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510,555 | 453,068 | 347,618 | 9 | a fairly short feature-length film , but within its parameters perfectly wonderful and adorable | I wouldn't be sure that The Cat Returns would have an appeal to audiences as wide as Miyazaki's directed films would , since as a family film it is mostly amusing or curious for adults ( with the good laugh or two at the American voice work if one is inclined to listen to the new English dub ) . But for children it's j... |
508,005 | 453,068 | 404,757 | 9 | If you're an Allman Brothers fan and you can find this , its worth the buy . . . | . . . However , there is only one minor complaint in watching a band as fantastic at what they do years and years down the line like the Allman Brothers Band on a concert DVD such as this - if you see them for real live , it's a far more rewarding and impressionable experience . To see these musicians , all extremely t... |
508,423 | 453,068 | 497,137 | 9 | flawed in some small ways , but overall a crazily sincere masterpiece | There are ways to do romantic comedies , just as their are ways of doing sincere dark comedies set in mental hospitals , and Chan-Wook Park goes to fantastic and unexpected lengths of subverting expectations with truly nutty - and this may be the nuttiest movie to come out of Korea this , uh , month - ideas and visuals... |
510,216 | 453,068 | 117,561 | 9 | an extremely personal , maddeningly absurd excursion into the loony side of Soderbergh ; one of the definitions of ' acquired taste ' | From the prologue I instantly thought I understood the tone that Steven Soderbergh - writer , director , cinematographer , possible pornographer , and double-actor on Schizopolis - was going for : pure absurdism , not just with how the prologue is worded ( as the most important film experience of all time , the " full ... |
510,517 | 453,068 | 90,329 | 9 | elegiac , romantic crime-thriller about a detective in Amish country | The Amish are ' simple folk ' , as they say , with a moral conscience that is nearly impeccable . While they are super religious ( notice that they will never eat without first praying ) , their work ethic is next to extraordinary and they've fashioned their lives around a lack of technology , a distance from the rest ... |
508,097 | 453,068 | 71,502 | 9 | it shouldn't work , but it does - a series of stories of the bizarre and romantic ( or erotic , take your pick ) | Whether or not you like some ( or just respond positively to some ) of Pier Paolo Pasolini's work , or you don't , will depend on how much one can take of provocative subject matter put forward in an upfront manner . For me , he's a director that can go both ways , be it completely muddled and pretentious ( Teorema ) o... |
510,854 | 453,068 | 82,622 | 9 | one of Romero's most ambitious films is a grand entertainment | Knightriders does more than prove that George A . Romero , most known for his Living-Dead pictures , is really overall a great storyteller and developer of characters and , above all craftsman . But it also shows how a filmmaker can subvert a genre that is really hard to define ( is there such a genre as medieval racin... |
508,953 | 453,068 | 51,472 | 9 | delightful in its frank and playful attitude to " Him " vs / with " Her " | Jean-Luc Godard must have known he would come back to Charlotte and Her Jules very soon after making it , since he recreated in Breathless , made at or around the same time as this last short he made before going head-on into features , a nearly 20 minute version of this scene only with a little more of an equal playin... |
508,882 | 453,068 | 412,703 | 9 | if only I could somehow bring Henri Langlois back from the dead . . . | . . . Because , as this documentary makes quite clear , Langlois was one of the greatest film geeks that ever lived , and it would be heaven-sent ( if there is a heaven ) to have him back at the Cinematheque again . And I say the word ' geek ' with the utmost enthusiasm and admiration and respect et all . Langlois was ... |
508,995 | 453,068 | 358,678 | 9 | a sweet slice of latter-day Stones , apart of a 4-disc set | As a Rolling Stones fan , I'm obliged to try and report on how the Stones sound and perform on stage on their 40-year anniversary tour , to point out the good along with the bad , as they are in their sixties , and surely a band that has outlasted them all has lost its edge . I'm glad to report that they haven't , howe... |
508,267 | 453,068 | 48,820 | 9 | a film more for its great color photography than anything else | I remember seeing this film more than two years ago , and while the entire story is not very memorable ( I could probably not tell everything that happens in it now , which is perhaps more my fault than the filmmaker ) , I have a fond memory of seeing it in visual terms . Kenji Mizogichi , a filmmaker I'm only off-hand... |
508,821 | 453,068 | 362,270 | 9 | Wes Anderson's latest trip of a comedy | Life Aquatic ranks up in the top five of the most original films of the year . It's a comedy , but when you laugh it might be at something you'd laugh at , or maybe not ( some of the reactions and timing is so subtle , and the actors pull it off , to add humor ) , and it's also a drama that takes itself just serious en... |
