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385,074 | 391,152 | 348,121 | 9 | Underrated | Hardly perfect , but this really did not deserve to be dismissed as thoroughly as it was . It's one of the most outstandingly awesome animated films ever made . The visuals are simply eye-popping , and the action and adventure are top notch . This film imagines an alternate route for science where steam is harnessed to... |
385,013 | 391,152 | 460,791 | 9 | Great | Reminiscent of The Wizard of Oz , The Princess Bride and Pan's Labyrinth . It's the story of two people convalescing in a hospital in 1910s Los Angeles . One is a foreign girl around 4 ( Catinca Untaru ) , who fell from a ladder while picking oranges and broke her arm and collarbone , the other is a Hollywood stuntman ... |
385,714 | 391,152 | 332,452 | 9 | Don't listen : It's great ! PART 1 | All film buffs spend a good deal of time imagining what movies they would make if they only had a chance . For years , I've been thinking up various cinematic adaptations of The Iliad , which is probably my single favorite work of literature . I would not have come up with the same film Wolfgang Petersen has , but I am... |
385,052 | 391,152 | 460,792 | 9 | A far better film than people have given it credit for being | Richard Linklater examines the cogs in the giant machine called the fast food industry . The film is much like its much more successful competitor , Babel , in that if follows several story threads . Much like Babel , it doesn't quite make any real points by the end . Unlike Babel , I don't think Linklater especially w... |
384,595 | 391,152 | 51,196 | 9 | Hilarious and intelligent | A fantastic satire of the modern world of business . Tony Randall stars as Rockwell Hunter , a writer for television advertisements . He's not really making it at his job , and is about to go under . By a couple of coincidences , he finds out where Hollywood starlette , Rita Marlowe ( Jayne Mansfield ) , is hiding out ... |
385,871 | 391,152 | 289,879 | 9 | The critics really dropped the ball and turned a cold shoulder on a fine film here | ( note : this is a review of the director's cut of the film , which has a completely different ending than the theatrical release ) The Butterfly Effect was either ignored or ridiculed by most major critics . Most minor ones , too . In reality , while it has its flaws , and some rather big ones , too , it is one of the... |
384,596 | 391,152 | 124,857 | 9 | Remarkable rope tricks ! | SPOILERS SPOILERS Will Rogers was apparently one of the most important figures of the first half of the 20th Century , but I have heard almost nothing about him myself , except that he is credited with the quotation : " I never met a man I didn't like . " Last week I picked up a tape from the library entitled The Saga ... |
384,549 | 391,152 | 154,421 | 9 | Great | While not quite at the same level as _ Breaking the Waves _ , the only other Lars von Trier I have seen ( his films are quite hard to come by in Midwestern American video stores , you understand ) , _ The Idiots _ is still a great film , and , in some ways , is just as important . I have to comment on a lot of the revi... |
384,643 | 391,152 | 276,919 | 9 | Brilliant filmmaking , but von Trier misses his mark a bit | A brilliant film , no doubt , although I think I prefer almost all of the other films I've seen by Lars von Trier . His work is always problematic , but he has such a mad genius that even something as questionable as Idiots ( or , indeed , Dogville ) succeeds even as it kind of fails . This is the story of a small town... |
384,823 | 391,152 | 27,652 | 9 | Lang's first American film is a visceral experience | An idealist sets out to visit his girlfriend , whom he hasn't seen for a year , but he is picked up by the cops for no real reason and thrown into a cell because a flimsy piece of evidence hints that he might be the kidnapper of a young woman . A rumor flares in the small town and soon most of the populace is standing ... |
385,156 | 391,152 | 56,905 | 9 | amazing . | What can you say ? It's Godard . If you appreciate Godard , his early stuff , particularly , Les Carabiniers fits in perfectly with films such as Breathless , My Life to Live , Une femme est une femme , Band of Outsiders , and Pierrot le fou . It is utterly complicated , and seems to be saying dozens of things at once ... |
384,749 | 391,152 | 33,563 | 9 | A wonderful film from Disney's classic era | As a kid , I would watch over and over several Disney features : Pinnochio , Peter Pan , Bambi , Alice in Wonderland , Lady and the Tramp , and Dumbo . When I come back to those films now , I recognize that they are all marvelous films and gave Walt Disney much deserved success . It's truly sad how far Disney has falle... |
384,977 | 391,152 | 109,504 | 9 | A wonderful , sentimental , and bittersweet film | If you're wondering which Spike Lee film to watch first , if you're a little worried that you won't like his work , Crooklyn is a good one to start with . I certainly don't want to express disdain for his more polemic works , which represent some of the best work the cinema has to offer , but it might intimidate some p... |
