Angel Film Critique
Coming Full Circle
Film is an amazing Art Form; a unique blend of visual and verbal story-telling, full of emotion and suspense, enriched through sound & music; arguably the most complicated of all art forms.
When and where I grew up, there was no TV and no CINEMA; even the RADIO was out of reach to me, as a child. We had a small radio that sat on a single shelf high on the wall, so high, that as a child, I could not reach it. On the other hand, my parents decided to buy a piano while they didn't play (the piano); it was so that my siblings & I would have a chance to learn. Wow!
So, I was allowed to play this wonderful instrument whenever I wanted to; even to improvise which I loved doing. I enjoyed pretending to be a concert pianist and was very good at making a big noise. I loved it; my parents not so much. They got me a piano teacher, and, with difficulty, I entered the vast and amazing world of classical music.
Eventually, the little radio, high on the shelf, was replaced by a stereo system (radio & {vinyl} record player) that was within reach, and that I was allowed to use. I began to buy my first (vinyl) albums and treasured the music of my choice.
Growing up without screens (no tv, no computer, no cell phone) put me at a disadvantage in certain (obvious) ways, but there was an up-side to the equation: I learned to play, to entertain myself, to improvise (drama & music), to imagine, to write, to sing, to be adventurous; I played with costumes and set building and had a great time 'pretending'.
In my later teenage years I was able to go to the CINEMA (in the city) occasionally, and this opened up another hugely fascinating world to me. One of the very first films I saw in the cinema (back then, that was the only place where you could see a film) was 'West Side Story'; I was completely BLOWN AWAY, you can imagine...
Click the tittle of any film below to see Billy's review...
Born on the Fourth of July
Braveheart
Chariots of Fire
Close-to-Jesus: Mary Magdalene
Dances with Wolves
Days of Heaven
Dead Man Walking
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Festen (the Celebration)
Forest Gump
Gandhi
Gods and Kings
Good Will Hunting
Great Expectations
Great Expectations
Great Expectations
Hamlet
I Am MLK Jr
I Can Only Imagine
Jane Eyre
JFK
Jeremiah
Jesus of Montreal
Joseph (son of Jacob)
L.A. Confidential
Les Miserables
Life is Beautiful
Little Buddha
Long Walk to Freedom
Lumo Project (Selva Rasalingam is Jesus)
Luther
Malcolm X
Mao's Last Dancer
Mark's Gospel (Max McClean)
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Moses
Moulin Rouge
Mrs. Brown
Naked
O Brother Where Art Thou
Oliver Twist
Oliver
Oliver
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Paul, Apostle of Christ (Andrew Hyatt, dir.)
Paul, the Apostle (Roger Young, director)
People Like Us
Philadelphia
Platoon
Prince of Egypt
Raise the Red Lantern
Ray
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet
Running on Empty
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler's List
Selma
Shakespeare in Love
Shine
Some Like It Hot
Son of Man
Saint Peter (Omar Sharif)
Strictly Ballroom
the Bible
The Commitments
The Conspirator
The English Patient
The Help
The Kite Runner
The Last Temptation
The Matrix
The Messiah
The Mission
The Passion (HBO/ BBC)
The Post
The Ten Commandments
The Thin Red Line
The Witness
The Quest Trilogy: Chasing the Star
The Quest Trilogy: The Christ Slayer
Thelma and Louise
Titanic
Unforgiven
West Side Story
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Wild at Heart
1985, Anthony Andrews- director
2015, Downey & Burnett, producers
2011, Rodrigo Garcia- director
2012, Ben Affleck- directing & starring
1988, Penny Marshall- director
2006, Paul Verhoeven- director
2006, Emilio Estevez- writing, directing
1995, Mel Gibson- producing, directing, starring
1981, Hugh Hudson- director
1992, Richard Attenborough- producing, directing
2005, Andrew Adamson- director
1988, Giuseppe Tornatore- writing, directing
2000, Mertes/ Marcetti- producing/ directing
2001, Mertes/ Marcetti- producing/ directing
