映画批評から英語を知るのもあり。楽しまなければ英語は身に付かない。
I am not a native speaker of English. In order to improve my English ability,I would like to continue learing English every day. I am sure that the best way not to give up learning English is to enjoy it. I like movies, so learning English through movie-related documents is a suitable option for me. Reading and understanding a lot of the movie documents written by a native is a good way,I think. I would like to be able to write my reviews on movies fluently.
Again,I cannot believe this awesome film was produced in the 1930th!
Pace is so fast I canot even blink my eyes(chucles).
Ann Dvorak especially impressed me with her style and elegance,
Scarface is rated ★★★★★
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While not a box-office success, this drama, directed by Leo McCarey, developed a potent reputation among film critics and movie buffs for its sensitive and perceptive treatment of the problems of the elderly. When McCarey won the Oscar for Best Director the same year for The Awful Truth, he remarked that the Academy gave him the award for the wrong movie. Barkley and Lucy Cooper (Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi) are a couple in their late 60s who have fallen on hard times and have been given the bad news that the bank is foreclosing on their house. Barkley and Lucy turn to their five children for help, but none are willing or able to do much for them; their son George (Thomas Mitchell) says that Lucy can stay with him and his wife Anita (Fay Bainter), while Nellie (Minna Gombell) and her husband Harvey (Porter Hall) can take in Barkley, but neither couple have the space or the means to house them both. Living with their children and their new families proves stressful for everyone involved, and Lucy decides to take up residence in a home for older women. She and Barkley realize that this will probably mean a permanent separation for the two of them, and they try to enjoy one last outing together before they part. Remarkably, Beulah Bondi was only 46 years old when this film was made, making her less then ten years older than several of her on-screen children; make-up wizard Wally Westmore used his bag of tricks to age her the appropriate two decades for the role. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
It is unbelievable that this film was made in 1937!
They say that this movie inspired a Japanese director Yasujirō ozu to craft "tokyo monogatari" .The cruelty, saddness,difficulty in the parents - their children relationships are well-expressed,indeed.
I feel glad this one is listed in the 1001 movies you must see.
Make way for tomorrow is rated ★★★★★
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I rated the below films freely.
but, The Artist will be a winner as expected.
★the lowest ～ the highest ★★★★★
The Artist ★★★
The Descendants ★★★★
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close ★★★
The Help ★★★★★
Hugo ★★★
Midnight in paris ★★★
Moneyball ★★★
The tree of life ★★★★
War horse ★★★
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The film opens with a quote from the Book of Job.
Afterwards, a mysterious, wavering light that resembles a flame flickers in the darkness. Mrs. O'Brien (Jessica Chastain) recalls a lesson taught to her that people must choose to either follow the path of grace or the path of nature. In the mid 1960s, she receives a telegram informing her of the death of her son, R.L., at age nineteen. Mr. O'Brien (Brad Pitt) is notified by telephone. The family is thrown into turmoil.
In the 2000s, eldest son Jack O'Brien (Sean Penn) is adrift in his modern life as an architect. One day he has an argument with his father regarding R.L.'s death. Later, after Jack sees a tree being planted in front of a building, he begins to reminisce about his life as a young teenager during the 1950s.
To understand this film, we should absolutely understand the story of job from the bible.I think the main theme of this film is conveyed to us through the story of job...God gives us everything, however, takes everything from us.we are under the control of God...
Tree of life is rated ★★★★
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Based on the acclaimed novel of the same name, "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" tells the story of one young boy's journey from heartbreaking loss to the healing power of self-discovery, set against the backdrop of the tragicevents of September 11. Eleven-year-old Oskar Schell is an exceptional child: amateur inventor, Francophile, pacifist. And after finding a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11, he embarks on an exceptional journey--an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York. As Oskar roams the city, he encounters a motley assortment of humanity, who are all survivors in their own ways.
