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Rohmer has made much better , but this is still very good
Not one of Rohmer's best , especially from a writing standpoint . It seems to me that he wasn't particularly interested in this project , or at least he is unable to make the story as interesting as I find most of his other films . However , several points elevate this film far beyond what it could have been . First th...
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Shockingly good ' 80s horror movie - which deserves far better than a 4 . 8 rating !
Not that there aren't a good number of decent ' 80s horror movies , but I had always been lead to believe that C . H . U . D . was a piece of crap , at most a so-bad-it's-good type of flick . Maybe it's because I came in with low expectations , or because the day before I slogged through the truly awful Silent Night , ...
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A solid effort by John Ford
No masterpiece , but a fine piece of work . Three bank robbers in the old West , played by John Wayne , Pedro Armendáriz , and Harry Carey Jr . , run from the sheriff of Welcome , Arizona ( Ward Bond ) . The first forty minutes or so consist of this simple but entertaining tale of bandits trying to survive the desert a...
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Quite good
A man runs into a pretty but aging woman in the middle of a rainstorm . He politely protects her from the downpour with his umbrella , and even lifts her over a fence so she can get to her bus . He also gets on the bus , and , beginning to pant , she declares that she can't go near anyone else on the bus , because she'...
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Much better than most would have you believe
This film has suffered some pretty undue criticism . It gets the dreaded ' BOMB ' rating in Leonard Maltin's guide , followed by ' The worst film of a great director . ' I haven't seen more than a couple of Penn's other films , so I can't comment on that , but it is hardly a bomb . Sure , it is a little slow moving , a...
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Utterly hilarious
I had flirted with the idea of seeing this film when it was in theaters , then again when it hit DVD , but somehow never got around to it . I don't even remember why I put it up at the top of my Netflix queue . Must have seen it referenced somewhere and my interest was renewed . I'm ecstatic that I finally caught up to...
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Gripping depiction of obscure WWII history
I had thought the title of this one was an American invention to capitalize off of the American film The Longest Day , but I do believe " Japan's Longest Day " is the actual title . It has nothing to do with the other film . It , in fact , depicts perhaps the most tense day in modern Japanese history , the 24 hours bet...
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Well made adventure yarn
A great action / adventure movie ! I was surprised at just how good it was , as it has received so little attention . Viggo Mortensen of Lord of the Rings plays Frank Hopkins , a real-life cowboy , although probably much fictionalized in this movie . He is a half-breed , part Native American and part white . In the fil...
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Very good , for the most part
A biopic of Vincent Van Gogh , played with much passion by Kirk Douglas in one of his very best performances . Douglas perfectly captures Van Gogh's intensity and twitchy genius . I really can't believe he lost to Yul Brynner's iconic but ridiculous performance in The King and I . Anthony Quinn won an Oscar for his per...
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Certainly not on the level of 2001 , but it complements Kubrick's film well
I usually refer to 2001 : A Space Odyssey as my favorite film of all time . I always balked at this sequel , which I attempted to watch many years ago but gave up quickly . Finally watching it all the way through , I don't know what exactly I was objecting to so strenuously . I was afraid , I think , that this film wou...
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Odd and Engaging
This Lon Chaney vehicle , directed by the great Tod Browning , is the story of three circus performers who begin to thieve jewels . They open a shop that sells parrots as a front . Chaney , a ventriloquist , dresses up as an old woman , one of his cohorts a man posing as the old woman's son , and the third , a midget ,...
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Not Tsukamoto's best work , but still quite good
It's his least wild , though it does have a certain sense of weirdness to it . The story involves a medical student ( Ichi the Killer's Tadanobu Asano ) who experiences a bout of amnesia after a car accident . When he re-enrolls in school , he finds himself in a dissection class taking apart his former girlfriend , who...