385,478 | 391,152 | 74,312 | 9 | A strange and amazing film | Like most Fassbinder films , it's seemingly simple , but there's a lot too it when you walk a bit closer . This one sets up a great tragicomic situation : a disabled teenager manipulates her parents each to bring their lover to their summer mansion for the weekend . When the father arrives with his lover ( Anna Karina ... |
385,382 | 391,152 | 87,469 | 9 | I love everything about this installment , except for Willie Scott | It was definitely Indiana Jones week in my home , as I watched the original three films , several episodes of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles , and on Thursday ( I really couldn't wait ) the new Indy film . I was actually not an Indy fanatic before this week . I like all the movies , but have only seen Raiders in re... |
385,507 | 391,152 | 67,778 | 9 | a beautiful coming of age story | There have been a million coming of age stories in the history of the world , most of them probably in the film medium . What a pathetic thing to have to endure something as trite as the American film American Pie when something like The 400 Blows exists . Murmur of the Heart will remind most of that classic , and , ak... |
385,072 | 391,152 | 399,201 | 9 | Wow ! It turns out Michael Bay can actually make a good movie . Even a great one ! | Maybe I was just feeling easy , but Bay's The Island strikes me as the most satisfying film I've seen all summer ? very possibly the best film I've seen so far from 2005 . Is it brilliant ? Perhaps not , but it's a gripping sci-fi thriller that works on almost all levels . As sci-fi , it reminds me of stuff from the 70... |
385,897 | 391,152 | 45,070 | 9 | Great pulp Western by the great Fritz Lang | Rancho Notorious is a gorgeous film , with beautiful Technicolor cinematography . It almost reaches the poetry of a John Ford film , or a great film noir , but falls just a little short . Arthur Kennedy plays Vern , a rancher whose fiancee is brutally raped and murdered . He goes out for revenge , following the clues .... |
385,983 | 391,152 | 39,677 | 9 | There are a couple of themes that don't seem entirely worked out , but it's an exceptional film | A startling and powerful film by the man who would direct The Third Man two years later , and a big spit in the face of anyone who has ever said he only made one great film . It's not quite as good as The Third Man , but it definitely nears its greatness . The visual style for The Third Man was being developed in this ... |
385,518 | 391,152 | 27,752 | 9 | Another enormously touching Ozu film | Incredibly gentle and touching Ozu picture about a single mother who works her butt off to send her only son off to school . Many years later , we follow her journey to visit that son in Tokyo . He hasn't kept in contact very well . His mother doesn't even know about his wife and infant son , nor that he is a grade sch... |
385,607 | 391,152 | 39,651 | 9 | Very nice | A beautiful little film by Ozu , only 72 minutes long , about a young boy who was apparently abandoned by his father . He shacks up with Tané ( exquisitely played by Choko Iida ) for the first night , but when she can't find his father , he becomes a permanent fixture in her household . At first , she's bitter and mean... |
385,164 | 391,152 | 32,080 | 9 | Excellent epic by DeMille , probably my favorite of his films | It doesn't suffer from any of his usual flaws . The pacing is perfect , the acting is not at all stilted , and the technical aspects don't dominate the story or the characters . The story centers around the building of the titular railroad . A banker hires a motley group of gamblers and whoremongers ( led by Brian Donl... |
385,965 | 391,152 | 33,606 | 9 | Surprisingly excellent | René Clair lost some of his charm when he went to Hollywood , but chances were good that he couldn't lose it all . I quite love his 1942 film I Married a Witch , starring Veronica Lake . I think I like this Marlene Dietrich vehicle even better . Oh , this is a charmer , all right . The plot is too complicated to descri... |
385,980 | 391,152 | 51,065 | 9 | This should be better known | A remarkable film that , had it been made in Italy around the same time , would today be called an important and seminal film . It's worth mentioning right next to any of Antonioni's films , which it sort of resembles . There are only two Greek directors who are well known outside of their country , and I was hoping th... |
385,250 | 391,152 | 51,055 | 9 | Powerful | Let's get this straight right off the bat : I have read William Faulkner's novel Pylon , and Douglas Sirk's cinematic adaptaion of it , Tarnished Angels , lives in the original's shadow . Pylon , which for some reason is the only Faulkner novel currently out of print , is one of that glorious author's best works . Stil... |
