Friday, October 19, 2007

8 1/2

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It is only appropriate that we honor those works which were so much a part of our formative experience with cinema. Now while this may open ...

The Piano

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Jane Campion’s The Piano (1993) is, to my eyes, one of cinema’s great beauties, filled with the rapture of beatific images and music, of sp...

Ratcatcher

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Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher (1999) is perhaps the biggest surprise on this list for me. It was one of the last additions, largely because I ke...

Grave of the Fireflies

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Looking at my animated selections in this blog ( Toy Story 2 and Whisper of the Heart ), it should be readily apparent that I am most attra...

The Thin Red Line

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There is a melancholy beauty in all of Terrence Malick’s films, and in The Thin Red Line (1998), Malick simultaneously fashions his most int...

Breaking the Waves

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It is one of cinema’s great dilemmas—if a director falls into a habit of repetitious themes and characterizations yet still broaches those t...

The Red Shoes

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Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s collaboration with The Red Shoes (1948) is easily one of the most captivating experiences in cinema ...
Sunday, October 07, 2007

The Goonies

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Ah, childhood. Being a product of 1982, I came of age at the tail end of Hollywood’s 80’s appeal to suburbia and our inner Pan. Still, I so...
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Sunday, August 26, 2007

Punishment Park

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While never subtle, Peter Watkins' Punishment Park (1971) is riveting and willing to engage in political discussion through dialogue and...

Sherlock Jr.

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Just over 40 minutes long, Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr. (1924) is built upon one of the more self-reflexive ideas of silent cinema—accused ...

Three Colors: Blue

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Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colors: Blue (1993) is one of the three immaculate films that came out of 1993, along with Jane Campion’s The ...
Saturday, August 04, 2007

Basic Instinct

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While Basic Instinct (1992) received much of its attention to a certain leg-crossing scene and a lowbrow but quality-in-its-meta-ness Joe Es...
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Total Recall

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Total Recall (1990) creates more of a dilemma than the other films that Verhoeven has crafted, as there are two distinct paths to a review ...
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Spetters

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A film that seems to anticipate the amateur dirt bike revolution that would be epitomized by the awesomely bad film Rad , Verhoeven’s Spette...
Monday, July 23, 2007

Muriel's Wedding

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P.J. Hogan’s Australian film Muriel Wedding’s (1994) is one of the premiere exhibits of what honesty and comprehensiveness can do to what is...
Tuesday, July 17, 2007

2001: A Space Odyssey

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Few films are as directly meditative as Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Constructed around visuals and music rather than con...
Friday, July 13, 2007

Linda Linda Linda

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Nobuhiro Yamashita’s Linda, Linda, Linda (2005) is an appropriately odd film, one that celebrates the innocence and fearlessness that comes ...