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Elegy (Isabel Coixet, 2008) 5/10

Terribly slow film.....although Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz are good.
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mlrg wrote:The Wings of the Dove (1997) - Iain Softley

6/10

Allison Elliot was robbed of a nomination for this. Eduardo Serra's cinematography is stunning and was clearly robbed of an oscar win (as was his nomination for Girl with the Pearl Earing)
The costumes were, I thought, the true knockouts. Nothing wrong with Titanic's, but Dove's were the most exquisite I saw that year.

As for Jane Fonda, no American actress approached her ability in the late 60s/70s -- The Shoot Horses, Klute, Julia, China Syndrome were major achievements.

I never liked her as much in Coming Home, and I thought that performance started her on a downward, "I must retell the story of my radicalization in every role" spiral. I actually think The Morning After is far and away her best film work post 1980 -- unfortunately contained inside a silly trifle.
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Vantage Point (Pete Travis, 2008) 7/10

Mindless fun. Dennis Quaid is very good.




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The Education of Charlie Banks (2007) Fred Durst 4/10

Me Two (2008) Nicolas Charlet & Bruno Lavaine 2/10

Operation Mad Bull (1957) Richard Quine 5/10

The Buccaneer (1938) Cecil B. DeMille 4/10

The Cheat (1931) George Abbott 4/10
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Whole Movie: Up (dir. Pete Docter) - 8/10

Prologue: Up (dir. Pete Docter) - 11/10

At the center of a pretty solid if rushed Miyazaki film is an emotionally devastating relationship between a man and his wife and the life unlived. At the beginning of the movie is the most heartbreaking short film I've ever seen.
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mlrg wrote:The Morning After (1986) - Sidney Lumet

5/10

Interesting mid 80's thriller (as interesting as a mid 80's film can be....). Jane Fonda was not as bad as I was expecting.
She used to be a good actress.
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The Wings of the Dove (1997) - Iain Softley

6/10

Allison Elliot was robbed of a nomination for this. Eduardo Serra's cinematography is stunning and was clearly robbed of an oscar win (as was his nomination for Girl with the Pearl Earing)
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The Scarlet Empress (1934; Josef von Sternberg) 10/10

WOW! Direction, acting, cinematography, editing, costumes, sets--simply breathtaking and astonishing from start to finish!
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The Morning After (1986) - Sidney Lumet

5/10

Interesting mid 80's thriller (as interesting as a mid 80's film can be....). Jane Fonda was not as bad as I was expecting.
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Practically Yours (1945) Mitchell Leisen 4/10

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008) Marina Zenovich 8/10

State of Play (2009) Kevin Macdonald 4/10
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Jane Eyre (1944; Robert Stevenson) 8/10

Atmospheric adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's classic novel, with Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles going all gothic with aplomb. Script strips the story to its basic core (and jettisons the book's major weakness, a third act development that would've dragged the film); gorgeous black & white cinematography.
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Beau Travail - work of art

Beyond letter grade or stars given, Beau Travail is simply a work of art, and the most aptly named film I've ever seen. "Good work." "Good work, man." "Sir, this is what we expect of you." All in this title. Beau Travail is freedom through oppression, art through work, and through cinematic ellipses, Denis strips down filmic narrative to the same regiment in which these men train. It's basically a work of art, not for everyone, emotionally distant, physically immediate.




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Fugitive Pieces

7/10

Too slow sometimes, but it has its great moments...
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Friday Night - 8/10
Life is gorgeously major miniature. Who is Jean? We are always left wondering as does Laure. Her mind restlessly de- and reconstructs this man she has picked up. Is he by nature seducer or lonely? The prospect of merely either one is too much for her. This is a rapturously shot film, among the most gorgeous I've seen, and to date the only Claire Denis film I've seen.

As Before Sunrise sadly yet admirably ages into an increasingly adolescent, androcentric fantasy (or gloriously into Before Sunset), my thirst for liberating cinematic rendez-vous remains unquelled. If Friday Night occasionally languishes, it does so fetishistically, playfully, and humanistically.
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Wild Boys of the Road (1933) William Wellman 9/10

I've wanted to see this for years and I wasn't disappointed.

Murder at the Vanities (1934) Mitchell Leisen 6/10

The Art of Being Straight (2008) Jesse Rosen 4/10

Acolytes (2009) Jon Hewitt 1/10
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