Goya's Ghosts

I think Goya is after all just a pretext. What Forman wanted to talk about is how people are overwhelmed by history. It's a difficult idea to be grasped for people who live in wealthy societies where nothing much happens... Full review

This movie had a great storyline and kept one's attention from beginning to end, a well directed movie, I believe one of the best I've ever seen. While some period movies are overwhelmed by the attention to period detail, in... Full review

Imagine the paintings and drawings of Goya in all their darkness and beauty coming to life - this is Milos Forman's masterful film. Goya (and us)witness the folly of the Spanish royal court, the murderous sadistic perversion of the Catholic... Full review

A film by Milos Forman is always an event. This will probably not remain as one of the best in his career, and was surrounded by a level of controversy, not the least among critics who received it very differently.... Full review

I read someone else's comment on IMDb (much more adulatory than I would be for Goya's Ghosts), who said that it was a masterpiece not only for Milos Forman and co-writer Jean-Claude Carriere, but for Luis Bunuel too. And that... Full review

There is one great flaw here that almost everyone mentions... and it's true. The accents of the non-Spanish actors clash terribly with the Spanish ones, as well as with each other. That's a real flaw, but if you can get... Full review

I had hesitated so much to go to see this movie – because I thought it is a period drama and I won't like the aristocracy, and I had assumed that this was a French or Spanish movie. To my... Full review

Hollywood will have to wait for long time to see again films of such quality,films that are condemned not to have a big commercial success but films that will remain in the history of art of cinema.The "ghosts of Goya"... Full review

I saw it yesterday on film festival. And it was great.When I was reading the description of the movie, I had some doubts. It seemed it would be yet another film about bad, intolerant catholics and good and democratic atheists.... Full review

Masterpiece written by Jean Claude Carriere, who wrote, for example "El discreto encanto de la burguesía" or "El fantasma de la libertad" with Luis Buñuel. He also helped Buñuel writing "Mi ultimo suspiro", Buñuel's autobiography.This a movie not to explain,... Full review

Mr. Bardem gives such an excellent performance, you hate him, but you can't take your eyes off him, feeling much like a bird being mesmerized by a snake. There is a very interesting behind the scenes featurette included. ... Full Review

Besides inserting fictional storylines into real people's lives, "Goya's Ghosts" has a few fatal flaws. Goya's Ghosts" is a flawed and overlong, but passionately made, movie, that's not even a bit boring. ... Full Review

The film's best scenes are when the blithe hypocrite Brother Lorenzo (Bardem) has the tables turned on him by the girl's family.....Randy Quaid is delightfully cast against type as the hunt-happy King Carlos IV, and Lonsdale suggests.... ... Full Review

Bardem is convincingly cunning....Fragmented and uneven, the film falters from lack of a strong point of a view.....In an era of eroding civil liberties, Goya's Ghosts could have been a cautionary nightmare of how bad things can get..... ... Full Review

Goya finds Lorenzo, who has returned from France with Enlightenment ideals but is too busy exacting revenge against the church hierarchy to be bothered by this wretched reminder of his own hypocrisy. Fifteen years later, when Napoleon's army marches into Spain and releases the political prisoners, the ghostly Ines finds the now-deaf Goya and tells him that she bore a daughter, who was confiscated by the church. ... Full Review

While lunching one day in a typical quaint Spanish caf?, the women are approached by Juan Antonio Gonzalo (Javier Bardem - Goya's Ghosts, No Country For Old Men, Love in the Time of Cholera ) a handsome, suave, artist who... ... Full Article

Goya's "Bajan riñendo" sold for a surprising $4.5 million at Christie's Old Masters and 19th Century Drawings London auction Tuesday, more than double the $2 million estimate. The drawing was one of three Goya drawings that highlighted Tuesday's sale. "Repentance" ... Full Article

The film "Goya's Ghosts" was a surprise to me on many levels. First, I was surprised to see that Javier Bardem's Brother Lorenzo was much the same as his Oscar winning character in "No Country for Old Men." ... Full Article

Beowulf , available in both standard and extra-bloody unrated editions, leads this week's crop of new DVD releases. Also debuting are the vampires-versus-Alaska horror flick 30 Days of Night , the uproarious black comedy Death at a Funeral , Javier... ... Full Article

The Slamdance Film Festival, the movie showcase with a sole mission to nurture, support and introduce truly independent works, has announced its feature film slate and special program schedule for the 2008 fest, which takes place in Park City, Utah,... ... Full Article

Penelope Cruz is rumoured to be dating Goyas Ghost star Javier Bardem after the two were spotted being very touchy-feely in New York at the weekend. ... Full Article