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I don't have much new to add , but this film is unfortunately being overlooked
I'm a sucker for movies about people and their pets . This film stars former SNL player Molly Shannon as a secretary whose personal life revolves around her beagle , Pencil . When he passes away unexpectedly , she has to find another reason to go on . The film first hints that she'll discover the world of humans around...
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A little overrated , but certainly very good
Although probably not one of the greatest and most profound films ever made , as many have claimed , Abbas Kiarostami's Close-Up is certainly a notable achievement , a very interesting and often fascinating film . Either a pseudo - or semi-documentary , Kiarostami keeps everything very ambiguous . The " story " is a tr...
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A Lesson that Ought to be Learned by American Animators
Don't get me wrong , I did really enjoy this film , but it is also a good example of why I think American animation is far inferior to Japanese animation . And I am talking solely about the animation ( i . e . , character design , movement , and scenery ) , not the story complexity . There is no doubt that the stories ...
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Kind of unfocused , but Sally Hawkins can melt even the most frozen of hearts
Loose , even for a Mike Leigh film . It's focus is on an extraordinarily joyful woman named Poppy ( Sally Hawkins ) , who will not allow the weight of the world to wear down her natural high . Plot-wise , not much happens except for that her attitude is challenged by a few people she runs into , most notably her mean-s...
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Third best version ( though I haven't seen the new one yet ) , but still undervalued
The third version of Jack Finney's novel is actually quite good , too . It sets the action in a military base , where a man from the EPA and his family have just arrived to do some tests . The protagonist of the film is the man's teenage daughter ( played by the luminous Gabrielle Anwar ) . There's little set-up in thi...
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Good Fassbinder with a great Brigitte Mira
Good Fassbinder , if a little lethargic . Brigitte Mira , who just passed away earlier this month , plays a housewife who has long settled in her uneventful life . One day , however , her husband commits murder-suicide at the factory in which he works . Suddenly she has to deal with the media , as well as her uncaring ...
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Mostly great , with a few bad sequences that significantly harm the film
I'm not especially familiar with all aspects of the Kennedy assassination ( it was well before my time ) , but one thing's for sure : the Warren Commission's final word is more than a little incredible . I don't know how much of Oliver Stone's film is provable fact , how much of it is loony conjecture , or how much he ...
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Pretty funny
The Man Who Came to Dinner is a little uneven , but it's mostly entertaining . The unevenness comes mainly from the dullness of the budding relationship which the film holds in focus . The original play is very well written , especially the dialogue . It was actually performed at my high school when I was there . But i...
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The central gimmick is confusing , but the film is quite good anyway
Solondz's most recent film ( he's supposedly returning later in 2009 ) is about a 13 year-old girl , Aviva , who wants nothing more than to have a baby . The plot line of the movie is quite surprising , and I don't want to spoil anything . Much like his other films , Solondz is a master of manipulating the audience's e...
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Rather good John Ford Western
It's no classic , but it is quite a good film . Jimmy Stewart plays a gruff , old , drunken sheriff who can speak Comanche and Richard Widmark plays a cavalryman assigned to accompany him on a mission to buy white captives away from the Comanches . The first half of the film can be called Searchers-lite . They buy back...
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Highly recommended for fans of depravity and outlandish cinema
I think I'd probably categorize this as a guilty pleasure . It has an amazing amount of flaws and general silliness . It's incredibly violent , nasty and dark . The plot is way too complicated and there's a last-minute twist ( more like cop-out ) that is incredibly stupid . But , hell , it's a lot of fun . Paul Walker ...
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Flawed , but mostly excellent
Up front I must admit that I have a certain weakness for apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic scenarios . I can't think of a single movie in that genre that I dislike , and several are among my favorite movies ever . I liked Blindness , very much . A man suddenly goes blind in the middle of rush hour traffic . Every person...
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Underrated - one of the funniest films of the year
A big surprise , probably because I was expecting it to suck . The reviews were pretty dismissive of it , even though they all seemed to agree that the concept was golden : a man finds out his new girlfriend is a super hero , and finds , when he wants to break up with her , that she's kind of a psycho . I kept expectin...
