Rain Man

This was one of the toughest movie to me, I needed three breaks during this movie. Tom Cruise was playing very well, but I personally hated his  character, Charlie Babbitt, the kind of guy who was full of arrogance, selfish and very materialistic. Although, the most incredible was Dustin Hoffman, who plaid the main character - Charlie's (Tom Cruise) older brother Raymond Babbit, an autistic. Incredible acting, this role was nominated and won so many World known awards, which one of them was Oscar winner for Best Actor in a Leading Role. 

The movie "Rain Man" also received awards in those categories: Oscar for best Picture ( Mark Johnson), Best Director ( Barry Levinson), Best Writing/Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen (Ronald Bass-screenplay, Barry Morrow-screenplay/story), Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture, Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture (Dustin Hoffman)...

Tom Cruise had the huge responsibility to play a strong part in this movie beside the experienced Dustin Hoffman,whose the character was very sensitive and in need of his younger brother's (Tom Cruise) support. There are two controversial characters: Charlie a young ambitious man, very impulsive and also very egocentric person. Raymond, who was autistic, he wasn't used to strict behavior and changes in the routine of his life, even though with an amazing talent to memorize things that surround him.

It's a life story of Charlie Rabbit (Tom Cruise) whose father recently died and donated all his $3,000 000 to an autistic hospital, where Charlie discovered that he had an older brother (Dustin Hoffman) who was suffering from that illness. Charlie creates his selfish plan to get a part of this money back, kidnapping his brother, but it wouldn't be counted as a kidnap, because Charlie had the legal right from him. They are going into a journey an get to know each other.

What is the most important: money,that will never be enough, or family that could provide love and care?

Have a good time,

Vas

IMDB 8.0

Length: 133min

Year: 1988

The Hours

Another movie, I'm proud to introduce, one of my favorite -The Hours, directed by Stephen Dardly. The movie that was nominated: Academy Awards for Best Picture (Scott Rudin and Robert Fox), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Ed Harris), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Julienne Moore), Best Director (Stephen Daldry), Best Writing/Adapted Screenplay (David Hare), Best Costume Design (Ann Roth), Best Film Editing (Peter Boyle) , Best Music/Original Score (Philip Glass) and the winner for the Best Actress in a Leading Role by Nicole Kidman and this is only Academy nominations ,there are many more prestige nominations and awards that would take a long time to mention all of them. In my memories from 11 years ago when I got stuck watching live stream of the 75'th Academy Award ceremony in the middle of the night al and I was hoping that this movie could win a lot of Oscras . It was the time when many good movies were nominated. I was very proud of Nicole Kidman when she receive her first Oscar for the Best Actress in a leading role, she really deserve it. She got so deep into the character that you could hardly say that was Nicole.

The Hours- it's a story about three women life's:

Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) 1923, she was writing her last novel 'Mrs. Dalloway. She lived in her imagination world, isolated from everybody, suffering from being locked in her house, guarded by servants, far away from London. 

Laura Brown (Julianne Moore) 1951, she was in her second pregnancy. It seamed Laura had everything to be happy: husband, who adored her, son, who couldn't be without her, expecting for one more family member, but deep inside she was not. Laura wanted to commit a suicide, but she wasn't brave enough to kill her self and the fetus she was caring, so she decided to wait till the baby comes to this wold and after disappear.

Clarissa Vaughan (Meryl Streep) lives in 2001, she was planning a very special party to her best friend who just won an award for his poem,  it was also very special to her because this person meant a lot. Clarissa lived in partnership with her girlfriend Sally (Allison Janney),she always had strong feelings for her best friend Richard (Ed Harris), but it was always a mystery to discoverewhat kind feeling was that. 

Three women living in a different time but related to each other: one was a writer, second -the reader and the third one was who lived the story.

The best trio: Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julian Moore, three talented and strong actress in one beautiful biography story about famous writer Virginia Woolf. Also staring: Ed Harris, Toni Collette, Claire Danes, Jeff Daniels, Allison Janney and John C. Reilly.

I find something incredibly deep and interesting about this movie,with a lot of psychological mistress.

Hope you enjoy,as I did
Vas

IMDB 7.4

Lengt: 110min

Year: 2002

When Harry Met Sally...

Make some popcorns, if you are allowed, have a glass of wine, sit comfortably and enjoy this nice romantic movie. I guarantee you won't be bored, there are so many comedy scenes that will make you laugh out loud. 

It is not often this type of movies get so many nominations and awards,"When Harry met Sally..." should be proud with countless of them: Oscar nominee for Best Writing ( Nora Ephron), Golden Globe nominee for Best Motion Picture, Best Director( Rob Reiner), Best Performance by an Actress (Meg Ryan), Best Performance by an Actor (Billy Crystal) and Best Screenplay, The Best Screenplay winner of the  BAFTA Film awards...

HARRY ( Billy Crystal)

"...in any way, shape or form-- is that men and women can't be friends. The sex part always gets in the way".

SALLY (Meg Ryan)
"That's not true. I have a number of men friends and there's no sex involved"

It's a story about two different people- Harry (Billy Crystal) who has a very strong opinion about relationship between man and woman and his opposite- Sally (Meg Ryan ) is open mind,  thinks that friendship between opposite sex is very common thing. There is obviously a strong connection between each other but they never show it, both are trying to hide their feelings, because they know each other for many years and they manage to built a strong friendship. As you can see it is not only friendship between them, will it develop to something more? 

