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surely one of the chilling , yet most effective , infidelity dramas ever made
Claude Chabrol is a director who has a vast ( and reputedly hit or miss ) career as one of the Cashiers du cinema alumni , and his film La Femme Infidele could possibly be counted as one of the top crop of his work . There's a control over mis-en-scene , as might be expected ( as he puts forth , unexpectedly and hilari...
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Back , and to the left . . . . Stone's second best picture behind Born on the Fourth
JFK ( the director's cut version ) is like a history lesson taught by an unconventional , usually thought provoking , and ultimately inspiring professor , transferred brilliantly onto celluloid . In fact this film , which has been put down by various critics ( not film critics mind you ) for it's lack of truth and tend...
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The only good Musical
West Side Story is an exception in few exceptions . I am not a musical fan , but this is a big exception . This film has more than just songs and dances ( which are really well directed by Oscar winners Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins ) , there is a lot of drama and romance , much taken from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juli...
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about the juiciest , bloodiest good / sad musical time you'll have this year
With Sweeney Todd , one of the most notorious ( and acclaimed ) stories to come out of 19th century London England , and later as a much more acclaimed musical from Stephen Soundheim , Tim Burton crafts a masterpiece of the macabre , a work full of harsh , visceral drama , a sinister look to the picture which only once...
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if there are films that are " under-rated " , this one wold be near the top of the list
After sitting through The Wrong Man , it puzzles me greatly why this film isn't seen by more , or rated as highly as some of Alfred Hitchcock's masterpieces . True , he does seem to be subverting his style slightly for the story , which is at the core a tragedy of a man falsely accused ( and maybe not with the same ten...
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Hallelujah !
Viridiana may be one of the least surreal films in Luis Bunuel's career , more than likely , but it has perhaps the most acidic satire in any of his 1960s work . It's a film that , actually , might be a good portal into the director's work for those who haven't seen much or any of his work ( though one could always vou...
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Clint's best since Mystic River , and a harrowing performance from its star .
I saw Clint Eastwood recently on the Daily Show , and Jon Stewart brought up a point I have not read in the handful of reviews I had read before going into his latest film , Changeling . Often one sees movies about civil rights , racial or ethnic , but rarely in a well-produced Hollywood picture will the topic of the h...
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another good reason to pick up the new F for Fake DVD . . .
Orson Welles fans , this may be the best you'll get in terms of ' lock-box ' finished films from the prolific , perpetually fed over father of maverick-style cinema ( i . e . few films made in Hollywood , with Europe his only safe place for his very independent ways as an actor / writer / director / producer / editor )...
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one of the great Italian films of the 1970s , a tragic-comic take on living by Wertmuller
Seven Beauties goes for about the first hour seeming to be , for the most part , a wild lot of absurd and / or fully rounded moments of wit from the physical ( moving a large dead body around a room , a broom and pail of things thrown after getting beat to the grown , and most notably stealing food while rambling on in...
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a truly exciting , funny , and inspiring ' sports ' movie about the players of the toughest game in the world
If it weren't for the sincerity of it all - or maybe because of it - King of Kong could be conceived of as a mockumentary . But there's no joking with these guys , which sometimes makes it a lot of fun to watch the competition between Billy Mitchell and Steve Weebie ( right way to say the name ? ) , where sycophants an...
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A very well told coming of age / father and son / gangster picture , the best of its kind since Bronx Tale . . .
. . . although it is very difficult to compare it to the likes of the Godfather , which many critics have talked of following the release of Sam Mendes ' ( Best Picture of 99 American Beauty Mendes ' 2nd effort ) Road to Perdition . However in truth , this film takes place in a universe all its own , giving connection ...
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certainly not a sunny story , but it's as darkly exhilarating and ominous as any Shakespeare adaptation can get
To get the obvious out of the way - Roman Polanski directed Macbeth as the first film following the death of his wife , Sharon Tate , and unborn child at the hands of Charles Manson's gang . That factor in the film - not least of which in small details , like the first shot after the opening credits where a man finishi...
