Seven (1995): The Allure of Decay
18/04/2017
Revulsion against the body haunts the new film by David Fincher as it does so much current cinema. What makes ‘Seven’ distinctive? Amy Taubin explains
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Seven (1995) | Sight and Sound Review
18/04/2017
Fincher has created the most authentically hellish screen metropolis since Gotham City, a nameless warren of damp corridors, subterranean sex joints and dilapidated tenements, where it rains all the time.
AMICI MIEI (1975) – Recensione di Giovanni Grazzini
11/04/2017
Amici miei è un’opera crudelissima e scanzonata, cattiva come una beffa del Lasca e cupa come il racconto d’un filosofo pessimista
SEDOTTA E ABBANDONATA (1964) – Recensione di Giovanni Grazzini
11/04/2017
di Giovanni Grazzini Con Sedotta e abbandonata gli affezionati spettatori di Divorzio all’italiana si ritrovano in una Sicilia dominata da un grottesco senso dell’onore, nuovamente
FULL METAL JACKET: RECENSIONE – di Fernaldo Di Giammatteo [Il Castoro Cinema]
06/04/2017
Saggio critico di Fernaldo Di Giammatteo su “Full Metal Jacket”, pubblicato nel numero monografico su Stanley Kubrick della collana Il Castoro Cinema
Kubrick’S Shining | Review by Richard T. Jameson
23/03/2017
The Shining is a horror movie only in the sense that all Kubrick’s mature work has been horror movies—films that constitute a Swiftian vision of inscrutable cosmic order, and of “the most pernicious race of little vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.”
Lolita(1962) – Review by Robert Hatch [The Nation]
22/03/2017
Sue Lyon makes Lolita a mirror of the popular culture and as alarming a harbinger of Western civilization’s imminent collapse as I can remember.
Eyes Wide Shut: What the Critics Failed to See in Kubrick’s Last Film | by Lee Siegel [Harper’s Magazine]
09/03/2017
Not a single critic, not even those few who claimed to like Eyes Wide Shut, made any attempt to understand the film on its own artistic terms. Instead, the critics denounced the film for not living up to the claims its publicists had made for it.
SCORSESE’S GANGS OF NEW YORK: WHY MYTH MATTERS – by Timothy J. Gilfoyle
09/03/2017
by Timothy J. Gilfoyle In December 2002, Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York opened to critical acclaim. The Chicago Tribune’s Michael Wilmington described the motion
THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940) – Review by Dilys Powell
06/03/2017
by Dilys Powell The Grapes of Wrath is not just a film, not just a tragedy, not just a social indictment even; it is an
Sex an Dr. Strangelove
28/02/2017
This study will point out how Dr. Strangelove is a sex allegory: from foreplay to explosion in the mechanized world.
L’ANNO DEL DRAGONE – Recensione di Gualtiero De Marinis per “Cineforum”
24/02/2017
C’è un patto di non aggressione tra la polizia e gli «anziani» della comunità cinese di Chinatown. Ma quando al posto dell’opimo William McKenna arriva l’agile Stanley White le cose cambiano.
FUORI ORARIO (1986) – Recensione di Franco La Polla per “Cineforum”
23/02/2017
«Cambiano le regole. Quando si fanno le ore piccole è zona franca», dice il simpatico barista a Marcy e Paul, offrendo loro la consumazione, per divenire di lì a poco il burbero, inesorabile proprietario che impone al giovane l’ordinazione.
Platoon (1986) – Review by Pauline Kael
22/02/2017
Pauline Kael reviews Oliver Stone’s “Platoon”. Published in “The New Yorker”, January 12, 1987
ARANCIA MECCANICA – Recensione di Giovanni Grazzini
06/02/2017
Giovanni Grazzini recensisce “Arancia Meccanica” di Stanley Kubrick. Corriere della Sera, 24 agosto 1972
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY – CATCHER IN THE MILKY-WAY
03/02/2017
Paul Schrader reviews Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey”. Published in ‘Spectacle’, September 13, 1968
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE: DREAD AND DESIRE
01/02/2017
Aching desire and repression and guilt collide in Scorsese’s version of Edith Wharton’s ‘The Age of Innocence’
PATHS OF GLORY – Review by Bosley Crowther
26/01/2017
To a certain extent, this forthright picture has the impact of hard reality, mainly because its frank avowal of agonizing, uncompensated injustice is pursued to the bitter, tragic end.
PATHS OF GLORY – Review by Dilys Powell
26/01/2017
Paths of Glory is the work of a brilliant young professional who is easing himself into the more difficult teaches of his job.
EYES WIDE SHUT: ALL EYES ON THEM – Review by Richard Schickel
22/01/2017
The theme is sexual obsession. The stars are Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. The director is Stanley Kubrick. Who could look anywhere else?
DR. STRANGELOVE – Review by Bosley Crowther
22/01/2017
Stanley Kubrick’s new film, called Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, is beyond any question the most shattering sick joke I’ve ever come across.