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Pretty good Hitchcock .
Hitch is the Master , hands down . His Dial M for Murder is generally considered to be a good but mediocre effort . I myself give it an , which is good but low for Hitchcock . It basically consists of a murder plot gone wrong , and it's a good example of one . The writing is often amazing , and you're always trying to ...
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Sweet , fun , and lovable . With at least one deadly flaw .
A flawed but lovable little indie comedy about an unhappily married waitress and pie-making genius ( Keri Russell ) who begins an affair with her gynecologist ( Nathan Fillion ) after discovering that she's pregnant . Let's get the film's biggest flaw out of the way first : Russell's husband ( Jeremy Sisto ) is such a ...
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Hadn't seen this since I was in grade school , and surprisingly it held up wonderfully !
This is a movie that I watched a lot as a kid , having taped it off ( I presume ) HBO . It's one of those movies that stays with you . I haven't seen it since I was in grade school , but , watching it now , I'm not sure if I forgot even a second of it . It was the first feature film made entirely with clay . Mark Twain...
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Quite good , but I was expecting a little better
They Were Expendable opens on December 7th , 1941 and takes us through the opening of the Pacific leg of WWII ( from the point of view of the U . S . ) . Most of the film takes place in the Philippines . Most of the major characters are sailors on P . T . boats , which the navy doesn't believe are going to be very usef...
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A film that can really , really make you angry
The Thin Blue line shows how wrong our legal system is here in the US . Trials are run not as a celebration of justice but as a purveyor of revenge . Prosecuting attorneys are not men who believe in doing what's right , but what will most successfully add to their reputation . A psychologist testifies against over 99 %...
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Very strange film indeed by iconoclast filmmaker Takashi Miike
This is the second of his films that I've seen , after Audition , and , while I wouldn't call him a genius after seeing these two films , he's clearly got a lot of talent . He's an original artist , that's for sure . Ichi is rather undescribable . It's actually a bit difficult to get into ; the plot is difficult to und...
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Mostly excellent story of a man who wants out of life
The true story of a Spanish paraplegic , Ramón Sampedro , who fought for decades for the right to be euthenized . This film , along with the Best Picture winner of the same year , Million Dollar Baby , caused a stir that year with their depictions of disabled persons desiring death . Both advocates for the disabled and...
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Fun and pretty ! Françoise Arnoul - Ou la la !
Although it doesn't seem very promising for a long stretch , Renoir's French Cancan ends up being an effortlessly charming film . The story is cliché : a laundry girl , Nini ( Françoise Arnoul ) , is discovered by a night club owner , Danglard ( Jean Gabin ) . Danglard steals her from her baker boyfriend and drops his ...
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Solid work from Altman . A very good film indeed . ( and Andy Richter is thy God ) Contains Spoilers
I haven't read through the other comments yet to see why such a sharp animosity for Dr . T exists ( 19 % of voters gave it a 1 , the lowest score ) , but I really liked it . I am a Robert Altman lover myself , but have not been afraid to criticize his films in the past . I'm probably the only one who will say that I ha...
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I think the surprise ending hurts the overall greatness of the film
I saw this film months ago when it first came out , and I never stopped thinking about it . It is the only film of this year that deserved to make a lot of money ( The Matrix and The Phantom Menace disappointed me terribly ) . It is unlike the rest of the movies Hollywood throws out . Unlike the empty Matrix and the Ph...
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Incredibly sweet and charming film
This is Federico Fellini's first solo effort , his first film , Variety Lights , having been co-directed by Alberto Lattuada ( although it is unmistakably in the style of Fellini's early films ) . The White Sheik is quite underrated - there's no reason why it should be so much less respected than the other early films ...
