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19,000 | [
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] | 199 | 236 | Footprints is a very interesting movie that is somewhat difficult to categorize. "Psychological thriller" is the most appropriate description I can think of. The female protagonist, Alice Cespi, discovers that she doesn't remember anything of the last three days. The only clue she has is a torn photo of a hotel. She is... | 1 |
19,001 | [
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19,002 | [
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19,003 | [
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19,004 | [
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19,005 | [
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19,007 | [
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19,008 | [
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19,009 | [
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19,011 | [
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19,012 | [
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19,013 | [
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] | 395 | 469 | (the description of the mood of the movie may be considered as a spoiler - because there is not much action in fact)<br /><br />Great one...<br /><br />Is it for my peculiar interest for the dystopias and utopias? Is it for the atmosphere of the movie. Or is there some more magic? If yes, it is for sure the utmost huma... | 1 |
19,014 | [
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19,015 | [
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19,016 | [
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19,017 | [
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19,018 | [
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19,019 | [
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19,020 | [
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] | 209 | 285 | "Where to begin, where to begin . . ?(Savannah in the episode "Gimme Shelter")" To disabuse: Fox/Viacom does not, at this point in time, have any intention of releasing THE show on DVD. But be not downhearted! That you are reading this reveals that the magic lingers fifteen years on . . . And small wonder. This was pos... | 1 |
19,021 | [
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19,022 | [
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19,023 | [
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19,024 | [
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19,025 | [
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19,026 | [
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19,027 | [
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19,028 | [
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19,029 | [
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19,030 | [
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19,031 | [
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19,032 | [
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19,033 | [
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19,034 | [
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19,035 | [
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19,036 | [
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19,037 | [
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19,038 | [
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19,039 | [
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19,040 | [
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19,041 | [
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19,042 | [
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19,043 | [
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19,044 | [
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19,045 | [
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19,046 | [
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19,047 | [
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19,048 | [
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19,049 | [
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19,050 | [
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19,051 | [
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19,052 | [
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19,053 | [
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19,054 | [
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19,055 | [
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19,056 | [
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19,057 | [
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19,058 | [
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19,059 | [
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] | 135 | 163 | After watching Ingmar Bergman's Skammen, I had many feelings, but most notably, I felt unsatisfied. I have heard so much hype about this movie but I came to find it lacking. Don't get me wrong, I can fully appreciate the artistic value of such a film, but as far as depth and emotion, I was not so impressed. I found the... | 1 |
19,060 | [
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19,061 | [
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19,062 | [
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19,063 | [
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19,064 | [
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19,065 | [
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19,066 | [
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19,067 | [
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] | 220 | 262 | I have seen this movie twice now on cable. The first time I saw it, it caught me by suprise. The skaters I was seeing were the guys we followed in the pages of Skateboarder magazine back in the late 70's. These were the guys we copied and tried to become while skating. I am glad that a film was finally made that gives ... | 1 |
19,068 | [
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19,069 | [
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19,070 | [
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19,071 | [
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19,072 | [
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19,073 | [
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19,074 | [
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19,075 | [
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19,076 | [
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19,077 | [
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19,078 | [
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19,079 | [
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19,080 | [
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] | 855 | 1,055 | I hate films about sports. I guess the pre-fabricated Hollywood sports film is a bit tough for me to swallow because it follows the most identical of ideas each year, what I am trying to say is that there isn't much creativity in this genre. Use exhibit "A" "The Game Plan" as evidence of this if you want. So, needles... | 1 |
19,082 | [
