(1997) dir. Vincenzo Natali
viewed: 05/24/03
High on concept, low on acting and clever character development, Cube is one of those interesting films that you kind of wish could have been just a little bit better. Well, when I say, YOU wish, I actually mean I wish, and I say this because I seem to have [...]
Archive of entries posted on May 2003
Cube
Une femme est une femme
(1961) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
viewed: 05/19/03 at Castro Theater, SF, CA
Really getting into a bad habit of falling too far behind for these entries. I saw this film over a week ago. It’s not as fresh in my mind as it once was.
Jean-Luc Godard’s interpretation of the romantic comedy seems, on the surface, strangely [...]
Winchester ‘73
(1950) dir. Anthony Mann
viewed: 05/14/03
I grew up in the South, in Florida to be exact, despising many things that I associated with Southern culture: rednecks, blue jeans, chewing tobacco, country music and Westerns. The litany of those things detailed shows how ill-informed and indiscriminate I was in consigning things to my list of dislikes. [...]
Rabbit-Proof Fence
(2002) dir. Phillip Noyce
viewed: 05/10/03
Based on a biographical account of real events, this film’s most-compelling qualities arise from its story’s basis in the real circumstances that set the stage for the narrative. I have not been familiar with the history of the relationship of European settlers in Australia and the Aboriginal peoples, though it [...]
Le Cercle rouge
(1970) dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
viewed: 05/12/03 at Castro Theater, SF, CA
I’d actually been to see Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samouraï (1967) at the Castro Theater a couple of years ago, another slick post-New Wave crime flick, full of detached cool and studied Noir homage. Le Cercle rouge cut from a very similar cloth, still very hip and [...]
8 Women
(2002) dir. François Ozon
viewed: 04/23/03
I don’t have much to say about this movie. I enjoyed it.
It’s a farcical take on the drawing room murder mystery, enlivened by musical numbers performed by each of the 8 Women of the title. The tone is consistently light and comical, verging on occasion into the realm of [...]
Better Luck Tomorrow
(2002) dir. Justin Lin
viewed: 04/21/03 at AMC 1000 Van Ness, SF, CA
This is another one of those diary entries that would have been much better had I sat down to write it more shortly after having seen this film. However, time failed to permit, and thus I will cobble together what I can about [...]
