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- DirectorStanley KubrickStarsKeir DulleaGary LockwoodWilliam SylvesterAfter uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000.
- DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniStarsGabriele FerzettiMonica VittiLea MassariA woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. During the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other.
- DirectorSergio LeoneStarsHenry FondaCharles BronsonClaudia CardinaleA mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.
- DirectorDerek CianfranceStarsRyan GoslingMichelle WilliamsJohn DomanThe relationship of a contemporary married couple, charting their evolution over a span of years by cross-cutting between time periods.
- DirectorDon SiegelClint EastwoodStarsClint EastwoodAndrew RobinsonHarry GuardinoWhen a man calling himself "the Scorpio Killer" menaces San Francisco, tough-as-nails Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to track down the crazed psychopath.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsKlaus KinskiRuy GuerraHelena RojoIn the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.Herzog is the Schopenhauer of the film world
- DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsHarvey KeitelTim RothMichael MadsenWhen a simple jewelry heist goes horribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMarcello MastroianniAnouk AiméeClaudia CardinaleA harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.
- DirectorMilos FormanStarsF. Murray AbrahamTom HulceElizabeth BerridgeThe life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was deeply jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.Well of course the soundtrack is great
- DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniStarsMonica VittiRichard HarrisCarlo ChionettiIn an industrial area, unstable Giuliana attempts to cope with life by starting an affair with a co-worker at the plant her husband manages.
- DirectorJean-Pierre MelvilleStarsAlain DelonFrançois PérierNathalie DelonAfter professional hitman Jef Costello is seen by witnesses his efforts to provide himself an alibi drive him further into a corner.
- DirectorHarmony KorineStarsVanessa HudgensSelena GomezAshley BensonFour college girls hold up a restaurant in order to fund their spring break vacation. While partying, drinking, and taking drugs, they are arrested, only to be bailed out by a drug and arms dealer.
- DirectorRobert AltmanStarsWarren BeattyJulie ChristieRene AuberjonoisA gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.Distancing itself from the existing Western tradition, McCabe & Mrs. Miller is set in its own unique, amoral version of the American west. My favorite element of the film is the representation of man's inability to construct utopia. The town itself is called Presbyterian Church, signifying a desire for purity. However, before Presbyterian Church can even be called worthy of its name, the seeds of corrupt business are planted, grow, and die as they compete for limited soil. This is best illustrated in a montage near the beginning, which cuts between a silhouette nailing the cross atop the unfinished church, and John McCabe transporting his prostitutes to the rugged town. The character of McCabe is an enigmatic portrayal of the disgruntled youth of the 1970's. The people of Beatty's generation were consistently bothered by their inability to live up to the achievements of their fathers (namely, winning World War Two.) The struggle of the young man coming to terms with his masculine identity is perfectly manifested in McCabe, whose self-destructive attachment to dealer-actualization leads him to inevitable pain and death.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsTimothy TreadwellAmie HuguenardWerner HerzogA devastating and heart-rending take on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2003 while living among grizzly bears in Alaska.Perhaps the saddest film ever made, Grizzly Man is a sucker-punch of a documentary that left me in tears. The greatness of the film is that it's not a pity party for Treadwell. It's not about the sadness of his death, but the sadness of his personality, and those of others like him. He wasn't naturally obsessed with grizzly bears. He just felt a need to obsess over them because his personality didn't really allow him to communicate with other people and have them love him. The unresponsivness of the bears allowed Treadwell a chance to feed himself an illusion that he finally found reprocated love with them. His death is certainly one of the saddest points in the film, but it's not simply because of his non-preservation-- it's sad because he was driven to that extreme by his inability to relate to other people.
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsBrigitte BardotJack PalanceMichel PiccoliA French writer's marriage deteriorates while working on Fritz Lang's version of "The Odyssey", as his wife accuses him of using her to court favor with the film's brash American producer.What I see in Contempt is an Antonioni wrapped inside a Godard wrapped inside a widescreen epic. The film's visual style is so distinct, its ambiguity so literary, I just don't know what to say about it.
- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsMax SchreckAlexander GranachGustav von WangenheimVampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.
