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Movie Infos Title: Day for Night Rating: Year: 1973 Director: François Truffaut Day for Night (La Nuit Américaine in French) is the expression that designs a scene in a movie that is supposed to take place at night but is shot in daytime with a special camera filter. This shows all the hassle filmmakers go through to put their vision into images. Very little of…
Damn! I get caught every time! Be it “Coyote Ugly” or “Crossroads”, I always succumb to the temptation of patronising lame girlie movies marketed with the promise of sexy jiggling. This flick is obviously tailored around the concept that Cameron Diaz is a perky hottie. It’s as if the filmmakers had watched her oeuvre and decided to do the ultimate Diaz movie, with the premise…
There’s something about Billy Bob Thornton that’s just irresistible, a certain balance of charm and sleaziness, not to mention his deadpan sense of humor… He’s the Man, basically. Be it in heartbreaking drama or broad comedy, he’s always immensely watchable, and his turn in “Bad Santa” is no different. Thornton plays Willie, a trainwreck of a man who’s always indulging in the three ‘B’s: booze,…
Movie Infos Title: 8mm Year: 1999 Director: Joel Schumacher Writer: Andrew Kevin Walker Time: 123 min. Genre: Mystery / Thriller Tom Welles is an ordinary guy. He’s got a wife he loves (Catherine Keener) and a baby girl, and he’s a successful private eye. Then one day, a rich old widow requests him for a rather peculiar job. Her husband had a secret safe, and…
“Requiem for a Dream”… What an inappropriately drowsy title for such an explosive film. It makes it sound like some black & white melodrama about queer French poets or something. “Last Exit to Brooklyn”, the title of another novel by Hubert Selby Jr (who wrote the screenplay adapted from his own book) is already more on track, but my suggestion would have been “Fucking Up”,…
There has been so many coming of age movies that the gears have become familiar. But even though this kind of film can be predictable, they till work when they’re executed with sincerity. Hence, “The Man in the Moon” is enjoyable even though it lacks surprising elements. Like most movies of the genre, it’s set in a 1950s rural town too dreamy to be true….
Jack Nicholson stars as the President of the United States, who has trouble deciding what to do when the Hubble telescope detects a fleet of flying saucers from Mars heading for Earth. His press secretary (Martin Short) thinks this is a great PR opportunity while the Army General (Rod Steiger) is sure that the only logical thing to do with the arrival of these damn…
Movie Infos Title: The Hours Year: 2002 Director: Stephen Daldry New York, 2001. 50 year old lesbian editor Clarissa Vaughan is preparing a reception for her ex-lover Richard, a respected but unsuccessful poet who’s dying of AIDS. In the London suburbs, 1923. Virginia Woolf is writing a new novel with some difficulty, torn as she is between her fear of falling ill again and her…
“I thought you quit smoking.” “I quit a lot.” So says Agnes (Molly Parker) to her older sister Theresa (Rebecca Jenkins). Agnes is a chain-smoker, an alcoholic, a junkie, an all-around bad girl. Worse, she left Nova Scotia years ago to go live in Toronto! She’s now back home to assist their dying mother (Marguerite McNeil) and Theresa expects trouble. She’s also moved back into…
Here’s a query that’s often being discussed amongst my circle of movie buff friends: can we hold a filmmaker’s personal life against him when it comes to reviewing his work? Charlie Chaplin is reported to have been a grade-A asshole, does that take away the sweetness of his screen persona? Roman Polanski drugged and sodomized a little girl in the ’70s, does that negate the…