| Name | Hannah Knapp |
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| Gender | Female |
| I'm From | San Francisco, CA |
| Member For | 1076 days |
| Last Login | Fri. May 16 |
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| Movie: | Shakespeare in Love; Kissing Jessica Stein; Love Actually; In the Mood for Love; Amelie; Moulin Rouge! |
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| Actor: | Emma Thompson, Judi Dench, Geoffrey Rush, Alan Rickman, Ewan McGregor, Daniel Day Lewis, Laura Linney, Jodie Foster, Ralph Fiennes, Liam Neeson, Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Toni Collette, Jeremy Irons |
| Director: | John Madden, John Lasseter, Steven Soderbergh |
| Quote: | "They're more like...guidelines." |
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Hannah's Recent Reviews
Driving Lessons
PG-13
This movie is indescribable. Somehow it manages to be understated and hilarious at the same time. Yes, it's a coming-of-age movie, but it's not saccharine: these people are seriously dysfunctional, and you see them all in all their glory. I haven't laughed out-loud like this in a long time. Decidedly worth seeing.
Iron Man
PG-13
This is exactly as good as you think it will be from the trailer. Robert Downey Jr. did a great job of capturing the dry sense of humor and determination of Tony Stark, and the supporting cast was perfectly adequate - including, perhaps surprisingly, Gwyneth Paltrow, in one of the most understated performances I've ever seen from her. Definitely worth seeing.
Leatherheads
PG-13
Although this looks cute, I'm pretty tired of people thinking Renee Zellwegger should play the leading role in anything that's set in the 20s or 30s. She's a character actor, people! And a very good one. But she's just not a leading lady.
Hannah's Favorite Movies
1.
Shakespeare in Love
R
One of my all-time favorite movies. Brilliant script, great performances, and it's Shakespeare. Who could ask for anything more?
2.
Kissing Jessica Stein
R
One of my all-time favorites. Fun script, good acting, and subject matter close to my heart...
3.
Love Actually
R
I love this film and would watch it again and again. The different story lines that bizarrely (and in very real-world fashion) overlap each have their quirky heartbreaking element that keeps the movie fresh.
4.
Fa Yeung Nin Wa (In the Mood for Love)
PG
Gorgeous, utterly gorgeous movie. I think I held my breath the entire time. The atmosphere, the simplicity that allowed the complexity of emotions and situations to rise to the surface...beautiful.
5.
Amelie (Amelie from Montmartre)
R
Beautiful, moving, funny...and delightfully simple. It was particularly wonderful to see this in France, in French, on the big screen! I fell in love at first site. Unlike many French films I've seen, it was clever - and adorable! - without being obscure. One of my all-time favorites.
6.
Moulin Rouge!
PG-13
An age-old story retold with gusto. I thoroughly enjoyed the fast-paced visual stimulation and the refashioned pop songs. Everyone in it seemed like they were giving 110% - and it's hard not to find that enthusiasm catching. (Plus, it's Ewan McGregor. I never mind watching him for a few hours!)
Hannah's Movie Scrapbook
Hannah's Talk
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vinupaposted 20 hours ago -
I recommend you see...
Speed Racer (2008)
by KentOh man this movie was a blast to me. As a kid who grew up watching the show everything was there. Everything from the action, to the drama. They even remembered that Pops was a professional wrestler.
This was a fan film with a 100 million dollar budget. It got everything just right for the fans. The style is perfection and brings you right back to an animated feel. A lot of people say it would have been better as CGI but then it wouldn't have been as original.
This is by far the most original film I've seen on the big screen in a decade. Nothing comes close to being as fun or smart.
People are saying the cars are in the air too much. They're always flipping around doing crazy stunts. These are people that never saw the show... never saw the episode "The Most Dangerous Race" (which was 3 parts).
The only thing that really annoyed me about the movie that it was too heavy handed in the plot department. It had about 10 minutes of too much dialog.
Now if you're saying this movie had a serious tone at times and that it didn't fit, then you don't know what you're talking about. The family drama was perfect. It existed in the original cartoon and it couldn't be any better here.
OH and Spritle and Chim Chim steal the show for me. Best "giving the bird" moment since Top Gun.If you've never seen the cartoon, chances are you're not going to like this film... if you think anime is for dorks or nerds, you're not going to like this film... if you think it's for kids only, you're not going to like it.
But if you are a fan of the show, then you'll know this movie is the best adaptation of a cartoon to the big screen ever made.posted 1 day ago -
I recommend you see...
Mr. Bean's Holiday
by LanningOne of my flixster buddies gave this 2.5 stars with the comment that maybe she wasn't in the mood for a comedy when she watched it. I can wholly relate to this. I really do believe that the mood you are in can, to a very high degree, dictate your reaction to a movie. I was actually in an upbeat mood when I watched this just now, so please keep that in mind if you do read what I'm about to say. . . .
First, if you are as big a fan of the mass hysteria -- or as Robert Preston might say, massteryia -- hand-held camera movement as I am
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then you will appreciate how perfectly Mr. Bean's enthusiastic video camera work warps its way into the whole fabric of this movie. Not only is it very fancifully woven throughout, but it actually works masterfully into the finish with the film premiere at Cannes. Very nifty : ) Atkinson's playing with that video camera all the way through is a brilliant concept.
I'm a big fan of Rowan Atkinson from the Black Adder series days. I also love the first Mr. Bean movie. I cannot see or think of the Mona Lisa without smiling, at least. So please bear with me.
