(2001) dir. Chris Hegedus, Jehane Noujaim
viewed: 07/25/02
This film had been recommended to me by a number of people. This is probably because I work in the tech industry, in the heart of the land of the startups, and had worked here during much of the boom period and its downfall — the period and world [...]
Archive of entries posted on July 2002
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Bamboozled
(2000) dir. Spike Lee
viewed: 07/20/02
Spike Lee’s Bamboozled is a frustrating film.
The premise is brilliant. A frustrated African-American television writer, who is accused of being too “white” and lacking in edge, responds by creating a subversive-minded modern day minstrel show for his network. In his attempt to show the network that what it is [...]
Lantana
(2001) dir. Ray Lawrence
viewed: 07/14/02
The film Lantana was recommended to me by a few different people, which may have inadvertently raised my expectations above what they should have been. It’s a good film, though I would say it was a far cry from a great one.
The film is interested in the lives of its [...]
Minority Report
(2002) dir. Steven Spielberg
viewed: 07/17/02 at Kabuki Theater, SF
When I first heard that director Steven Spielberg and star Tom Cruise were working together on a film, I wasn’t too interested. Spielberg’s heavy-handed film work for the past 20 years has eroded any of the charm of his early output for me, and Cruise just [...]
Himalaya
(1999) dir. Eric Valli
viewed: 07/13/02
Beautiful landscapes. Interesting people. Too bad it wasn’t a documentary.
Well-meaning French director Eric Valli’s intent was to make a film about the salt-trading people of the Himalaya region to document their fading way of life, presumably one that has not changed for centuries. His narrative, I believe, was [...]
The Bourne Identity
(2002) dir. Doug Liman
viewed: 07/01/02 at Park Cinemas, Paso Robles, CA
The Bourne Identity is a classic type of noirish action/thriller, with fantastic European location settings, and a lean and well-paced narrative. I really enjoyed it.
The opening is great. French fishermen find a body floating in the sea that they take for a corpse. [...]
Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
(2002) dir. George Lucas
viewed: 07/02/02 at Fremont Theater, San Luis Obispo, CA
If you had told me at age 10 or so that when a new Star Wars movie would come out that it would take me over a month and a half to finally get to the cinema to see it, I would really never [...]
After Hours
(1985) dir. Martin Scorsese
viewed: 07/06/02
After Hours was made to be a cult film, one would think.
I certainly adopted it as such as a teenager when I first saw it. I remember going to watch it in the theater and, liking it so much, I coerced some friends to watch it again. Even back in my [...]