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] | 232 | 298 | Right there. Good, entertaining and accurate era-feel to most scenes. Enough personality variations to cover the real people around those days without story distractions from the exceptions. The credits show Peralta from Mar Vista, California.. up the hill from Venice and south of Malibu. I lived there in the Heartbrea... | 1 |
19,083 | [
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] | 130 | 162 | Actually, I have more a question, than a comment. I loved Z-Boys, and The Lords of Dogtown. Saw Lords first, then the doc, and while I loved the story, I am curious as to why in the movie, Sid was an important character, but in the documentary, he wasn't part of the team, and only merely mentioned as just some kid they... | 1 |
19,084 | [
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] | 104 | 124 | This is a pretty good documentary. I'm not a skateboarder, I don't particularly like skateboarding or skateboard culture. But somehow for about 2 hours this movie made me interested in the subject.<br /><br />I wouldn't call it the most intriguing film of all time, but for some reason when those guys were talking about... | 1 |
19,085 | [
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] | 162 | 188 | I must say that this has to be the best documentary I have ever seen in my life. I first say the movie at my friends house, and didn't get a chance to finish watching it. From that point on, I spent my free time trying to find the movie. I never found it, but on my birthday, my friend who knew I had the hardest time fi... | 1 |
19,086 | [
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] | 160 | 202 | This movie was awesome. It's a documentary about how surfing influenced skateboarding in the early days. It has interviews with skaters such as Tony Hawk(my idol)=), and Stacy Peralta to name a couple. Dogtown is a so called "ghetto" part of California, where there used to be an amusement park that was torn down. Peopl... | 1 |
19,087 | [
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] | 224 | 286 | When the Bicentennial hit, I was in Hershey, PA and part of the Middletown Skate Team. We didn't do anything except skate around trying to learn what we were reading in the pages of Skateboarder Magazine. A couple of local hills provided all the speed-wobbles you could handle. At the time Mike Weed was the hot stuff, a... | 1 |
19,088 | [
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] | 140 | 168 | Not only was this film exhilarating, but it took me back down memory lane with its true to life sound track. These were the things we were saying, and doing...these were the songs we were listening to...all during this same time period, in the same era, way down south in Alabama. I may not have been one of the skateboa... | 1 |
19,089 | [
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] | 191 | 239 | To regard the film as nothing more than a documentary about skateboarding would fail to recognize several important aspects of Dogtown. Peralta (a well- known skateboarding figure himself) has crafted a film that not only deals with the birth of what we know today as skateboarding, but also examines the socio- cultural... | 1 |
19,090 | [
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] | 148 | 171 | I used to watch this too at junior school in Petersfield Hampshire around 1975. The odd thing is that from time to time I still think about it (I am now 40) The big question running through out the length of the series (no idea how many episodes 6??)was the identity of the person riding the motorcycle !'I've ask friend... | 1 |
19,091 | [
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] | 210 | 279 | This is an outstanding criminal thriller, and with a great cast too. Spanish language cinema's best and most popular actors of the past couple of decades, Victoria Abril and Federico Luppi, team up in one of the better Spanish language crime thrillers of 2004-5.<br /><br />The film begins by focusing on thirty somethin... | 1 |
19,092 | [
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] | 235 | 290 | Ernesto is a man that makes a living out of duping other solid citizens of their hard earned money. Together with Manco, an older man with a lot of experience, he pulls out capers that allow him to make a decent living, but that is not making him a rich man by any means. Enter Federico, an older man who is more experie... | 1 |
19,093 | [
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] | 172 | 238 | So far Miguel Bardem's career it's been one of the more dreadful of recent Spanish cinema. He's made nothing but rubbish... until now. "Incautos" has been quite a surprise: it's a serious film, with rhythm, with a great cast and very entertaining.<br /><br />The art of robbing, that's what "Incautos" is about. A film m... | 1 |
19,094 | [
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] | 148 | 160 | I was very lucky to see this film as part of the Melbourne International Film Festival 2005 only a few days ago. I must admit that I am very partial to movies that focus on human relations and especially the ones which concentrate on the tragic side of life. I also love the majority of Scandinavian cinematic offerings,... | 1 |
19,095 | [
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] | 172 | 208 | This film came as a gift - a late-night offering out of the blue - so unlike other reviewers I had no preconceptions whatsoever. I found myself glued to my seat as the film slowly dictated its own rhythm, its own unfolding. I was drawn to acknowledge my own deep love and humanity as I willed for "good" to prevail - but... | 1 |
19,096 | [
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] | 237 | 316 | Before I'd seen this movie I've heard a lot of praise about it and quite many exclamations about how "horrific" it was. Not to take any credit away from this movie, I think it wasn't all that horrible or even shocking. It's just a movie about people living in the darker side of the town. And a good one at portraying th... | 1 |
19,097 | [
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] | 167 | 205 | For Estoninans Finland sometimes seems like a land of dreams. A land where many of us want to go and work there or start a business. Find love, start a new life etc. But... Aku Louhimies has made this brilliant piece which shows that everything is not so good in Finland as well. That Finland can be just as Paha maa (Th... | 1 |
19,098 | [
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] | 139 | 158 | This is another of those rare movies one feels grateful to be introduced to instead of the usual Hollywood tripe. It really is a roller coaster ride, as we follow the effects of a a forged 500 Euro note on a multitude of people. One asks 'what if' all the time but it certainly is a butterfly effect captured on film. It... | 1 |
19,099 | [
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] | 180 | 209 | I saw this film at the 2006 Palm Springs International Film Festival and Director Aku Louhimies introduced his film and was on hand for Q&A after. For some reason this movie is titled Frozen Land in English so I don't know how the distributors got frozen out of Paha. This is a very good film. It doesn't for me have eno... | 1 |
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