(2001) dir. Tarô Rin
viewed: 05/27/02
Tarô Rin’s Metropolis is a Japanese animated science fiction film that envisions the future with distinct elements of the past. Tipping its hat to the classic silent sci-fi film from which it took its name and some of its ideas and owing its story and character design to an artist of [...]
Archive of entries posted on May 2002
Metropolis
The Deep End
(2001) dir. Scott McGehee, David Siegel
viewed: 05/08/02
The Deep End is modern noir from local writing, directing, and producing team, Scott McGehee and David Siegel, whose earlier film, Suture (1993), was always one of those films that I meant to get around to seeing, but never did.
The Deep End had a lot of solid buzz, and [...]
Fulltime Killer
(2001) dir. Johnny To, Ka-Fai Wai
viewed: 04/28/02 at AMC Kabuki Theater, SF
Fulltime Killer, which I saw as part of the San Francisco International Film Festival, was one of the first new Hong Kong action films that I had seen in some time.
I had been quite the aficianado of HK films through much of the 90’s [...]
With a Friend Like Harry…
(2000) dir. Dominik Moll
viewed: 05/23/02
This was a good, entertaining, mildly disturbing comedy/thriller.
Harry, an old forgotten classmate of the protagonist shows up suddenly in a French roadside bathroom and reinserts himself into his former classmate’s life, joining him and his young family at their dilapidated farmhouse in the country for a few days. Quickly it turns [...]
