Worst director of all time secondo DeBaser.

❝ Dario Argento has earned the title of "Master of Italian Horror," having produced in the past absolute masterpieces such as L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo, Il gatto a nove code, Profondo rosso, Suspiria, Inferno, and in my opinion, also Tenebre, not to mention good films like Quattro mosche di velluto grigio, Phenomena, and Opera.

❝ Suspiria is instead a "triumph of direction" (quote), a true work of art that we have been envied for worldwide, and we should be proud to have a director with such extraordinary talents as Dario Argento...

❝ Therefore, a terrible film. Unless Argento also fell victim to the Macbeth curse, so much talked about in Opera.

❝ “We are never so unfree as when we attempt to act.”

❝ “Maybe over there, they think less about happiness. Things have to go on their own here it’s all a great effort. Even love.”

❝ “there are days when holding a fabric, a needle, a book, and a man is the same thing”

❝ «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!

❝ A 1995 pseudo-youthful comedy that tells in a haphazard way the misery of the Italian thirty-something, and does so in a Tuscan comedic key, but turns out to be a fourth-rate film with inexplicable cinematic success.

❝ The king of the dull, the monarch of the mediocre, the prince of the "ordinary."

❝ This is not a review, it's a simple piece of advice: stay away from this stuff!

❝ “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!”

❝ Someone called it The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime.

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

❝ I am alone. I cry.

❝ A film that perhaps won’t say much to most, but that has an undeniable and priceless quality: while watching it, you feel at home, among old friends who never betray, and the laughs that slip out, with the benevolence granted to Vanzina & Co., can bring a fleeting sensation of happiness.

❝ In summary, a 4/5 film, I dare say in an absolute manner, and, therefore, also in relation to the objective scale of Debaser, precisely because it has defined a certain type of ’80s cinema and has marked the evolution of the genre itself.

❝ It’s not a masterpiece, no, but “Mitici: Colpo Gobbo a Milano” can be categorized as those evergreen films that don’t suffer from numerous TV reruns, always managing to engage the viewer who ends up rooting for these “Robin Hood de noantri.”

❝ 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.

❝ Writing a comment on what, in my opinion, is the most beautiful film ever made presents quite a few challenges.

❝ Today, almost thirty years later, “Life is Beautiful” appears to be a distinguished work, despite a few small flaws, radiant.

❝ Behold, “Life is Beautiful”is poetry, pure and simple:

❝ And “Life is Beautiful” is his acme, the masterpiece of cinematic and artistic hypocrisy, where every trait of the script, every line, every whim is subordinated to begging for the viewer’s pity.

❝ If you Love Muccino, you'll Love this film.

❝ This film is dramatic. And in some parts, it borders on horror.

❝ Because the much-celebrated "L'ultimo Bacio" is one of the most overrated hoaxes in history, along with its author.

❝ 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.

❝ “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...”

❝ 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!

❝ Bigas Luna: They Called Him Bilbao -1978-

❝ Good blood doesn't lie...

❝ 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.

❝ Michael Bay, go to hell.

❝ a great work, full of special effects and just shallow enough, perfect for a summer evening with company.

❝ Michael Bay’s war film. It almost sounds like a threat, but the issue is more complicated than it seems.

❝ “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.”

❝ 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

❝ Crude comedy from 1992directed and starred by Christian De Sica featuring Renato Pozzetto, not at his best.

❝ 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.

❝ “Either you love him or you hate him”

❝ “This film devastated me.”

❝ “Requiem For A Dream”, the funeral of a dream, the American dream, never before so bitterly and violently brought to its conclusions.

❝ You can't help but love Guillermo, always and no matter what.

❝ “The Latin term monstrum essentially indicates a divine sign, a wonder, and derives from the theme of monere: to warn, to advise.”

❝ A film by del Toro is always an experience worth living.

❝ This film, when all is said and done, emanates very little sacredness.

❝ I said that the film grabs you, nails you to the sofa, excites you; in short, it's a great film.

❝ The two war sequences are masterful, very complex in direction but structured in a way that they do not turn chaotic.

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ NON-REVIEW for a NON-FILM.

❝ shot by Neri Parenti in '89, with nods to the upcoming soccer World Cup, "Fratelli d'Italia" initially appears to be the classic filler in the otherwise brilliant career of the director

❝ Neri Parenti focuses entirely on the usual gags full of asses, shit, piss, boobs, and pussy,

❝ “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.

❝ “Compagni di Scuola” remains even today a splendid masterpiece, a milestone of Italian cinema barely weakened by its negligible flaws, an extraordinary bourgeois horror disguised as a comedy.

❝ “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation” (H.D. Thoreau)

❝ Ivano: 'O famo strano? Jessica: Famolo!

❝ 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.

❝ Giovanni, you need to set a limit, you can’t keep doing damage like this.

❝ Veronesi has nothing to do with Monicelli, nor with the Italian comedy that the latter had “accustomed” us to see.

