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Nov 21, 2018 · Alfonso Cuaron ’s “Roma” opens with a close-up shot of a stone-paved driveway. We see soapy water cascade over the rock, as someone off-camera is cleaning it. In the reflection of the water, we can see the sky, although even that reflection undulates and changes as the water moves. A plane then moves across the field of view within the ...
- The Night of the Hunter" (1955) That one at least has taken on a canonical aspect. The list evolves slowly. Keaton rises, Chaplin falls. It is eventually decided that "Vertigo" is Hitchcock's finest film.
- Apocalypse Now" (1979) To be useful to me, a list should contain titles I'm not familiar with, suggest directors I should be looking at, and inspire me to give some films another look.
- Sunrise" (1927) Their selection passes my most important test: It is interesting. It contains ten titles that aren't included in my ever-growing Great Movies Collection, and I am now inspired to consider them.
- "Black Narcissus" (1947) Advertisement. That said, "The Night of the Hunter" is not an absurd title for the top of the list, with the caveat that all lists are meaningless.
The image is both perfect and natural; as someone commented about “Fellini’s 8 1/2”, his movies are filled with images, and they’re all obvious. If Bergman is the great introvert of the movies, forever probing more and more deeply, Fellini is the joyous exponent of surfaces and excess, of letting more hang out than there is.
Nov 29, 2018 · A lfonso Cuarón’s new film Roma is thrilling, engrossing, moving – and just entirely amazing, an adjectival pileup of wonder. He has reached back into his own childhood to create an intensely ...
Feb 15, 2019 · The movie is filled with narrative diversions that reassure viewers that no single country's leaders are smarter, more responsible, or more capable than the rest—except, of course, for the Chinese. Second, "The Wandering Earth" looks better than most American special-effects spectaculars because it gives you breathing space to admire ...
Nov 20, 2018 · R. 2h 15m. By Manohla Dargis. Nov. 20, 2018. Leer en español. In “Roma,” the Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón uses a large canvas to tell the story of lives that some might think small. A ...
Sep 11, 2018 · Alfonso Cuarón's Roma is a singular achievement – a visually resplendent tale of empathy, focusing on a housekeeper in 1970s Mexico, and the family she works and lives with. "The movies are ...