- DirectorArthur PennStarsDustin HoffmanFaye DunawayChief Dan GeorgeJack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer.a masterpiece of style
- DirectorJean-Jacques BeineixStarsJean-Hugues AngladeBéatrice DalleGérard DarmonA lackadaisical handyman and aspiring novelist tries to support his younger girlfriend as she slowly succumbs to madness.
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsAnna KarinaSady RebbotAndré S. LabartheTwelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenDorothy ComingoreFollowing the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'Spectacular visual aesthetic, second only to Aguirre in my mind. Citizen Kane is really an amazing work of mise en scene, montage, and cutting-edge technique. Some of the cuts are amazing, my favorite being the zoom into a still photograph of a group of men and its subsequent reserruction as living, cinematic truth. I also hold a deeply personal connection to the character of Kane and his declaration, "...if I hadn't been rich, I might have been a really great man." Now there's an honest, believable archetype.
By the way, this in not a strict attack on William Hearst. Even if you shrug off the Word of God (Welle's support of the first statement of this paragraph) in favor of Death of Author theory like I do, there's no reason why such an enormous film should be interpreted as something so narrow. Do you really believe that one of the mightiest films of all time is a strict attack on a single person? I'll be damned if that doesn't diminish the film's relevancy after Hearst's death. - DirectorWerner HerzogStarsKlaus KinskiIsabelle AdjaniBruno GanzCount Dracula moves from Transylvania to Wismar, spreading the Black Plague across the land. Only a woman pure of heart can bring an end to his reign of horror.Klaus Kinski
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsJean-Pierre LéaudChantal GoyaMarlène JobertA romance between young Parisians, shown through a series of vignettes.
- DirectorTommy WiseauStarsTommy WiseauJuliette DanielleGreg SesteroIn San Francisco, an amiable banker's seemingly perfect life is turned upside down when his deceitful fiancée embarks on an affair with his best friend.
- DirectorClyde BruckmanBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonMarion MackGlen CavenderAfter being rejected by the Confederate military, not realizing it was due to his crucial civilian role, an engineer must single-handedly recapture his beloved locomotive after it is seized by Union spies and return it through enemy lines.
- DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsJohn TravoltaUma ThurmanSamuel L. JacksonThe lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.Sally Menke's editing
- DirectorJim JarmuschStarsJohnny DeppGary FarmerCrispin GloverOn the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange Native American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
- DirectorWim WendersStarsHarry Dean StantonNastassja KinskiDean StockwellTravis Henderson, an aimless drifter who has been missing for four years, wanders out of the desert and must reconnect with society, himself, his life, and his family.
- DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniStarsDavid HemmingsVanessa RedgraveSarah MilesA fashion photographer unknowingly captures a death on film after following two lovers in a park.
- DirectorSofia CoppolaStarsBill MurrayScarlett JohanssonGiovanni RibisiA faded movie star and a neglected young woman form an unlikely bond after crossing paths in Tokyo.too hipster but Kevin Shields and nice cinematography
- DirectorElia KazanStarsVivien LeighMarlon BrandoKim HunterDisturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.
- DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJames WoodsDebbie HarrySonja SmitsA programmer at a Toronto TV station that specializes in adult entertainment searches for the producers of a dangerous and bizarre broadcast.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroJodie FosterCybill ShepherdA mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action.The paste holding the Schraeder-Scorsese-DeNiro collaboration of Taxi Driver together is the main character's sincere intentions. He may be seriously ill, but one gets the feeling that he is motivated by pure altruism, the desire to liberate his two love interests from what he sees as pure oppression. There's no Freudian psychosexuality here-- bear in mind that Bickle consistently REFUSES to have sex with Jodie Foster despite her protests. In a way, this element might come off as guilt-inducing to a thoughtful viewer. Bickle may be a sick man, but his actions betray his virtuous heart, one perhaps more pure than most of us out there. Bickle's Achilles Heel is his moralizing nature, his unwillingness to live and let live at the expense of a slightly less-than-ideal (to him) world.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsAnthony QuinnGiulietta MasinaRichard BasehartA care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.Here is a film that renewed my hope in life and my hope in cinema. I'm not going to intellectualize it; that would be dumb. It's awesome.