There is a very famous Meg Ryan role in this movie, in my point of view, her break through performance that made her huge, is the scene when Sally and Harry are in a diner and she wants to prove that women can fake an orgasm pretty well. So she imitates it in front of Harry and  other  people around. It's magnificent scene with superb comedy elements at the end.

Beautiful soundtrack, perfectly suits this movie, by Louis Armstong :

Wait a bit, it's a beautiful movie to watch on Christmas Eve.
Vas,

IMDB 7.6

Length: 136 min

Year:  1989

Se7en

Number seven is one of the symbolicly strong numbers. It's 7 week days, 7 agains Thebes,7 wise masters, in ancient Egypt 7 was a God's number, 7 days of creation, part of Christian ethics clasification of vices- the 7 deadly sins, this is what our story is about. 

Detective Somerset ( Morgan Freeman) and detective Mills ( Brad Pitt) are investigating a very complicated crime case. The killer knows exactly what he is up to -he is playing a game with police. The first victim was a man who murdered in his home while he was eating, the killer left a note  after himsel with the word "glutton". After a while detectives found the second dead body, it was a man on the flour at his office, next to it the killer left the second message written in blood -"greed". All crimes were made according to the Catholic moral thoughts, The seven deadly sins. The meaning of the word "glutton" is excessive disire for food,"greed"- desire for material things. But police must find the killer before he made his justice, there are still five sins missing: sloth (physical laziness), envy, wrath (uncontrole feelings, anger, violence), pride (self admiration) and lust (intense desire for sex). 

The most unexpeting thing is when the killer ( Kevin Spacey) exposed himself, he accepted all accusations, but it didn't  mean that he gave up, he wanted to make a great finally. In my opinion, it was the most difficul episode because the main character Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt became on second part and Kevin Spacey took the lead till the end.

There are lot of high tense moments, that makes you feel part of the investigation, all the time so many questions comes out of your mind. The end is the best part, when it is hard to predict wether good or bad side are gonna to win.

Some more cast that i haven't mentioned and deserve to be named: Gwyneth Paltrow, John Cassini, Endre Hules, John C. mcGinley.

If somebody likes crime and detective movies they will definitely enjoy this one!

Vas

IMDB 8.7

Length: 122 min

Year: 1995

Being John Malkovich

What is to be John Malkovich? In my opinion, the best words to describe it are "...it's the idea of being inside somebody else's skin and seeing what they see and what they feel..." it was a dialogue between Craig Schwartz ( John Cusack) and Maxine (Catherine Keener) when they were talking about Puppets. It's the best comparison because puppet is a doll which is manipulated and controlled by other person (puppeteer). This is exactly what happened with J.Malkovich.

The director Spike Craig has a huge imagination,he created a portal door to a famous actor John Malkovich'es body, so eveybody became obsessed to know what it's like to be him. It was only a small part the real John playing himself, most of the time he had to play different  characters whoever entered the door, the portal key to his body.

It is very untraditional story exactly the way how I would describe the actor John Malkovich. He is very renowned in big screen plays, most of his parts are very strange and odd characters, in this one is not an exception , I really enjoyed the movie, it brings a lot of diverse, very intriguing, unpredictable and surreal. To sum up, the movie couldn't makes me blink just for a second.

Big creddit for cast,so many great actors: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz ,Catherine Keene ,John Malkovich, Ned Bellamy, Octavia Spencer. There are short episodes with Charlie Sheen and Sean Penn as well.

Enjoy!

Vas

IMDB 7.8

Length: 108min

Year: 1999

The Color Purple

I'm very proud to introduce the first movie, which I picked randomly, for my project. "The Color Purple" is based on Alice Walker's novel which won Pulitzer prize in 1983. Then in 1985, this story became motion picture directed by one of the greatest director, Steven Spielberg.

11 Academy Awards, BAFTA Award for the best screenplay, 5 Golden Globe nominations and Winner for the best actress by incredible Whoopi Goldberg. Starring with talented Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey and Margaret Avery.

It is a very touching life story about a young woman whose life was very difficult and a lot of violence, full of pain and suffer that she had to face. Celi Jonson (Whoopi Goldberg) was forced to marry a man who was treating her as a servant, she never felt loved and special as a human. At the beginning you can see her as very naive and innocent happy girl, then she turned to be very oppressed and sad, but at the end Celi stopped hiding herself in a shelf and standing by her fears.

The mostmagnificent  scene for me was when Celi's sister was teaching her how to read. It was very emotional, happy and vivid scene, I could feel how strong relation they had and also how precious time they were spending together because the day will come when they will have to separate and the letters will be the only way to keep them in touch.

Enjoy the movie the way I did!

Vas

IMDB 7.6

Length 148min

Year: 1985

The Beginning

Ok! Let's do it again! Project inspired by Steven Jay Schneider's 969-page book "1001 movie you must see before you die" 2013 edition.

Many of the movies I already saw but I gonna do it again! Fresh! It doesn't matter how many time I see my favourite movie but every time I find something new and different. There is one movie which I probably saw over 80 times... And I don't mind watching it again and again... But I will keep it in secret till it's turn.

Why i got inspired by this book? Because of its collection of different film genres,from classical to newest released, most award winning,which has strong characters and great stories, that has something deep to show its audiences. 

Lets go straight to the movies!

Vas