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A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints 2006 123movies

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints 2006 123movies

Sometimes the only way to move forward is to go back.Sep. 29, 2006104 Min.
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Watch: A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints 2006 123movies, Full Movie Online – Dito, a writer in L.A., goes home to Astoria, Queens, after a 15-year absence when his mother calls to say his father’s ill. In a series of flashbacks we see the young Dito, his parents, his four closest friends, and his girl Laurie, as each tries to navigate family, race, loyalty, sex, coming of age, violence, and wanting out. A ball falls onto the subway tracks at a station, small things get out of hand. Can Dito go home again?.
Plot: Dito Montiel, a successful author, receives a call from his long-suffering mother, asking him to return home and visit his ailing father. Dito recalls his childhood growing up in a violent neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., with friends Antonio, Giuseppe, Nerf and Mike.
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6.9/10 Votes: 25,984
76% | RottenTomatoes
67/100 | MetaCritic
N/A Votes: 254 Popularity: 7.336 | TMDB

Reviews:

Powerful and heartfelt look at an often violent past
I recently saw a screening of “A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints” without any prior knowledge of the subject matter or cast, which I am beginning to believe might be the best idea before seeing many of the smaller films out there. Reminiscent of “Goodfellas” and “Kids,” a gritty coming-of-age story that packs a powerful punch with star Shia LaBeouf delivering a heart- breaking performance. This film is not to be missed and should be a strong contender come awards season. Director and writer Dito Montiel obviously draws from the likes of Martin Scorsese as he paints Queens, New York in a light only familiar to those who grew up deep in the heart of it. “Saints” elicits both tears and laughter, often within moments of each other while keeping the audience on the edge of their seats the entire time. Topping off this walk down memory lane, Montiel incorporates a stellar soundtrack mostly from the 70’s, which feels right even though most of the story takes place in the mid 80’s.
Review By: u2jubilee2000
Welcome, Dito
Sometimes making a first film and delivering a moderately “decent” product, depends more on chance than on spending many years studying film-making. Under “chance” I include the raising of generous capital to contract the best possible crew (the flowing of cash has proved a key element in the career of someone like Mel Gibson…) It is a blessing to find producers who believe in you and offer their support. And if before taking the step you have shown skill in any other profession, considerable progress has been made. Such is the case of novelist Dito Montiel, who had Sting as executive producer for his first motion picture, and went to win the “best first feature” prize in the Venice film festival and was named best director at Sundance. Based on his autobiographical novel, Montiel illustrates life in the margins, roads without signs, the rejection of one’s origins and its sister, geographical escape, in the 1980s, in Astoria, New York. It is a closed world, in which emigrant culture, mean politics and the economy of deprivation mingle with daily life, but they are not pointed at, they are not scraped nor blamed for the physical and spiritual misery of the leading characters. Robert Downey Jr. is Dito, the acclaimed novelist living in Los Angeles, who receives a phone call from his mother (exceptional Dianne Wiest) asking him to return to Astoria, to his sick father’s side (Chazz Palminteri), whom Dito left behind 15 years ago, when violence, racism, territorial-ism and sexism in the streets —and a good dose of dreams, including the proverbial rock band to took him out of poverty— made him flee to California. But 15 years later Dito discovers that he took the s..t along with him and that he is covered from head to toes. Perhaps it is in us and not in the places, but in this case it is definite that Dito’s mess is more in his head than in Astoria. To make it clear, Dito the filmmaker builds a parallel retrospective story, in which Shia LaBeouf plays Dito the adolescent, main character of juvenile mini-dramas that include a patriarchal figure, a streetwise girlfriend, and a gang of misfits who are still alive because there is no Vietnam or Iran, and because they are not old enough to fight somewhere in the name of “democracy”. The times of both Ditos cross, create a complex fabric and make the viewing a rewarding experience, maybe with less visual orientation than in the first movie of another artist turned film director, painter Julian Schnabel, who painted New York as out of the head of plastic artist Jean Michel Basquiat. Montiel’s world is more literary, but as effective as Schnabel’s: the first-time filmmaker was fortunate to have the talents of cinematographer Eric Gautier and editors Jake Pushinksy and Christopher Tellefsen to help him create his cinematic world. The film has been compared to Martin Scorsese’s “Mean Streets”, but I believe that the comparison misses the merits of Montiel’s film, foremost the richness of its multiple levels, a few above and more innovative than the traditional style of Scorsese’s film. Good work from the already mentioned cast, as well as from Channing Tatum (whose character is reminiscent of Robert De Niro’s Johnny Boy in “Mean Streets”), Rosario Dawson and, in a brief and effective appearance, the unappreciated, very talented Eric Roberts.
Review By: EdgarST

Other Information:

Original Title A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Release Date 2006-09-29
Release Year 2006

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 40 min (100 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 516139
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Crime, Drama
Director Dito Montiel
Writer Dito Montiel
Actors Robert Downey Jr., Rosario Dawson, Shia LaBeouf
Country United States
Awards 8 wins & 9 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Aaton 35-III, Panavision Primo Lenses, Panavision Panaflex Platinum, Panavision Primo Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, Toronto, Canada (prints), DuArt Film Laboratories Inc., New York, USA (dailies)
Film Length 2,719 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision2 500T 5218)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Fuji Eterna-CP 3513DI)

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints 2006 123movies
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints 2006 123movies
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints 2006 123movies
Original title A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
TMDb Rating 6.502 254 votes

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