385,808 | 391,152 | 62,480 | 9 | Quite a brilliant piece of Godardian cinematic anarchy | Easily one of Godard's best films , although I'd hesitate to call it the best as many have in the past , Weekend is without a doubt his biggest film . Whatever its worth in Godard's canon , it is undoubtedly the summation of his early career and it is , indeed , a great film . See it if you like Godard . If you don't l... |
385,431 | 391,152 | 111,252 | 9 | Very Effective DRAMA . This film is not a comedy | Spanking the Monkey was clearly not meant to be a comedy , but I found it in the comedy section , it had a quotation from Peter Travers that said : " Shockingly Funny , " and most of the other reviews on the imdb and from professionals have called it a dark comedy . I think if it had not been advertised as a comedy , i... |
384,952 | 391,152 | 477,348 | 9 | Almost a horror movie at times , this is one fantastic thriller and one of the Coens ' best | I'm not sure one viewing can do this film justice . It leaves a lot to think about , and I spent a good portion of my Sunday reading other people's views to see if I can come to some sort of conclusion about it . But I can't yet . Well , I can come to the conclusion , in any case , that this is a fantastic movie . Ther... |
385,891 | 391,152 | 22,286 | 9 | Cagney is amazing ! So is Wellman's direction ! | Public Enemy is a rather flawed film . Several scenes drag on . A lot is left unresolved ( most notably Jean Harlow's role ) . The plot is a bit plodding . And a lot of the performances are not very good . That seems like a lot , and it is . However , the rest of the film is so shocking , so brilliant , that most of it... |
385,483 | 391,152 | 78,754 | 9 | Self-congratulatory , but , without a doubt , brilliant | A brilliant movie from a brilliant artist , and you'll be reminded of that constantly as you sit through All That Jazz , both in positive and negative ways . This , Fosse's fourth and also penultimate film , is his version of 8 ½ . But the great success of Fellini's semi-autobiographical masterpiece , easily one of the... |
385,213 | 391,152 | 57,007 | 9 | A beautiful film | A flawed film , certainly , but also an enormously beautiful one . It seems like simple , frivolous fun at first , but I also found it quite moving . I love the setting , above all else . The film is set on a small island in the Pacific where elements from a handful of cultures have been mixing for many years already .... |
385,556 | 391,152 | 119,823 | 9 | A true gem , all the way | Just like when Jed Clampett was out shootin ' for some food , I thought that I'd watch this movie because I was hungry to see every single version of William Faulkner's fiction put to film . I expected possum stew , but , lo and behold , this was quite the bubblin ' crude . I mean , who would expect such a high quality... |
385,876 | 391,152 | 360,009 | 9 | Mamet's ugly staccato dialogue harms what is otherwise a perfect film | Okay , so I hate David Mamet's dialogue style . Whatever critics came along in his early days and convinced him he was a genius for writing like this deserves torture . However , Spartan succeeds despite the dialogue , and perhaps because , by the film's nature , dialogue is sparse anyway . In fact , Spartan is one of ... |
385,191 | 391,152 | 297,721 | 9 | Just excellent | A strange and difficult film , but also an amazing one born from the world of dreams . I think it can best be described as a mood piece . The film runs two and a half hours , and not much really happens plot-wise . But a lot does happen emotionally . The film is about a teenage boy in Japanese junior high school ( earl... |
385,220 | 391,152 | 206,634 | 9 | Has some minor flaws and not the strongest storyline , but is so astoundingly created it's hard to care too much | Impressive as all Hell , at least from the standpoint of direction . There are a couple of long takes that are just about the greatest sequences I've ever seen . Cuarón is a master of putting the audience in the middle of the action . I've never felt more like I was in a war zone before . The collapse of society has ne... |
384,979 | 391,152 | 24,183 | 9 | One of the funniest comedies of the 30s | International House is an entirely insane and hilarious romp . A bunch of wacky characters travel to Wu Hu , China in order to bid for the rights to manufacture the new invention of television . W . C . Fields is the standout here , giving perhaps the funniest performance of his early career , rivaling such other class... |
385,705 | 391,152 | 330,229 | 9 | Takeshi Kitano is evolving as a filmmaker | Strange and far from perfect , but an amazing cinematic experience . Takeshi Kitano is best known for his yakuza films , but , with Dolls and Zatoichi , I think he's moved beyond and become a more well-rounded artist . Dolls is a highly aestheticized film that intertwines three stories about undying , insanity-causing ... |
