Tag Archives: Joaquin Phoenix

Napoleon’s failure (film: Napoleon – Ridley Scott, 2023)

Posted on January 30, 2024 by admin

A few films ago I shared some thoughts about that category of directors who have reached the age, maturity, celebrity and financial independence where they have nothing left to prove or conquer, and who can afford to make almost any … Continue reading →

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fighting demons (film: You Were Never Really Here – Lynne Ramsay, 2017)

Posted on March 15, 2023 by admin

‘You Were Never Really Here‘, the 2017 film by Scottish director Lynne Ramsay, is a journey into hell. A special hell, one of the most terrible hells, the hell in a man’s mind and soul. The lead hero is played … Continue reading →

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a dark Joker (Film: Joker – Joaquin Phoenix, 2019)

Posted on October 15, 2019 by admin

Todd Phillips‘ ‘Joker‘ surprised me. It was something completely different than what I expected from watching the trailers and reading the reviews written by those who saw the film before me. Apparently the film would belong to a genre that … Continue reading →

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a boring western (Film: The Sisters Brothers – Jacques Audiard, 2018)

Posted on December 12, 2018 by admin

I find rather funny the debates about ‘what was better – the book or the film inspired by the book?’. It’s like comparing apples and oranges in my opinion. Literature and cinema are different arts, they use different means to … Continue reading →

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melodramatic immigration story (The Immigrant: Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix – 2013)

Posted on December 23, 2016 by admin

Director James Gray returns in his 2013 production of The Immigrant to one of his recurrent themes – the one that made him known in the first long feature film he made Little Odessa – immigration, and to his preferred … Continue reading →

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viciously long and confusing

Posted on June 6, 2015 by admin

You should be warned that ‘Inherent Vice’ is very different of what it is marketed to be. If you expect to see the detective story advertised by trailers better give up from start. Based upon a book or books by … Continue reading →

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‘my sweet OS’ (Film: Her – Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson, 2013)

Posted on January 12, 2014 by admin

I have no luck this year with the films that are favorites in the race for the Academy Awards. Or maybe they do not do well with me. I liked almost none of the ones I’ve seen so far and … Continue reading →

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under the spell of The Master (film: The Master – Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)

Posted on February 1, 2013 by admin

Paul Thomas Anderson‘s The Master is one of the best acted and the most impressively filmed movie of 2012. And yet, I am concerned that as with another amazing film a few years ago which also enjoyed the acting of … Continue reading →

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Back to the 80s (Film: We Own the Night – Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, 2007)

Posted on November 18, 2012 by admin

There is a strong feeling of deja vu planning on the viewers of We Own the Night (the slogan of the NYPD in the 80s, while fighting for the control of the streets of the Big Apple at night). The … Continue reading →

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