During the late 1920's a young vieninan painter by the name of Fritz Lang was hired by german film studio UFA to make a movie adaptation of the magazine novella, metropolis. Langs wife wrote the script and production began. Tall, sets of godlike...
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During the late 1920's a young vieninan painter by the name of Fritz Lang was hired by german film studio UFA to make a movie adaptation of the magazine novella, metropolis. Langs wife wrote the script and production began. Tall, sets of godlike proportions were built, thousands of extras were hired, a working elevator was built. Never again would so much care and planning be put into art direction. The film cost two million to make and nearly bankrupted the studio. Against Lang's wishs the film was cut from two hours to about 95 minutes for international release and new title cards were put in place. The missing footage was for ever lost. Until only recently a restoration was carried out to restore the original negative and put the original title cards in to tell the whole story. Metropolis is the last and greatest film of the german exoressionist movement and maybe the greatest of all silent movies.

This movie is an excellent adaptation of Phillip K. Dick's Novel, "Do Androids Dream of electric Sheep". The Movie is visually stunning, though a minus is the weak plot. That's okay though because of the memorable lines, the excellent...
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This movie is an excellent adaptation of Phillip K. Dick's Novel, "Do Androids Dream of electric Sheep". The Movie is visually stunning, though a minus is the weak plot. That's okay though because of the memorable lines, the excellent score by Vangelis and atmosphere all make up for it. I watch this movie time and time again just to be immersed in the world of Los Angeles, 2019.

Before you judge me based on my rating, keep this in mind: I am not a nazi sympathiser. I give this film a high rating based on its technical scale. Magnificently shot with wonderful photography. An achievement of techincal design. I can see why...
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Before you judge me based on my rating, keep this in mind: I am not a nazi sympathiser. I give this film a high rating based on its technical scale. Magnificently shot with wonderful photography. An achievement of techincal design. I can see why so many germans were won over by this dazzling spectacle.

Mean streets follows the story four Italian American hoodlems who work for the lower end of the mafia as they get drunk at bars, brawl, collect payments, have sex and "catch a movie".

This movie launched scorsese into...
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Mean streets follows the story four Italian American hoodlems who work for the lower end of the mafia as they get drunk at bars, brawl, collect payments, have sex and "catch a movie".

This movie launched scorsese into internartional and critical acclaim. Though like a fine piece of cheese, he gets better with age. That's not to say that mean streets is bad. In all respect the direction is marvelous and the acting is superbly improvised (something which scorsese carried to to the rest of his career). A few things bugged me though. First off the camerawork could have been alot better. But I guess scorsese was pushing for stark realism as the films main inspiration is "Shadows". Two unforgivible annoyances would have to be the sound issues in the film and the abrupt ending. Highly reccomended.