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One of the best comedies of the year , quirky and definitely inventive
Wes Anderson's third film The Royal Tenenbaums is the best film from him I've seen ( though I haven't seen Bottle Rocket , it's an improvement over Rushmore for me ) . He and his co-writer / actor Owen Wilson have created a fictional group of characters that are and aren't like people you would usually know , in other ...
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Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin ( and sometimes Tracy Morgan and Jack McBrayer ) , enough said
This show becomes addictive . Like the Office , the other current flagship comedy show on NBC ( and , very thankfully , playing back to back on Thursday nights ) , it has a curious effect on a first-time viewer : you may not entirely laugh out loud ( although it may depend on what episode ) , but it gets the curiosity ...
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Laugh your yambag off
This comedy special shows that even though Dice is not as popular , he is still over here , now . He brings comedy to the stage that hasn't been seen this good in years . He rants his usual stick about women , yambags , dry bananas and dry banana juice . Funny as hell , showing that Dice can still be unbelievable , ove...
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RIP Fernando Ramos da Silva , and anyone else in the film gone
Pixote is directed with barely a shred of sentimentality . And yet I more than imagine Hector Babenco owes some of his film-making chops with this film to Vittorio De Sica's neo-realist style , in particular Shoeshine ( that film , as with Pixote , takes place mostly inside a children's prison ) . And yet while I might...
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Not your typical ' revenge / action ' movie , but an absorbing , potent look at the cost of taking lives
Steven Spielberg has here his best film - or at least the best in his ' gritty ' sort of tradition that was hinted at in the Indiana Jones films , went full bloom in Schindler's List , and matured further with Saving Private Ryan and Minority Report - in many a moon . He uses his perfected skills at maneuvering the mis...
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Who has the milkshake ?
Curious that both of the two best films of the year ( the other No Country for Old Men ) - likely two of the most daring and great of American films I've ever encountered - both are measured , classically told stories of the pit of greed that encapsulates in the soulless . In the case of Paul Thomas Anderson's film , h...
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Best film of 1969 ; one of the best movies depicting the Hippie generation
Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper star as one of best on-screen duos of all time - 2 bikers from L . A . ( Los Angeles ) make a good score and hide the money and pretty much everything they've ever dreamed of inside one of they're gas tanks on their way to Mardi Gras . Along the way they pick up a hippie , 2 girls , a booz...
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Excuse me while I whip this out . Dead-pan funny
Blazing Saddles is one of the funniest movies to not only to come from Mel Brooks , but from cinema itself . Film stars Cleavon Little as a regular black laborer , but then a villain ( Heldey Lamarr is perfectly played by Harvey Korman ) wants to move a community out of the town Rockridge . So , he brings Cleavon in to...
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still a favorite that sticks in my mind
As a kid , in general , the Three Stooges ( four if you count Shemp , who had his great moments in spurts ) were like the wise-old sages of everything that went with good comedy . Sometimes they went for satire ( like their anti-Nazi shorts ' You Nazty Spy ' and ' I'll Never Heil Again ' ) , but for the most part just ...
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a kind of lesson maybe for film-students - a LOT of fun
I remember getting a kick of this short repeatedly when I saw Bug's Life in the theater repeatedly eight years back . Mostly because it sticks to the best rules of a little animated short like this . Less is more with the dialog , and editing and position of the camera are crucial . The filmmaker behind this , who hasn...
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You don't mind if I kill all of you ? " What ? Kill me if you can ! " " It'll hurt . "
Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo is a not too long , not too short action film that uses its action with just the right touches of voracity and excitement , and in the backdrop is also a sense of humor to the process . If I had to recommend a Kurosawa film to someone who's never seen one before ( and might be impatient to sit ...
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I am Shiva , the God of Death
So are spoken as some of the most desperate words - not crazy , there's a difference - in recent movie memory . Michael Clayton is about the character trying to deal with his hand of fate , which is pretty dire : he's 45 , working for 17 years for a law-firm where he's a " fixer " , cleaning up the problems that can't ...
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an entertaining , funny / sad classic
It's almost hard for me to picture what I will tell about The Blue Angel to those I recommend it to . It's a very special movie , and not necessarily for the only reason that some remember the film mostly for . Of course , Marlene Dietrich , in her debut , is stunningly sexy , in clothing in some scenes ( and the legs ...