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The Ozu that I've heard so much about but couldn't find in his other films
Not that I've seen too many Ozu films . This is only my third , after Bakushu and Tokyo Story . Both of those I found dull , even Tokyo Story , which is often considered one of the best films ever made . I don't know the critical reputation of Autumn Afternoon , but I liked it a lot . In fact , it continues with Ozus f...
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Keeps reinventing itself ; highly recommended
A film that's exceedingly difficult to pin down . It would be easy to dismiss it , but it's just as easy to be startled and amazed by it . The story's simple enough : a shaggy , dark-skinned man ( played by Giancarlo Gianni ) works under the thumb of the bourgoisie on a hired yacht . He despises them , and they despise...
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As good as the first two
The Last Crusade is the Indiana Jones film I've seen least . In fact , I may be lying if I were to say I've seen it more than once all the way through before this viewing . Having watched all three of the original trilogy last week , I have to say , there isn't a great gap between them in quality . They're all three ex...
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Nearly equal to Sturges ' more acknowledged classics
The Great McGinty is Preston Sturges ' first film , and an oddity amongst them . This is the closest that I've seen that he got to drama . And herein lies its biggest problem , although , in my opinion , it is not a very big problem at all : Sturges ' patent slapstick comedy is still present in great force . It does no...
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Outstanding tale of survival
If you're a big fan of the mad German genius Werner Herzog , you might be disappointed in this , his first foray into Hollywood film-making . This is polished and not at all experimental . However , to me it feels like Herzog , when he stepped up to the plate , said to himself , " Well , I can make an American film . A...
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An excellent film
It begins with a scene without context , and then proceeds for a good quarter of an hour somewhat randomly , but then it pulls itself together and ends up being very good . Actually , I now have an inkling that , if I were to see it again , those opening 20 minutes or so would seem a lot better and the film would be ne...
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Uncompromising masterpiece from perhaps the cinema's greatest female director
Vagabond begins with the discovery of a woman's corpse in a ditch . She has frozen to death in the night . Police officers lift the lifeless body out of the ditch as if it were a rigid statue . The rest of the film follows the last leg of this woman's life . We drop in on interviews with people who had come into contac...
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Lovely
I suppose I should be embarrassed after going off on director Billy Wilder last week over his overrated 1957 film Witness for the Prosecution , because I absolutely loved his other 1957 film , Love in the Afternoon . I guess when he gets it right , he gets it right , because the direction here is fantastic . This is on...
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Wanna give your kiddies nightmares for the rest of their lives ?
About five years ago , when I had just graduated from high school , a friend of mine who had been to college introduced me to the works of Jan Svankmajer . He had checked out a VHS copy of three short films , Darkness / Light / Darkness , Male Games , and The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia . All three of them were works...
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Far more entertaining than I expected !
I love unexpected surprises . I was expecting a dull , 19th Century affair . Instead , I got one of the biggest melodramatic potboilers of all time . It's passionate , pulling me along and hardly letting me catch my breath . It's powerful , and it's actually hugely entertaining . Joan Fontaine plays the title character...
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Very highly recommended
Fun movie about a cowboy named Quirt ( John Wayne ) who is wants to reform his ways after he meets a sweet Quaker girl . When he is shot , the Quaker family takes care of him , and after he wakes up the daughter ( Gail Russell ) falls in love with him . It's goofy and cliché , sure , but there's a really fine movie to ...
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Everyone has their guilty pleasures , don't they ?
I'd like to defend this particular pleasure of mine as not particularlyguilty . I don't feel guilty when I'm enjoying it in any way . I'm one whocan really enjoy something with enormous camp value , and this isdefinitely a film that fits into that category . Its existence is bizarre . Who would ever think that anyone w...
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An unknown gem by Fassbinder , one of his best works
Really , the plot is nothing different than your average movie on the Lifetime cable network : a woman suffers from [ I ] post-partem [ / I ] depression while no one around her seems to care much ; eventually , she becomes addicted to Valium and alcohol . But what a difference a genius can make , and Fassbinder is clea...
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wonderful !