385,204 | 391,152 | 26,017 | 9 | One of Fields ' Best | Well , what did W . C . Fields ever do that was bad ? Even in lesser works , he's still at least interesting to watch . You're Telling Me is his second or third best of all those I've seen . The opening sequence , the suicide sequence , and the ostrich sequence are its highlights . The golf sequence might be counted , ... |
384,906 | 391,152 | 39,871 | 9 | A little-known Kurosawa that's well worth rediscovering | I had said two weeks ago , in a review of Scandal , that Eclipse's new Kurosawa box set could just as easily be called Lesser Kurosawa . That's not fair . I know there are those who champion The Idiot and No Regrets for Our Youth , and even the one film I had previously seen from the set , I Live in Fear , is quite goo... |
384,627 | 391,152 | 18,379 | 9 | Would-be masterpiece slightly knocked down by a weak ending | A beautiful melodrama , which , at its best , nears Sunrise . Janet Gaynor starred in both of them , and one the first Best Actress Oscar for her work in those two films . She plays a destitute Parisian girl kicked out of her home by her father . When a police officer attempts to arrest her , a sewer worker who has jus... |
384,774 | 391,152 | 829,482 | 9 | One I think that people will be watching over and over again | Hilarious and smart teen comedy , without a doubt one of the funniest of the year . Michael Cera and Jonah Hill play two high school seniors who are best friends . When invited to a cool chick's party , they try to get their über-geeky friend , played by Christopher Mintz-Plasse , to use his fake ID ( on which he is no... |
385,538 | 391,152 | 57,091 | 9 | Sumptuous , but difficult to follow | That's probably because the version I saw was cut somehow . The video box swore it wasn't , but the copy I rented was only a bit over three hours long . That's quite a bit more than the version that was originally released in the U . S . the first time around , but there's obviously something missing , somewhere around... |
385,294 | 391,152 | 45,361 | 9 | The green monster rears its ugly head | SLIGHT SPOILERSEl is similar in style to other productions made by Bunuel in Mexico . It reminded me of both Los Olvidados and Nazarin . Unlike in the early or late films , the style is more realistic and more akin to melodrama . In fact , all three of these films each contain a single surrealist scene . Los Olvidados ... |
385,506 | 391,152 | 212,720 | 9 | Worst ending to a great movie ever ; SPOILERS | For a majority of its running time , A . I . promises to be the best movie this year , and possibly one of the best films ever . There is hardly a wrong step in the script , acting , direction , scoring , set design , special effects , or cinematography for the longest time . Then , the film comes to a dead end : David... |
384,634 | 391,152 | 40,980 | 9 | Forceful and powerful | Startling , forceful tale of women descending into a life of prostitution in post-war Osaka . Kinuyo Tanaka , who would play the lost mother of the protagonists in Sansho the Bailiff , stars as a woman who lost both her husband and son to illness long after the war has ended . When her younger sister , Sanae Takasugi ,... |
385,976 | 391,152 | 24,115 | 9 | Powerful , painful Depression-era tale | Found on the same disc as my favorite Wellman film , Wild Boys of the Road . Anyone interested in Depression-era movies should throw that disc up on your Netflix queue immediately ! That's got to be one of the all-time great double features ( which lasts only just over two hours ) . Heroes for Sale is an episodic , som... |
385,978 | 391,152 | 50,839 | 9 | Beautiful accomplishment | Exceptional , affecting melodrama about small-town life in America . The story is at times a bit tawdry , but it is always intelligent , complex and it is populated with many memorable and realistic characters . They're people to care about . Better yet , the actors portraying them are mostly brilliant . I had some pro... |
385,003 | 391,152 | 371,246 | 9 | Far from perfect , but somehow perfectly satisfying | The story involves a Mexican woman ( Paz Vega ) becoming the maid for a dysfunctional , wealthy white family . Other characters include the white family's son and daughter , the grandma , and the maid's own daughter . The plot is very loose , and is more an excuse for well developed characters to interact in complex si... |
385,397 | 391,152 | 906,665 | 9 | Weird and wild | Miike's best film since Gozu . It's an eye-popping , furious , hilarious pastiche of spaghetti Westerns . Of course , the spaghetti Western was invented by stealing from Akira Kurosawa , but then of course Yojimbo was invented from stealing from American sources , too . It goes back and forth and cuts across cultures .... |
385,274 | 391,152 | 338,751 | 9 | Great work by Scorsese and his cast | Well directed biopic of Howard Hughes that's probably too ambitious and original to be called a biopic . This is simply the story of Hughes ' early , gigantic life where he imagined giant movies , glamorous women , and futuristic airplanes , but was crippled by an obsessive-compulsive disorder . Sure , this isn't Scors... |