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a must for any Priest fan , or maybe just Metal fan in general
This DVD is fantastic as a package of vintage Judas Priest material . Included is a concert that , until recently , was only available in scratchy VHS tapes or bootlegs . The concert , from the 1986 Fuel for Life tour , is a snapshot of the band in their prime ( including a fully-head-of-hair Rob Halford ) , with such ...
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not just for sega - one of the classic NES games from my childhood
Though if you try to find it now it will only be as a collectible or as a used item on ebay , Bart vs the Space Mutants was one of those great , if fairly simple , RPG games from those early days of video games - make that before things went past 16 megabytes or whatever it was . The simple task of the game was for Bar...
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a cinematic experience that's a near-nexus of existentialism - life , living , dying , death , and can be done while alive - remarkable
Akira Kurosawa knew how to get in touch with human nature through his art . With his visual expressiveness and storytelling , he could pierce through his subjects , even in his big and occasionally comical samurai films , and find the elemental things do work . What he probably learned off of Rashomon probably helped o...
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HOLY INSERT-JOKE-HERE ! this is one of the corniest , awesome / camp movies ever made !
Try not to put it too much , at all , in line with the other Batman movies , first of all . The difference between Christopher Nolan's Batman films and the 1960's TV show and subsequent spin-off movie is the difference between a hat and a boot - they both fit , but never in the same sections ( unless one likes walking ...
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an exploitation film on the surface , but really about exploitation , and done in a crazy , free-for-all satirical form
Coonskin might be my favorite Ralph Bakshi film . Like the best of his work , it's in-your-face and not ashamed of it for a second , but unlike some of his other work ( even when he's at his finest , which was before and after Coonskin with Heavy Traffic and Wizards ) , it's not much uneven , despite appearances to the...
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Coppola's ' other ' nineteen-seventies classic ; one of Hackman's most complex performances
Francis Form Coppola's The Conversation was his only film from the seventies written and directed by him ( and made through his Zoetrope studios ) , and it is no less than a major credit to his status as a creative , successfully experimental filmmaker of the new-wave of American directors of the 70's . The Conversatio...
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most fearless , vulgar , and successful satire of the year
Even before I saw Borat : Cultural Learning of . . . I knew what I was in for . Sacha Baron Cohen's characters on Da Ali G Show is possibly the most consistently funniest character of the lot of his creations . Just the theme music and the opening images of him running after a truck and swimming in a pool are funny . I...
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F flies
According to the description on the DVD I received of Satan's Brew from netflix this was the first actual full-on comedy that Rainer Werner Fassbinder directed . I imagine watching the film that it was something that was building up in him and basically , in a near literal expression in his art , exploded . This film i...
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remind me never to go to Pittsburgh !
A possible candidate for the quintessential David Cronenberg movie , this was one of the ones that put him on the map ( one of them , I say , as he had a few 80s movies before the big studio hit the Fly ) , but still speaks like few sci-fi surreal satires can do . It's chilling for some of it , and outright disturbing ...
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as surreal as Eraserhead or personal as Mean Streets or daring as anything out of the 20s , all Guy Maddin
It's easy to make a film that is extremely personal to a filmmaker , or has some real level of autobiography going on . And , as a result , there's a crop of personal films out there that just are not very good , because a filmmaker will confuse their factual lives and interesting cinema as one and the same when he for...
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a tribute to the endurance of man and nature , featuring a masterpiece of a performance
For a variety of reasons ( that are well known in the darker period of the director's history at this time ) , Akira Kurosawa left Japan to make a film in Russia ( Siberia to be exact ) . Instead of an epic action picture , he went to one of his other passions as a storyteller - the drama of pure humanity ( like Ikiru ...
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naturalistic to a T , cool to the bone , atmosphere and suspense pay-off
I've only seen a couple of other of Louis Malle's films , but I'm sure I'll want to see more after getting to see this in its revival in theaters . It's an ironic , tense , a little aloof and engrossing thriller that plays on a couple of expectations if not all . At times I almost felt like I was watching a darker , dr...