I have been scouring imdb trying to find the three movies I saw of Svankmajer's . They were all perfect . I think this one was the third best of the three I saw , but that's hardly a bad thing since they were all masterpieces . This one , about a man watching soccer and drinking , is really crazy and wonderful . If you...
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I love Tsukamoto !
Based on a novel by Edogawa Rampo , a Japanese author whose name transliterates to " Edgar Allen Poe " . This story is very Poe-like , covering the subject of doppelgängers much like " William Wilson " . Gemini is somewhat confusing , but overall it is a haunting film that actually generates fear and a deeper feeling o...
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An excellent treatment of the last days of Socrates
Apparently , no one else has seen this . That's a pity . Anyone who has studied Plato would love it , I think . Of course , it doesn't beat the actual reading of Plato's dialogues , but it's a nice supplement . The adaptation is straightforward . The Euthyphro , Apology , Crito , and Phaedo are reduced in size , but th...
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Underrated Hitchcock
The only thing generic about this British thriller is its title . After that , it's a rather remarkable and suspenseful Hitchcock movie . John Gielgud plays a WWI pilot who is hired by his government as a spy . He meets up with two operatives , one who is playing the part of his wife ( Madeleine Carroll ) and one who i...
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I loved this movie !
I rented this movie because I loved Toni Collette in The Sixth Sense and expected it to be a pretty good Australian flick , but it was much , much better than I had ever expected . One thing I have to complain about , though , has nothing to do with the actual movie : I have to make a complaint about the box . Miramax ...
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Think it over before you react
This film will never receive a clean bill of political correctness , but neither will any film made before the 1960s . In fact , Song of the South presents some of the least offensive portraits of African Americans you can find from the time . If you really need to compare , go find any other film starring Hattie McDan...
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Very suspenseful
An excellent thriller about a mute girl ( Dorothy McGuire ) who is the next victim of a serial killer intent on strangling women with disabilities . Of course , the girl's muteness multiplies the suspense hugely , as she has no way to tell anyone that she's in trouble . The loudest screams are the ones that come out as...
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excellent performances
It's unfortunate that this film is so little known . I caught chunks of it on television a few months ago and found the idea of a Satan worshiping Kirk Douglas a bit more than interesting . I didn't know the title , but came upon the film again in the tv listings . Since it also included Burt Lancaster and Laurence Oli...
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Huge improvement over the first installment
I found the first installment of this series pretty good , but ultimately sloppy . It was just too repetitive , with the characters doing nothing but travelling forward , stopping sporadically to fight battles against forces of faceless monsters which ridiculously outnumbered them . The second installment , of course ,...
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A legitimately great movie
An adventure movie to match the great ones of the past , and the one to beat for the future . The culmination of this ambitious trilogy is more than fitting ; it surpasses the first two films by quite a distance . Almost nothing disappointed or bothered me . All parts of the story were equally interesting . It was swee...
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Eric Rohmer , how did I ever exist without you ?
Sure , other artists , countless others , have spent their lives depicting the interrelationships of men and women . But I don't know of anyone who so consistently seems to understand human relationships than Eric Rohmer . So few can build as believable characters , such believable situations . Full Moon in Paris conce...
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Undervalued work by one of America's greatest filmmakers
It has generally been thought of as a minor Sayles work , but I think it demonstrates his talent to the utmost . No other filmmaker I know of is so skillful at creating a believable community , one that feels like a real place , while at the same time illuminating the sense of community throughout the entire United Sta...
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Why isn't this more well known ?
I can't believe this isn't a huge cult hit . Perhaps people in 1968 , thinking of the Monkees as a silly factory-made pop band rip-off of the Beatles , refused to see it . That cynicism probably covered it from sight ever since . Don't make this mistake . _ Head _ is an amazing film that most open minded people will ap...
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I heard the title a long time ago . How can you forget it ?
