From ‘The Aviator’ to ‘The Twilight of the Gods’: 10 great films inside the cinema

If you can finish “Singin’ in the Rain” without smiling, humming, or even dancing a little, you’re probably a robot. Either way, don’t stop trying because it will always be worth coming back to again and again. a sensational masterpiece like the one starring that magical trident formed by the unforgettable Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor and Debbie Reynolds.

Masterfully directed by the best Stanley Donen, this musical of musicals and a direct influence on hundreds of subsequent films, continues to be one of the most enjoyable cinematic experiences in the history of the seventh art. A dazzling set of beautiful songs that finds its final climax in the scene of Kelly performing ‘Singin’ in the rain’, one of those moments that are already the history of the seventh art. Pure and hard joy.

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“The Twilight of the Gods” it took him five minutes, the first, to go down in history. For the risk taken, the formal audacity, the overwhelming narrative imagination and the establishment, in practically record time, of a vehicle of influence which has been joined by countless filmmakers since the distant 1950, when this monument of the seventh art. . Irony and moodiness, darkness and tenderness, drama and desolation, even small flashes of humour, always supported by the typical sarcasm of the house, have gone hand in hand in this story of faded stars, creativity pushed to the limit and external and internal claustrophobia.

Each scene moves with the fury of a tiger who, from his gaze, tells you that an attack can occur at any moment. There will be no mercy. A film that is one of the best of Billy Wilder’s career and that sits comfortably in that corner reserved for miracles in the history of cinema. Such perfect films can be counted on the fingers of one hand.

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From its stupendous prologue, ‘Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood’ began to be discovered how a monumental tribute to the luxuries and miseries of industry, to the liturgy of going to the movies, to the craft of surviving in the middle of the Los Angeles jungle, and to fiction as lifeline and narrative poetry. The result, with its gory brand of Quentin Tarantino-house climax as its tip, ended up being that of (another) undeniable locker room masterpiece from one of the most important American filmmakers in cinematic history. Immense, round, exciting and full of a charm as indecipherable as it is contagious, ‘Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood’ continues to shine with the strength of stainless steel.

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Six years after the wonderful ‘Belle epoque’, director Fernando Trueba and screenwriter Rafael Azcona, standing together again in ‘The Girl With Your Eyes’, a new project which, fortunately, it has caught up with, and sometimes surpassed, the achievements of its Oscar-winning predecessor. It is a film capable of exploiting the full potential of its story, starring a group of Spanish artists who, in the midst of the civil war, travel to Germany to shoot a folkloric film under the protection of the Hitler regime, especially what does that have to do with it? see with the purest and most classic sitcom.

The plot flows without too many surprises, yes, but not even one second of respite between one laugh and another is granted, all this unquestionably helped by a splendid staging and an exemplary direction of actors and actresses. And in this last section, where we find one of those casts of authentic stature, we should enthusiastically celebrate the interpretation of a Penelope Cruz which it is simply impossible not to fall in love with.

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If someone had told us that one of the best films of 2011 would be silent and shot in black and white, well, we probably would have thought it was a joke. But, in another of the pirouettes that make us love this marvelous jewel, we discover that it was a pure and harsh reality. For 100 minutes that pass like a breath, ‘The Artist’ continues to move us with images, gestures and moments of pure cinemawith the simple help, for example, of a coat hanger, some scraps or a sentence written on a mirror.

And yes, the miracle was possible and a cinema could remain absolutely silent in the middle of the 21st century, listening with complicity and emotion to the laughter and sighs of spectators fascinated by the story of George Valentin and Peppy Miller. The outside world disappears, and when the sounds and colors return, you find yourself smiling, happy, with a full heart and tap-dancing feet. ‘The Artist’ has had many, many detractors but continues to be a real shot of happiness in the vein.

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Entering the mind of a creator, setting fire to the muses, facing the blank sheet, touching inspiration with your fingertips, being able to transform something as complex as genius into something tangible, visual, close. The Coens set themselves all these impossible missions in “Barton Fink” and They manage to respect each of them.

Furthermore, they allow themselves to entrust John Turturro and John Goodman with the roles of their lives and invent a thriller in 1940s Hollywood in which noir mixes with ‘The Twilight of the Gods’ reaching excellence. With one of the most fascinating epilogues that the 90s gave us, ‘Barton Fink’ is a hallucinatory and hallucinatory work of art that has not lost an iota of its capacity for charm. prodigious.

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No, seriously, it’s a movie special about movies within movies. And “Mulholland Drive”, as well as for many other things like being an instant classic, was born to endlessly blast, rebuild and elevate this genre. You may like it more or less, you may find it masterful or irritating, it may be both, but you will never be able to argue the paramount importance of this labyrinthine nightmare in the Olympus of contemporary cinema. Essential.

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After the magnificent ‘Medium-haired thieves’ and ‘The Curse of the Jade Scorpion’, Woody Allen completed his particular trilogy of the early 2000s with another comedy at the apex of his signature: ‘A final made in Hollywood’ . Played by Allen himself, who here plays a director in need of new successes who goes blind before starting the shooting of the film that must bring him out of general oblivion, we are faced with a vision of the American film industry that is as acidic as it gets. full of (hilariously) bad milk. A proposition that also manages to make the most of its hilarious cue, closing the show with a final scene of taking off his hat.. In short, another comedy above the master’s remarkable.

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The easiest way to talk about ‘Boogie Nights’ is to cite Martin Scorsese as a light and guide for a wild Paul Thomas Anderson who, three years before turning thirty, signs the first masterpiece of his career. Indisputable.

Set at the beginning of the porn industry in the United States, at the end of the 70s, the director discovers himself an excellent storyteller capable of balancing each of the stories we encounter in almost three hours, which pass like a breath, with a pulse of maestro, delivering some of the most memorable scenes of his entire career and making virtuosity a key piece within the ensemble. Nothing is missing and nothing is left over in a film that grows and grows on its way to the inevitable hell to end at the beginning of everything: the talent of Paul Thomas Anderson. It wasn’t about clues and hunches anymore, it was about genius.

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