The successful new Coen Brothers film, that is, the new version of Grit (True Grit, 2010), is the main issue Cover of no. 310, News pictures. This month, to mark the opening, between February and March, a pair of satanic-themed films such as The trap of evil (Devil, 2010, John Erick Dowdle) and Rite (The Rite, 2011 Mikael Hafstrom)-and who knows, maybe his distributor is encouraged Brand finally The last exorcism (The Last Exorcism, 2010, Daniel Stamm), announced several months and that is not even dead ... - because of all this, as I say, I have dedicated this Cult Movie number to the famous movie of Alan Parker Angel Heart (Angel Heart, 1988): " not only one of Parker's films that best stands the test of time, to the point that it perhaps his best work along with "Mississippi Burning" (with which it shares many things), but is also the film that shows that, in a sense, Parker was at the time it is now also British Ridley Scott, the English director who works in the United States, with production also means "Hollywood", but while providing a "touch" "british" a certain "qualité". The difference in "Angel Heart" with Parker's other films of the era is that, despite the perennial and sometimes a little sugary aestheticism of its maker, and its habitual tendency toward sensationalism (especially evident in some another "scare" stupid, intended to remind the viewer that, although at first glance looks like a film "noir" retro, what is really seeing is a horror movie ...), the truth is that most of its elements work well . " 
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my contribution to this issue of Current pictures with a couple of criticisms: One of the very discreet film by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck The Tourist (idem, 2010), which confirms what I already suspected when it premiered earlier and much celebrated film of the same director, The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen, 2006): simply that there was no big deal, and another, slightly more extensive, Road to Freedom (The Way Back, 2010), the extraordinary always superb film Peter Weir, to my mind and now one of the best filmmakers of world cinema, though not used to exit at the ready lists "on the Best-and-the-worst-of- year, from-the-millennium or century (and not missing much ...), for which later devote an entry in this blog.
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