507,863 | 453,068 | 94,625 | 9 | As inspired and bizarre an anime sci-fi film you're likely to see , not perfect , but still a post-apocalyptic wonder | Science fiction films , even when they might be a incoherent in spots ( and maybe the story and action in Akira is not completely incoherent but as an American some of the Japanese styling is , well , fed up ) , are supposed to raise questions about human behavior and thought , and be intelligent enough to let the audi... |
508,503 | 453,068 | 82,671 | 9 | wonderful and mostly heartbreaking melodrama from Fassbinder | Lola is a singer , and a sometimes-prostitute , in the whorehouse run by Schukert , a big vulgarian who also happens to have a land deal coming up and has such a reputation that he won't be hassled by a cop when at a checkpoint . A new building commissioner is in town , Von Bohm , and he's a very pure soul , non-corrup... |
508,797 | 453,068 | 148,668 | 9 | maybe the quintessential Hicks special , albeit hard to find complete | Apparently the DVD version of Bill Hicks's comedy special Relentless - filmed from the Montreal comedy special where he finally broke out as a stand-up star - is not quite complete . It runs an hour , and is missing some footage . Luckily , there's enough that remains , and in mostly good enough condition , to suffice ... |
508,785 | 453,068 | 40,064 | 9 | much better than it really should be : it's Ford's 3 Men & a Baby , with a little Jesus thrown in | 3 Godfathers is beautifully directed , as are most of John Ford's pictures , but I wonder how much the story benefits from having all of the Jesus / Christmas / 3-Wise-Men allegory attached to it . What makes it work isn't so much the religious connotations , which if anything are actually depicted by Ford as hallucina... |
509,402 | 453,068 | 40,068 | 9 | a whole lot of classic horror ( and mostly classic comedy ) fun | Abbott and Costello make for one of those quintessential comedy duos , simply put . It's hard to mistake a more definitive ( and probably , for some , the greatest ) example of the two sides - straight guy and full-comic guy - in the skinny realist Abbott and the chubby , warmhearted but easily frightened Costello . It... |
510,541 | 453,068 | 79,271 | 9 | The Searchers redux - now with more Calvinism and porn ! | Paul Schrader has admitted on more than one occasion that John Ford's the Searchers had a profound impact on him as a filmmaker and screenwriter ( inklings of it can be seen in Taxi Driver ) , and his second feature , Hardcore , has the theme of obsessive search for someone who may not even want to be found in full lat... |
509,354 | 453,068 | 82,474 | 9 | A really good , fun movie | For kids , this film is like a kind of methadone for the heroin that is known as Pokemon ( in other words , watch the muppets to get off of Pokemon even though there is no comparison to the muppets ) . For some of us adults who grew up with the muppets , and this movie in particular , it's a kind of small-scale piece o... |
510,535 | 453,068 | 905,979 | 9 | BLEEP THE PIGS ! one of the most unconventional docs in years | Brett Morgan's Chicago 10 might not deliver any groundbreaking revelations about one of the most notorious of protests-gone-bad sagas in American history , where after four days and nights ( mostly ) non-violent protesters and loaded-for-bear police clashed horrifically on the streets of Chicago and then the mastermind... |
511,010 | 453,068 | 694,432 | 9 | like finding an odd , surreal relic that still retains lots of its original awesomeness | Saturday Night Live first aired as , simply , " Saturday Night " , with its cast ( including quintessential members Dan Aykroyd , John Belushi , Gilda Radner , Lorraine Newman and Chevy Chase ) called the " Not Yet Ready for Prime-Time Players . It was a rough and sometimes crude and disorganized skit show , and it has... |
510,814 | 453,068 | 79,261 | 9 | in-your-face theatrics of the period - and of the split between rigid organization and rebellion - and a wondrously filmed musical | Hair , at its best , has the same directorial energy that made Milos Forman's previous work , One Flew Over the Cuckcoo's Nest , and like that film it reflects quite well the tensions of a period . This time with more at stake with sex , race , war , the bourgeois , drugs , and all done to some of the most popping pop ... |
510,985 | 453,068 | 86,856 | 9 | a " cult " film that knows nearly no boundaries of creativity with its zany appeal | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai is a movie I dearly wish I could have seen on the big screen back in the 80s ( if I had been old enough for it at the least ) . It's so , well " 80's " but it isn't completely trapped in it . What it's about is . . . damn , should I even try ? Actually , it does have a cohesive narrati... |
510,639 | 453,068 | 192,470 | 9 | gives you as clear an idea of Lynch as artist , craftsman , and all American quagmire as you're likely to see | Toby Keeler , with his unlimited access to David Lynch - behind the scenes during his films , with friends and family and collaborators , and in his painting process - has a documentary that's essential to get at least a glimpse into a man and his work like this . Lynch's films are abstractions , nightmarish landscapes... |
509,955 | 453,068 | 346,800 | 9 | a film loaded with libido and hyper-consciousness , a hallucination of abortions , murder and hockey | It's not in Guy Maddin to make what Hollywood people would call a " normal " movie . Armed with 8mm cameras , loads of lights , sound effects ( if not actual sound equipment ) , and a mind like a steel Dziga-Vertov trap marinated in Winnipeg and sex and murder , he makes movies the way he damn well pleases to do them ,... |