Billy Beane is handicapped with the lowest salary constraint in baseball. If he ever wants to win the World Series, Billy has to find a competitive advantage. Billy is going to turn baseball on its ear when he takes advantage of statistical data to analyze and place value on the players he chooses for the team.In 2001, Oakland A's lose to the Yankees in the playoffs then lose three stars to free agency. How can Beane field a competitive team when the A's player salaries total less than a third of the rich teams'? To the consternation of his scouts, Beane hires and listens to Peter Brand, a recent Yale graduate who evaluates players using Bill James' statistical approach. Beane assembles a team of no names who, on paper, can get on base and score runs. Then, Beane's manager, Art Howe, won't use the players as Beane wants. Can Beane circumvent Howe, win games, make it to the 2002 Series, and stand baseball's hidebound conventions on their heads?
words
turn on ear 一新する
hidebound 時代遅れの
circumvent 回避する
I hear the ending scene is good enough for film viewers to be moved to tears, but I was not.
Moneyball is rated ★★★
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In 1931, Hugo Cabret, a 12-year-old boy, lives with his widowed father, a kind and devoted master clockmaker in Paris. Hugo's father takes him to see films and loves the films of Georges Méliès best of all. Hugo's father is burned alive in a museum fire, and Hugo is taken away by his uncle, an alcoholic watchmaker who is responsible for maintaining the clocks in the railway station Gare du Nord. His uncle teaches him to take care of the clocks, then disappears.
Hugo lives between the walls of the station, maintaining the clocks, stealing food and working on his father's most ambitious project: repairing a broken automaton – a mechanical man who is supposed to write with a pen. Convinced that the automaton contains a message from his father, Hugo goes to desperate lengths to fix it. Hugo steals mechanical parts in the station to repair the automaton, but he is caught by a toy store owner named Georges Melies who takes Hugo's notebook from him, with notes and drawings for fixing the automaton.
What I feel good about this film is that the scenes from A trip to the moon,The great train robbery(月世界旅行、大列車強盗）appear on the screen.
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Time flies indeed! The academy award ceremonoy is approaching...
This year totally 9 movies are chosen for this award.
I am wondering which one will be a best picture.
Today,I first chose the Artist to be posted in my blog.
I am one of the classics fan.Some of them made me cry,laugh, think of my past etc. the silent movie entertains me in a different way that an usual movie does.
Here is the trailer:
The Artist is a 2011 French romantic drama film directed by Michel Hazanavicius, starring Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo. The story takes place in Hollywood between 1927 and 1932 and focuses on the relationship of an older silent film star and a rising young actress, as silent cinema falls out of fashion and is replaced by the talkies. Most of the film itself is silent; it was produced in black-and-white, and has received wide praise from critics and many accolades. Dujardin won the Best Actor Award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, where the film premiered.
As far as its trailer is concerned, it does not seem to impress me like the other classics does.
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The Killing is a 1956 film noir produced by James B. Harris and directed by Stanley Kubrick.
Johnny Clay is a veteran criminal planning one last heist before settling down and marrying Fay . He plans to rob two million dollars from the money counting room of a racetrack during a featured race. He assembles a team consisting of a corrupt cop , a betting window teller to give access to the backroom, a sharpshooter to shoot the favorite horse during the race to distract the crowd, a wrestler to provide another distraction by provoking a fight at the track bar and a track bartender.
The Killing was Kubrick's first full-length feature film shot with a professional cast and crew. The story is told using a non-linear narrative, an unusual device for 1950s American cinema, and was imitated nearly 40 years later in the film Reservoir Dogs. Director Quentin Tarantino acknowledged Kubrick's film as a major influence, even referring to Reservoir Dogs as "my Killing". The Killing followed many of the conventions of film noir, in both its plotting and cinematography style. The genre peaked in the 1940s, but many critics regard this film as one of its best. While it was not a financial success, it received good reviews.
I think the ending scene is one of my best!!
The Killing is rated ★★★★★
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To be honest,this film is not scary, spooky（不気味）, eerie（薄気味悪い）, has no suspense. Dracula is not so scary.What dissapointed me most was its ending. I rather love other classic monster films such as Frankenstein and The Wolf Man.If you want to feel scary,see Nosferatu (1922). That film has style, substance. But Lugosi was simply born for the role.I recommend you to see his career in the film 「Ed Wood」.