384,892 | 391,152 | 43,081 | 9 | A gem | When people ask the question " Why don't they make musicals anymore ? " I find that it is quite easily answered : " Well , the genre was perfected in classical Hollywood . " We can never get to that point again , and can only hope for re-invention , which we kind of got this past year with Moulin Rouge . However , that... |
385,432 | 391,152 | 47,478 | 9 | Great Film , but I think Kurosawa did better | Watching this film for over 3 hours , I felt excited every step of the way . I thought the situation was interesting , the characters were interesting , the acting was spectacular , and the action to be very intelligently crafted . But I felt there were some small problems , as well . The characters ' names were rarely... |
385,600 | 391,152 | 29,751 | 9 | I have to admit that I liked it a lot ! | Surprisingly great John Ford film starring Shirley Temple . I was unsure if I could stand her cuteness for an hour and forty minutes , but I was never as annoyed as I expected to be . She's actually quite - good ( I'll probably never live that down , will I ? ) . Once in a while , she got a bit cloying , but for the mo... |
384,761 | 391,152 | 47,437 | 9 | A wonderful romantic comedy from Wilder | Humphrey Bogart and William Holden star as rich brothers , the former an ever-busy CEO the latter a lazy , womanizing playboy . Audrey Hepburn plays their chauffer's daughter , Sabrina , who is in love with Holden . He doesn't even know she exists . Hepburn's father sends her to Paris to forget , but she comes back wit... |
384,808 | 391,152 | 276,501 | 9 | Excellent film ; could possibly be a critical hit in the U . S . | When you read a synopsis of Beijing Bicycle , it may remind you of Vittorio de Sica's 1948 masterpiece The Bicycle Thieves . A poor man , having recently come to the city from the country , wins a job at a bicycle courier business , and , on a delivery , gets his bike stolen . He then proceeds to search the city of Bei... |
385,604 | 391,152 | 64,897 | 9 | Must-see for any Bergman fan | Made for television during what is probably Bergman's most innovative period , around the same time as Persona , Shame , A Passion , and Cries and Whispers . Three actors , played by Bergman regulars Gunnar Bjornstrand , Anders Ek , and Ingrid Thulin , are brought up on an obscenities charge in an unnamed European coun... |
385,293 | 391,152 | 43,117 | 9 | Marvelous John Ford | Watching The Wagonmaster is not likely to result in deep thoughts , unlike many other great Ford films , like The Searchers , My Darling Clementine , The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance , and The Grapes of Wrath among others , but it is likely to produce a feeling of awe and deep satisfaction . The story is very simple : ... |
385,016 | 391,152 | 845,046 | 9 | A charmer | It's the kind of movie that reminds me that the words " cute , " " sweet " and " quirky " ought not to be criticisms in and of themselves . The film is about two pre-teens , a troublemaker ( Will Poulter ) and a sheltered kid from a strict religious sect ( Bill Milner ) , who decide to make a sequel to First Blood . Po... |
385,371 | 391,152 | 47,445 | 9 | A great film | I don't have too much to say about the film itself . I think anyone can agree that it is a great film . Kenji Mizoguchi is a great humanist here ( this is my first film of his ) . It is a very polished film , too . The acting is marvelous , the direction and cinematography are great , and the script is the highlight of... |
385,689 | 391,152 | 50,782 | 9 | Probably my favorite film of Visconti's | He's not a director I'm overly enthusiastic about , but he's good . This is a simple love story , based on Dostoyevsky . Marcello Mastroianni plays a man who meets a beautiful young girl ( Maria Schell ) . He falls for her instantly , but finds she is awaiting an older man ( Jean Marais ) with whom she fell in love the... |
384,944 | 391,152 | 47,443 | 9 | Wildly inspirational | Salt of the Earth is simply one of the greatest achievements in American cinema , not because it is exemplary in those aspects which usually make a film great , but because it excels in its ideals where so many others during the period were failing . The plot is deceptively simple . Mexican American men , along with a ... |
385,089 | 391,152 | 41,090 | 9 | Battle of the sexes : Spencer Tracy vs . Katharine Hepburn | The comedy and romance in this film are so well scripted , directed , and acted that it seems absolutely effortless . It's grace , pure grace . Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn play two lawyers married to each other . Tracy is assigned to prosecute a wife who took a couple of pot shots at her cheating husband and hi... |
385,248 | 391,152 | 215,545 | 9 | A fireball of a movie | I am absolutely embarrassed right now that I have never watched a Spike Lee film before . I have always wanted to see Do the Right Thing , which is generally considered his best film , and I even rented it once , but never got around to watching it . When Bamboozled opened last year , it sounded very interesting , but ... |
