately, a beautiful film, a masterpiece in its genre, boasting a unique story and a subtle and refined unease that gives the work a "cursed" air.

❝ It’s a harsh and dry film. If you could tread on noise, it would be like a lifeless leaf.

❝ “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.”

❝ “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...”

❝ You're the entrepreneur of yourself, but the scanner for the packages will be your God, always able to tell you where, how, and when.

❝ A radical change in the way we approach existence would be necessary, but Loach does not believe in flying donkeys, and thus he gives us a devastating finale with a silence that knocks us to the ground, leaving us bleeding and breathless.

❝ We’ll miss you, Ken*, I say sincerely, because you’re a champ and you didn’t sell out as you got older.

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

❝ "We are everything we have"

❝ "A cowboy always makes an impression"

❝ Protagonist and visionary of a changing world, Massimo Troisi, speaks to the future with lightness, sweetness, and that shyness that distinguishes him.

❝ "Vincè, I'm gonna kill myself. As they say, better 1 day as a lion than 100 days as a sheep, right? Eh, what's it to me, Tonì, the lion, the sheep, do 50 days as a teddy bear and no one talks about it anymore".

❝ I can honestly say that I have never counted myself among the admirers and supporters of the character and comedy of the late Massimo Troisi, and this film, at times amusing but too banally dull, unfortunately proves me right.

❝ “In every fake there is always something authentic hidden...”

❝ “The world of Ennio is not yet fully discovered”

❝ “This film gave me everything; over the course of a year, everything that can happen in a director's career happened to me: from the darkest and most desperate failure to the rosiest and most joyful success. It was like making ten films at once, a deep and complex experience to which I owe everything. It's a film constantly in my life, it seems impossible to me that so many seasons have passed; every time I go somewhere, they ask me about the film. A large part of this success is also due to the music; without Ennio Morricone, it wouldn't have been the same.”

❝ “Laputa cannot fall; it will continue to rise because the power of Laputa is humanity’s dream.”

❝ “Totoro was really there, it’s not a lie.”

❝ “I’d rather be a pig than a fascist”

❝ The camera seems to fly through the versatile hands of Yimou who, among acrobatic convergences and situations even on the edge of credibility, delivers some textbook sequences.

❝ The screenplay is superb, a masterpiece in itself regardless of the brilliance of the project.

❝ This film truly shows you China from a different perspective.

❝ 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.

❝ “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.

❝ Monastic scenery, few characters, a thousand nuances (like the countless vintage film posters in bars), and many magnificent silences.

❝ 81 minutes (credits included): pure essentiality projected onto film.

❝ As the director himself says, "in my films no one runs or laughs."

❝ “When I think back to those distant years, it's as if I look at them through a dusty glass. The past is something you can see but cannot touch, and everything you see is blurred, indistinct.”

❝ “Hong Kong is a state of mind, cigarette smoke, neon lights suspended between tufts of fuchsia clouds.”

❝ “Memories are always soaked with tears.”

❝ Rossellini used to say that reality is right there in front, ready for the director who has nothing else to do but stage it.

❝ This film never looks up to the sky. Literally.

❝ "War is war when two brothers kill each other."

❝ "We went to Turin and we scored six goals... six goals against the lawyer Agnelli's team... it seemed impossible that a team from the South could beat one from the North."