- DirectorCameron CroweStarsJohn CusackIone SkyeJohn MahoneyA noble underachiever and a beautiful valedictorian fall in love the summer before she goes off to college.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsKlaus KinskiClaudia CardinaleJosé LewgoyThe story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.my love life
- DirectorArthur PennStarsWarren BeattyFaye DunawayMichael J. PollardBored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.beauty in decay
- DirectorNicolas Winding RefnStarsRyan GoslingCarey MulliganBryan CranstonA mysterious Hollywood action film stuntman gets in trouble with gangsters when he tries to help his neighbor's husband rob a pawn shop while serving as his getaway driver.love violence
- DirectorBaz LuhrmannStarsLeonardo DiCaprioClaire DanesJohn LeguizamoShakespeare's famous play is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona still retaining its original dialogue.Baz Luhrmann's visionary direction makes an already great script by Shakespeare into an awesome action movie as well as a profound meditation on how people relate to the media. The film is bookended by scenes of a television anchor setting up and giving closure to the story, as though to imply that the entire film is a made-for-TV news special about the events of the film. Analyzing the film from this angle, one finds that it does what Natural Born Killers tried to do, the only difference being that the former actually pulls it off. The emotional intensity is definitely augmented from the play. The key literary device in the play was irony, ultimately burying the emotional qualities beneath mounds of sarcastic humor. In this film adaptation, emotions are naked, like the private lives of the burgeouise protagonists. To me, this seems like the only film in which Baz Luhrmann's talents are actualized. The fact of the matter is that he took an existing work of art and added yet another layer of meaning to it, and that is the true mark of an artist.
- DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniStarsMonica VittiAlain DelonFrancisco RabalA young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed because of the man's materialistic nature.
- DirectorJames CameronStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerLinda HamiltonMichael BiehnA human soldier is sent from 2029 to 1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year, which has been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity's future salvation.This is really one of the coolest movies ever made. The style and the violence are bold and original. The plot, despite its relative simplicity, is built around a great concept.
- DirectorAlex CoxStarsGary OldmanChloe WebbDavid HaymanThe relationship between Sid Vicious, bassist for British punk group Sex Pistols, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen is portrayed.
- DirectorMartin McDonaghStarsColin FarrellBrendan GleesonCiarán HindsAfter a job gone wrong, hitman Ray and his partner await orders from their ruthless boss in Bruges, Belgium, the last place in the world Ray wants to be.
- DirectorElia KazanStarsNatalie WoodWarren BeattyPat HingleThe love of high school sweethearts Deanie and Bud is weighed down by the oppressive expectations of their parents and society in smalltown Kansas in 1928, threatening the future of their relationship.
- DirectorRob MarshallStarsRenée ZellwegerCatherine Zeta-JonesRichard GereTwo death-row murderesses develop a fierce rivalry while competing for publicity, celebrity, and a sleazy lawyer's attention.
- DirectorKathryn BigelowStarsJeremy RennerAnthony MackieBrian GeraghtyDuring the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.
- DirectorFritz LangStarsPeter LorreEllen WidmannInge LandgutWhen the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.What do you mean, it's not didactic?
- DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsBrad PittDiane KrugerEli RothIn Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsKlaus KinskiKing AmpawJosé LewgoyDuring the 1800s, paroled Brazilian bandit Cobra Verde is sent to West Africa with a few troops to man an old Portuguese fort and to convince the local African ruler to resume the slave trade with Brazil.underrated as *beep*
- DirectorFred C. NewmeyerSam TaylorStarsHarold LloydMildred DavisBill StrotherA boy leaves his small country town and heads to the big city to get a job. As soon as he makes it big his sweetheart will join him and marry him. His enthusiasm to get ahead leads to some interesting adventures.
