Rock and roll has been very very good to me. I can't play a note, and I was told to hum at school, rather than try to sing,
but I thank it very very much all the same.
Hello hello: dig that Pulp Fiction review. Pulp, and Tarantino for that matter, is really nothing more than an exercise in adolescent fantasy gone viral. The film means nothing and says nothing except "Watch this, this is COOL" and in fact Tarantino's entire philosophical output in the history of film is zero. But man, it's cool, right?
I like your review of "The Pelican Brief". When I saw it back in 1993 I liked it and wrote a good review in the Panamanian newspaper where I worked as film critic, but almost everybody thought different. With that film I felt he had returned to the good old days of "The Parallax View" and "Klute".
I'm sorry to comment you about a post you made in the films thread, but Charlie Chaplin's golden peak was in the '20s. Chaplin just didn't continually spurn out films like Keaton or Lloyd did.
I think I prefer The Gold Rush over Modern Times, but City Lights was indeed his artistic peak.
Rudolph Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Greta Garbo, etc. were indeed enormously popular, but artistically, his films easily surpassed that over the 1910s and were enormous box office triumphs unlike Modern Times. The Little Tramp was literally the most loved tramp in the world. Just because Chaplin decided to take things a little slow, it doesn't mean that it wasn't a peak. After all, he only made two films for each decade from the '30s to '50s. He made five decent films in the '20s. One, in particular, is very, very well remembered and considered one of the greatest.
Keaton was on fire - I mean, INFERNO - in the '20s until that disastrous move to M-G-M in 1928 where he made only one good film. Of course, Keaton is a contender, but Keaton wasn't even as commercial successful as Chaplin. It's a shame, but you must remember that The General was a very notorious flop. Nowadays, it's considered the greatest silent comedy, which is justice long due.
Harold Lloyd's films, while containing fine moments, just weren't that good compared to the other two. Don't get me wrong. They were very good. I'm just not sure I would even consider one of them a personal favorite.
That being said, this is all about Chaplin. I think the '20s were indeed the golden decade for him, because it was artistic AND commercial triumph that made him so powerful. Sadly, he seemed to have lost commercial success with his later films with the exception of City Lights, and they are all very good up to Limelight. But the spotlight was in the '20s.
Rudolph Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Greta Garbo, etc. were indeed enormously popular, but artistically, his films easily surpassed that over the 1910s and were enormous box office triumphs unlike Modern Times. The Little Tramp was literally the most loved tramp in the world. Just because Chaplin decided to take things a little slow, it doesn't mean that it wasn't a peak. After all, he only made two films for each decade from the '30s to '50s. He made five decent films in the '20s. One, in particular, is very, very well remembered and considered one of the greatest.
Keaton was on fire - I mean, INFERNO - in the '20s until that disastrous move to M-G-M in 1928 where he made only one good film. Of course, Keaton is a contender, but Keaton wasn't even as commercial successful as Chaplin. It's a shame, but you must remember that The General was a very notorious flop. Nowadays, it's considered the greatest silent comedy, which is justice long due.
Harold Lloyd's films, while containing fine moments, just weren't that good compared to the other two. Don't get me wrong. They were very good. I'm just not sure I would even consider one of them a personal favorite.
That being said, this is all about Chaplin. I think the '20s were indeed the golden decade for him, because it was artistic AND commercial triumph that made him so powerful. Sadly, he seemed to have lost commercial success with his later films with the exception of City Lights, and they are all very good up to Limelight. But the spotlight was in the '20s.