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Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme)
7/10
Dragged during some parts, especially the wedding rehearsal dinner and the wedding and reception scenes. It was the most fun and coolest wedding I have ever seen but they spent, IMO, too much time on it with scenes that showed various people having fun but not developing characters or moving the story. But what a great wedding!
Very good performances. A lot of needlessly melodramatic scenes but it worked for me because the actors do such a good job. The scene late in the film when Rachel comforts her sister when you were not sure how Rachel would react to what her sister had just done made me tear up a little. I think Rosemarie Dewitt deserves a supporting Oscar nom more than Anne Hathaway deserves a leading nom, though both are very good. She was good as Don Draper's beatnik girlfriend but I did not suspect she had such talent. When Anne and Rosemarie were on the screen together, I was looking at Rosemarie.
Edited By kaytodd on 1226199054
7/10
Dragged during some parts, especially the wedding rehearsal dinner and the wedding and reception scenes. It was the most fun and coolest wedding I have ever seen but they spent, IMO, too much time on it with scenes that showed various people having fun but not developing characters or moving the story. But what a great wedding!
Very good performances. A lot of needlessly melodramatic scenes but it worked for me because the actors do such a good job. The scene late in the film when Rachel comforts her sister when you were not sure how Rachel would react to what her sister had just done made me tear up a little. I think Rosemarie Dewitt deserves a supporting Oscar nom more than Anne Hathaway deserves a leading nom, though both are very good. She was good as Don Draper's beatnik girlfriend but I did not suspect she had such talent. When Anne and Rosemarie were on the screen together, I was looking at Rosemarie.
Edited By kaytodd on 1226199054
The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. Oliver Wendell Holmes
City Girl - silent version (Murnau, 1930)
Thanks to Damien for inspiring me to make sure I watched this on my current F.W. Murnau kick. Wonderful film and, as he says in another thread, a fascinating comparison piece to Sunrise. The scene in which the couple run through the fields when they first arrive on Charles Farrel's father's farm is clearly one of those magical scenes in all cinema. I'm almost certain I'd rate this film even higher if I were to see a decent copy, not the highly-dupey VHS version I rented.
8/10
Thanks to Damien for inspiring me to make sure I watched this on my current F.W. Murnau kick. Wonderful film and, as he says in another thread, a fascinating comparison piece to Sunrise. The scene in which the couple run through the fields when they first arrive on Charles Farrel's father's farm is clearly one of those magical scenes in all cinema. I'm almost certain I'd rate this film even higher if I were to see a decent copy, not the highly-dupey VHS version I rented.
8/10
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Finally caught up with C.R.A.Z.Y. What a fantastic film! Everything that has been said about the soundtrack is true, but Vallee's attention to detail and some wonderful performances (especially Michel Cote as the father) carry the film to a greater level. I love how rounded and three-dimensional the entire film. Whereas lots of other filmmakers would turn the father into a villain, or condemn Zac for his heterosexual experiences, this film treats them as realities and thinks that every person and move in the film is acceptable and alright. It almost makes the ending even more powerful than it would be in a more conventional film.
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Tartuffe (F.W.Murnau, 1926)
On just about any other director's resume this would be a major standout. On Murnau's it gets comparatively obscured. Fine comic performances from Caligari stars Lil Dagover & Werner Krauss, and especially from the first Best Actor Oscar winner Emil Jannings.
8/10
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On just about any other director's resume this would be a major standout. On Murnau's it gets comparatively obscured. Fine comic performances from Caligari stars Lil Dagover & Werner Krauss, and especially from the first Best Actor Oscar winner Emil Jannings.
8/10
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Broken Arrow (1950; Delmer Daves) 6/10
Once-famous western--with James Stewart as a Civil War vet who helps broker peace with Apache leader Cochise (Jeff Chandler, Oscar nominated but bland)--doesn't hold up: stiff, choppy, only occasionally entertaining.
Once-famous western--with James Stewart as a Civil War vet who helps broker peace with Apache leader Cochise (Jeff Chandler, Oscar nominated but bland)--doesn't hold up: stiff, choppy, only occasionally entertaining.
"...it is the weak who are cruel, and...gentleness is only to be expected from the strong." - Leo Reston
"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable." - Jodie Foster
"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable." - Jodie Foster
Wonder Boys
9/10
...I understand detractors now a little more. This is my umpteenth viewing of the film and it remains such a pleasurable experience but it does wrap up very tidily (although I adore the ending) and some of the parts have an uneasiness to them. But the direction is wonderful, the cinematography makes bold hand held choices and remains one of the most gorgeously shot comedies of the decade, the soundtrack, costume design, and editing are pretty perfect, and I pretty much continue to love the heck out of the thing. I read a review by Theo Panayadis (sp?) who said that he wishes there were more movies like this one, just not this one per se. Just like this is fine by me.
(BTW - it was raining like Pittsburgh in Los Angeles, and damn near dressed like Grady Tripp while watching in PJ's and ugly ass robe.)
Before Sunrise - 9/10
...actual rating is 8/10 b/c the parts are really quite unengaging at times, some of their banter and encounters are really rather twee. What works in this movie is how it's been subsequently transformed by 'Before Sunset' into a living memory. 'Before Sunrise' was a movie that feels amazingly now but now it's very incredibly past as well. It's very serendipitous that it works so well as both. A wonderful time.
9/10
...I understand detractors now a little more. This is my umpteenth viewing of the film and it remains such a pleasurable experience but it does wrap up very tidily (although I adore the ending) and some of the parts have an uneasiness to them. But the direction is wonderful, the cinematography makes bold hand held choices and remains one of the most gorgeously shot comedies of the decade, the soundtrack, costume design, and editing are pretty perfect, and I pretty much continue to love the heck out of the thing. I read a review by Theo Panayadis (sp?) who said that he wishes there were more movies like this one, just not this one per se. Just like this is fine by me.
(BTW - it was raining like Pittsburgh in Los Angeles, and damn near dressed like Grady Tripp while watching in PJ's and ugly ass robe.)
Before Sunrise - 9/10
...actual rating is 8/10 b/c the parts are really quite unengaging at times, some of their banter and encounters are really rather twee. What works in this movie is how it's been subsequently transformed by 'Before Sunset' into a living memory. 'Before Sunrise' was a movie that feels amazingly now but now it's very incredibly past as well. It's very serendipitous that it works so well as both. A wonderful time.
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