Someone told me to see La Haine about six years ago. I don’t know why I never got around to it then. Later, in college, I saw some of Kassovitz’s Café au Lait and I remember having some major problems with it. La Haine doesn’t have any major problems, maybe just a significant, minor one, […]
Entries from January 2006
La Haine (1995, Mathieu Kassovitz)
January 19th, 2006 No Comments
Recommend on MahaloThe King and Four Queens (1956, Raoul Walsh)
January 18th, 2006 No Comments
Clark Gable is an exceptional movie star. I’m not sure how good of an actor he is–his performance in The King and Four Queens is not, for instance, nuanced and textured, but he carries it from the first minute. Movie stars today–the ones who can act–rarely carry their “fluff” roles (I’m thinking of Nicolas Cage […]
The Ice Storm (1997, Ang Lee)
January 17th, 2006 No Comments
When I was a wee lad, I loved Ang Lee. I loved him only for The Ice Storm, never having seen Sense and Sensibility or his Chinese language films. I avoided Ride With the Devil after the reviews (both professional and from peers) and Hidden Tiger, Crouching Dragon was a truly sleep-inducing experience. I gave […]
Sin City (2005, Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez), the extended version
January 13th, 2006 No Comments
When Sin City came out in the theater, three people told me to go see it. One of them had an opinion of film I respect, one had an opinion of it I–at the time–had no argument with, and one had an opinion I most definitely did not respect. But I’d read interviews with Robert […]
Groundhog Day (1993, Harold Ramis)
January 13th, 2006 No Comments
Groundhog Day falls under my rewatch category–the films I used to love (or like), but haven’t seen in five or six years. These films are ones that I saw multiple times, back when I used to see things multiple times. I think that practice disappeared when I discovered AMC in 1996 or so.
I was a […]
Star Wars (1977, George Lucas)
January 11th, 2006 No Comments
Watching Star Wars as an adult–as a cynical adult–is an interesting experience. There are plenty of frequent reminders of the first film’s “faults,” from Alec Guinness and Harrison Ford deriding the dialogue to many of the second trilogy’s reviews citing it as a weak film. As near as I can tell, I haven’t seen Star […]
Mozart and the Whale (2005, Petter Næss)
January 10th, 2006 No Comments
I’ve only been looking forward to this damn movie for 2 years. It missed its theatrical release date, but there’s probably a DVD on the way (which would have been the source of my illicit copy). It’s perfectly understandable why the film missed the date… it lacks any relatable center. My fiancée just said she […]
