Best director of 2012 secondo DeBaser.

❝ Alexander Payne has never been the kind of director cinephiles foam at the mouth for.

❝ All this personal rambling, sorry, just to say that Alexander Payne did a great job.

❝ Bringing the camera to film everyday life, without frills, as Payne does, is an erudite nod to that American cinema which enlivened the period of the other Hollywood between the late ’60s and early ’70s of the last century.

❝ 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.

❝ «And suddenly they realized there are neither God nor gods: they understood there is neither good nor evil. Then they saw (and understood) that if things were like that, then they themselves didn’t exist either».

❝ “What they build and what they will build, what they do and what they will do is only deceit and lies. What they think and what they will think is ridiculous. They think because they are afraid. And those who are afraid know nothing.”

❝ "I can't feel the coldness, only their falseness..."

❝ "Art has this particularly great quality: it does not tolerate lies"

❝ Thanks to an honest cast (with the exception of the convincing performance of the protagonist Mads Mikkelsen), very well-curated photography and a not excessive length without yawn-inducing rhythms, Thomas Vinterberg has brought to light a convincing film that has the strength to remain impressed and could offer a very stimulating viewing experience.

❝ "Festen", as one might logically expect, is a cantankerous, disorienting piece, endowed with a delightful anarchic, irreverent profile at times caustically hilarious;

❝ “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)

❝ “3-Iron” (Bin-Jip), is Kim Ki Duk's masterpiece, a sublime balance of form and substance.

❝ Kim Ki Duk is without a doubt one of the greatest representatives of Oriental cinema, and with his works, he has created a purely romantic and lyrical way of filming and understanding cinema, giving a poetic touch to films that remain absolute masterpieces of this art.

❝ Pietà is a highly dramatic film. There is never any laughter.

❝ "DIAZ" was a necessary film, and my judgment can only be positive in respect of the initiative, courage, and effort of those who wanted to fill the cinematic void on the "most serious suspension of democratic rights in a Western country since World War II".

❝ I have learned the hard way that when you're faced with the debut film of a young Italian director, there's a good chance you'll encounter a morally diligent, introspective piece.

❝ Combining history, drama, genuine laughter, and tension in such a fluid way is a titanic feat.

❝ Thriller and irony merge into a singular entity with distant precedents (the socially engaged cinema of the '70s) and see Affleck getting a few things off his chest, given the decidedly unflattering portrayal of Hollywood populated by ignorant rich folks and idiotic producers.

❝ The Town is an extremely solid film, well-directed with a good dose of craftsmanship.

❝ Blonde is a thesis-driven biopic about Marilyn Monroe.

❝ America is just business, and the very figure of the protagonist is the embodiment of that: killing is his job, and he must be paid for it.

❝ A great film but an experience at times also shocking, not to everyone’s taste, with questionable choices but which make it even more of a precious work and, for better and/or worse, memorable.

❝ 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.

❝ "there is a way to embrace poetry with laughter and simultaneously earn the favor of the audience."

❝ He is a charming bastard, that's indisputable, but he also invites us not to take everything we're told as absolute truth.

❝ 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 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...”

❝ A.D. 1992. A certain Mark Oliver Everett, known as Mr. E, appears on the music scene with the concept album "A Man Called E".

❝ the trio composed of captain Thalia Zedek (Come, Uzi, Live Skull), Jason Sidney Sanford (Neptune), and Gavin McCarthy (Karate) reconfirms itself in stunning form and as one of the most solid musical realities on the international rock scene.

❝ 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.

❝ Absurd, defiant, sarcastic, nonsensical, sadistic, dirty, trashy, vulgar, irregular, rebellious, hilarious, crazy and… bastard!

❝ 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.

❝ Robert Redford is an icon of democratic America.

❝ Four Oscars, including Best Picture and Director, a film with some flaws but all in all successful and touching.

❝ He still thinks that with common sense and words themselves, the world can change...

❝ The photography is superb.

❝ The film by John Hillcoat, based on Cormac McCarthy's novel, is a faithful yet monotonous rendition of the novel's atmosphere.

❝ Lawless, however, fails to genuinely convince, stuck in familiar territory and not very impactful emotionally.

❝ A dizzying snapshot with no good guys or bad guys.

❝ It is a bitter film that stays with you and leaves you with a bit of dirt.

❝ Soldado is a high-level entertainment film

❝ “Many who live deserve death, and some who die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death and judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends.”

❝ “Cinema closed until real life doesn't feel like a movie. Stay safe. Be kind”

❝ “Braindead” a.k.a “Dead Alive” (translated here as “Splatters gli schizza-cervelli”) is THE MOST SPLATTER FILM EVER MADE!!!