Dracula(1931) is rated ★★★
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Frankenstein trailer
予告編！！、女性の悲鳴が入ってます、音量を低くしてご覧ください（笑）。
Please turn down the volume as the lady screaming is involved(chuckles)
No horror films would be perfect without this movie. It was one of the first and is still one of the best ever made. The film that made Boris Karloff. Jack Pierce provides the best make-up since Chaney's Phantom of the Opera.This is, without question, the definitive gothic horror classic that defined the standard
Although many people may argue that The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) was a better one, I think Frankenstein is the best monster movie ever made.This movie has lightning, atmosphere, plot, and character. James Whale directed this film and did a awesome job with it. It is pretty scary too. The scene where Frankenstein throws Little Maria into the water and drowns her is a touching scene, because you really don't know who you want to feel sorry for more... Sure Maria is a little girl and drowned, but Frankenstein didn't mean to kill her and now he lives with what he had done.
Frankenstein(１９３１) is rated ★★★★★
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It was very sad that it took the world so long to finally release this film from its banned state.It is no wonder why this extraordinary film was selected to the National Film Registry's archive of cinematic treasures.
This film was a huge success at it's initial screening in San Diego, but the movie was so unusual for its time (instead of fictional monsters the film was filled with real-life human oddities) that many found it squeamish and frightening and the studio pulled the film and had it re-edited. The movie found some critical success and was very popular in some cities, but overall the film was critically panned(批評家にこき下ろされる）. Critics and many viewers found the sideshow setting of the film, with Siamese twins, armless women, pinheads（頭が異常に小さい人）, bearded ladies, dwarves, and a limbless man to be just too unnatural. It was banned in many cities across the U.S. as well as in Britain and Australia and MGM pulled the film from circulation. Fueled by a spirit of rebellion, the movie had a renaissance in the 1960s which continued for over thirty years until the film being added to the National Film Registry by the National Film Preservation Board in 1994. At the time of its initial release, many people found FREAKS horrifying because of the human oddities. Some would argue that we are now too desensitized（鈍感） by all the graphic and horrifying things we've been exposed to over the past two generations to find the film as frightening as it once must have seen. I would like to think it's more because we've become more sensitive and compassionate about all people (of course, a movie like FREAKS would never get made today). Whatever the case, the unusual people in FREAKS aren't disturbing and shocking. With our modern lens, audiences can see beyond the "freaks" and see them as the people they really were (as they movie says, "They are all God's children) and see the movie for the excellent film it is.
A middle aged man walked to the nihonbashi, with the knife stubbed in his chest.
What has ever happened to this man? Why did he go to such a place? This film protagonist Kaga tried to seek the truth behind this murder..
I recieved the free ticket of this movie preview a few days ago.
They say this novel is the best of all ever made regarding Kaga.
But, I do not think so. Akai yubi(赤い指）I watched on TV last year was more impressive .
I put too much of myself into that Akai yubi.
Why? There was no truth defying the viewers prediction, no astounding ending in kirinnotubasa...
Anyway, Abe Hirosi radiated an aura during the movie.
麒麟の翼 is rated ★★★
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This is a beautifully shot yet slowing-moving movie based on the novel. The best part of this movie is the cinematography and settings in Venice. The plot concerns a composer who falls in love with the adolescent Tadzio, who looks like greek sculputure. The film's major fault is its extreme slow pace. The camera moves about lazily and long stretches pass when no one speaks. From time to time, we are given flashbacks of Aushenbach's life in Germany, but they are mere flickers of memory and not fleshed out at all. What we see mostly are shots of Aushenbach walking around Venice in a feverish daze.I have been looking forward to seeing this movie, but the pace dissapointed me a lot.
Sad to say,
The death in venice is rated ★★
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Sunflower (Italian: I girasoli) is a 1970 Italian drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It was the first occidental（西洋） film to be filmed in the USSR.
