Gabor Nemeth Movies
- 2000
Andras Fesos directs this bizarre existential drama that recalls the work of Wim Wenders. When Alex leaves Budapest to travel around Europe, he gets blinded in a car wreck while helping a man try to find his wife. Back in Hungary, Alex answers a ringing pay phone to discover a woman looking for someone named Peter. They strike up a weird sort of relationship, and soon she is venturing to Budapest to meet him. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
- 1998
This low-budget Hungarian drama looks at a Budapest bar over a year, capturing life among the bar's regulars -- a gangster, a jealous husband, a lonely middle-aged woman, a womanizer, and a trio of attractive young women. Apart from opening and closing shots of the bar's exterior, the entire film is set inside the bar. Each of the brief interior scenes is introduced with an explanatory title, revealing something about to occur, and these scenes are all filmed with the camera in a fixed position, aimed at a single table where the key regulars gather. Espresso received "Best Screenplay" and "Best First Film" honors at the 1998 Hungarian Film Awards. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi
- Starring:
- Andrea Soptei, Andrea Fullajtar, (more)
Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a taciturn law-enforcement officer from Russia. James Belushi co-stars as a wise-lipped Chicago cop. Though they go together like caviar and White Castles, they are forced to team up to collar the Soviet Union's most notorious drug lord. Thus does director Walter Hill recycle his 48 Hours formula for another unlikely star team. Unfortunately, Red Heat isn't half as enjoyable as the earlier film, owing to a lack of rapport between the two leading men and an overall lack of inspiration infecting the whole project. The one notable aspect of Red Heat is that it was the first commercial American film to stage scenes in Moscow's Red Square. Watch for Laurence Fishburne (still billed as "Larry") in a secondary role. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Belushi, (more)
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