This is one of the weirdest and most unique films I've ever seen . It's artsploitation , and like most artsploitation , its art is questionable . In the end , though , I judged that it was more art than exploitation . Others , and probably the majority , would probably feel the opposite . A shy young man follows a grou...
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Fascinating film . . . . . . . so bizarre . . .
Most will dislike Josef von Sternberg's Dishonored . The plot is often ridiculous , and that's what most people like to comment on . I found it hypnotic . The inconsistencies didn't annoy me so much as entertain me . In a way , this could be called a camp classic . Whatever type of classic it is , though , it is an ama...
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Marvelous
Visconti's first feature , Ossessione is an adaptation of James M . Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice . Now , I'm not familiar with that book or the other film versions , but I am a big fan of Cain's Double Indemnity ( much more so than I am a fan of Billy Wilder's film version of it , in fact ) . The two novellas ...
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Marvelous
Made in the middle of WWII , One of Our Aircraft Is Missing is quite a great film . The technical aspects and special effects are extraordinary . The script is wonderful ( Oscar winning ) and the British RAF members are all well developed . Some of the Dutch could use a little more characterization , but it's not too b...
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Exceptional . Actually changed my opinion !
Very strong documentary about Illinois Governor George Ryan , who was faced with the decision of whether to commute all of the sentences of capital punishment in his state to sentences of life in prison . I'm a liberal Democrat who actually supported the death penalty , and Deadline is a rare film that challenged my vi...
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Fantastic . Bertolucci has not lost it .
SLIGHT SPOILERSI can't fairly claim Bernardo Bertolucci as one of my favorite filmmakers , because I've seen relatively few of his films . However , he did make my third favorite film of all time , Last Tango in Paris . Besides Besieged , the only other film of his I'd seen was The Last Emperor , which I like very much...
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Don't know about Coward , but I know my Lubitsch and this is a fine one
Lubitsch's adaptation of the Noel Coward play about a ménage à trois starring Gary Cooper , Fredric March and Miriam Hopkins . The two men play a painter and a poet , and Hopkins the girl who moves in with them as their muse and critic . Edward Everett Horton plays the more down-to-Earth man who also vies for Hopkin's ...
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Beautiful peace of work
I had never seen this ten minute long Chuck Jones cartoon before . It's one of his very best . The colors are mindbending , as are the animation and drawings . I felt alternately robbed that I had never seen it before , and happy that I finally did get to see it !
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Excellent all around
Gripping account of Richard Nixon's first television interview after resigning from the Presidency . It was conducted by a man who was strictly an entertainer , Englishman David Frost , who believed it would be a great way to become famous in America . At the beginning , he has no real convictions , but the researchers...
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It's funny reading these comments . . .
I think this film is hilarious and classic camp . I think it is one of those so-bad-it's-good films that many people will look at and just get ticked off . I mean , for God's sake guys , have a freakin ' sense of humor ! ! ! Could anything be funnier than the Computerettes ? My God , no way ! Or how about the hilarious...
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Best film I've seen so far from ' 07
I'll follow Joseph Gordon-Levitt wherever he chooses to go . After two knockout performances ( Mysterious Skin and Brick ) , it was clear that he had something . With his new film The Lookout , he more or less solidifies the notion that he's one of this generation's best actors . That is , if he even needed to do a thi...
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I'm impressed
The original Toy Story was a pretty good animated film , especially good for kids . It was inventive and consistently entertaining , but for some reason , it never quite gelled . I'm beside myself trying to explain what was lacking . I don't know . At the end , I just went about my day without thinking about it much . ...
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There's a reason why John Ford is my favorite director of all time
Probably the least of the Cavalry Trilogy , at least in my opinion , but there's no shame in that . It's an excellent picture , and quite an entertaining one . Where Fort Apache ended with a mock fall of Custer , Ribbon begins with a voiceover announcing Custer's defeat . The younger generations of several Indian tribe...
