Venice #80 - Riūichi Sakamoto | Opus
Play it again, Ryūichi. All it takes is a dark room, silence, followed by the right music, to properly lose ourselves, wandering in our...
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Jack Salvadori
- Sep 6
- 2 min
Venice #80 - Coup de Chance
All good things must come to an end. Even the best ones - the ones we’re so used to that they end up becoming ordinary elements in our...
Jack Salvadori
- Sep 5
- 1 min
Venice #80 - The Killer
David Fincher takes us back to his comfort zone: serial killers. Diametrically opposite to Zodiac, where we never really even see the...
Jack Salvadori
- Sep 4
- 2 min
Venice #80 - Menus Plaisirs, Les Troisgros
An amusing comedy can make us laugh, a compelling drama might even move us. Well, Frederick Wiseman’s latest documentary makes us feel…...
Jack Salvadori
- Sep 2
- 2 min
Venice #80 - Poor Things
Yorgos Lanthimos is back. And no, you haven’t seen anything like this before. Poor Things, but lucky us. With The Favourite, the Greek...
Jack Salvadori
- Sep 2
- 2 min
Venice #80 - El Conde
It got me since the first poster was released a year ago - since I saw the pale silhouette of Augusto Pinochet looking down over a dark...
Jack Salvadori
- Sep 2
- 2 min
Venice #80 - DogMan
Written & Directed by Scooby Doo And so even Venice now has its own Dogman… The film in question pales in comparison with its Cannes 2018...
Jack Salvadori
- Jun 6
- 2 min
Cannes #76 - “Perfect Days” Review
Middle-aged Hirayama awakens at dawn, attentively trims his moustache, proceeds to water his plants, and chooses an upbeat tape to listen...
Jack Salvadori
- May 26
- 2 min
Cannes #76 - “Asteroid City” Review
Gadzooks! Wes is back, and his latest work Asteroid City is no toad swindle. After wandering around European hotels, Japanese kennels,...
Jack Salvadori
- May 24
- 2 min
Cannes #76 - “Killers of the Flower Moon” Review
Osage County, Oklahoma, the 1920s. Local Native Americans, now millionaires due to black gold findings on their territory, are in danger....
Jack Salvadori
- May 24
- 2 min
Cannes #76 - “The Zone of Interest” Review
The Sun is shining bright. Teenagers share summer love; a mother cuddles her baby; children merrily play as vibrant flowers blossom in...
Jack Salvadori
- May 22
- 2 min
Cannes #76 - “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”
Sorry, you have dialled an incorrect destiny. I’ll be honest, this review is particularly painful to write. I love Indiana Jones. I grew...
Jack Salvadori
- May 22
- 2 min
Cannes #76 - “Monster” Review
2018 Palme d’Or winner Hirokazu Kore-Eda is back on the Croisette with Monster, once again offering an intimate window into Japanese...
Jack Salvadori
- Jan 1
- 6 min
2022 BEST FILMS - Top 10
It goes without saying that the following list is solely based upon my personal taste, being my own individual evaluation. Perhaps the...
Jack Salvadori
- Sep 12, 2022
- 2 min
Venice #79: “Blonde” Review
The 2-hour-and-45-minute itch It seems to be a contemporary trend: who gets closer is the best. Almost an interactive game, place a frame...
Jack Salvadori
- Sep 12, 2022
- 2 min
Venice #79- “The Whale” Review
Darren Aronofsky does it again- take a very sad personal story, a beloved washed-out actor, and offer him the role of a lifetime in one...
Jack Salvadori
- May 29, 2022
- 2 min
Cannes #75 - "Crimes of the Future"
“Where is the art in tumorous growth?”, wonders a perplexed character in David Cronenberg’s latest cinematic fatigue, pretty much...
Jack Salvadori
- May 27, 2022
- 2 min
Cannes #75 - "Holy Spider"
Saeed is a family man - a caring father, devoted husband, and occasional serial killer. Yes, a merciless executioner who hunts his prey...
Jack Salvadori
- May 24, 2022
- 2 min
Cannes #75- "Triangle of Sadness"
It started with a spheric avalanche rolling into a square, and finally culminating with a triangle. We’re talking about Ruben Östlund’s...
Jack Salvadori
- May 21, 2022
- 2 min
Cannes #75 - "EO"
Balthazar enters the void in Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO, following the POV of a donkey as he embarks into a road movie looking for.. Freedom?...
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