❝ I hate the heat.

❝ Believe me, he can’t go lower than 23.

❝ Life's a bitch, and it made me one too, darling.

❝ 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...

❝ As a comedy, I’d rate it: 3.5 out of 5.

❝ The descriptive aspect of Milan is fascinating.

❝ A film for Sunday contemplation.

❝ It’s a film about appearance, a good film.

❝ "Between living dead and dying living there is no difference"

❝ "Listen Pellegrini, you grew up with books, joints, and revolution but your parka was bought by your dad, I raised sheep and sometimes even slept with them, but now they call me doctor, there has to be a reason!"

❝ "The Expendables" doesn't disappoint expectations, it is truly an "exaggerated" film in every sense.

❝ This is a film about war, not a Rambo movie!

❝ "When I came here, you didn't like me, and I didn't like you. But then you changed, and I changed, and if I can change and you can change, then the world can change."

❝ “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.

❝ Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Cry, and you cry alone.

❝ You have annihilated me

❝ There is no other choice, eat or be eaten.

❝ The filmed evidence of Michael Jackson's last days makes Obama and the pope seem like Z-list stars.

❝ 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.

❝ Ron Howard is not a genius. Let’s say that, when he tries, he is an excellent craftsman.

❝ Ron Howard is in limbo.

❝ Howard remains always dignified and honest, but certainly is not Eastwood,

❝ 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.

❝ And in the end, the viewers always meet the same fate as Costanzino and Anello: they get screwed.

❝ Old broken fridge with freon stench, ghost castle from amusement rides with the stench of gear lubricant, "Star Crash" is an eccentric, pathetic, and therefore enticing oddity of Italian B-movie cinema.

❝ THIS IS NOT A HISTORICAL FILM.

❝ But in the end, it doesn’t matter..: it’s a giant carousel ride, and what matters, in rides, is having fun.

❝ It is really difficult to find something to save within this film.

❝ And it is the delirium of trash, the apocalypse of buffoonery.

❝ The director, after all, is Lucio Fulci, one of the great names of Italian cinema and one who will later be defined as a 'terrorist of genres'

❝ Here is a film that holds a certain importance in the history of Italian thrillers, as well as being one of Lucio Fulci's most justly famous works.

❝ Kinski takes the camera and points it at himself throughout the film, and when he doesn't, the characters talk about him (him as "Paganini" or him as "Kinski"?) usually with negative connotations.

❝ To me, for example, as soon as I see a photo or any film featuring Klaus Kinski, an instinctive sense of repulsion arises as if encountering an anaconda, a viper, or a tarantula.

❝ There are films that make you reflect, that make you dream, that make you cry, films that do all these things together and films, like this one, that make you laugh (but really a lot).

❝ Film from 1992, directed by James Foley, with a lean and essential form, featuring simplified settings to highlight dialogues and acting performances, intense and gripping in its one and a half hour duration.

❝ To be honest, from the third film onwards there has been an inexorable decline, and dear Mr. David Yates has never gotten it right.

❝ In conclusion, I would say that Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix could have been a great film, but as I said, David Yates destroys all the magic that the film could have offered to the audience.

❝ From the first scenes to the epilogue, the film conveys a strong sense of unease that Adrian Lyne is very skilled at creating.

❝ I believe few would expect from the director of "Flashdance" and "Nine 1/2 Weeks," of "Lolita" and "Indecent Proposal," such a profound film.

❝ In short, Fatal Attraction works and, without a doubt, it is the director’s best work (except for the excellent Jacob’s Ladder, which moves on different themes) because it shows us how all the emotional knowledge of couple relationships can be taken to the extreme, and it does so with linearity and constant apprehension.

❝ “Pierrot le fou” is the ultimate expression of the Nouvelle Vague, a cinema that destroys, invents, seeks alternative paths leading to a cinema that even today appears fresh, revolutionary, overwhelming.

❝ In these long sequences, the director uses an unprecedented editing technique, cutting dialogues and joining scenes with no connection.

❝ That something more is Anna Karina.

❝ Anger and melancholy, violence and despair in the eyes of an elementary school child.

❝ Stunning debut by Lina Wertmuller, to whom I want to give an extra round of applause for being female.

❝ 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

❝ This ugly and unwatchable film - I say it right away, to avoid the usual instrumental controversies by the usual wise guys - is the expression of a double mystery, a mystery that touches the lives of its director and its protagonist.

❝ The last erotomaniac peplum is a cult film, visionary, kitsch, a Fellinian-Satyricon circus and a political satire on power, slashed by censorship, shot and then disowned by Brass himself who abandoned the set due to various differences with the production by Bob Guccione of "Penthouse"

❝ When he doesn't have to play the character of the 'Great Pig', Tinto Brass reveals himself to be a true man of cinema, passionate, sincere, competent, and humble.

❝ “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!!!