508,397 | 453,068 | 48,750 | 9 | just about the drollest , and sometimes just quietly crazy , black comedy about murder ever | A serene , Technicolor-awe-inspiring backdrop of autumn in New England , reminiscent of the ' cheery ' Americana of Shadow of a Doubt . There's also a cast of characters who are more wrapped up in their basic romantic entanglements than in he body of Harry , who should be the focal point of the story . Matter of fact ,... |
509,500 | 453,068 | 280,898 | 9 | for the quality of the music , a full for spectacle and PZAZ ! | Iron Maiden have a true sense of how to really put on a SHOW ( in caps ) , with their trademark metal brand going out to audience's the world over with the impact of a harrowing horror movie and the gusto of superb theater ( perhaps there's a reason why the lead young girl in Persepolis , in Iran of all places , loved ... |
510,349 | 453,068 | 78,908 | 9 | another of Cronenberg's true psycho-shock vehicles , and one of the most depressing horror films ever made | The Brood juxtaposes divorce , anxiety with parent-child relationships , with a story that is basically crazy vengeance that turns to ugly territory sooner than later . Like Scanners , it's only gruesome in short spurts ( some pun intended ) , and while it's noticeable Cronenberg doesn't have too much of a budget to wo... |
509,238 | 453,068 | 261,392 | 9 | The whole world is against them . But they still are awesome . | Kevin Smith has done something not too many filmmakers are able to accomplish . He has directed 5 films in a row , that have been in my mind all funny , often though provoking and just really good movies . This is the fifth movie , the last of his New Jersey series with his always present Jay and Silent Bob , is not th... |
508,478 | 453,068 | 75,029 | 9 | One of the better Eastwood westerns I've seen , aside from the other ones | I haven't seen that many Clint Eastwood westerns ( outside of the Leone films , Unforgiven , Two Mules for Sister Sara , and High Plains Drifter ) , but I remember this one from about a month and a half ago , and like Eastwood's best , I got drawn into the story , and into the sympathies of the lead character , which I... |
510,346 | 453,068 | 67,411 | 9 | enough irony , de-glamorization , and brooding sensibility for two " anti " western westerns ; nearly as good as the hype | McCabe & Mrs . Miller is probably the film , if not as much than Nashville more than the Player , that critics praise to the heavens when it comes to Robert Altman . And why not ? Made right at the nexus of his cult status as a maverick , coming off of winning the golden palm for MASH , he had Warren Beatty and Julie C... |
510,785 | 453,068 | 1,028,528 | 9 | extended and uncut : a near perfect B-movie made into just an very good one | Like Apocalypse Now Redux - with the exception being that it's in this case the Weinsteins and not the director himself , despite Tarantino saying that he prefers this new cut - the re-cut of Death Proof has been puffed up with extra scenes meant to fill up gaps and give fans some scenes that have been talked about but... |
510,652 | 453,068 | 55,571 | 9 | one of those finite definitions of a gritty B-noir , done just right | Writer / director Samuel Fuller is not personally attached to the material he presents in Underworld USA in the sense of it being autobiographical . But it is pretty likely , from listening to interviews with him and just from seeing his other work in the noir-esquire realm of motion pictures , that he knew at least th... |
508,037 | 453,068 | 71,269 | 9 | Altman in his 1970s prime ; a gambler-movie classic | California Split provides a couple of stellar performances through Robert Altman's direction . George Segal , who is an actor I'm not too familiar with ( I never watched the TV show ' Just Shoot Me ' or his other 70s movies ) , but here is very believable as the down-on-his-luck Bill Denny , a sometimes magazine writer... |
508,058 | 453,068 | 64,285 | 9 | Truffaut asks the question through a dramatic narrative - can humanity be brought out through science ? | The Wild Child could be the kind of movie that doesn't work . In a way it's hard to find what the dramatic conflict of the film would be if not for the push & pull struggle between the scientists and his ' test ' subject of sorts , Victor , the wild child of the title . But somehow it does - Truffaut laces the film wit... |
509,295 | 453,068 | 40,369 | 9 | near perfect Cavalry Western with Ford splendidly cast against type | In Fort Apache Henry Fonda , often the kindest but strongest of the kind figures in the movies , plays the General Custer-esquire Colonel Thursday , and John Wayne , often the one in the movies who will shoot Indians first and maybe ( if he feels like it ) ask questions later , plays the more level-headed / friend-of-A... |
510,522 | 453,068 | 109,781 | 9 | the nightmare and ecstasy of selling your soul to you-know-who | Jan Svankmajer probably has visions and dreams that few of us would want to have , but luckily for us he's so creative and talented and all-that-and-a-bag-of-chips with a mound of clay and ( in this case ) marionettes that he can put them all on display on film . His version of Faust is sometimes confusing , bewilderin... |