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truly threatening anarchic villains and action that doesn't feel like it'll stop
Mad Max 2 : The Road Warrior ( called just the second title on the copy I saw it , just as well as I've yet to see the first Mad Max film yet ) is more often than not tremendous movie-making in a kind of exploitation style of post - apocalyptic - punk - science - fiction - action , et all , that strikes where the iron ...
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Insightful and Entertaining - One of the best films of the 80's
The Wild Side ( I personally know it as Suburbia ) is a very well done film . It may not have a lot of heart or plot or other things some good films have , but it does have one thing - attitude . And that is something that counts in this type of film . It also has some good acting ( Flea makes his screen debut in this ...
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The final fight is worth it , but it may be the real underrated Star Wars movie
I say that comment in full understanding that this film isn't perfect ; the love story at times reminded me of something out of a Hallmark love movie , and Hayden Christensen as the padewan Anakin shows how the right looks and attitudes still need some better acting choices to make it work right . Yet , after viewing i...
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I didn't know what to expect from this , and it's really a nifty short
They Caught the Ferry is a superb little exercise in filming and editing to maximum potential . According to the summary , it was meant as a propaganda piece against fast driving in Denmark . Going into it I had no idea that would be what it's about , maybe it would be some quick doc on ferries . Turns out it gives the...
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won't be for everyone - it's an experimental drama-documentary by Brian De Palma - but it has an effectiveness in a ' lack ' of style
The legendary words of Marshall MacLoughan , " The media IS the message " , couldn't be further seen played out as in Redacted , Brian De Palma's latest film which ventures the director back into his experimental early days as a filmmaker in New York city . In his film , the media is the message , but only in part - it...
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the final installment
There's something about the Star Wars movies that have reached a grand culmination with Revenge of the Sith , the final installment of the prequel trilogy , and of Star Wars completely as a saga - the storytelling has reached a peak ( much like with the other two masterpieces A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back ) . ...
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One of the Best films of the year
American Psycho is a terrific film . I got a lot more than I expected from a horror film . It turns out to be a satire about a narcasistic businessman who has a hobby for killing . I wathced as Christian Bale gave his best performance yet , and I realized his vanity in the film was enough to be a psycho . I guess the k...
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As coolly intense and exceptionally-staged as any detective story / film-noir of the 40's & 50's
Chinatown is a tremendous collaborative effort that produced one of the most memorable Hollywood pictures of the 1970's . Director Roman Polanski ( his last film in America , and the first he made in America after the murder of Sharon Tate ) , stars Jack Nicholson & Faye Dunaway , and writer Robert Towne , all come tog...
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what Mad Max / The Road Warrior was to the action / exploitation picture , Happy Feet is to the animated family / comedy / musical : Miller's back !
Wow , was all I had to say after leaving this movie . I mention the director , George Miller , in the opening one line because it's of note , at least in my line of thinking , to notice where the bending-genre-conventions comes from for Happy Feet . We have seen this , to be sure , in the Babe pictures , where a pig we...
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still at the top of my De Palma list ; stellar cast with a tight ball of a script
Among the top five films of 1987 , and filmmaker Brian De Palma's career , is the Untouchables , a firecracker kind of Hollywood film that gives the story of Elliot Ness versus Al Capone some great panache . And it's the kind of great film that is so only through the combined efforts of everybody , not just De Palma , ...
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one of the under-looked classics of the 1950s
I don't know much about cortisone , but from seeing Nicholas Ray's film Bigger Than Life I can have to guess that unless there have been some major medical breakthroughs in the 50 years since this came out , it should have a very huge warning label on the bottle . But it isn't really about cortisone , per-say , even as...
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one of the great war films ( for the art-house )
Shame is rather unique as a war film ( or rather quite the anti-war film ) in that it not only doesn't focus on the soldiers or politics involved ( there is politics but not how you'd think it'd be shown ) , it deals with its two main subjects as the only two beings that can possibly be cared about at all in this bruta...
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great as spectacle and technical wonder , but also a heartbreaking tale of a lost woman
It is not entirely fair to recommend Lola Montes so highly , or admire it so , since even the version that screened recently at the Film Forum in NYC , purported to be the definitive restoration , is still a truncated version . The original director's cut that premiered in France in 1955 , and then to immediate withdra...
