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From somewhere – I can't pin-point exactly where – I picked up the impression that Angelopoulos was some kind of aloof, arrogant, and deliberately esoteric...
It took a while for me to be persuaded by this film. It starts with a teenage girl and her younger bother who are growing up with parents who try to escape...
Warning predatory women on the loose. Thus with scheming sisters Marion (Kate Winslett) and Eleanor (Emma Thompson) on the prowl, no self respecting single man...
Lawrence Olivier and Michael Caine seem to be having the time of their life in this adaptation by Anthony Shaffer of his own play. They play Andrew Wyke and...
This may be a little more conventional, and a little less surreal than Miyazaki's "Spirited Away", but it's still quite a treat. In a mythic story, with...
After the Dardennes' previous films "Rosetta" and "The Promise" I had high expectations for this, their latest work. Amazingly, they deliver yet again, with a...
It's the wonderfully demented world of Takashi Miike. So it's no real surprise that we are plunged into a weird horror musical comedy, that opens with a clay...
I finally got a chance to see this film on video and have to say it was a disappointment. Yes, the subject matter isn't exactly uplifting, but that's okay....
Having recently re-watched Trainspotting, I would have to agree with your point about a lack of engagement with the characters in Requiem. I still think...
A curious but deeply affecting film from the great Powell and Pressburger team. If fact, I would have to say it's now one of my favourites. It starts with the...
An alternative title for this film might be "Laughter". In this story of a wealthy couple undergoing a painful breakdown, laughter of one kind or another, by...
Another film I'm catching up with for the first time. It's by Alex Cox, so I shouldn't really be surprised that it's more or less deranged. I mean, the story...
I haven't seen any other Wes Craven films, but from the quality of this offering, he knows how to do horror. It takes someone who is skilled at the genre to...
The Manhatton based 'Roger' of our story is something of a ladies man; or should that be lounge lizard. Make your choice, but when he doesn't have the...
Here's a curiosity. Joe Hisaishi may well be known to some of you as the writer of lushly romantic scores for the films of Takeshi Kitano and Hiyao Miyazaki....
So to start with a quick resume, this is a true story of a crusading female journalist who sought to bring down Dublin's drug barons. Despite two failed...
Pirates of the Carribean was brillant, one of the films of the year for me. I have to agree with everything Mike O'Brien said. Johnny Depp was hilarious,...
While I felt that the movie would have been nothing without Johnny Depp -- what a loon! -- I also thought that it was typical Disney schmaltz. There was no...
At a marathon 3 hours plus, this film tries to portray the changing face of China during the 1980s. The duration may be epic, but the storyline is focussed...
If you saw Svankmajer's "Little Otik", you will to some extent be prepared for the surreal feast presented in this film; but not quite, this is even more...
Although the storyline - two old friends who meet up, find they are very different and, at least for one of them, have lost that sense of who they used to be...
As I remember when this was being made (circa 78/79) a little historical perspective is in order. Punk Rock was on the crest of a wave, whilst the kids who...
... Thanks for this Mike. I occasionally reminisce about the Who album with a friend, and he always asks whether I've seen the film. I have to awkwardly...
There's no doubting the scale and scope of this epic tale. Couched in the cinematic language of the blockbuster, it tells the story of a mid-nineteenth...
A boy balances precariously above a freeway. The voiceover says: "On the Long Island Expressway there are lanes going east, lanes going west, and lanes going...
It's factually correct to describe this film as a documentary about a small rural French school, but this description fails to convey the richness and humanity...
Hi I know what you mean when you say that you felt something was missing, although I thought that this film was possessed of some unexpected subtly. The ...
The reason I've belatedly got round to seeing this film is twofold: firstly, the director is Michael Winterbottom, and I've liked some of his other films;...
Words do little to describe how much I hated this movie. I knew it was long, and 5 minutes into it, I know it was crap and it would be a long 2.5 hours until I...
Thanks for the interesting historical background on the film. I'll be interested to see whether any of the points you raise come out in the DVD commentary or...
