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| Movie: | Shakespeare in Love Noriko's Dinner Table Three Kings Spider Forest Lost in Translation Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind All the President's Men Chasing Big Cats Oasis The Spanish Prisoner Eye of the Leopard Jennifer Eight Magnolia Diary Himalaya With Michael Palin Blue Gate Crossing In The Mood For Love M Strawberry Shortcakes Apocalypse Now Synecdoche, New York ... |
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| Actor: | Hye-jeong Kang Christopher Walken Jennifer Connelly Kang-ho Song Laura Linney Naomi Watts Philip Seymour Hoffman Jung Suh Lance Henriksen Ben Foster Marisa Tomei Robert Downey Jr Do-yeon Jeon Catherine Keener JT Walsh Hiromi Nagasaku.... |
| Director: | Sion Sono Kim Ki-duk Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Early Hal Hartley Chang-dong Lee Michael Winterbottom Satoshi Miki Coen Bros Pang Bros. Steven Soderbergh Paul Thomas Anderson Yibai Zhang Any one who directs something written by Charlie Kaufman ... |
| Quote: | What, you think Im funny? Like Im a clown? Huh? You think Im here to amuse you? Huh? |
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I wish this site had a better interface. Some of it is downright cringeworthy, check out the discussion forums... they're threadless! I'm embarrassed to link to this site from anywhere because of the Flashy ads.
If I ask you to be a 'friend' it's because it seems like the most convenient way to bookmark your site ... which means I'm interested in following what you see and say, and would probably enjoy exchanging recommendations and thoughts about movies. I've decided to trim my reviews here at flixster, keeping them short. If you'd like to read lengthier blurbage from me, visit my web site reviews: sitenoise at the movies I also love documentaries on Big Cats. Check out a clip from my video scrapbook. Shu Qi is the boss. What she says matters. |
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Julia
R
This would be five stars off the charts awesome if all it was about was Tilda Swinton's acting, but it's not. The story starts off pretty well and sets the agenda for making you accept that things won't always make sense or go according to plan but then the second half veers off into a new film of its own. It tries to stay connected to the first half but just unravels to the point that it's hard to stay on board. The film could have been edited by a third to make a tight thriller but then we'd miss out on much of Swinton's great performance. I loved every minute of her but the plot comes up short (by being too long!) and the ending fails miserably.
Hebi ni piasu (Snakes and Earrings)
Unrated
For those who've seen Noriko's Dinner Table and wondered what may have happened to the younger sister played by Yuriko Yoshitaka, it may come as no surprise to see her show up naked, tattooed and pierced in this punkish little sideshow. She doesn't have the sexual maturity to make the S&M stuff remotely erotic and the two guys she bounces between are little more than posers, but all the poses are reasonable, and it tried to be cool. It's far more modern and realistic/relatable than a CAT III film. I adore Yoshitaka, so ....
sitenoise at the movies: Snakes and Earrings (Hebi ni piasu)
Ex Drummer
Unrated
The dialog in this film is so quick-witted I could barely keep up with the subtitles. It's very funny, and very punk. It's dark and violent and nihilistic and truly bizarre. Each member of the band must have a handicap. One has a really bad lisp and lives on the ceiling (see poster)-(only in his own home, tho), another has a debilitating mother complex and a stiff right arm, another is deaf and addicted to crack, and the drummer's handicap is that he can't play drums ... but he's writing the story. The soundtrack is magnificent and the acting is all spot on. If you like punk, you gotta see this.
sitenoise at the movies: Ex Drummer
Su-ki-da
Unrated
I felt Ishikawa's previous film, Tokyo.Sora, set out to make boring an accomplishment so I wasn't interested in seeing this until I discovered Hiromi Nagasaku. The script and story here aren't much, typical melodrama, but Nagasaku, and her younger self counterpart played by Aoi Miyazaki, are truly engaging. I could literally see their thought and emotional processes. If you are going to leave the camera on an actor for minutes at a time without any dialog, you better have good actors. The director's signature long, pale, landscapey photography compliments well here.
sitenoise at the movies: Su-ki-da
All Around Us (Gururi no koto)
Unrated
I give this film a less than enthusiastic recommendation. It is a quality film and Lily Franky's performance is one to behold (even more so knowing this is his acting debut--I wonder how much he studied or trained). The film could have been more tightly edited. There are too many scenes of ... nothing. I understand this style is done too create an atmosphere and control a pace, and it's a style I generally like, but I think the director over did it. A little too often shots are *predictably* about nothing, slowing the pace without advancing or fleshing out the characters or story. They're just there to say ..."Nothing happens here" -- just like in real life. In the end, however, my only real criteria for not giving it higher marks is that I have no desire to watch it again. It came, it was good, but now it's gone.
Fei Cheng Wu Rao, (If You Are the One)
PG
This is the highest grossing film of all time in China. Hard to believe, as it's not really a remarkable film, except for Shu Qi, she's remarkable. When she asks her date if he believes in love at first sight he responds "I loved the first sight of you!" It's a very pleasant film. Funny, slightly quirky, it's an intimate study of two people's vulnerability, and thoroughly Chinese. I'm sure some of the humor was lost on me due to the fact I don't speak Mandarin! And Ge You's Mandarin accent is as thick as syrup. He does a great job playing a forty-something guy who's made his lot in life selling zany inventions and now has a very specific set of criteria he's looking for in a mate to settle down with. This is a great 'date' movie.
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Shakespeare in Love
R
I will call this my all-time favorite movie. I don't think I'll ever tire of watching it. Such a smartly written film.
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Noriko no shokutaku (Noriko's Dinner Table)
Unrated
Poetic. Dreamy. Surreal. There's just something about the way Sion Sono puts together a film that appeals to me. The assemblage maybe more than the film.