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A Disturbing and Powerful Masterpiece
Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver is a riveting , disturbing and powerful masterpiece of a film that gives new meaning to the word " snapped " . The scenes , quotes and characters are legendary and so is this film giving breakthrough performances to Albert Brooks , Jodie Foster , and of course , Robert De Niro . De Niro pl...
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a plum of a little film
Here is one of the ultimate tales in Christian parody-parables : Luis Bunuel , who partially made a career out of ridiculing ( though in good dramatic / comedic measure ) the church , made this film about a man ( Simon of the title ) who stands a-top a column to get closer to God . He gains the total attention and prai...
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the " first Hitchcock film " is a taut , visually expressive and even darkly funny serial killer feature
Alfred Hitchcock's the Lodger finds the master of suspense , at 27 , already with an instant knack at mounting suspense and dread , often with some startling camera movements , not to mention the moments of gallows humor . It's exhilarating to see Hitchcock , in a silent film no less , stage the implied murder of a wom...
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a modern classic in the sci-fi genre
This may just be one of those ultra - excited - after - seeing - a - movie moments , but seeing Sunshine is truly a life-affirming experience , because through all the deaths that occur , it ends on a note that is inspiring in a truthful , gut-wrenching way . Edging in as Boyle's best , and at least most visually and i...
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the story of man's incredible / mundane downfall , in one of Herzog's best
What an unclassifiable hybrid / whatever movie Stroszek is . I'd wager it's the kind of picture that Gonzo the Great ( yes , the Muppet ) would probably make if he were from Germany and looking to make a tragic-comic look on one man's journey in the rural side of America ( after all , the last sequence would make perfe...
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The Best Picture of 1992
This film is great . It won 4 Oscars ( including Best Director for Eastwood and Best Picture ) and are well deserved . Unlike some other wetserns with gun slingers and such , this one is quite different . Here , Eastwood plays a man who for years has tried to forget his past , but it comes back to haunt him after the d...
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Disturbingly effective , for two audiences
A while back I thought after seeing Seven that this is a film gets in the crowd of the macabre disturbing films including Texas Chainsaw Massacre , Clockwork Orange , Dawn of the Dead , etc . It does and then it doesn't as well . It has that kind of horrific core on display of humanities ills alongside the violent natu...
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it's so embedded in the popular culture and cinema history its easy to forget how much fun the film is
Double Indemnity , first showed to me a few years back in a film class ( naturally ) , struck me in certain ways , and then the more I thought about it afterward even more-so . I watched it again very soon after , and of course agreed with the teacher that it was the " textbook film-noir " , practically defining the ' ...
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I feel as though there was someone else inside of me .
It comes to mind immediately for comparison - Twin Peaks , the great cult TV show , as being what Takashi Miike used as influence for his much more ' cult ( or rather , little seen but raved in its small circles of fandom ) take on an investigation of bizarre crimes in an even more bizarre half real-half dream environm...
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One of the Best Documentaries Ever made
Woodstock is a great documentary . It is edited very well and has great spirit and music in the mix . For the generation of the time it was what symbolized them , and I think this is the perfect film for them . Edited very finely ( by the director , Oscar Winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker and the man himself , Martin S...
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a true tragic-comedy , balanced out to pure Michael Moore
Michael Moore , even with all of those who have lambasted him over and over again , serves a strong purpose in this day and age . In a time when democrats can whimper out of many an issue , Moore is someone who's got guts as a muckraker and filmmaker , but also as just a thinking member of the populous . The health-car...
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the best mockumentary of the year you won't see
CSA : The Confederate States of America just got released in maybe a few more theaters in America , after being repressed ( or just not getting the right distribution until IFC intervened ) in limited distribution . Maybe I can see why it'll be one of the under-seen films of 2006 . This is a very involving , at times d...
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PJ doing what it does best ; get the DVD !
Pearl Jam have proved themselves to be one of the enduring rock and roll bands of the 90's - still together , still making moving , combustible music that finds that perfect edge of hard-rock while still appealing to a massive audience . For its own cult group , which is rather big in and of itself , a DVD like Touring...
