zecca99 Reviews

Toto Who Lived Twice (1998)

Cinematic sewage.

[1/10 · 25 October 2021]

Mental onanism for radical chic that would be always countercurrent without a reason.

Status of cult is earned only because of banning. Very good images by Luca Bigazzi , a really wonderful black & white ; but this is not enough saving the the movie from the garbage can.

Cross of the Seven Jewels (1987)

Cinematic sewage

[1/10 · 25 June 2021]

The worst movie of all time. There aren't enough words describing the mediocrity of this movie.

Watching this movie It's incitement to suicide.

Paganini (1989)

100% Kinsky

[10/10 · 5 June 2021]

This movie is as crazy as its author is; you can love it or hate it , nothing else , no half measures. Kinsky is actor , director ,writer , editor ; this movie is compleately his , in good and bad way. Personally I loved it ; a delrium.

On violin , the greatest Paganini's performer : Salvatore Accardo.

Cobra Verde (1987)

Herzog is not the same

[5/10 · 5 June 2021]

After Fitzcarraldo , Herzog had never been the same as he was in '70s ; power of his narration is waek ; the director ligers in too many antropological scenes ; sometimes the pace is too slow. In 80s and , even more , afterwards , Herzog expresses himself better in documentary than in movies. Kinsky is really great , unique as he was. Watching this movie I had felt a little bit of nostalgia for the real Herzog ; one of favourite director.

Joan Lui - Ma un giorno nel paese arrivo io di lunedì (1985)

A movie as strange as its author

[6/10 · 19 May 2021]

There no middle way : you hate Adriano or you love him. This movie is strange , surely , prophethic , maybe ; who knows . I think that Adriamo himself doesn't know what he had done.

Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

Great movie but too many loose ends

[8/10 · 15 May 2021]

I've watched two version of this movie : three hour.40minutes and extended . The second one adds no significant things , only some interlocutory scenes. Leone wasn't aware of synthesis existence; it's a great movie , great direction , great acting but there are too many loose end that tangle the plot.

How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)

Interesting only for cinemascope use

[4/10 · 15 May 2021]

This movie is highly overrated ; the only real interesting is the great use of Cinemascope by Negulesco. A suggestion : fast forwar for the orchestra at the beginning , that scene is useless.

Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)

A movie that make you think

[10/10 · 7 May 2021]

This is a really great movie; a story of a failed revolt that is the symbol of all failed revolts , for example the '68 movement , very close ,chronologically , to the movie. A story of violence and overwhelming ; the strong that bullies the weak; the wonderful location of Lanzarote ; misteries : how was it started ? How was it finished? Because there isn't a real ending ( like in many Herzog's movies). All this staged with dwarfs ; poeple who moves to pity used for a devastating message.

The Sicilian (1987)

Ridicolous movie

[1/10 · 7 May 2021]

Cimino miss compleately the target. This movie is awful ; the historical reconstruction is absolutely ridicolous ; a couple of examples : the grave with English language writing ( in Sicily ????) , a car with a plate of Pavia ( that is a city in northern Italy ,more or less 1000 kilometres far from Sicily) , a one-way point of view fo Giuliano's history that is very more complicated. A mess !!! Lambert is good only for Highlander ; Sukowa ( a distressing American whose caracther is compleately useless) is clearly embarassed . Only Turturro gives a good performance. A compleately waste of time and money.

Heaven's Gate (1980)

It worth watching only for photography

[5/10 · 7 May 2021]

Only the extraordinary cinematography of Wilmos Zsigmond... nothing else. Plot and subplots ( too many) are absurd ; Kristofferson is a piece of wood ; the counter rethoric is ridicolous , like are ridicolous dialogues. The ending is a mess. But what a riot of colour , what an extraordinary use of natural light ( a trademark of Zsigmond) , incredible images , clouds in a blu sky , the wind that make cheer a torn tend ; wonderful images ; nothing more than this.

The Satin Slipper (1985)

Boredom and beauty

[4/10 · 5 May 2021]

This movie is not a movie is merely filmed theatre , almost seven hours of ultra static shots , catatonic faces , glances lost in nothing ,endless monologues declaimed with humdrum voices and boredom , boredom , boredom. I think that the editor got asleep during his work. Surely there are fascinating colors , a remarkable plastic taste for shots ; you can feel the hand of Oliveira in every single moment of this movie , exactly as you can feel the boredom. In Venice Film Festival , back in 1985 , it was defined a "boring masterpiece" ; surely boring but I don't think that it is a masterpiece. Very , very demanding but not rewarding , a sadomasochistic experience.

Satantango (1994)

A strange movie

[8/10 · 5 May 2021]

This movie is very strange ; it is suspended between boredom and.sublime. Very , very , very long shots incredibly accurate; the camera is not fixed , such , for example , in boring DeOliveira's movies , camera movements and zoom give to the movie a mesmerizing rythm ; black and white photography is reamrkable ; but , undoubtedly , doredom is just around the corner. Surely it is not a movie for everyone.