- DirectorTarsem SinghStarsLee PaceCatinca UntaruJustine WaddellIn 1920s Los Angeles, a bedridden patient in a hospital captivates a young girl with a fantastic tale of heroes, myths, and villains on a desert island.It's almost as though the writers and Tarsem took Herzogian imagination-poetry and spliced in with Tarantinian violence, Monty Pythonian absurdity, Spielbergian adventure, and a Malikian visual aesthetic. Arguably the most memorable element of the fall is the landmark filmmaking. The use of disparate, unlikely backdrops from history is the perfect supplement to the girl's imagination. The fact that such a feat was pulled off with only one scene of CGI makes it even more impressive to me.
- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMartin SheenMarlon BrandoRobert DuvallA U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.I'm torn between the redux and the original in terms of preference. The voice-over narration and French planatation scene were both worthy additions in my mind, but the rest of the redux I would have done without. Either way, Apocalypse Now is a stunning Aguirrian journey into madness. It's not really about war itself, though I guess that's a part of it. It's really more about human nature as a whole. Of particular interest is the brutal death of Marlon Brando at the end. It's made much more disturbing by splicing tame footage of Martin Sheen hacking Marlon Brando's head off his body with very graphic footage of villagers hacking the head off a cow, set to the most bizarre song of one of my favorite bands. I don't know why, but I thought that the use of the cow in this scene was really effective.
It's one of the few films I find myself talking about with my friends. - DirectorDarren AronofskyStarsEllen BurstynJared LetoJennifer ConnellyThe drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep..
- DirectorSergio SollimaStarsLee Van CleefTomas MilianWalter BarnesAn unofficial lawman and would-be senator is tasked by a railroad baron with hunting down a knife-wielding Mexican peasant accused of raping and killing a young girl.
- DirectorVincent ParonnaudMarjane SatrapiStarsChiara MastroianniCatherine DeneuveGena RowlandsA precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.Thus far, Persepolis is the only animated film on my list. Truthfully, I consider animation and live action film different mediums, but I couldn't resist the temptation to include Persepolis on my all-time favorites list. I'm sort of obsessed with the graphic novels by Marjane Satrapi, and the film for Persepolis gives everything that the novels promised.
- DirectorBob GrayStarsTodd CoxLiza FosterBob GrayIn a place, where man and nature have co-existed for years. Man has finally overstepped his bounds and nature is fighting back.Hilarious! I had a blast watching this. Don't watch it alone, though. If you really want to enjoy it to its full potential, there have to be other people there.
- DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsJohn TravoltaNancy AllenJohn LithgowA movie sound recordist accidentally records the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually murder and consequently finds himself in danger.While similar in story and theme, in many ways De Palma's Blow Out is the polar opposite of the film's Antonioni framework. Blow-Up is a film about a character who finds meaning and satisfaction in voluntary altruistic involvement in a murder, whereas Blow Out is about a well-adjusted and satisfied character who gets involved in a murder and comes out with despair and humiliation. Either one works.
It also appeals to me as a film about how the cinematic medium has the ability to express opinions and change thoughts and feelings. John Travolta plays a director in this film trying to sell the point that the car accident was a deliberate murder like any director tries to sell a point. However, he has to struggle against all sorts of external forces to see his vision realized, a pursuit which ultimately ends in failure. What's great about the ending is that he uses his failure to cultivate success, making art from the death of his girlfriend. Oops, forgot to say spoiler alert. - DirectorClint EastwoodStarsClint EastwoodGene HackmanMorgan FreemanRetired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner Ned Logan and a young man, The "Schofield Kid."
- DirectorCameron CroweStarsTom CruiseCuba Gooding Jr.Renée ZellwegerWhen a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent agent with the only athlete who stays with him and his former colleague.
- DirectorJim JarmuschStarsForest WhitakerHenry SilvaJohn TormeyAn African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
- DirectorJohn WooStarsJohn TravoltaNicolas CageJoan AllenTo foil a terrorist plot, FBI agent Sean Archer assumes the identity of the criminal Castor Troy who murdered his son through facial transplant surgery, but the crook wakes up prematurely and vows revenge.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsMax von SydowGunnar BjörnstrandBengt EkerotA knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.not sure
- DirectorTerry JonesStarsGraham ChapmanJohn CleeseMichael PalinBorn on the original Christmas in the stable next door to Jesus Christ, Brian of Nazareth spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.How incidental that this film should fall right beneath The Seventh Seal on my list! The Ingmar Bergman film is obviously different than Life of Brian on countless levels, yet they are united by the common theme of confused men searching for meaning in a meaningless life.