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four of the greatest rock epics ever , all in one concert !
To see a complete concert from the Doors is like taking a wild trip into a different frame of mind in rock and roll , when you could see just about anything on stage creatively . This concert , from 1968 in Hollywood , is the band in their utmost prime . With the Doors you get the strange , overpowering presence and le...
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Nothing to touch the earth , not to see the sun , nothing left to do but run , run , run , let's run .
This is just a sampling of the lyrics that singer / writer Jim Morrison contributed to his group The Doors , and just this , as part of his epic piece " The Celebration of the Lizard " shows his skill as a master of the written word . He is shown in Oliver Stone's The Doors as a shy , though often obnoxious and crude ,...
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for the casual Doors observer it'll do it's job and be interesting , but it's gold for the die-hard Doors fan
I knew that this video existed , but it seemed to vanish in the wake of videos and the call of DVDs . Luckily , it was included in the Doors collection DVD set among two other good specials ( Dance on Fire , a best-of collection , and a live concert in 1968 ) . It was my favorite of the three for several reasons , but ...
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a visual fable of the highest order - one of the five great future films ever made
Fritz Lang was constantly experimenting with ways to tell stories by way of the visual medium , and his 1927 opus Metropolis is the cream of the crop of examples of this . Perhaps it was seeing the film in the greatest possible format ( a fully restored print on the KINO DVD , filled with inter-titles to keep the story...
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Don't Look Back part deux
Another slice of the time capsule is what 65 Revisited comes down to - a capsule from the ' Don't Look Back ' documentary , where Pennebaker put his practically objective 16mm lens on Dylan and what might be considered his crossover period ( I say ' practically ' since it's right before his electric switch , which may ...
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a wonderful romantic comedy , both light and dark , and ultimately bittersweet .
Michel Gondry has been a name branded into my movie-going consciousness ever since Eternal Sunshine , though he's also been extremely adept and unique with his direction of various music videos ( some of the best being for the White Stripes ) . After Block Party earlier this year now comes The Science of Sleep , and it...
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Walt Disney Pictures presents : a film by David Lynch ; far from it being a crazy concept , it's a sweet little slice of great film-making
What a truly and unabashedly serene road movie this is . Lynch , through his co-writer / wife's script , seems to understand how simple but not so simple life and the people living in rural areas can be . Veering on part Iowa-neorealist fable and in part a truly experimental feat for the filmmaker ( eg how to match tog...
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Bizarre , frightening , oddly beautiful
David Lynch's Blue Velvet is many things , but it definitely is one of the most audacious and original pictures from the 80's . It blends in humor from the good old days and macabre that would make Tobe Hooper cringe ( if only a little bit ) . It's a type of movie filled with so much style and little cinema tricks that...
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a gritty , lost classic in the biker movie era
On the one hand , after watching Angels Hard as They Come , I could understand why it's not higher rated or even been seen anymore than the common garden-variety B-movie biker flick , as it is true shamelessly Corman-style . On the other hand , I ended really liking how it was executed . The collaborators , Joe Viola a...
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one of the best episodes - at least an obvious fan favorite - Ricardo Montalban's finest hour ! . . .
. . . till the Wrath of Khan that is . In a precursor to one of the finest Stark Trek films , this is the episode that introduces the ' superman ' type of villain in specially-bred Khan , who came aboard the enterprise following a sort of ' dethawing ' that awoke him from sleep since the 1990s . It's a fascinating epis...
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certainly the smartest of the " talking-head " shows on cable-news TV
In a time when watching Chris Matthews , Tucker Carlson , Lou Dobbs , Bill O'Reilly and Hannity can be repetitive , boring , safe , wretched , and just downright wrong and bullying ( even if the former sometimes is OK ) , Keith Olbermann is a sublime respite . Yes , he'll make his point of view known , but an unpopular...
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Another one to add to my top 50 - a delicate study of desperation in post war Italy
Vittorio De Sica's ground / heartbreaking motion picture , The Bicycle Thief , is based on a very simple ideal for a story - man against the elements . In this case the elements are of a society that is often cruel and unforgiving , and that a job in post-war Rome is looked on as the luckiest of good luck charms . Such...