I have not laughed so hard in recent memory as I did in the hitchhiking sequence here, and I caught a chest cramp laughing at the suicide bit. Sorry, now you know two (more) things about me:
1. I may be a very low-brow, low-IQ humor kind of guy, and
2. I may not be a very well person, mentally speaking. I guess you could even conclude that I'm a bit sick, if you like -- yes, I can, sadly, laugh at suicide from time to time.
So be it. I absolutely love this movie. It is the most perfect Atkinson project I've yet seen, and one of the most perfectly executed movies I've seen in some time.
Normally, I would knock off stars for the three flaws I find here. I do not like the lack of concern for others that is foregrounded in Bean's coffee-on-the-laptop accident, nor do I enjoy the intentionality in his oyster-dumping-in-purse move, and I especially dislike the knocking out of the Cannes security guard with the purse. These three incidents are indicative of character flaws that are not acceptable. This is not what Mr. Bean is about, people. Mr. Bean is much more about the man who steps off the train to offer protection to the boy -- and in the grand Everyman tradition that is Mr. Bean, no good deed ever goes unpunished. Had I been in on the editing, I'd have left those three glaring characterization gaffs on the cutting room floor. Give us more of the operatic lip-synch money-raising scheme Bean -- stunning writing and direction.
But I can't deduct stars for these problems. The overall film is superb comedy. It is comedy so finely wrought that it moves beyond Hollywood-esque churned out run-of-the-mill comedy into the realm of first-rate dramatic comedy with a bullet.
You might have heard of the life of quiet desperation. I think I've heard that it could quite possibly be the life many, if not most, of us lead. It is surely Bean's life, and it is the life that those of us who may lead it, might well long to escape. That very end with Bean's seeing the actual ocean -- his one dream -- leading to his romping in the water, finishing with the whole cast singing together in celebration of community -- I kid you not, it brings tears to my eyes just thinking of it.
This, by the way, is the best work Willem Dafoe has managed in a very, very long time, and even his character is "saved," if you will, transcending the mundane, that rut, the sadness of his entrapped small sameness, to celebrate participation in the grand festival that is life shared with others. And who is Emma de Caunes? We must see more of this actress asap.
What a beautifully near-perfect work of art. I gotta put it on my Top 100 list right now.
Aloha, flixster friends, I hope you're all well and watching many good movies. For those of you who know me, you know that I rarely send these group recommendations out. The last one was, I think, just over a year ago. And I have kept Penelope's good advice in mind and tried to make sure that I'm not sending a rec out to anyone who's already seen the movie -- my apologies in advance if you have. If you get a chance, friends, try this one out. It totally caught me by surprise. Everybody take good care.
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I recommend you see...Hey, you should really see this!
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I recommend you see...
Hey, you should really see this!
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I recommend you see...
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach
by PhillipThis one really is from the movement: i saw, you didn't.
well, i don't want to write a long review, but before watching this you must know that this is different than any other movie you ever watched. The movie will end and you will ask yourself: "what the hell i just saw?"
then you will start thinking and you'll remember that the movie is about Bach, this is the beginning, but why that camera that never moves? That cruel cuts between scenes? That plans without faces almost all the time?
Well, when you talk about Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach you must remember that the cinema has resources to bring the watcher to the screen, to make him closer to the character and that's what CoAMB has of different: the distance.
you know Bach's face, you know his wife's face, she's the narrator of the story, fully of names that you, probably, won't give a face. The camera does not move (just in a few moments), and when it does isn't to get closer to Bach, as example, but to film the singer.
All the resources that the cinema offers to bring the watcher are denied by Straub and Huillet to give emphasis to the music. There's no intimacy, no feelings in the edition, neither in the characters.
See the poster here?
"A Masterpiece. This Film is Music"
it could not explain better by another way.Hey, you should really see this!
sorry if i'm sending this again, i just saw some profiles of friends' o'mine and this recommendation wasn't listed.posted 18 days ago -
I recommend you see...
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach
by Phillip
This one really is from the movement: i saw, you didn't.
well, i don't want to write a long review, but before watching this you must know that this is different than any other movie you ever watched. The movie will end and you will ask yourself: "what the hell i just saw?"
then you will start thinking and you'll remember that the movie is about Bach, this is the beginning, but why that camera that never moves? That cruel cuts between scenes? That plans without faces almost all the time?
Well, when you talk about Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach you must remember that the cinema has resources to bring the watcher to the screen, to make him closer to the character and that's what CoAMB has of different: the distance.
you know Bach's face, you know his wife's face, she's the narrator of the story, fully of names that you, probably, won't give a face. The camera does not move (just in a few moments), and when it does isn't to get closer to Bach, as example, but to film the singer.
All the resources that the cinema offers to bring the watcher are denied by Straub and Huillet to give emphasis to the music. There's no intimacy, no feelings in the edition, neither in the characters.
See the poster here?
"A Masterpiece. This Film is Music"
it could not explain better by another way.Hey, you should really see this!
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I recommend you see...
Phenomena (Creepers)
by Phillipi've never been so horryfied in a movie like in the 30 final minutes of Phenomena.
Hey, you should really see this!
Another Argento's masterpiece. Who put "not interested" really know nothing about cinema and suspense, like i do not know anything about english language.posted 24 days ago -
sinfulsignorita had made this post earlier today and here we have it again by sexivixxen http://www.flixster.com/news/2008/03/27/national-treasure-3-coming-in-2011.
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is it right to repost news? because I have been here for a day and I find Sexivixxen reposting the same stuff other post makers do.
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