I'm most impressed with the existential imperative demonstrated in Monty Python's most philosophical endeavor. A mediocre film would have spoofed Biblical epic-type movies, a good film would have spoofed religion, but Life of Brian is spectacular because it spoofs the absurdity of human existence. The comic image of Brian running away from his newly founded religion (particularly the look on his face) is the most memorable part to me, but there's a lot more to it than the absurd gag of an accidental messiah. - DirectorJim SheridanStarsDaniel Day-LewisBrenda FrickerAlison WhelanChristy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.
- DirectorPhil LordChristopher MillerStarsJonah HillChanning TatumIce CubeA pair of underachieving cops are sent back to a local high school to blend in and bring down a synthetic drug ring.A highmark of postmodern American comedies. Works as both propoganda and deconstruction of the War on Drugs. Also, it's hilarious. I mean it.
- DirectorLes BlankStarsWerner HerzogTom LuddyMichael GoodwinA short documentary in which directors Werner Herzog and Errol Morris make a bet which results in Herzog being forced to eat his own shoe.In Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe, Herzog turns his philosophy up to eleven and demonstrates the filmmaker's role as a clown in a profound, comic fashion. Now consumed by an aura of self-parody, Herzog's statements about great filmmakers being clowns seem unbelievably prophetic. Herzog's statements about television and media are also particularly worthy and deep.
- DirectorStanley KubrickStarsJack NicholsonShelley DuvallDanny LloydA family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.I'm rather fond of the theory that The Shining is largely about the slaughter of the indigenous population of North America. Presumed symbolisms like this are the reason why I love Kubrick-- they open up rainbows of opportunities for fans to over-analyze the film, which is truly an excellent intellectual exercise as well as great fun. And if you don't know what I mean by over-analysis, bear in mind that at least one respected scholar of the film thinks of the film as a confession that Kubrick helped NASA fake the moon landing.
Whatever you say. - DirectorMario BavaStarsBarbara SteeleJohn RichardsonAndrea ChecchiA vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant.Most often I find horror films excruciatingly boring, but there was something about Black Sunday that really captivated me. In many regard, this Mario Bava gem belongs in the same category as campy, dated, black & white anti-classics like White Zombie, but with great cinematography (!) and much more audacity. Was it in bad taste? Perhaps. What matters is that it affected me on a visceral level, and that is the greatest complement I can pay to any horror film.
- DirectorPaul Thomas AndersonStarsTom CruiseJason RobardsJulianne MooreAn epic mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love, forgiveness and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.It has everything. Like, really.
- DirectorJohn WooStarsChow Yun-FatDanny LeeSally YehA disillusioned assassin accepts one last hit in hopes of using his earnings to restore vision to a singer he accidentally blinded.
- DirectorKevin MacdonaldStarsBob MarleyZiggy MarleyRita MarleyA documentary on the life, music, and legacy of Bob Marley.Bob Marley, king of fools... god of fools
- DirectorTony ScottStarsChristian SlaterPatricia ArquetteDennis HopperIn Detroit, a pop-culture nerd steals cocaine from his new wife's pimp and tries to sell it in Hollywood, prompting the mobsters who own the drugs to pursue the couple.
- DirectorDavid FincherStarsMorgan FreemanBrad PittKevin SpaceyTwo detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.
- DirectorStanley KubrickStarsRyan O'NealMarisa BerensonPatrick MageeAn Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.
- DirectorR. KellyJim SwaffieldStarsR. KellyCat WilsonRolando BoyceThe first twelve chapters of R. Kelly's rap opera in which a one-night stand triggers a series of revelations about the sexual deceits of its characters.R. Kelly's serial film Trapped in the Closet is an underappreciated masterpiece. The writing of characters and dialogue is enough to make Shakespeare, Chekhov, and Twain envious. There's a delightful comic spirit which carries this Kudzu plot through the running time, but the irony does little to veil the obvious dramatic tension in this medium-pushing exercise in audacity.