508,903 | 453,068 | 377,515 | 9 | make sure to get the DVD ! | Released a mere couple months after President Bush declared that " major combat operations in Iraq have ended " , Bill Maher brought his trademark ( and well-placed ) cynicism and poignancy to the stage . It was also intriguing in the presentation , aside from the stand-up material itself ; at the time Maher had a book... |
508,993 | 453,068 | 274,309 | 9 | how did I miss seeing this movie till now ? | 24 Hour Party People is just one of those movies that has that click with the subject matter . The actual style of the film corresponds with the music , the irreverence , and the energy of it all . But there's more than just the unconventionality of the script and direction ; the film has that sort of stream-of-thought... |
510,273 | 453,068 | 296,042 | 9 | for some seeing this , it makes Kill Bill seem light-weight ; definitely not for the squeamish | I really , really didn't know what to make of Ichi the Killer the first time I saw it , however late it was at night on cable ( i . e . very after hours , almost up till dawn ) , and after seeing it a second time I'm still not sure . If it isn't one of the more overwhelmingly violent films ever made , it's at least tha... |
509,469 | 453,068 | 78,935 | 9 | Good times , Cannibal Salad | Cannibal Holocaust was not something I exactly wanted to see , and I didn't rush out out to buy it the day Grindhouse releasing put out the uncut version on DVD . But I kept hearing that it was a movie that , if someone very interested in films - or just in the most shocking in the realm of cult and exploitation - this... |
510,912 | 453,068 | 67,328 | 9 | a film that plays even better long after it's been seen , for its unforgettable characters and classic mode of subversion | Peter Bogdanovich obviously loves the old Hollywood films , Hawks , Ford , Sturges , Hitchcock to a degree , but has also claimed that " there's Renoir , and there's everybody else . " This can be seen , in a sense , in how he treats the material of Larry McMurtry's source . The Last Picture Show deals frankly with sex... |
510,468 | 453,068 | 109,579 | 9 | a probing mind-game played out on shattering tones , with more than a touch Polanski | Roman Polanski was the correct person to direct this film , based on ( and looking very much like it was ) a three-character play set in a confined house , because he understands how to make his mark with notice but care with the camera , and for skill at holding firm on the guessing games without interference . He has... |
510,604 | 453,068 | 94,332 | 9 | The songs Witchy Woman ( women ) meets Sympathy for the Devil , combined for a comic fantasy | George Miller ( Mad Max ) creatively sets the stage for a story of three witches and one Lucifer , who are in regular human form , in a small , uptight New England town . Of course , for a tale like this one can try to suspend disbelief , and it has to be when dealing with the supernatural . Thankfully , Miller has gre... |
510,851 | 453,068 | 60,138 | 9 | beautiful in its lyricism , Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar is original and poignant | Maybe I'm not as completely overwhelmed with the work of the immensely revered director Robert Bresson as others are , and I almost wish I was more so . I do know from the other films I have seen of his - Pickpocket and A Man Escaped - that he is one of the superior craftsmen of his time in France , a veritable storyte... |
509,758 | 453,068 | 35,966 | 9 | Fritz Lang and Bertolt Brecht's resistance juggernaut from WW2 Czechsovakia | Under the name ' Bert ' , Brecht teamed up with director Fritz Lang to craft this cunning and ultimately suspenseful tale that borders more than consciously on propaganda , but for all the right reasons considering the period . It wasn't a period piece but something urgent of the time and place - not to mention a stark... |
510,227 | 453,068 | 106,364 | 9 | like a brilliant four-part episode from the series ; lots of personal wounds revealed , and the Joker to boot ! | Batman : Mask of the Phantasm stands on its own feet extremely well , when at least compared to some of the lessor Batman animated movies ( Batman vs Dracula anyone ? ) , and packs a good punch for fans so many years later . The original series was in its own other region - taking what more stories from the comics ( if... |
508,991 | 453,068 | 71,402 | 9 | perhaps the ' proverbial good vigilante drama ' of its time | Before I saw Death Wish , I knew there was more than just the context of it being a starring vehicle for one of the major bad-asses of the action picture , Charles Bronson ( who's best role is still the one with the least words , Once Upon a Time in the West ) , and that it contains the elements that would spark an ent... |
509,956 | 453,068 | 465,500 | 9 | a story of the Blues - what they are , how to play them and with a minimum of musician-life drama | Howlin ' Wolf , aka Chester Burnett , came out of the deep south , out of the fields of Mississippi , out of a super-religious mother who stuck so firmly to her guns that Blues was " the devil's music " that she never spoke to her son for decades , out of racism and hardship , and made his own original , vibrant kind o... |
508,272 | 453,068 | 60,107 | 9 | excellent film-making with instances of some of the purest Russian cinema | It's such a bold stroke of cinematic prowess to make a film like Andrei Rublev , let alone at the age of 32 , 33 that Andrei Tarkovsky was . This is a film that , while ( from my perspective ) imperfect , breathes with the freedom and abandon of a cinematic artist paying tribute to art itself . In this case , Andrei Ru... |
