When is "The Dark knight rises" coming to a nearby cinema i asked my friend who is also the ultimate movie buff that i believe ever existed.
"Soon enough, but be careful it's going to show in IMAX" he replied, "I-who??"
From what i understood it's the new "ultimate movie experience" since, well... the 3D ultimate movie experience a couple of years ago.
And it's gonna cost you, yep, for 150 EGP a ticket you are going to enjoy the IMAX experience.
What is happening? how did going to the theater to enjoy a movie turned from one of the most enjoyable entertaining things you can easily do into a financial burden?
I reflected on my ever unquenchable love to movies, and began to recall my favorite flicks when to my surprise, i discovered that i can safely say, that my favorite movies were not seen in the theaters, in fact, in theaters i can only recall watching enjoyable entertaining blockbusters that were being watched with a mouth full of pop corn.
So why do i love movies? here is me trying to list my favorite movies in a top ten preview with no specific order.
Eastwood gets into you in Unforgiven, you keep thinking what a fool old man this William Munny is. If it was only for Richard Harris's scene this movie would've still made this list.
As if Visconti invented the time machine and took us back to Italy in Garibaldi's time! Every still can be a painting , Claudia Cardinali is stunning playing a vulgar beauty who takes the old decaying world by storm in the final scene dancing the waltz to Nino Rota's beatiful music.
My worst fear is to become Salieri ! No body wants to be average, but knowing that you are nothing but a mediocrity with nothing special, to know that you are a fool and live every day knowing this, now that's cruel! Salieri was reminded of his mediocrity every day of his long life since he met and became obsessed with Mozart's divine talent in music, F.Murray Abraham probably performed the best villain in cinema history in my opinion.
"Soon enough, but be careful it's going to show in IMAX" he replied, "I-who??"
From what i understood it's the new "ultimate movie experience" since, well... the 3D ultimate movie experience a couple of years ago.
And it's gonna cost you, yep, for 150 EGP a ticket you are going to enjoy the IMAX experience.
What is happening? how did going to the theater to enjoy a movie turned from one of the most enjoyable entertaining things you can easily do into a financial burden?
I reflected on my ever unquenchable love to movies, and began to recall my favorite flicks when to my surprise, i discovered that i can safely say, that my favorite movies were not seen in the theaters, in fact, in theaters i can only recall watching enjoyable entertaining blockbusters that were being watched with a mouth full of pop corn.
So why do i love movies? here is me trying to list my favorite movies in a top ten preview with no specific order.
Seven Samurai
Akira Kurosawa
The story of a sixteenth-century village
whose desperate inhabitants hire samurai warriors to protect them from
invading bandits. As you would expect from Akira Kurosawa, nothing is less than great in this movie; photography,acting and directing.
What really stands out in this movie though is the character development, in a running time of almost 200 minutes the characters learn to balance humor, drama, and grow deep affection
for their each other. A wonderful classic.
The Seventh Seal
Ingmar Bergman
This film has the pulse of a children’s fable told by an impossibly wise narrator (Bergman). Death meets a knight returning from the crusades and informs him that he is here to take his life, the knight bargains with Death and challenges death to a game of chess, though certain that he cannot win (nor cheat) he is buying time to do "one more thing, the thing that will make sense of his life", and oh god - won't you tear up when you find about this deed!
One of my favorite scenes is when the knight confesses to Death thinking he is a priest and death tricks him into revealing his strategy in the chess game.
Drive
Nicolas Winding Refn
A mysterious man meets a dame in distress and reveals his ugly side in possibly the coolest movie ever made with a stunning soundtrack that will keep you hooked, brilliant!
just listen to this track and you'll get the picture.
A Clockwork Orange
Stanley Kubrick
Kubrick's masterpiece.One of the most disturbing movies ever made, i remember the first time i watched this one (and I've always came back for a second time) i was thinking what the hell? the story of Alex the "ultra violent" youth in futuristic Britain and his gang of hooligans, they rape women, kill beggars and piss on art work and have no respect for
anything but for Beethoven, Kubrick takes Burgess's classic and turns it to a visionary masterpiece that was a huge leap against conformity and fake values.
Fellini's Satyricon
Federico Fellini
Bizzare, beautiful and probably the sexiest movie I've ever seen, Fellini's artistic imagination is incomparable, the story of two lovers, friends,enemies and poets Ascyltos and Encolpius in ancient Rome is a feast for the mind and for the eyes.
Unforgiven
Client Eastwood
Kagemusha
Akira Kurosawa
Another Kurosawa makes it to the list, and for a very good reason. In Kagemusha Kurosawa creates a historical
epic that is also a meditation on the nature of power. With possibly the best cinematography and epic battle scenes along with a brilliant soundtrack, Kagemusha is a classic.
باب الشمس
يسرى نصرالله
In Bab el Shams, Nassrallah transforms Ellias Khory's Book into a 4 hour movie that he eventually turned into 2 separate movies, i always enjoyed the first one "Exodus" and regarded it the best moment in the history of Arabic cinema, there is a scene when Israeli officers are interrogating a Palestinian woman on the whereabouts of her husband, she tells them she doesn't know where he is, they tell her that she is pregnant so she must be meeting him, distressed ,weak and angry after fierce interrogation she yells to the world "i'm a pregnant because i am a WHORE!" ... of all the kitschy, tasteless and vulgar Palestinian propaganda i have been subjected to all my life, nothing moved me to sympathies with the palastinian cause like this movie.
One more thing: the movie's main song is awesome.
Il Gattopardo
Luchino Visconti
As if Visconti invented the time machine and took us back to Italy in Garibaldi's time! Every still can be a painting , Claudia Cardinali is stunning playing a vulgar beauty who takes the old decaying world by storm in the final scene dancing the waltz to Nino Rota's beatiful music.
As Good As it Gets
James L.Brooks
I just love the dog!! and it's hilarious :)
Amadeus
Milos Forman
My worst fear is to become Salieri ! No body wants to be average, but knowing that you are nothing but a mediocrity with nothing special, to know that you are a fool and live every day knowing this, now that's cruel! Salieri was reminded of his mediocrity every day of his long life since he met and became obsessed with Mozart's divine talent in music, F.Murray Abraham probably performed the best villain in cinema history in my opinion.
Hashem Fouad
Cairo, August 2012
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