- DirectorR. KellyVictor MignattiJim SwaffieldStarsR. KellyEric LaneLeShay N. TomlinsonThe second ten chapters of R. Kelly's rap opera in which a one-night stand triggers a series of revelations about the sexual deceits of its characters.As Trapped in the Closet progresses, R. Kelly seems to become more experimental with the music. In the 2007 installments, there are many breaks from the generally conversational rhythm of other parts. For example, look to the scene when the pimp goes to church. The way that the choir tells him to change as he struggles against his own past and his pimp friend is mind-blowing. The first two sagas of Trapped in the Closet are the perfect, modern combination of cinema, theater, and music, and I look forward to the next installment in this series, whenever it may come.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsAnthony PerkinsJanet LeighVera MilesA Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
- DirectorDanny BoyleLoveleen TandanStarsDev PatelFreida PintoSaurabh ShuklaA teenager from the slums of Mumbai becomes a contestant on the show 'Kaun Banega Crorepati?' When interrogated under suspicion of cheating, he revisits his past, revealing how he had all the answers.The nonlinear storytelling in Slumdog Millionaire does more than make the plot interesting. It binds the entire film to the theme of determinism. The film makes it evident that every event depicted in the past is of the same essence as the present, emphasizing each character's redemption from the past.
- DirectorTerry GilliamTerry JonesStarsGraham ChapmanJohn CleeseEric IdleKing Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table embark on a surreal, low-budget search for the Holy Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles.
- DirectorKathryn BigelowStarsPatrick SwayzeKeanu ReevesGary BuseyAn F.B.I. Agent goes undercover to catch a gang of surfers who may be bank robbers.
- DirectorSofia CoppolaStarsKirsten DunstJosh HartnettJames WoodsA group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents in suburban Detroit in the mid 1970s.
- DirectorGarry MarshallStarsRichard GereJulia RobertsJason AlexanderA man in a legal but hurtful business needs an escort for some social events, and hires a beautiful prostitute he meets... only to fall in love.my pretty woman in a ballgown
I'm Richard Gere in a tux - DirectorRoberto RosselliniStarsAnna MagnaniAldo FabriziMarcello PaglieroDuring the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the Resistance leader, Giorgio Manfredi, is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape.
- DirectorHenriette MantelSteve SkrovanStarsRalph NaderPat BuchananHoward ZinnA look at the career of consumer advocate Ralph Nader.Ralph Nader is one of the most interesting characters to grace American politics in our short history. To me, he's a lot of things: a role model, a god, a buffoon, a success, and a failure. There's plenty of political talk in the documentary about him, but more of it is about him as a person. It's sort of like Grizzly Man, if Timothy Treadwell had decided to put his devotion to good use and worked hard to change the world.
- DirectorCraig MazinStarsDrake BellLeslie NielsenSara PaxtonOrphaned high school student Rick Riker is bitten by a radioactive dragonfly, develops super powers (except for the ability to fly), and becomes a hero.in much better taste than Mazin's other films. The comedy is a rapid-fire blitzkreig with a lot of memorable lines. Leslie Nielsen is awesome. Unlike most recent entries in this genre, there are few tediously long and vulgar sequences. Finally, there's the camp value of Drake Bell as the main character. His cluelessness about acting is the perfect match for the character's cluelessness, making this a watchable film indeed.
- DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiStarsJuliette BinocheZbigniew ZamachowskiJulie DelpyA woman struggles to find a way to live her life after the death of her husband and child.There's a magnificent irony in the contrast between the low-key scenes of French life and the bombastic classical music in the background. That's why I like this film.
