Archivo de la etiqueta: the oscars

 Art & Entertainment Isaac: Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage. If Manhattan was only a romantic comedy, it would be a very good one, but the fact that the movie has so much more ambition than … Seguir leyendo →

Camaraderie & Russian Roulette Three Pennsylvania steelworkers, Mikey (Robert De Niro), Nick (Christopher Walken) and Steven (John Savage), obey Uncle Sam’s call to fight in Vietnam, leaving behind wives and sweethearts, including shopworker Linda (Meryl Streep) who may be in love … Seguir leyendo →

 Allen & Keaton “There’s an old joke,” begins Woody Allen, talking straight to camera. “Two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of ’em says, ‘Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.’ The other one says, ‘Yeah, … Seguir leyendo →

Scorsese & De Niro «You talkin’ to me?!» Robert De Niro’s Travis Bickle is a Vietnam vet apparently unable to sleep, who drives his yellow cab endlessly through the infernal darkness of New York by night, haunted and obsessed by the … Seguir leyendo →

Kipling & Freemasonry “I don’t try to guess what a million people will like. It’s hard enough to know what I like,” -John Huston The Man Who Would Be King was a dream project for Huston. He had tried to put … Seguir leyendo →