Aira's Movie Diary of 2018: a Cinematic Journey
Movies I watched for the first time in 2012 (with my somewhat-serious notes)
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- DirectorWally PfisterStarsJohnny DeppRebecca HallMorgan FreemanA scientist's drive for artificial intelligence takes on dangerous implications when his own consciousness is uploaded into one such program.
► JANUARY - DirectorMatteo GarroneStarsSalma HayekVincent CasselToby JonesFrom the bitter quest of the Queen of Longtrellis, to two mysterious sisters who provoke the passion of a king, to the King of Highhills obsessed with a giant Flea, these tales are inspired by the fairytales by Giambattista Basile.
- DirectorMikkel Brænne SandemoseStarsPål Sverre HagenNicolai Cleve BrochSofia HelinNorwegian archaeologist Sigurd Svendsen forms a small team and sets off to find the true meaning of the secret runes found carved in rock and accidentally awakens a giant monster.
- DirectorAlberto SordiStarsAlberto SordiJoe PesciDalila Di LazzaroThe incorruptible judge Annibale Salvemini, starts investigating over a classic Italian business/politics/corruption affair. He start to operate, as usual, very strongly. He orders numberless arrests. But the reaction of counterparts won't take long. In fact his strong energetic manners, drive him unintentionally on the opposite situation. Who is the real guilty the judge or the corrupted Italian society?
- DirectorScott HicksStarsEthan HawkeMax von SydowYûki KudôA Japanese-American fisherman is accused of killing his neighbor at sea. In the 1950s, race figures into the trial. So does reporter Ishmael.An important theme reduced into a corny love story
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsAnthony QuinnGiulietta MasinaRichard BasehartA care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.
- DirectorGiulio RicciarelliStarsAndré SzymanskiAlexander FehlingFriederike BechtA story that exposes the conspiracy of prominent German institutions and government branches to cover up the crimes of Nazis during World War II.
- DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsSally HawkinsOctavia SpencerMichael ShannonAt a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity.
► FEBRUARY
Delicate and elegant, even in its splatter scenes. Meaningful and visually beautiful, with a delicious French touch - DirectorGreta GerwigStarsSaoirse RonanLaurie MetcalfTracy LettsA fiercely independent teenager tries to make her own way in the world while wanting to get out of her hometown of Sacramento, California and to get away from her complicated mother and recently-unemployed father.Is it me o there's no actual difference between this movie and a bunch of other movies about rebel teenagers?
- DirectorCary Joji FukunagaStarsAbraham AttahEmmanuel AffadziRicky AdelayitarA drama based on the experiences of Agu, a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed African country.Brutal like reality and visually stunning
- DirectorRichard LaxtonStarsDakota FanningGreg WiseTom SturridgeA look at the scandalous love triangle between Victorian art critic John Ruskin (Greg Wise), his teenage bride Euphemia "Effie" Gray (Dakota Fanning), and Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais (Tom Sturridge).
- DirectorFrancis LawrenceStarsWill SmithAlice BragaCharlie TahanYears after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure.
- DirectorGianluca Maria TavarelliStarsGoffredo Maria BrunoGualtiero BurziCocò GulottaIn 1877, Giovanni Bovara, the new chief inspector of the mills, is sent back from Genoa to his native town Vigata, in Sicily, where he is tasked with the investigation of illegal activities caused by an unjust tax on milling, facing the dialectal and cultural barriers of post-unification Italy. He discovers the existence of a clandestine mill and an ingenious system by which the millers are left free to evade the tax, becoming involved, little by little, in something much greater.
- DirectorMassimiliano BrunoStarsPaola CortellesiAlessandro GassmannFabrizio BentivoglioThe drama about a woman that gets fired because of his pregnancy and deals with a difficult financial and familiar situation.
► MARCH - DirectorDavid AyerStarsWill SmithJoel EdgertonNoomi RapaceA detective must work with an Orc to find a powerful wand before evil creatures do.
- DirectorAlex GarlandStarsNatalie PortmanJennifer Jason LeighTessa ThompsonA biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.
- DirectorCraig GillespieStarsMargot RobbieSebastian StanAllison JanneyCompetitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the activity is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.
- DirectorGeorge ClooneyStarsMatt DamonJulianne MooreOscar IsaacAs a 1950s suburban community self-destructs, a home invasion has sinister consequences for one seemingly normal family.
- DirectorAntonio ManettiMarco ManettiStarsClaudia GeriniCarlo BuccirossoSerena RossiIn order to avoid the death of the husband (the criminal boss Don Vincenzo, "King of the Fish"), Donna Maria sends her henchmen to kill a lookalike (a shoe-seller) and then she sets up a fake funeral, while the husband is hiding in a secret place. But a nurse saw Don Vincenzo alive in the hospital while he was supposed to be dead, as the TV says. To hush the witness up, Don Vincenzo orders to his best trained bodyguards, Ciro and Rosario, to find the nurse and kill her. Ciro finds the nurse: surprisingly she is Fatima, the only girl he ever loved, which he had abandoned when he began his criminal career. To save her, Ciro hides Fatima by his uncle Mimmo, and starts a bloody fight with all his clan, including his best friend Rosario.
► APRIL - DirectorDennis DuganStarsAdam SandlerJohn TurturroEmmanuelle ChriquiAn Israeli Special Forces Soldier fakes his death so he can re-emerge in New York City as a hair stylist.
► MAY - DirectorRiccardo MilaniStarsPaola CortellesiAntonio AlbaneseSonia BergamascoThe story of an encounter between an upper-class man with a working-class woman because their teenage children fall in love.
- DirectorHirokazu KoreedaStarsMasaharu FukuyamaMachiko OnoYôko MakiRyota is a successful workaholic businessman. When he learns that his biological son was switched with another boy after birth, he faces the difficult decision to choose his true son or the boy he and his wife have raised as their own.
- DirectorLuca MinieroStarsMassimo PopolizioFrank MatanoStefania RoccaMussolini reappears in Rome 72 years after his death, finding a Country still full of problems like racism and hate for politicians. Misguised for an actor, he sides with a young filmmaker and starts traveling along Italy to reconquer it.
► JUNE
Io sono tornato, in English: I'm back. The problem is... This piece of s**t never went away.
Anyway,
it's a remake of the German book & movie Er ist wieder da, a comedy in which Hitler comes back in the present day. He realizes how absurd his ideas were and how ridiculous he was.
In this case, Mussolini comes back and finds out that Italy is always in danger to relapse into fascism. Sadly, this movie seems so realistic - DirectorMichael Caton-JonesStarsRobert De NiroJames FrancoFrances McDormandVincent Lamarca, whose father was executed for a 1950s kidnapping of a child, grew up to become a police officer, only to see his own son become a murder suspect.
- DirectorLorraine LévyStarsOmar SyAlex LutzAna GirardotKnock, a retired crook-turned-doctor, arrives in the small town of Saint Maurice. He intends to implement a scheme to make him rich by persuading the villagers that healthy people are simply people who don't realise they're unwell.I enjoyed this movie. Omar Sy always gives his characters a fine lightness. But the very sad (and frankly unnecessary) twist let me upset