Linda-12 Reviews

The Canterville Ghost (1996 TV Movie)

An enchanting story

[9/10 · 7 September 1999]

Do you remember those charming, touching, romantic movies from the 40s or 50s? Can you imagine one of those transformed into a teenie film without loosing a bit of its charm? Well, it can be done, as this film proves.

It's the perfect film for an autumn evening with a fire crackling in the fireplace and the lights turned low.

Shakespeare in Love (1998)

Shakespeare's passion reinvented!

[10/10 · 25 May 1999]

When we read Shakespeare in school, I was never able to find the enthusiasm his works aroused in the Elizabethan England. This film has captured it!

As a German I might have missed a word now and then, but many of the dialogues were easy to recognize from various plays, and this time they did not seem outdated, but brilliant, not over-exaggerated, but genuinely passionate and beautiful. This film has restored Shakespeare's fame for another millennium to come.

And it is terrifically comical, too, and JudiDench as the Queen is plainly magnificent.

Quest for Camelot (1998)

nice idea, cute little details, but alas ... that music!

[6/10 · 6 April 1999]

It's the love for details, that makes this film worth seeing: all those little creatures, hairy eyes, scary claws of plants and things, that create a fairy world. I would have really enjoyed the atmosphere, if the constant musical intermezzos wouldn't have spoiled a good deal of it. (Though I laughed out loud when the two headed dragon turned "Sonny and Cher" :-)

Antz (1998)

Intelligent movie, beautiful animation

[10/10 · 12 November 1998]

Antz is an intelligent movie, with wonderful humor, a moral and lots and lots of citations and references.

And it's also the most beautiful computer animation I've ever seen. Each character is carefully designed. Not only the mimic (which I've never seen the likes in computer animation) and the movements - even the texture of each ant's body seems to be individual. And the characters were so convincing, they seemed almost livelier than their models (I liked that Christopher Walken Ant a lot - well, I'm a bit of a darksider :-)

Run Lola Run (1998)

The first German movie in years, that I really loved

[8/10 · 28 September 1998]

It's fresh, fast, inventive. It's surprising, absolutely not predictible, a delightful contrast in this decade of remakes, sequels and rip-off's. It's a curious unsentimental love story. AND it's really fun to watch. I'm not a fan of German movies, but this one was a real surprise.