Reviews

This is a great opportunity to watch a King Crimson performance with two guitar players (Robert Fripp, Adrian Belew), two "bass" players (Tony Levin, Trey Gunn) and two drum players (Bill Bruford, Pat Mastelotto). If you want you can watch or listen to each of the members of the band from different camera-angles (Bruford's angle, Fripp's angle, etc.). Moreover, you can also listen to their classic song "21st Century Schizoid Man" selecting different combinations of some musicians (that have joined Robert Fripp's band over these last thirty years) sounding together. The sound is perfect... much more if you have 5.1 DTS. King Crimson plays songs from the '70s (the dark composition "Red", the elaborated instrumental track "Larks' Tongues In Aspic Part II", etc.), from the '80s (the excellent guitar harmonization from the song "Frame By Frame", the catchy song "Three Of A Perfect Pair", etc.) and from the '90s (the heavy instrumental masterpiece "VROOOM", the beautiful ballad "One Time", etc.). All of them are perfectly executed. If you like this band, you won't leave from your seat for a single moment!

I suppose that when "Europa '51" was going to be filmed there was a great professional mutual understanding between Rossellini (the director) and Ingrid Bergman (main actress). It's really astonishing the way Ingrid Bergman's face changes throughout the movie. She really looks like a "human God" (specially towards the end) just by looking at her expressions. If you have the opportunity of watching "Europa '51" twice, you will notice that her character in the beginning of the story, where Irene Girard (Ingrid Bergman) is the mother of a well-off family, is totally different from the last shots. I also like how Irene contrasts with the way of living of the poor children and working-women. Although Rossellini's movie is a bit lengthy, bearing in mind it was made in Italy in 1952, many events occur with short scenes perfectly connected obtaining a gorgeous dynamism as a whole. I'm almost sure that my favorite scene is the same as the majority of the people who watched "Europa '51". I refer to the moving ending of the story. I also like how the camera moves around capturing the contrast of expressions between the sick patients and Irene. I encourage everybody to watch this masterpiece, even twice!

I watched "¡Vampiros En La Habana!" by Juan Padrón when I was eight years old. This movie was something different from the Disney cartoons I used to watch. There was sex, good music, violence, and plenty of humor. A plot consisting in a mixture of vampires and mafia could be strange, but it worked perfectly well. This is the type of movie that you can hate it or love it! Yesterday Juan Padrón (the director) presented the second part: "¡Más Vampiros En La Habana!" in a theater in Madrid (Spain). I had great expectations with this movie. I couldn't resist comparing both of them, and in my opinion I think that the first part was less dynamic but much more funny. I'm looking forward to watching "Fritz The Cat" and comment it.