385,278 | 391,152 | 80,397 | 9 | Underrated Bergman | Bergman made this film in Germany , while in exile from Sweden for tax-related reasons . It's a dark and disturbing psychological portrait of a man , Peter , who murders a prostitute in the opening scene . The film moves back and forth in time , using title cards to establish the setting in time , trying to explain Pet... |
385,738 | 391,152 | 78,480 | 9 | Would have been my favorite film if I had seen it when I was a kid | If I had had this video when I was 8 or 9 , I think I would have watched it as much as or more than I watched any other video that I had at the time . It's quite an extraordinary film . I'm 21 now , and I found it very exciting and involving throughout . The only problem is that it always seems like the episodes in the... |
385,645 | 391,152 | 57,261 | 9 | You really couldn't hope for a better film version of the novel | And saying that , I also should clarify that I've never seen more than a few minutes of the 1990 remake . I have read the novel , though . It is good , but its none-too-subtle parable make it sort of a weak read to an adult . I was 15 when I read it , and I thought it was obvious then . As far as the prose goes , it co... |
384,886 | 391,152 | 66,026 | 9 | Great , but takes a stupid turn near the end that harms the overall product | I loved nearly every moment of MASH . It balanced its drama and comedy quite perfectly . The acting was great and the characters were well developed . This is also one of the few episodic movies which works well . Episodic films usually become tedious . Every episode in MASH is entertaining and works towards developing... |
384,901 | 391,152 | 22,074 | 9 | Jazz up your lingerie ! | Among some movie buffs , there is a line of thought about Gene Kelly that he comes off as an unlikeable and smug jerk . Those people have never seen a film starring Maurice Chevalier . Kelly might stalk you until you fall for him , and a little more creepily than Fred Astaire would , but at least you know he'd probably... |
384,663 | 391,152 | 14,341 | 9 | Better than the more famous " The General " | I thought this film set up a masterful comic situation . The train jokes in this film were much funnier than the ones in The General . Also , there are a lot of great close ups to Keaton's hilarious deadpan expression . He probably has the funniest face of any actor who ever lived . |
385,814 | 391,152 | 142,032 | 9 | The most ambitious miniseries in a very long while | I despise David Lynch's Dune . In my not so very humble opinion , it is the worst film I have ever seen . It is utterly nonsensical and impossible to follow , the actors are almost all miscast ( except for Sting , Dean Stockwell , and Patrick Stewart , who all mainly work as novelty ) , and the visuals are hideous . I ... |
385,704 | 391,152 | 22,835 | 9 | Excellent | I haven't read Stevenson's famous novel , but this film is adapted from a play which is supposedly a lot different anyway . The story is really not especially great . A scientist makes a potion that turns him into a total spazz . The spazz version ruins Dr . Jekyll's romance with Rose Hobart and tortures a loose woman ... |
384,995 | 391,152 | 269,746 | 9 | Brilliant , for the most part | Tsai's unique style gives rise to another film about isolation in urbanization . Hsiao-kang's father has just died , and he and his mother must hold together . He doesn't have much problem doing that , but his mother is going insane with loneliness , so much so that she entirely imbues herself in her religious beliefs ... |
384,593 | 391,152 | 25,335 | 9 | Excellent Ford / Will Rogers film ! | This film is pure Ford , so , if you're a fan , definitely seek it out . Will Rogers plays the title character , a relaxed judge in a small , Southern town at the end of the 19th Century . He's a kind man with a homespun sense of justice . Others in the legal profession around him disdain him for his casualness , and J... |
384,861 | 391,152 | 383,574 | 9 | Surprisingly great given what I had heard | It boggles my mind how down the critics were on this . It's at the same level as the first one , which everyone seemed to love . Yes , there are some things to complain about , mostly that there's just way too much going on . Characters from the first one that , if you last saw it when it was in the theaters ( as I did... |
385,050 | 391,152 | 410,764 | 9 | My third favorite Gilliam film , after 12 Monkeys and Brazil | If you're a fan of Terry Gilliam's films , I think you'll like Tideland . Gilliam has always been a champion of style over substance , so I wasn't particularly expecting a masterpiece of ideas here . Tideland , on the other hand , is a visionary fantasy / horror film seen from the point of view of a young girl , Jeliza... |
