Firstly I’d like to apologise to all readers of my blog for the long break in review publications. Unfortunately, for a period of time I was cursed with little time and restricted access to the Internet, thus encountered many obstacles in writing reviews. And that’s why I now have a few shortened movie reviews to present to you – movies I recently had the opportunity to watch.
Classic. Federico Fellini tells the story of an Italian director, who is going through a creativity crisis, a period lacking artistic afflatus. This problem is portrayed with conviction and the film’s opening vehicle sequence remains ingrained in memory. Unfortunately, there are boring moments and the film all in all doesn’t deserve to be regarded as a masterpiece. With all said however, the final verdict is rather high though slightly far-fetched.
„Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow” directed by Kerry Conran
Apparently the movie was a real breakthrough in motion picture history as it was the first motion picture to have been completely filmed using the “blue screen” technique (it depended on filming the actors in a studio with a blue screen in the background, creating the surroundings and screenplay on the computer.) It’s a simple adventure about Sky Captain (Jude Law) and his ex-partner Polly (Gwyneth Paltrow.) The idea for a simple and light story with a handful of movie quotes itself wasn’t that bad, however the animations of dubious quality and the many stupid explanations regarding certain events in the story don’t strengthen this movie production at all. “Sky Captain’s” fate isn’t even saved by star actors – Giovanni Ribisi and Jude Law.
„Melancholia” directed by Lars von Trier
In the opinion of many film critics it is Lars von Trier’s picture that should’ve have won the Golden Palm at this year’s annual film festival in Cannes. But for me - Melancholia failed to intrigue. Apart from the satisfactory roles of Charlotte Gainsborough and Kirsten Dunst, nice pictures, beautiful special effects and scoring nothing really struck me. It’s a good film. But that’s all.
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