Friday 14 August 2015

Classics to see before you die

There are some classic films that one just has to see before one dies. In my personal opinion these are the top five classic films to see before you die (in no particular order).

  - Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961, Blake Edwards)
  - The Breakfast Club (1985, John Hughes)
  - Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese)
  - Roman Holiday (1953, William Wyler)
  - It's a Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra)

Yes there are two Audrey Hepburn films on there but if I didn't want some variety on that list they would probably all be Audrey Hepburn. To me these are just the ultimate 'classic' films to see before you die because they will all teach you a little something, some definitely more than others but they will all teach you something. All these films are rather famous and they have reason to be. Some of these films would even be in just my ultimate top five films of all time, but oh my gosh that list is CONSTANTLY changing!
Also, I know that alot of people maybe wouldn't say that 'The Breakfast Club' is a classic but it is 30 years old this year so yeah, it's a classic (at least to me).

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Monday 10 August 2015

Drive (Winding Refn, 2011)

One of my favorite people's favorite films so I had to watch it and oh my gosh am I glad I did! Ryan Gosling plays the driver, the unnamed main character of this feature (I don't want to say protagonist as that suggests he's a good guy and it is way more complex than that). It starts quite simply, he drives for people that need to get away, as in from a crime scene, during the night and during the day switches it up between working at a garage and being a stunt driver for films. But it begins to get more complicated when he starts to notice his neighbor, portrayed by the very pretty Carey Mulligan, whom has a child with her husband whom in prison. And no spoilers but stuff gets serious and it gets rather Tarantino in this neo-noir arthouse feature.
The best thing about this film is the ending because it is so unpredictable, yet as it happens you realise that the ending you wanted so desperately to happen for 90 minutes was just never going to happen for real because lets face it this film apart from the almost Tarantino levels of blood is very real and gritty, very gritty for a film that really doesn't seem like that kind of film whatsoever. The second best thing about this film is the soundtrack because every single time I have gotten into my car since watching this film I have felt a desperate need for that soundtrack, so much so that I have actually ordered it already! In addition to this the cinematography, oh my giddy aunt they knew what they doing, it's just so perfectly done. It isn't symmetrical or perfectly framed in the center and that is why it is perfect. Because it isn't perfect, like the story isn't perfect. Our main characters life isn't perfect, it's just symbolism in camera shots and it is beautiful. 
Ok, I'll stop now. Basically this film is amazing, and you have to go and see it even if you don't like 'arthouse' films because it is just unexplainbly good! Five stars easy, I don't know how I could give it any less than that!

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Friday 7 August 2015

Inside Out (Docter, 2015)

I'm still getting over the fact that England got this movie like a whole month after the US but it's fine, it is fine. This film is another home run for Pixar, they seem to have gotten their mojo back after Monsters University. This film is quite grown up in a sense, it is very honest. Pixar haven't been afraid to get real with this film. And that would be why myself and the person I went to see it with cried.
'Inside Out' is about what is happening inside one girls head and there is alot happening. The story is pretty much attempting to explain what goes on in your head when you go through a big change and aren't really completely sure how to do deal with it. Maybe the best thing about this film is that it tells you that you don't always have to be happy, and that sometimes you need to be sad. I feel like that is a message that resonates with everyone, whether you're my age, or a small child or even the parent of that small child that didn't really want to see the film all that much in the first place. That is why this film has and will succeed because the message it is trying and manages to put across gets through to everyone.
I absolutely adore this film and I happily place it within that big jumble of Pixar films that I can't actually decide which one I like more. Four and a half magnificent little stars to Pete Docter's 'Inside Out', absolutely magnificent!


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