Neapolitan lovers', Giovanna (Sophia Loren) and Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni), honeymoon is cut short by Antonio's deployment to the Russian Front during World War II. Antonio does not return when the war is over, and is listed as missing in action. Despite the odds(困難にめげず), Giovanna is convinced her true love has survived the war and is still in Russia. Determined, she journeys to Russia to find him. In Russia, Giovanna visits the sunflower fields, where there is supposedly one flower for each fallen Italian soldier, and where the Germans forced the Italians to dig their own mass graves. Eventually, Giovanna finds Antonio, but by now he has started a second family with a woman who saved his life, and they have one daughter. Herself childless, having been faithful to her newly-wed husband, Giovanna returns to Italy, heartbroken, but unwilling to disrupt her love's new life. Some more years later, Antonio returns to Giovanna, asking her to come back with him to Russia. Meanwhile, Giovanna has tried to move on with her own life, moving out of their first home together and into her own apartment. She has started dating again, has given birth to a baby boy, and is living as a single parent. He explains his new life, how war changes a man, how safe he felt with his new woman after years of death. Unwilling to ruin Antonio's daughter's or her own new son's life, Giovanna refuses to leave Italy, expressing an intense emotional maturity in her choice. As they part, Antonio gives her a fur scarf, something he promised to bring her back years ago. The lovers lock eyes as Antonio's train takes him away from Giovanna, and from Italy, forever.
Sunflower is rated ★★★★★
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Sometimes, a film comes along and dazzles audiences with its smooth viewability, if that is a word, brilliant acting, and well crafted plotline. In the case of Cinema Paradiso, we see these elements combined with a stunningly soothing musical score, excellent cinematography, and a combination of comedic, romantic, and dramatic moments.
This film starts in the present, presenting us with the main character, Toto, as a middle aged man, well into his fifties, returning to his hometown to hear his lifetime friend . What follows for the duration of the film allows us to see his childhood, his adolescence, and the way he fights through tumultuous times of love, disaster, and peril.
Cinema Paradiso is rated ★★★★★+
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The film may get you out of your chair to hug someone that you love.When faced with adversity BB decided to survive and enjoy life. He experiences everything he possibly can, a lesson all of us could internalize and apply to our lives. There is a lot of death but the movie clearly demonstrates reality, we all are touched by death in our lives and this movie is not afraid to show it.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is rated ★★★★★
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Fellini himself said that ,if he had to chose, this would be his best work. Why would he make such a statement?
This is, of course, a film that Fellini made about himself, is his auto-biography at that point of his life. And is a film that everything seems to work correctly: the music, photography, acting and direction of course. In a nutshell, a film that some may not like but can't say anything consistently negative against.The acting is terrific; especially Marcello Mastroianni whose air of detachment(超然、孤立） fit the movie so well. The photography was excellent, as well. The story is one of a director who has lost his own direction. As he stumbles aimlessly along supposedly putting together a film, his inteactions with others and his reminiscences （回想）give us an insight to his confusion. His world is overwhelming him and he can't figure out where to turn.
8 1/2 is rated ★★★★★
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The file didn't get its due(当然得られるもの）when it was released.It is director John Sturges' brilliant film presentation of the absorbing (夢中にさせる）Paul Brickhill Book.It has an amazing cast of Steve McQueen, James Coburn, James Garner, Charles Bronson, and Richard Attenborough. The Germans put together a group of Allied prisoners in one prison camp. They've put "all their rotten eggs in one basket", or so the German commandant says.The Great Escape combines humor, adventure, action and suspense, and yet shows war's tragedy. There are many memorable scenes and magical moments (McQueen's motorcycle jump probably being the most famous and best remembered - although it was actually performed by a double) in this three hour long story of indomitable spirit（不屈の精神）, courage and heroism. This is a movie that has stood the test of time, and won't lose its magic or its message with repeated viewing. The Germans may have thought that their POWs were rotten eggs, but you'll sure enjoy watching them try to get out of their basket.
The great escape is rated ★★★★★
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Judy Garland really projects Dorothy's innocenece and vulneribility
(脆弱さ）, and Margaret Hamilton truly scares you as the Wicked Witch. The special effects are still amazing, even after all that's come along since.Unlike many of today's films that age fast, this will continue to last.Young Dorthy is tired of her ordinary life in her ordinary town and is suddenly whisked away(連れ去られる） to Oz, a dream land full of color and beauty. Masterfully done job on everyone's part as the wonderful movie unfolds. It is so much fun, it's no wonder it is still around. It has survived many movies of the same time, as well as countlessly bad sequels and spin-offs, which is no surprise at all. Great cast in a great movie proves that being over the raindow is timeless.
The Wizard of Oz is rated ★★★★★
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