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Strawberry Shortcakes
Unrated
An engaging movie that takes a bleak, but also beautifully hopeful look at the lives of four young women who live on the margins of life in contemporary Tokyo. Sex in the City it's not. The portraits of these women are, almost unnervingly, complete. Great great independent film for adults. More: sitenoise at the movies: Strawberry Shortcakes
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M
Unrated
Absolutely beautiful! Brilliantly assembled simple story of a writer in search of his muse, told with rich colors and lots of black, dream logic, humor, inspired editing, and a soundtrack that matches it beat for beat. I wanted to applaud almost every scene. Arty without pretension and a poet's attention to detail. sitenoise at the movies: M (2007)
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Groundhog Day
PG
Clergymen praised this film for it's theological value. This was the true beginning of Bill Murray's career as an actor.
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Three Kings
R
Mark Wahlberg should have won an oscar for his performance in this film. And the writer of the screenplay for giving him the part. And the cinematographer for the unique look of the film.
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jimbotenderposted 9 hours ago -
Oh, yes. I remembered today is the 4th of July.....right! It's your holiday! Ours is in December, but I don't fancy this kind of patriotism. *Mea culpa*
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I'm glad to have helped you with Nadja. If I remember well, there is also a piece of fantastic literature called Nadja, written by Gerard de Nerval, a French writer from the XIXth century. There are probably some common aspects between the movie and the book...I don't remember exactly. I've read when I was a student.
Unfortunately, I don't have too much time to see all the movies I download now, but I'll surely see them this summer. All the titles are written in a must see list :)
PS: What Holiday ?!posted 16 hours ago -
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Thank you very much for the links. I've just sign myself up and I'm looking forward to digging into it.
PS: I'm from Romania, that small country in Central Europe that everyone associates with vampires. Which is not true at all. :)posted 1 day ago -
Most of the times, I download the movies from the internet and sometimes I watch them on Youtube. But as I have already told you,there are some movies that I cannot find anywhere. Do you happen to know some other useful methods of watching such rare movies? (I consider them rare because in my country people don't fancy Asian movies).
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it gradually improves but it has LOADS of bumps until he main dish,which is the only worthwhile 15 minutes before the final 10,hehe.Snyder doesn't care abt films,he's worse than Bay,hahaha.
300 is b-movie style but i couldn't even rate that as high as Sin City because its fascist propaganda and Miller's approval of this "belief" left me even more numb than this Persian "travesty" (no pun intended,hehe) did...posted 2 days ago -
well..i do..especially when i know the material..
and it's not abt what the original creator thinks..look at King's creation,Shining...Kubrick actually pulled it off better than the book itself,haha..
but when the book is still critically considered after so many years to be a pinnacle in literature,comics,whatever u wish..having seen a despicable adaptation just gives me the willies..
and the sole reason i've rated Sin City as high as it gets..it's because Miller(its creator)was behind the camera...he saved the 80% of it...posted 2 days ago -
With respect to Su-ki-da. I've been trying to find this movie for months, but...in vain. I can't find it anywhere on the internet. Unfortunately, in my town, I don't have a DVD renting center where I can find it. People around me seem to reject this kind of Asian films that I am interested in. They are addicted to what's popular and commercial, easy to digest and so on.
Closed Note is my next *cinematic feast* for tomorrow.posted 2 days ago -
Thank you very much...as usual for your recommendations. I will definitely look for the film.
I have recently seen a Japanese movie(Tada, kimi wo aishiteru-Heavenly Forest (2006))which really moved me. Even if predictable at a certain point, it is still very sweet. If you haven't come across it till now, it is time you did.
I still have a lot to discover from the Asian cinematic treasure and you are a quite a good guide for me. :)
Have a sunny day! Annaposted 2 days ago -
quite an intriguing choice for a docu(belated reply,hehe),and i thank u for the new Xiaogang film..
as for Good Dick,it's not that the title preoccupies me,haha..i just feel it's a very secondary option..posted 2 days ago -
I recommend you see...
Seul Contre Tous (I Stand Alone) (One Against All)
by DimitrisMore than a sequel to the butcher's short in Carne,Nahon methodically shares with us fears and loathings in a Miserere of illusions.Perhaps the downwardness of it all.
posted 3 days ago -
I recommend you see...
Watchmen
by DimitrisAnarchy's drastic "genitalia" was rarely shown as a stupefied emotion in mainstream productions and Snyder's crematory is not to be taken for granted!So we fill our bellies with top notch trampolines,Matrix remnants,sex scenes like kitchen tapestry and the soundtrack comes and goes from Mozart to Dylan.
Moore must immediately ban all studios from ever adapting (again) a creation of his on the big screen.For what it's worth,I won't neglect the well-portrayed characters of Comedian and Rorschach.sorry for the ones who liked it but:
A: read Alan Moore and
B: it's as stupid as the adaptions of Constantine and V for Vendetta...
seriously,what's with all this messing around of great comic books?huh?????
but who am i to judge the millions who loved it...
Snyder should start eating his own semen..please mr Snyder,don't show us ur ego too much...at least McTiernan knew how to embrace action and detail...posted 3 days ago -
I recommend you see...
Hancock
by Eric(PG-13, 92 min, 2008) Will Smith stars as the drunken, misanthropic superhero who flies through Los Angeles, stops bad guys with reckless abandon, and seems to resent the hell out of his job. A PR rep (Jason Bateman of "Juno" and TV's "Arrested Development") and his intriguing wife (Charlize Theron) come to the rescue to rehabilitate Hancock's career, and reveal a surprise or two along the way. A genuinely intriguing and original superhero film directed by Peter Berg ("The Rundown," "Friday Night Lights") and written by former "X-Files" alum Vince Gilligan.
Hey, you should really see this!
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