blackpencil Reviews

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)

Another masterpiece

[9/10 · 30 March 2008]

Another masterpieces by Mr. Sidney Lumet director 83 old able to shot film also in the older age, thing rare...

help by a brilliant casting, over all Seymour Hoffmann, Marisa Tomei and Albert Finney, Lumet build a perfect thriller with little news in his style director. Flashback, different angles of view but the same skill of tell stories.

The change of the character acting by P.S. Hoffmann, the progressive descent in his dark side is a class of shooting for the young director.

After Twelve men hungry, Serpico, Dog day, Network,anther masterpieces by one of the most director of all the time... Absolutely to see.

A Matter of Taste (2000)

A question of taste

[8/10 · 30 March 2008]

I think this movie is a noir very very interesting. The plot and the subject are originally and don't repeat only the same clichés of thriller.

The relation between two men is very dangerous and take a way unsuspectingly.

This movie is not perfect but is absolutely TO SEE for hungry cinephiles...

The shot of the murder of Delamont, with the low angle fixed on the hand's detail with the knife use to clean the fish it's enough to justify the price of the ticket.