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One of the best of Italian , and Fellini's , films
Great movie by Federico Fellini that reveals in the minute details of life , even as his visions go wild . I saw the film again recently and realized how much I didn't see when I first saw it ( and reviewed it subsequently in an improper , amateurish way ) in my own youth . It's a film detailing a specific place in Ita...
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. . . Do you lie ?
The Departed is the most entertaining kind of non-stop , intense crime thriller of the year , maybe in the past few years . Some critics have said that it's the best film that director Martin Scorsese has made since Goodfellas . I understand where the compliment comes from , though I slightly resent the subtle criticis...
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the David Lynch film is his funniest ( though still with some strangeness to bear )
I saw the David Lynch short film , the Cowboy and the Frenchman , not with this mini-series , but on a DVD featuring some of his other recent and early short film work . While this wasn't necessarily the most ' Lynchian ' of the bunch on the disc ( check out the Amputee or Alphabet for that ) , it happens to contain mo...
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it can now be found on some sites on-line ; well worth seeking out as one of the best of the 60s
Jim Henson as a filmmaker sometimes doesn't get as much credit as for his main innovations with the Muppets and establishing them throughout the years as the head producer of the Henson company . But behind the genius puppeteer that he was , he was also very good at creating a style that was all his own , whether it wa...
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a movie that embraces the Hollywood studio machine while putting a harsh criticism of it
That one line summary makes me sound like I'm calling the Bad and the Beautiful a case in ' tough love ' , where director Vincente Minnelli wags his finger at what happens to some people ( cough , David O . Selznick , cough ) , while also showing too the joys of working in the business . But it's a business at its most...
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Thoroughly enjoyable , memorable characters and scenes , an early classic in humanist / prison escape films
I can't deny that Jean Renoir has a genuine eye for human connectedness and moves his camera with a practical naturalness . The performances by the principal actors as well ( Jean Gabin as the working-class Marechal , Pierre Fresnay as the eloquent Boieldieu , Marcel Dalio as the subtle and happy Rosenthal , and Erich ...
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not exactly subtle , but it is some kind of morbid comic masterpiece
My first thought as Arsenic and Old Lace ended : I didn't know Capra had it in him ! This is a delightfully morbid comedy , one that sometimes is pitch-dark in tone , but it so insane that it can do no wrong . It opens on a Brooklyn Dodgers game that goes into riot and then . . . it moves on right away to a whole other...
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Inland Empire - where the stars make dreams , and dreams make stars . . .
The bulk of that line refers to a quote from the film Inland Empire - spoken in a cameo by William H . Macy as a TV show announcer - and one might be tempted to use that as the template to try and ' figure out ' what happens through the course of the film's three hours . It is indeed , especially on a second viewing , ...
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A thrilling crime film , in deep touch and care with the characters - Besson and Portman's best work to date
I sensed that Luc Besson ( director of The Fifth Element and La Femme Nikita ) was , like Tarantino and many , many others before him , borrowed elements from various films and genres to create their own voice in the film . With Leon , I sensed him alluding to the crime films of France ( i . e . Melville ) , Hong-Kong ...
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the Hustons and Bogart in a perennial story of money being the root of all evils - even in good men
Fred Dobbs doesn't have a nickel to his name , at least when he's in the small Mexican village at the start of the Treasure of the Sierra Madre . But whatever the situation is , he wants what he can get , and if anyone tries to get in his way he'll let em have it . We see this early one when he and Bob Curtain have to ...
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long but lean , heroic but very knowing , visually gorgeous and well-acted
I'm not sure why I put off , or just didn't get around , to seeing the Right Stuff . I could take my pick , but really I was never made to sit down by my parents or in school or other to watch it , and . . . screw the excuses , I wasn't sure about a 193 minute movie about astronauts as a kid . But now having seen it it...
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one of the few truly amazing Italian horror films ( at least outside of Argento )
I've wondered having seen a few of the films by Lucio Fulci what the big deal about him was . Zombie was decent and had a couple of moments but didn't impress , its " sequel " Zombie 3 was atrocious and New York Ripper , while entertaining , felt hollow and without any real grip of terror consistently . With the Beyond...