385,054 | 391,152 | 84,509 | 9 | Depressing , but impressive | A forgotten animated film directed by the man who made Watership Down in 1978 , and also adapted from a novel by the same author who wrote it , Richard Adams . Watership Down is famously not for small kids , although it's smart and good for older children . The Plague Dogs , on the other hand , is so relentlessly bleak... |
384,793 | 391,152 | 362,269 | 9 | A great film ! | Probably the most well liked movie of 2004 that I missed . I'm glad I finally decided to sit down and watch it , because it really is one of the best films of that year . There was a glut of biopics at the time , but I think this one is the best . It's just a truly fascinating movie about an important individual . It a... |
385,005 | 391,152 | 352,465 | 9 | Takashi Miike is my hero ! | Miike makes another yakuza picture . It's not especially groundbreaking , and it's certainly not one of Miike's deeper films , but it is extremely entertaining . That's mostly because of the main character , Kunisada ( Miike regular Riki Takeuchi ) , who is the most psychopathic character in Japanese movies since Tatsu... |
384,968 | 391,152 | 73,650 | 9 | For what it's worth , it fully lives up to its reputation | If you're curious about Salo , and can stand anything , no matter how depraved , then go for it . I think it wins the award for the most profane and pornographic film ever made , beating the hell out of its closest competitors like The Night Porter or In the Realm of the Senses . However , I think Salo is a better film... |
385,423 | 391,152 | 45,009 | 9 | An excellent film about rival New York City newspapers in the 1880s | Its main draw is Sam Fuller's direction ? he is , without a doubt , one of the most skillful American directors to have ever lived . You have to see some of the brilliant long takes in Park Row to believe them . The flowing shots make the rather brilliant moves in Alfred Hitchcock's Rope look trite ( which is no dump o... |
385,794 | 391,152 | 44,837 | 9 | Chaplin's Best Talkie . | Charlie Chaplin is one of the undisputed masters of the cinema . He was one of the funniest actors of the cinema , and he was also one of the greatest directors . Of course , the films that he is most famous for are his silent comedies , especially The Gold Rush , City Lights , and Modern Times . The latter two were th... |
384,770 | 391,152 | 443,706 | 9 | Great flick . Can't wait for the special edition DVD ! | Although I've pretty much despised every film David Fincher has made up to this point , I'd always readily admit that he was a pretty good director . If only he had decent material . Zodiac is a super-detailed account of the Zodiac murders that occurred in California in the late ' 60s through the mid ' 70s , one of the... |
385,193 | 391,152 | 414,993 | 9 | I may not have been entirely won over , but I certainly was wowed ! | May be a ways down from perfection , but with such an ambitious project , that's more than understandable , as well as forgivable . It's a poetic , impressionistic mood piece on the desperation of man to escape death , told over three intermingled , interrelated stories , one of a Spanish conquistador , one of a modern... |
385,880 | 391,152 | 18,578 | 9 | Much deserving of the first Best Picture Academy Award ( even if Sunrise is a better film ) | As the answer to one of the most commonly known trivia questions in history , Wings is a rather overlooked film . It's often thought of as extremely dated , but that seems a silly notion after you've seen it . Wings actually stands as one of the best films made about WWI - the amount of detail that went into the produc... |
385,006 | 391,152 | 49,419 | 9 | A fine , forgotten film | Cacoyannis , best know for directing the film Zorba the Greek ( aka Alexis Zorbas ) in 1964 , explored some of its themes in this 1956 film , which stars Ellie Lambeti . She plays a young woman who is constantly harassed by the young bachelors who live on the island of Hydra because she refuses to marry any of them . W... |
384,929 | 391,152 | 486,655 | 9 | Provides more fun than all of the summer blockbusters put together | The 14 year-old in me is immensely happy that they're now able to make really good looking fantasy movies , and that they're all the rage , what with Lord of the Rings , Harry Potter and The Chronicles of Narnia making loads of cash at the box office . This year will see ( and already has seen ) several more , most not... |
385,434 | 391,152 | 55,471 | 9 | Seems Run-of-the-Mill at first , but soon blossoms into something very beautiful | Three of the greatest talents in filmmaking history , Elia Kazan , Warren Beatty , and especially Natalie Wood , make this film great . I've seen three of Kazan's films , and I would say that this one may not be quite as good as On the Waterfront , but I think it is better than A Streetcar Named Desire . It doesn't get... |
385,183 | 391,152 | 53,298 | 9 | Surprisingly excellent ! | A surprisingly excellent adaptation of my very favorite novel , William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury . A lot of things are changed - and I mean A LOT - but I would much rather see something new than a slavish adaptation of a great novel . Besides , Faulkner's novel would probably be impossible to adapt as written ... |