- DirectorQuentin DupieuxStarsStephen SpinellaRoxane MesquidaWings HauserA homicidal car tire, discovering it has destructive psionic power, sets its sights on a desert town once a mysterious woman becomes its obsession.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsWerner HerzogKlaus KinskiClaudia CardinaleThe love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep trust between the director and the actor, and their independently and simultaneously hatched plans to murder one another.This documentary is really a personal, exhilarating gem. Werner Herzog shamelessly displays the intricacies of his relationship with my favorite actor, Klaus Kinski. Overall, this film deals in a lot of themes, but the most significant to me are about Kinski's personality. It's obvious that Kinski is a vicious and deplorable man man (come on, we all know it's true. I have absolutely no doubt that his daughter's recent allegations are completely true.) However, it's also apparent that he is not only an actor of incredible talent, but a reflection of the perceived ugliness in all of us. It's weird, because in a way, this film makes us come to love Klaus Kinski by the end. These mixed feelings of remorse and relief accompanying the death of a film character are rare-- the closest comparison I can draw is the gundown at the end of Bonnie and Clyde, which doesn't even come close to the low-key dual death scene at the end of My Best Friend (meaning the death of Kinski's character in Cobra Verde, with voiceover narration about the death of Kinski himself superimposed on the scene.) This death scene would be effective enough on its own, but Herzog takes the film's quality up to eleven when he includes a excerpt from Nosferatu (probably the most moving example of acting I've ever seen) and footage of Kinski's effervescent joy playing with a butterfly. The butterfly clip seems to codify the film's message-- Kinski may have died in 1991, but the cinematic medium enables him to live on forever as an idealized facsimile of his persona, his memory forever imprinted upon the fabric of existence itself.
- DirectorArthur Allan SeidelmanStarsArnold StangArnold SchwarzeneggerDeborah LoomisHercules is sent to Earth where he finds true love and starts a promising career in the bodybuilder business.
- DirectorAlbert LamorisseStarsPascal LamorisseSabine LamorisseGeorges SellierA red balloon with a mind of its own follows a little boy around the streets of Paris.I thought it was very cute. If I ever have kids, I'll show them this film.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsBibi AnderssonLiv UllmannMargaretha KrookA nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together.I didn't "get" this film, but I could tell there was something there. I'll have to return to it in future years and see what I can discern.
- DirectorGaspar NoéStarsMonica BellucciVincent CasselAlbert DupontelEvents over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in an underpass tunnel.There are some technically impressive shots in Irreversible, such as the opening scene in which the camera chaotically maneuvers a conversation between two guys and then pans out a window to begin telling the story. Another film makes great use of that one awesome Beethoven song. At first I wasn't buying the use of reverse storytelling (was it all just a gimmick for the brief mention of determinism on the train?), but by the end I came to see it as an important part of the film's thematic structure. It's like, even with determinism there can still be chaos. Hmm.
- DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsUma ThurmanDavid CarradineDaryl HannahAfter awakening from a four-year coma, a former assassin wreaks vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her.
- DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsUma ThurmanDavid CarradineMichael MadsenThe Bride continues her quest of vengeance against her former boss and lover Bill, the reclusive bouncer Budd, and the treacherous, one-eyed Elle.
- DirectorKar-Wai WongStarsTony Leung Chiu-waiMaggie CheungSiu Ping-LamTwo neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs.I was a bit sleepy when I saw this, but I have a feeling I'd really like it if I was to rewatch it more attentively.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsJames StewartDonna ReedLionel BarrymoreAn angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinMerna KennedyAl Ernest GarciaThe Tramp finds work and the girl of his dreams at a circus.
- DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsJamie FoxxChristoph WaltzLeonardo DiCaprioWith the help of a German bounty-hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal plantation owner in Mississippi.
- DirectorMilos FormanStarsJack NicholsonLouise FletcherMichael BerrymanIn the Fall of 1963, a Korean War veteran and criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rallies up the scared patients against the tyrannical nurse.I don't really know what to think of this movie. On one hand, it has all of the directorial trademarks that made Amadeus one of my favorites. The acting is spot-on, the cinematography is appropriate, and the story is captivating. On the other hand, I find its philosophy convoluted and the overall feeling that it's too gimmicky to really commit to being a great movie.
- DirectorJason FriedbergAaron SeltzerStarsSean MaguireKevin SorboCarmen ElectraA spoof of 300 (2006) and many other movies, TV series/shows/commercials, video games and celebrities. King Leonidas of Sparta and his army of 12 go to war against Xerxes of Persia to fight to the death for Sparta's freedom.
- DirectorPenelope SpheerisStarsMike MyersDana CarveyRob LoweTwo slacker friends try to promote their public-access cable show.