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See it on the new Criterion disc
Difficult to describe , but amazing as hell . Derek Jarman examines the punk aesthetic , with a framing device that Queen Elizabeth I has asked her court magician to show her England's future . And I doubt she likes what she sees , a post-apocalyptic wasteland . The prophecy follows a group of punks who rebel and murde...
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Exceptional !
This is McDonagh's first feature , and it's a sure bet that he's a writer / director to watch in the future . In Bruges was advertised as a straight comedy featuring gangsters who like to shoot at each other , so the three-dimensional characters and emotional depth come as a nice surprise . Colin Farrell , who , if he ...
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An enormously sensitive film about human beings
MINOR SPOILERSAmong the many virtues of Monster's Ball is its amazingly well structured narrative . It begins with a slew of tragedies , and the first half climaxes with a stunning sex scene that people are going to be talking about , whether in shock or criticism , for years . After that , the drama is very level . No...
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Surprisingly great !
A big surprise . It wasn't especially heralded by critics , and pretty much thought of as just a vehicle for the talents of Annette Bening . Though Bening is the film's strongest virtue , it's a fine work in all departments . Based on a Somerset Maugham novel , this is the story of Julia , a famous actress on the Londo...
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Flawed , yet great
An epic about Italian political history of the first half of the 20th Century , detailing the lives of two men born on the same day . Olmo ( played by Gerard Depardieu as an adult ) is the bastard child of peasants and is raised to be a socialist . Alfredo ( Robert De Niro ) is the son of a wealthy family and will some...
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Hilarious ! One of Peter Sellers ' best films ! .
The Party begins with a kind of lame parody of Gunga Din's final scene ( I guess you might consider it a SPOILER to Gunga Din , so consider that before you check this one out ) . Hrundi Bakshi ( Sellers ) is playing the main character of the new film production Son of Gunga Din , but he's little more than a series of a...
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Highly underrated
Sam Fuller's reworking of the Tombstone story , with the Earp family replaced by the Bonnells ( Barry Sullivan , Gene Barry and Robert Dix ) and the Clanton family replaced by cattle baroness Barbara Stanwyck , her wild younger brother , John Ericson , and forty loyal servants who together run the Arizona town . The Bo...
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Fantastic in every way
Possibly the gentlest movie about incest and murder ever made . Gael García Bernal stars as Elvis , a man who has just been released from the Navy . He has no one , so he seeks out his father , a man whom he has never met . He discovers the man ( played by William Hurt ) is an evangelical priest with the perfect Americ...
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I liked this even more than The Squid and the Whale
A box office flop , even for an independent film . It's not hard to see why . This is one of the most emotionally violent movies I've ever seen , and I'm sure many people would find it more than a little unpleasant . But for those of us who can appreciate this kind of material , Margot at the Wedding is a great movie ....
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Well observed teen drama
A stunning directorial debut by production designer Catherine Hardwicke . She collaborated with Nikki Reed , a thirteen year-old girl who had been experiencing some major hardships . What results is a very honest portrayal of a teenager going down a steep slope to hell . Reed herself plays the most attractive girl in h...
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Truly beautiful and unique film
If you can find this film , and can take slow-moving cinema , definitely pick it up . I came to it via Spirit of the Beehive , Victor Erice's first film , made in 1973 . This film was his third , made nearly twenty years later . It's somewhat sad that such a marvelous artist as Erice has only produced three films in al...
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Bittersweet coming-of-age story
It's actually a bit difficult for me to pull myself out of this material . Enid's life is a lot like my own experience , or at least my own attitude , when I reached the end of high school . And now , half a decade later , I'm growing into Seymour at a rapid rate ( with movies instead of music ) . I imagine that Seymou...
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If this is the Star Wars of my generation . . .
and Harry Potter is the Wizard of Oz of my generation , then my generation is truly pathetic . Okay , it's not like FotR is a bad movie . In my opinion , the first two hours are flawed but very entertaining . It is the third hour where it gets really clunky , repetitive , and nonsensical . First off , I have not read t...