509,057 | 453,068 | 114,038 | 9 | the simplicity of its message comes through powerfully through the use of Miyazaki / Ghiblis ' imaginations | It must have been a small but extreme labor of love to make On Your Mark , a short film directed by the great Hayao Miyazaki with his Studio Ghibli crew working at full throttle . It gets right to the heart of the idea in seven minutes through an immediate array of strange but deliriously exciting images , and its stor... |
510,708 | 453,068 | 362,225 | 9 | a pretzel factory of a thriller ; convoluted but compulsively watchable | It's easy to see how it can be done , but only so often do we get some good ' knock-offs ' of Hitchcock films . Sometimes we get outright homages like with Brian De Palma , or we get cheap rip-offs that some of us never see unless digging deep into the thriller bin at Blockbuster . Luckily , the French seem to have it ... |
510,769 | 453,068 | 121,802 | 9 | ingenious little short , like a newspaper comic strip with sharp wit | Thank You Mask Man is featured as a bonus on the DVD of the Lenny Bruce performance film , and I was very glad I watched it . It reminded me of what I saw once in a Carlin special from the 80s where he put in little animated bits that all visualized his bits . That this comes more than a few years before that is impres... |
510,645 | 453,068 | 482,571 | 9 | a basic tale of one-up-manship , but done in a great fashion of professional storytelling and acting | The Prestige is like a machine of tricks and wonders , and it ends up pulling off a lot more than it might have not been able to chew . Co-writer / director Christopher Nolan is very much in his territory here with this picture , and the sort of jigsaw-figure-out effect he had on his breakthrough Memento is redeployed ... |
510,989 | 453,068 | 55,852 | 9 | not really perfect , but then life ain't either | Cleo from 5 to 7 ( actually it's 5 to 6 : 30 but how it is sounds better ) is the feminine point of view of Paris , of a discombobulated woman on the edge of a potentially tragic discovery ( whether she might die of cancer ) , and it works because Agnes Varda is in love with the cinema and in love with Paris and in lov... |
509,537 | 453,068 | 82,085 | 9 | One of De Palma's most entertaining works : | Blow Out runs with an idea and makes it work . Brian De Palma uses the idea from Blowup ( obsession over one real-time element involving murder ) , and transfuses it into his usual , dependable form of the suspense picture . He finds the right cast to take it through as well . This script could be taken in the wrong ha... |
508,592 | 453,068 | 478,311 | 9 | a guide to having a baby , with stoners , and E ! news | My first reaction at the end of the film was probably too simplistic a comparison : Harold and Kumar meets Nine Months ( yes , the Hugh Grant / Julianne Moore pregnancy comedy from 95 ) . But the film actually carries off how so few romantic comedies know how - to actually give us a man and a woman to actually give a d... |
509,551 | 453,068 | 460,989 | 9 | a compelling tale of the dangers of imperial dominance , how it spreads , and how political turns personal | The Wind That Shakes the Barley , the Palm D'Or winner , gets most compelling because of the ties that form between the political and the personal , between what is loyalty to one's country versus one's own blood and how the latter becomes almost irrelevant and taken for granted in the midst of the bickering of specifi... |
509,028 | 453,068 | 1,134,837 | 9 | as a documentary it's decent ; as a companion piece to No Direction Home it's fantastic material | For any Bob Dylan fan this is a must . One gets to see his progression from the new darling of the folk scene ( elevated to the point of ultimate pretension by the line " He has his finger on the pulse of a generation " ) to breaking out the electric guitar for Maggie's Farm in 1965 . It definitely helps to know what t... |
510,409 | 453,068 | 120,907 | 9 | a trip into the reality of the virtual you might want to take , with Cronenberg as ' designer ' | I first saw David Cronenberg's eXistenZ when it first was released in theaters in 1999 , and as the first that I saw of his ( in a sense , I was probably like Ted in the sense of not yet having the ' portal ' to his catalog of work ) . It flew mostly over my head in what it was conveying thematically , though I still t... |
510,641 | 453,068 | 413,300 | 9 | nearly the best , or at least most overall satisfying , of the franchise ; has terrific ( and gleefully corny ) humor , big action , and superb characterizations | Sam Raimi knows what he's doing with the Spider-Man franchise . Some will come away from this third installment and disagree , that he's put out an over-long , angry / sad / delirious blockbuster that doesn't reach into the same levels that the first two films did . For me , if anything , Raimi has gone further in the ... |
509,706 | 453,068 | 465,316 | 9 | Challenge me when you are ready to duel a god . | Afro Samurai will stay in my collection as a pure guilty pleasure , a black samurai saga that has more than a touch of being made just right for die-hard fans of blood-drenched anime ( or , for that matter , members of the Wu-Tang Clan , for which RZA did the music , and is an asset via groovy beats and is an occasiona... |
