Halfway through The Indian Runner–I’m guessing at the location, but halfway sounds about right–there’s a stunning montage. It might be the best way to talk about the film, or at least to start talking about the film, because The Indian Runner resists any standard–or glib–entry angles. It’s a five character montage, taking place in the […]
Entries Tagged as 'Patricia Arquette'
The Indian Runner (1991, Sean Penn)
February 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Tagged: Charles Bronson· David Morse· Dennis Hopper· Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer· Patricia Arquette· Sean Penn· ★★★★
Stigmata (1999, Rupert Wainwright)
February 9th, 2009 · No Comments
From the director of MC Hammer’s greatest hits. Seriously.
I wasn’t even going to open mocking Rupert Wainwright, but then I saw his filmography. Instead, I was going to open wondering how, with two people credited with the score (Billy Corgan and Elia Cmiral), it could be so terrible. Not really, I knew when the titles […]
Tagged: Gabriel Byrne· Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer· Patricia Arquette· Rick Ramage· Rupert Wainwright· Tom Lazarus· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
Ed Wood (1994, Tim Burton)
November 13th, 2008 · No Comments
Ed Wood is a biopic of the unsung. The “misfits and dope addicts” of impossibly low budget American filmmaking. The film’s epilogue, following up with the characters, puts the film on the same level as all other big Hollywood biopics. Except this one is about someone who really didn’t do anything (and didn’t even get […]
Tagged: Bill Murray· Johnny Depp· Larry Karaszewski· Patricia Arquette· Rudolph Grey· Scott Alexander· Tim Burton· Touchstone Pictures· ★★★★
Flirting with Disaster (1996, David O. Russell)
February 15th, 2007 · No Comments
The first forty-five minutes of Flirting with Disaster play like Woody Allen mixed with a 1990s Miramax indie, which makes sense, since Flirting is a 1990s Miramax indie. That first half is real strong comedy of errors, then Josh Brolin’s bi (but married to fellow ATF agent Richard Jenkins, who’s phenomenal) old friend starts hitting […]
Tagged: Alan Alda· Ben Stiller· David O. Russell· George Segal· Miramax Films· Patricia Arquette· Richard Jenkins· Téa Leoni· ★★½
Bringing Out the Dead (1999, Martin Scorsese)
November 6th, 2005 · No Comments
What to say about Bringing Out the Dead… I remember now why 1999 was the hardest year to make a top ten list for–and I hadn’t even seen Wonderland at that point. Whatever. It’s the best. It’s certainly Scorsese’s best work in the 1990s, puts the rest to a kind of shame (it’s odd, then, […]
Tagged: Cliff Curtis· Joe Connelly· Marc Anthony· Martin Scorsese· Nicolas Cage· Paramount Pictures· Patricia Arquette· Paul Schrader· Tom Sizemore· Ving Rhames· ★★★★