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Keep in mind that the VHS I watched was in awful quality
I'd like to suggest that this is Tarkovsky's least successful film that I've seen ( the others are Andrei Rublev , Solaris , and Stalker ) . It is a masterpiece in a lot of ways , especially visually , but , where you can hook onto a mood in the other three films of his that I've seen , I found Mirror impersonal , or ,...
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A visual feast
I don't like Hou Hsiao-Hsien much . He's not a very well known director , but those who do know him often praise him as if he were Christ risen on Earth for the second time . It gets very out of hand . I personally liked two of his earlier films , Dust in the Wind and City of Sadness , but found them rather flawed . Th...
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Sweet
Having previously seen Branded to Kill on its Criterion release , and having found it to be utterly brilliant , I had to buy the Criterion release of Tokyo Drifter . It is not as good as Branded to Kill ( heck , nothing can be ) , but it is still great . The color composition is particularly masterful . So what if the ...
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A vastly underrated film
Barbara Hershey plays a hippie girl who is hired to have the baby of a middle class couple ( Collin Wilcox-Horne & Sam Groom ) . The film deals with the clash of values between Hershey , along with her boyfriend ( Scott Glenn ) , and the couple . It also deals honestly and surprisingly fairly with the emotional turmoil...
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Sounds kind of like a blaxploitation flick , doesn't it ?
Actually , it's a British period piece that has many plot elements in common with a strain of movies of the 1940s , like Rebecca , Dragonwyck , and even Duel in the Sun . A woman working as a maid , Blanche Fuller ( Valerie Hobson ) , discovers that she is on the fringes of a very wealthy family , the Furies . When she...
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A fine film
Very good film from director Wyler , although it is its star , Bette Davis , upon whom its high quality mostly rests . This is perhaps Davis ' best performance that I've seen . She plays a spoiled Southern belle whose fiancé ( Henry Fonda ) leaves her after a socially embarrassing event . As he leaves her , she swears ...
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I am going to commit blasphemy here . . .
I actually like Fantasia 2000 better than the original . OH MY GOD ! I CAN'T BELIEVE SOMEONE SAID THAT ! This is why : I do love the original Fantasia , but I find that the animated segments resemble each other too much . Only Night on Bald Mountain ( and Ave Maria , which is attached to Night on Bald Mountain ) is com...
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The screenplay is a little screwy . . .
And I don't mean that the movie is weird . I like that . Everyone should appreciate the freshness of this movie . What I mean is that the screenplay is a little uneven . When I first saw this film ( on opening day , luckily ) , I liked it a lot but felt that there was a major problem . It took me months to figure out w...
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Thank God ! A movie that is actually funny !
I was afraid I'd be getting another Dodgeball here , especially when I saw that the completely talentless Vince Vaughn was on the payroll , but nope . This doesn't pull any punches . It's also the movie that Will Ferrell deserves to star in . He's far too funny to make crap like Old School and Elf . This is his movie a...
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Very good , and not as wacky as has been previously suggested
Great film about an American G . I . who quits the army to marry a German girl who saved his life in the last days of the war . She accepts , but does she do it because she really likes him , or because he can support her with easier access to food and such ? Meanwhile , her brother and an old friend form an anti-Ameri...
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Brush up your Shakespeare . . . ( wow , I bet I'm the tenth person to use that line for a summary ! )
A spectacularly entertaining back-stage musical about a group of actors putting on a musical version of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew . The two leads in the play , Lilli ( Kathryn Grayson ) and Fred ( Howard Keel ) , were formerly married , and have a lot to fight about . But can they keep it out of the show ? ...
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Gorgeous and frightening
Every bit as good as Henry Selick's masterpiece , The Nightmare Before Christmas . Like that one , the film finds a perfect balance between beautiful and creepy . I would describe it as a children's horror film . In fact , I think this might go down as one of the scariest children's films ever made . The story is about...