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A compilation of Bad Seeds music videos. The songs strike home with the classically raw poetry of the texts written by the band’s frontman, Nick Cave. Wonderful rhythms and hugely powerful emotional messages. For the songs alone, a full five *. But we also have the visual side, and you can see in most of the videos that the Bad Seeds don’t like being filmed. Uninspiring in terms of directing and no miracles happen in terms of visuals. In fact I would say that most of them (apart from the occasional honorable exception) were just churned out from a sense of obligation. They do nothing to enrich the music and give it no new dimension - they are simply superfluous.

"It's Suntory time..." Melancholy in its purest cinematic form. Scarlett is wonderful, but the clear driving force of the film is the incredibly natural Bill Murray. Sensitively filmed and with an absolutely great atmosphere that completely absorbs you and does not let you go until the closing credits.

It's still watchable and relatively funny in the beginning, but the more the runtime progresses, the more the polished dialogue in the style of the first episode is abandoned in favour of slapstick. Qualitatively completely unworthy of its older sibling, but still a passable comedy. Only that it’s not that funny.

Billy Crystal in the role of a neurotic psychiatrist who finds himself having to treat mafia boss played by Robert De Niro. This in itself is a combination that, with well-written dialogs, can’t help but work. And that’s just what happened, some scenes and lots of chiseled dialogs make this into an outrageously funny movie with outstanding acting performances. The whole thing is supported by the director who has a gift for comic timing. Simply all pluses and no shortcomings of any importance.

Michael Mann in the early days. A rather timeworn, slowly told story, but filmed with atmosphere. In terms of acting, the picture is quite passable and so the only serious problem are the rather old-fashioned special effects and, mainly, the book the movie is based on, because it simply sets the bar too high. Outstanding as a well-made eighties B-movie, but as an adaptation of one of the best genre books, this is a bit of an insult.

GoldenEye has pace, a charismatic hero, over-the-top and imaginative action and a traditionally dumb plot. In other words, a proper Bond flick.

One of the most accomplished adaptations of a literary novel, which is absolutely fabulous in itself. Forman in his top form and with a host of exceptional actors in mostly roles of a lifetime.

There may have been too many notes in Mozart's work, but in this Forman masterpiece they are just enough, and only at the highest possible level of quality. That it's not a biopic, but rather a work of fiction? Does that really bother anyone?

A bizarrely served movie delicacy with a hint of decadence. And it’s all presented in indescribably wonderful sepia visuals. Although it is just an experiment with no story, the atmosphere of the old decrepit tenement block and its rather quirky tenants is engrossing... In a bizarrely delicious way.

A comic detective musical set in a big house. That’s a brief and accurate description of Ozon’s 8 Women. Unlike many other musicals, the story here is not unimportant. On the contrary, this is a great detective story in the spirit of Agatha Christies works. It has great momentum and excellent rising suspense. The musical interludes are ingenious, albeit sometimes rather forcibly included. 8 Women relies mostly on the female acting performances. And the cast is probably the very best France can offer. P.S.: Absolutely has to be seen in the original French language version!