384,972 | 391,152 | 73,540 | 9 | An incredibly beautiful mood piece | There's not too much to say about Picnic at Hanging Rock . It's one of the most beautiful films ever made . Technically , it's perfect . The cinematography is godly , and the musical score , much of which is performed by Zamfir , master of the pan flute , is exquisite . It's also wonderfully directed by Peter Weir - he... |
384,629 | 391,152 | 34,297 | 9 | The Beverly Hillbillies as directed by America's greatest poet | The back side of the same coin whose front is The Grapes of Wrath . It's a Depression piece about a family of Georgia dirt farmers who are about to be driven from their home . Here John Ford stays much in his comedy mode , so most of his detractors will certainly want to stay clear of it . And even I admit that at time... |
384,702 | 391,152 | 107,943 | 9 | Powerful , powerful movie | I almost skipped this one , given my distaste for British period pieces in general and the other Merchant / Ivory film I had seen in particular . I'm damn glad I didn't . This is a very subtle and quietly devastating picture about a butler whose major character flaw is that he's just too good a butler . Anthony Hopkins... |
385,633 | 391,152 | 44,811 | 9 | Gorgeous | A very beautiful film by master Ingmar Bergman . Four women , all sisters-in-law , await their husbands in a house on an island . They converse , and soon begin to tell each other the big stories of their lives . The first tells how she had an affair with her teenage sweetheart and how her husband reacts . The second t... |
384,652 | 391,152 | 48,673 | 9 | A great film | Katharine Hepburn plays an aging woman . She is alone on a vacation in Venice - she was alone before she left , and she has , for the most part , always been alone . To be on vacation alone is a sort of tragedy . Hepburn walks around the beautiful city with her movie camera and captures the spectacle of it all . Unfort... |
385,049 | 391,152 | 445,934 | 9 | Forgive the cliché , but I laughed until I cried | If you're looking for great film-making or thoughtful satire , definitely turn around . On the other hand , if you're looking for a funny comedy , you're in the right place . Will Ferrell plays a character that would stand perfectly well next to all of his SNL characters , which , I know , is kind of a backhanded compl... |
384,660 | 391,152 | 333,764 | 9 | I wrote this way back when I saw it in February of 2002 | A fantastic film about adolescence Unfortunately , I doubt many in the U . S . will ever see it . I'm also unsure as to whether U . S . audiences would like it much anyway . I myself loved it - it's very beautiful , one of the best films on that age group I've ever seen . The story revolves around three teens in a Ta... |
385,774 | 391,152 | 42,994 | 9 | Excellent ! One of Hitchcock's most underrated . | SPOILERS : Like any good film enthusiast , I consider Hitchcock one of the best directors who ever lived , right along with the likes of Fellini , Bergman , and Welles . Hitch consistently made films that were not only as entertaining as a film can possibly get , but also films that were extraordinarily intellectual an... |
385,832 | 391,152 | 131,325 | 9 | 7 . 1 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? | Okay , in a year where you put American Beauty on a pedestal like it's some kind of divinity you also crucify possibly the funniest film of the 1990s ? It figures . I've hardly ever laughed this hard at a movie . I liked every piece of it , and think it should be up for a lot of Oscars this winter , though it won't , b... |
384,760 | 391,152 | 46,808 | 9 | Exceptional ; a must-see for Tracy fans | A remarkable film , a Western based on Shakespeare's King Lear . It's nearly as good as Kurosawa's samurai Lear , Ran . Spencer Tracy plays the Lear character , Matt Devereaux . He made a fortune as a cattle ranger . He has four sons , three by a deceased wife and one , Joe ( Robert Wagner ) , the son of his second wif... |
385,289 | 391,152 | 23,037 | 9 | Actually , one of Luis Bunuel's most interesting films | After Un Chien Andalou and L'Age d'Or had caused such earthquakes , Bunuel picked for his next project a documentary on the Hurdanos . These people live in mid-western Spain , near the border of Portugal , under the most horendous conditions possible . They are a primitive , almost neolithic people , who only barely un... |
385,925 | 391,152 | 280,707 | 9 | Vintage Altman | Gosford Park is indeed one of Robert Altman's best films . Third best of all that I've seen , following Nashville and 3 Women . Still , I am a tiny bit disappointed with it . I was hoping it would be next to Nashville and 3 Women . I'm not sure if it will even remain in the third spot in my mind for too long . It's not... |
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