508,737 | 453,068 | 95,159 | 9 | the funniest work of Kline's career ; a big bang of ultra hilarity and over-the-top jokes of visual and wit variety | A Fish Called Wanda comes from director Charles Crichton , though much of what makes the film a success is that he just doesn't get in the way of what these actors can do and , more importantly , the material . It's John Cleese as writer and him and Michael Palin as co-stars , so immediately ( and especially for me as ... |
510,787 | 453,068 | 708,463 | 9 | it's cheesy , yes , but a lot of fun as the whole Jungian thing pans out | Let it be known - The Enemy Within is not great art . But it does come close to being a great Star Trek episode . Mostly because , in a way , splits down the path of William Shatner as an actor , or how much of an actor he can ever be . After a faulty teleportation back up to ship , ol Kirk is now two , with a doppelga... |
508,001 | 453,068 | 244,296 | 9 | maybe not the greatest spectacle , but it brings on some true star power | The Wall is , indeed , one of the most awe-inspiring feats from the 70's rock scene . It may not be Pink Floyd's best work , but on the form of ambition it could rightly rank with ( or some would argue above ) Dark Side of the Moon . It's engaging ( if a little obvious ) with its messages on education , sex , the drain... |
508,057 | 453,068 | 377,192 | 9 | it becomes addictive | I Love the 70s , which has in the years following its first on-air release , spawned off I Love the 80s , 90's , and their decade's sequels , is a show that is not immediately accessible , or at least wasn't for me . But the more I watched it the more I got into it . Especially because , well , I do love the 70's , how... |
510,181 | 453,068 | 71,115 | 9 | Scorsese evolves into a " Hollywood " director ; Burstyn is fantastic | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore at times might not look it to those who don't check ( or care to check ) the director credit , but Martin Scorsese - in the interim between Mean Streets and Taxi Driver - took on a film where he could prove to his detractors wrong . Indeed , Scorsese can direct anyone well , man , woman ... |
510,396 | 453,068 | 330,829 | 9 | better than I expected , and re-watchable | In watching Robin Williams's comedy specials from the 80's , I was struck by how much I didn't actually laugh . Considering it was his prime , a lot of the time I didn't quite ' get ' or really just take in most of the jokes he was doing , as a lot of them had him going out into the audience and just ragging on random ... |
507,836 | 453,068 | 82,010 | 9 | both entertaining as a technical marvel , as comedy , and even as horror | John Landis has one of his most memorable films , as it challenges him as a director of comedy and horror , and he's rarely done better in the latter . While many of his best films are among the comedies that he directed for SNL alumni Belushi and Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy , An American Werewolf in London stands apart f... |
509,172 | 453,068 | 90,685 | 9 | A great comedy | Rodney Dangerfield makes a great comic effort here as Thornton Melon , a clothing tycoon who sees that his son is hating college , so to help him out ( morale wise to the least ) he decides to become a student , with hilarious result . Formulaic in the wrong hands , but in the hands of the Rodfather , we see some great... |
511,057 | 453,068 | 407,888 | 9 | Invaluable to the Bergman buff , recommendable to one who isn't | There is a bias in my adoration of this documentary , Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie ( a companion piece to the recently released DVD box set of Bergman's " Silence of God " trilogy , featuring Through a Glass Darkly , Winter Light , and The Silence ) , in that Bergman is one my personal favorite directors from Europe . ... |
509,087 | 453,068 | 218,388 | 9 | a funny and inspired pilot that's later been surpassed by its endlessly creative series | The original pilot of Curb Your Enthusiasm , which I've seen a few times ( sometimes truly forgetting that it's the pilot at all , as its stylistically 75 % of the time identical to the show ) , has its share of laughs . But it is , in its own right , a slightly different animal , so to speak , when compared to its 5-s... |
508,296 | 453,068 | 40,506 | 9 | the kind of " old-school " thriller that could thrill today's moviegoers just as much as back then | With an all-star cast from the period - Bogie , Bacall , EG Robinson , Lionel Barrymore - and one of the most successful studio auteur's ever , John Huston , it's not too much to wonder that there is a bit of a high expectation before watching a film like Key Largo . I watched it very late one night , and did not feel ... |
509,836 | 453,068 | 1,084,950 | 9 | Demme back in fine form and Hathaway with her first really fantastic performance | This pitch-black-comedy-cum-drama , Rachel Getting Married , bucks two kinds of marriage movies that are fairly common in the two sides of release : one is the schmaltzy , dumb mainstream rom-com like Maid of Honor or The Wedding Planner where A-List actors go in the motions of a batch of conventions-by-checklist , and... |
508,182 | 453,068 | 48,198 | 9 | what is an existential threat in a post-nuclear age ? Kurosawa asks this in near-excellent film | In any other hands the weight of the subject matter of I Live in Fear ( or Record of a Living Being , which may or may not be the more accurate title ) would be handled with the ham-fisted pounding-over-the-head drive of a Paul Haggis . Under Akira Kurosawa's direction , however , there's somehow subtlety , or at least... |
