An affair to remember...

James Stewart, in the darkest, most profound and sad performance of his career, falls in love with the alluring, distant, unattainable and mesmerizing Kim Novak.
Bernard Herrmann composes a heavenly, breathtaking wagnerian symphony.
and Alfred Hitchcock, in the absolute peak of his powers, materializes the most beautiful, haunting, compelling and heart breaking tale of love that transcended any cinematic or human barrier.
my all time favorite motion picture.

One of the greatest love stories ever captured on celluloid. A masterpiece in all the sense of the word.

F.W Murnau's crafty direction and Emil Jenning's disturbing charm gives us a plunge into men's most dark ambition, sin and redemption.

A triumph of the heart and spirit over social standards.
Paddy Chayefsky's screenplay is gold on everybody's mouth, but especially in a magnificent Ernest Borgnine, as the modest and kind-hearted italian american butcher whose romantic life is far from idyllic.
Delbert Mann's direction shines for its simplicity and good judgment.
One of the warmest, most touching and rewarding self-examinations and sentimental recollections I have experienced with a motion picture.

Haunting, intimate and ultimately anguishing cinematic poem that works in dichotomies such as documentary-fiction, japan-france, river-sea, man-woman, cinema-literature, past-present.
Emmanuelle Riva is gorgeous, and Resnais narration is innovative, paused and wildly emotional.

Arthur Penn's charming eulogy to the 1930s infamous couple of bankrobbers it's a riveting and carefree mixture of tones, concluding in a mind-blowingly sad and violent incident. the chemistry between Beatty and Dunaway feels very real.

Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson elicit candor and passion without the need of words, and yet Noel Coward's screenplay is very rich and arouses a huge deal of emotion. All that in the master hand of David Lean signifies a tender and intense romance, a battle inside a woman's heart, captured with the utmost capacity by all those genius and sensitive minds involved in it.

Tim Burton's masterpiece. an immensely beautiful, charming, poignant cinematic jewel. images full of lyricism embellished by an almost celestial score by Danny Elfman.

I wish this could happen to me...a sweet, tender, funny date with the woman you always wanted. outstanding performances by the two young lovers. an unforgettable afternoon in Vienna. it isn't a mere one night stand, but the night when they met the love of their life. I absolutely love this film.

A nostalgic and heartfelt stroll with these now mature lovers. amazing script, chemistry and setting. It may sound like blasphemy but I think this little marvel can be compared with some of the most romantic and tender gems like Brief encounter or Casablanca. more sad and bitter than the first one, It closed a chapter I'll never forget.

Cassavetes shows the sweetness inside daily life, in the ordinary, ugly, lonely and crazy world we humans inhabit in disdain; a place where we all hope to find the person who'll take the heavy burden but also the unique privilege of our company.
Seymour Cassel and Gena Rowlands are the outstanding pair that make tangible all that.

Sultry, dark and decadent picture about loneliness. wonderful photography and marvelous Brando.

I'm not saying I'm the kind of guy Lloyd Dobler is (ask the ladies) but I can totally relate to that character, his awkward but good-spirited behaviour and his seemingly impossible quest to be with Ione Skye.
Both, her and John Cusack, have an undeniably appealing chemistry on film, which ultimately earns most of the movie's accolades.
The 80s fashion and pop music, though dreadful for today's standards, I have always been nostalgic and open minded about it, and I'm not ashamed to say I love it.
Cameron Crowe was still forming up as a director, that shows; but his writing was very good. Probably the only thing I don't enjoy about it, is that subplot focusing on John Mahoney's character.
Attention to Cusack's real life buddy, Jeremy Piven, in what probably is the movie's funniest scene.
Overall, a funny, smart and endlessly charming little movie that can stir many of the emotions we thought to be lost after we left either our school, or our one and only girl.

A beautiful picture, thanks to the photographer David Watkin, and composer John Barry. Redford and Streep are also neat in their roles. It drags a bit at some parts, but the overall impression is captivating, and the dilemmas and arguments it raises are quite fascinating as well, like solitude versus compromise, adultery, illness, death, ostracism.

mighty spectacular.

Classy, touching and beautiful mosaic about the prelude and aftermath of love. great photography and score.

The technical aspect of a film has to be at the service of the story, and never the other way. Wong Kar Wai is yet another lecturer of visual masturbation with very few reasonable arguments to make a cinematic statement. This film is like a series of advertisements, beautifully shot, but non-transcendental, dull and meaningless. It surprises me that some people think the man behind this empty shell is the second coming of Christ.
Vacuous and endlessly pretentious.