2000, Mertes/ Marcetti- producing/ directing
2001, Mertes/ Marcetti- producing/ directing
1990, Kevin Costner- producing, directing, starring
1978, Terrence Malick- writing, directing
1995, Tim Robbins- writing, directing
2016, Danny Goldstein- director
2011, Stephen Daldry- director
1998, Thomas Vinterberg- director
1994. Robert Zemeckis- director
1982, Richard Attenborough- producing, directing
2000, Ridley Scott
2014, Ridley Scott- director
1997, Gus Van Sant- director
1946, David Lean- director
1998, Alfonso Cuaron- director
2012, Mike Newell- director
1990, Franco Zeffirelli, directing/ starring Mel Gibson
2018, John Barbisan & Michael Hamilton- directing
2018, Erwin Brothers- directors
1966, Paolo Pasolini- director
1994, Bernard Rose- director
1963, Billy Wilder- director
2011, Cary Joji Fukunaga- director
1991, Oliver Stone- director
1998, Harry Winer, writing, directing
1999, Roger Young- director
1989, Denys Arcand- writing, directing
1977, Franco Zeffirelli- director
1995, Roger young- director
2015, Chris Menaul- director
1997, Curtis Hanson- director
2015, Rodrigo Garcia- writer, director
1978, Glenn Jordan- director
2012, Tom Hooper- director
1997, Roberto Benigni- directing, starring
1993, Bernardo Betolucci- director
2013, Justin Chadwick- director
2014, David Batty- producer, director
2003, Eric Till- director
1992, Spike Lee- director
2009, Bruce Beresford- director
2010, Max McClean- actor
2018, Garth David- director
2008, Bharat Nalluri- director
1995, Roger Young- director
2001, Baz Luhrmann- director
1997, John Madden- director
1993, Mike Leigh- director
2009, Sam Taylor-Johnson- director
2000, Ethan & Joel Coen- director
1948, David Lean- director
1968, Carol Reed- director
2005, Roman Polanski- director
1975, Milos Forman- director
2018, Andrew Hyatt- director
2001, Roger Young- director
1987, Bille August- director
2012, Alex Kurtzman- director
1981, Robert Day- director
1993, Jonathan Demme- director
1986, Oliver Stone- writing, directing
1998, B. Chapman, S. Wells, S. Hickner- directors
1991, Zhang Yimou- director
2004, Taylor Hackford
2016, Kevin Reynolds- director
1968, Franco Zeffirelli- director
1996, Baz Luhrmann- director
1988, Sidney Lumet- director
2014, Robert Savo- director
1998, Steven Spielberg- director
1993, Steven Spielberg-director
2014, Ava DuVernay- director
1995, Ang Lee- director
1998, John Madden- director
1996, Scott Hicks- director
1997, Roger Young- director
1959, Billy Wilder- director
2014, Chris Spencer- director
2006, Mark Dornford- director
2005, Giulio Base- director
1992, Baz Luhrmann- director
2000, Rafaelle Mertes- director
1994, Regards v.d. Bergh- director
2013, Downey & Burnett- producers
2017, Dalles Jenkins- director
1991, Alan Parker- director
2010, Robert Redford- director
1996, Anthony Minghella- director
1997, Robert Marcarelli- director
2020, Ashley Strand performs
2003, Philip Saville- director
2014, Joe Boyd performs, Brad Wise- directs
2011, Tate Taylor- writing, directing
1979, John Krish, Peter Sykes- directors
2007, Marc Foster- director
1987, Bernardo Bertolucci- director
1988, Martin Scorsese- director
1991, Leos Carax- director
1999, The Wachowski Brothers- writing, directing
1975, Roberto Rossolini- director
1999, Stanislav Sokolov, Derek W. Hayes- directors
1986, Roland Joffe- director
2008, Michael Offer- director
2004, Mel Gibson- director
2017, Steven Spielberg- director
2008, Stephen Daldry- director
1995, Robert Marcarelli- director
1956, Cecil B. DeMille- director
1998, Terrence Malick- writing, directing
1985, Peter Weir- director
2019, Jesse Low- director
2019, Bret Miller- director
2019, Nathaniel Nose- director
1991, Ridley Scott- director
2009, Kenny Ortega- director
1997, James Cameron- director
2010, S.J. Clarkson- director
1982, Sydney Pollack- directing, acting (the agent)
1992, Clint Eastwood, director
2011, Madonna- director
1961, Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise- directors
1993, Lasse Hallstrom- director
1990, David Linch- writing, director
2009, Spike Jonze- director
2010, Philipp Stolzl- director