510,357 | 453,068 | 1,322,287 | 9 | Peace On Earth - Colbert style | Stephen Colbert's Christmas Special - The Greatest Gift of All ! ( soon to be out on DVD , naturally ) - sticks to two things at once : the tenets of the Colbert Report's rigorous and silly-cum-satirical bits on the religious right and Conservatives an other little tidbits that people who watch the Colbert Report know ... |
509,454 | 453,068 | 83,702 | 10 | a hybrid documentary of an incredible , relentlessly reckless story of film-making , and of a little anthropology too | Werner Herzog , the filmmaker behind Fitzcarraldo that the director Les Blank is documenting ( in part ) with his Burden of Dreams , says that he has no interest in making a documentary about the Natives that are all around throughout the filming , who are apart of the cast as extras and also do labor . I wonder if Bla... |
510,656 | 453,068 | 427,312 | 10 | a kind of master's class in a schizo documentary - sometimes quite amusing and entertaining , other times very somber and depressing | This documentary , written , directed , and narrated by German madman maestro Werner Herzog , has very little in it that isn't worth seeing , and at its best brings some of the most captivating , candid , and entertaining documentary footage of the year . The subject matter is an environmentalist / bear nut named Timot... |
509,834 | 453,068 | 372,784 | 10 | a spectacular re-invention of the series , 2nd ( or perhaps as good as ) Burton's 89 vision | It's always a challenge to take material from the comic to the screen , and to make it powerful enough , and entertaining enough , without getting overly preachy with the material , getting hyper kinetic with the action , or worst of all losing your audience . The last Batman film , Batman & Robin , committed the later... |
509,499 | 453,068 | 52,561 | 10 | one fine courtroom drama : epic , cool , extremely well-plotted and acted | Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder features a cast of some big stars ( Jimmy Stewart , George C . Scott ) , and some notable character players ( Ben Gazarra , Lee Remick , the underrated Murray Hamilton and Orson Bean ) , but the real big attraction for audience's is its 100 % absorbing story and whole lot of charact... |
510,537 | 453,068 | 316,599 | 10 | a gripping , relentlessly bleak tale of Yakuza self-destruction | Takashi Miike has a knack at Yakuza thrillers . Some might not be very good , some might be some odd sorts of deranged masterpieces . But with Graveyard of Honor , I can only imagine how fantastic the original Kinji Fukasaku film from the 70s was if this might possibly be Miike's best " serious " Yakuza movie . This is... |
508,391 | 453,068 | 61,184 | 10 | probably one of the best arguments for why AA should exist ; volatile , overwrought drama at its richest | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf leaves no scabs or stones unturned with the characters . George and Martha are a couple who have a marriage that is truly love-hate . They can never be called too unemotional , though to say whether or not they're being truthful at all in the ' games ' they play with married Nick and Hone... |
510,173 | 453,068 | 462,504 | 10 | one of Herzog's very best ; it's totally gripping storytelling , stellar performances , touches of great humor and true pathos | What a way to have a little counter-programming this July 4th ! In a time when the summer blockbuster means sequels and remakes galore delivering high powered special effects but not much human soul , we need a picture with Dieter Dengler as the ' hero ' of sorts . It's the closest Herzog has gotten to telling a story ... |
509,031 | 453,068 | 1,334,272 | 10 | Just as amazing as part 1 | Basically , if you saw and loved the first Robot Chicken : Star Wars special ( or , for that matter , if you saw it and hated it ) , you'll know what you're in for with this second part . It just continues on with more parodies of more things that will be known to casual fans and the die-hards . Sometimes , in fact , I... |
508,355 | 453,068 | 105,151 | 10 | the reality of the making of the un-reality of Hollywood | Once The Player's end credits rolled , I was shaken , but in the kind of way that you are when you hear a really sly , long joke by someone who knows what they're telling is not hysterical but still has a wicked knack that will stay with you or gnaw at your side . Robert Altman's the Player , one of his very best films... |
510,661 | 453,068 | 436,078 | 10 | for a certain comedy fan , it's the funniest film of the year ; Lenny Bruce would be proud | I say that part about Lenny Bruce being proud of this movie for a few reasons , and one is the sheer freedom of saying anything , and using whatever can work and really going as far as possible to make the joke funny ( George Carlin has also said this , that context is crucial ) . Another reason would be that the film-... |
509,969 | 453,068 | 83,658 | 10 | One of the best looking films of the 80's from Ridley Scott | One thing can't be denied about the sci-fi epic Blade Runner : it's look of the future , while possibly not totally original , is original in tone and has things to look for in nearly every scene . At it's worst , Scott's picture is eye-candy , but tasty bits of candy I add . Ford plays the title character here , as an... |