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Not the best , but still fun
Return of the Jedi is the last of the series ( episode 6 ) and it may not be the best of the series , but like the other films , it still is all in good fun ( and the Flash Gordon matinae serials ) . The story brings Luke Skywalker to confront his father for the second time with Emperor Palpatine helping along . Also ,...
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one of the best European horror films this decade
The key to keeping the sci-fi horror genre alive in the cinemas , as of late , is to make sure the material and techniques the filmmakers present is at least competent , at it's average creative , and at it's best something that we haven't seen before or haven't seen in such a style or form . George A . Romero did that...
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as cool a homage to the Thing you're likely to see
A team varied between Scully and Mulder , two other scientists , a pilot , and the guy who plays Bana on Seinfeld , go up to an Arctic research post where all members have died off by either killing each other or killing themselves . They discover there's a worm - a virus - that is parasitic to the point of madness and...
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Definitely the best film ever made , or at least the most shockingly effective
Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange is a great film , but also stubbornly so , to the point where you have to either like it or dis-like it ( as Pauline Kael said , it's from the mind of a ' mad German filmmaker mind ' , ho-ho ) . It looks into the human ways like never before ( rarely since as funny or questioningly ...
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Even better to see in on the DVstill topical special
Following his first few comedy specials on Comedy Central , the angriest , superb take-no-prisoners comic Lewis Black made this special dedicated to what every American ( well , almost ) can identify with - the procedures and overall stress that goes with the lead up to April 15th . His special is mostly done with Blac...
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shocking not just for what is shown but what is implied ; it's an act of perverse psychological trickery on the part of Cronenberg and Irons
Dead Ringers wasn't necessarily a very pleasant film experience , but it's one that did shake me to the core as I watched it , in a way that is slightly comparable to The Fly . As an auteur , which could likely be applied to David Cronenberg , he keeps pressing on with many themes that he's been working through in the ...
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like Alexander himself , the latest epic from Oliver Stone , it has it's moments of greatness , though surely not overall
The final product of Oliver Stone's decades-in-the-making epic on Alexander the great had me stunned walking out of the theater . Not because I thought it was particular great or masterful , and not because I thought it was a failure either . What stunned me was how there could be a few points in the film where I thoug...
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One of the best Godard films
First Name : Carmen is an enthralling hybrid for director / actor Jean-Luc Godard and screenwriter ( and frequent collaborator ) Anne-Marie Mieville . After almost a decade of weird , philosophical experimentation , they took on the opera of Carmen ( the original story of which , unfortunately , I am not very knowledge...
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My brain ! . . . That's my second favorite organ .
Woody Allen's Sleeper is one of his best films yet . The wit is , common for 70s era Allen , razor-sharp on the fronts of Woody's retorts and nervous ramblings , as well as in visual terms . Allen comes closest to taking the visual comedic spirit of the silent era , or of the first sound comedies , and making it fit pe...
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takes cues from Hitchcock and then takes a leap forward ; De Palma's best , most bizarre comedy / thriller
I'd have to say that this film , though sometimes just shamefully manipulative for audience reaction ( and I say that sort of as a compliment ) , is one of De Palma's very best films , both artistically and just in sheer entertainment value . It's got the low-budget quality of an AIP production , but set apart from Rog...
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awfully
This movie is done on a sorta drug or crazy man vision . It is disturbing and just plain stupid . One thing it does well is reflect modern violent society . It shows how sick people and the media can be ; However , they make the lead characters into heroes instead of bad guys , which bothers me .
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Something that rhymes with it .
This movie is garbage to be kind . Do not waste your money or time . I thought it was going to be like True Romance by reading the cover but , it turns into this weird Gen x film . They try to make GenX look like 60's children but in reality we are too busy moving from one crappy job to the next . There was no real sto...
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garbage , Why did my wife rent this ? I've seen better acting on wrestling
Contains Spoilers If it wins an award it is usually a boring social message movie that has some artistic flavor to it . E T , Raiders , and other true classics will always be beaten out by Philidaphia , Ghandi , etc . Well , this film is an . Halle Barry wins an award ! Maybe it should have been an adult movie award fo...