Are you a bug, Bill Murray? It’s an odd question, but in the context of Jim Jarmusch’s brilliant consideration of human interaction, COFFEE AND CIGARETTES, there is both genius and poetry to it. This series of vignettes filmed in glossy, nostalgic black and white examines ten different conversations that on the surface have nothing in common… Read More »
STATESIDE
At one point in STATESIDE, Dori, played by Rachel Leigh Cook, asks Mark, played by Jonathan Tucker), and Im quoting here, whether or not two people who sort of suck can marry each other. Legally, of course, there is no law against it. As for the philosophical implications, I reserve judgment, there being so many… Read More »
NOI ALBINOI
Noi, the eponymous hero of NOI ALBINOI (Tomas Lemarquis), is a pale guy in a pale country. Hes more than pale, really, hes an albino and the country is Iceland in winter. A small town in northern Iceland in winter, actually. He lives with his grandmother, who is sweet enough, but seems to be in… Read More »
GARDEN STATE
Only rarely does a film as profound, as rich, and as deeply affecting as GARDEN STATE come along. Even more rarely is it the handiwork of a first-time filmmaker. That would be Zack Braff, known for his role as the philosophically harried intern on the subversively wicked comedy, Scrubs. Braff is Andrew Largeman, a struggling… Read More »
THE POLAR EXPRESS
THE POLAR EXPRESS isnt just an astonishing achievement in animation, its also a rich feast for the eye, the mind, and even the spirit. It’s a glorious evocation of that most fragile, most beautiful aspect of the innocence of early life, the childlike wonder and whole-hearted ability to be swept away by magic. Im sure… Read More »
ALFIE
The thing about Jude Law is that he is so unbelievably beautiful. Such is his pulchritude, not to mention his irresistible onscreen charm, that its easy to overlook the undeniable acting chops that are greater even than the sum of his more ephemeral gifts. In ALFIE, Charles Shyer’s re-make of the 60s classic that starred… Read More »
SPANGLISH
SPANGLISH is neither particularly good, nor particularly dreadful. Its weak point provide an almost perfect counterbalance to its drawbacks, rendering it the sort of thing you might hit upon while flipping channels when nothing else is on, or buy a ticket for if everything else at the multiplex is sold out. In it, James L.… Read More »
2004 TOP TEN LIST: THE BEST AND THE WORST
The year 2004 offered many films to choose from in both the good and the bad categories. These are the ones that made the biggest impression on me, the ones that shifted some of my paradigms, for good or ill, or that simply wowed me, also for good or ill. The top 10 (an unfairly… Read More »
RACING STRIPES
RACING STRIPES is such a sweet, good-hearted film that one wishes that one could like it more. As it is, its a passable entertainment for kids that is hobbled badly by a formulaic plot and talking animals that, for the most part, dont have anything interesting to say. The Stripes of the title, voiced with eager… Read More »
BRIDE AND PREJUDICE
When Jane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice two hundred or so years ago, she was doing more than telling a story about lovers at cross purposes, she was also dissecting with her society with a deadly precision and wry humor. Gurinder Chadha has taken that classic story and updated it to the multicultural 21st century… Read More »
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