509,757 | 453,068 | 462,538 | 10 | I'll teach you to laugh at something that's funny ! | There's been maybe too much hype about this movie , though at the same time it did affect me in the way it was intended for die-hard fans ( e . g . all the time this past week I kept thinking " ah , Simpsons movie " as I re-watched episodes from past seasons on DVD ) , and the anticipation almost became boring after so... |
508,177 | 453,068 | 893,382 | 10 | aka : ' Some Country for Old Men ' | Shine a Light displays , thrillingly and with the bombastic POP of a revisited ' happy place ' , why many love the Rolling Stones and many love the style of Martin Scorsese . It's mostly a concert movie shot over a period of two mights at the Beacon theater ( as if doing a workhorse revival of thirty years ago , while ... |
508,139 | 453,068 | 43,953 | 10 | even more classic than the Abbot & Costello " Who's on First " bit , works for all ages | One of the creme de la creme of the Looney Tunes cartoons ( almost overplayed when I was a kid , though never under-valued by me ) , Rabbit Fire is the cartoon that puts a different kind of edge on the cartoon form - it's funny , but almost in a satirical way . This is the kind of stuff that almost shouldn't be funny f... |
509,440 | 453,068 | 108,937 | 10 | crazy , random , absurd , surreal , tangential , dumb . . . genius | I never watched Space Ghost when it used to air , probably because I literally didn't know what I was missing ( why I didn't watch it I can't remember , maybe it was on too late or it just seemed like the guests were sometimes unknowns to me , even as this wasn't the case at all ) . Now on DVD , I was curious to see it... |
510,646 | 453,068 | 290,329 | 10 | the most unsettling movie I've seen yet from Japan . . . until Miike's next ! | I felt a little uneasy here and there watching this flick , mostly due to the fact that I was watching it in a sort of ' viewing room ' on a campus , where a bunch of TV's are set-up and people can watch whatever they want with headphones for the volume . Luckily , no one else entered the room - if so , I would probabl... |
510,355 | 453,068 | 101,318 | 10 | wild , romantic , original , pretentious-in-a-good-way , and joyful film-making | There are moments and scenes in Lovers on the Bridge that waver between being straightforward in their realism and the given grittiness of living life on the streets homeless and of those sudden romantic bursts that are also a given if you're French and wanting to show how wonderful and horrible it can be in a strange ... |
509,155 | 453,068 | 95,705 | 10 | The Zucker's best . Nielson's best as well | ZAZ's ( David Zucker , Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker ) The Naked Gun is one of the funniest ( if not funniest ) film ever with more parodies and gags than one could ever imagine . And the writing is if not good , great that never lets up ( even through the finale baseball game with Reggie Jackson ) . But what really ge... |
509,400 | 453,068 | 118,540 | 10 | moving , informative , and two stories interwoven exceedingly well | Spike Lee's skills as a documentarian are astonishing considering his mixed efforts in dramatic features , which ranges from greatness to failures . With 4 Little Girls and especially When the Levees Broke , Lee takes focus of the subject matter , and expands upon the narrative to make the central story intertwined wit... |
510,585 | 453,068 | 493,459 | 10 | perhaps not the ' best ' , but surely my favorite documentary of the year thus far | Kirby Dick is a filmmaker I wasn't aware of before This Film is Noy Yet Rated , but now he is assuredly on my radar , if only for the determination in pulling off his main idea . Like Super Size Me , this documentary has a near-gimmick to it ; Dick hires a private investigator in order to track down the anonymous " par... |
508,115 | 453,068 | 70,544 | 10 | one of the trippiest things you'll ever see , bar none , and it's extraordinary in its simplicity | Fantastic Planet has about a hundredth of the technical proficiency - or just money - that any given Pixar film might have in just its first couple of reels . But there's probably just as much invention and eye-popping mind-blowing madness , if not exponentially more-so , than any recent CGI film . It's , well , art . ... |
510,439 | 453,068 | 118,749 | 10 | Odd , Funny and Touching | Boogie Night's has to be one of the funniest and oddest films I have seen in a long time . It is a homage to the pornography culture and to adults who will never grow up in California . The film also has brilliant acting , writing and camera work and is P . T . Anderson's best work yet . Some of the great stuff in this... |
511,037 | 453,068 | 95,497 | 10 | Good work by Scorsese , very very good , almost sobering to the senses | Martin Scorsese takes the lessons learned by the likes of Rossellini , Pasolini , and in-between regarding religious pictures and makes one that appropriately makes it right . This time around , you don't necessarily have to be completely into Jesus or a Christian to see the heart and intelligence put into the material... |
509,136 | 453,068 | 65,214 | 10 | A red-blooded western with enough cinematic fireballs for four more | Sam Peckinpah proves his worth as a great director from the second half of the 20th century with The Wild Bunch , a film that breathes life as one of the 60's best , a blockbuster caliber picture that gives its audience what it wants - a cast of famous old-timers and some newcomers as well ( lest not forget Ernest Borg... |
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