(1965) dir. Sergio Leone
viewed: 07/05/03
Oddly, For a Few Dollars More, I always thought of as the lesser of the trilogy, partially because I had a bit of a hard time remembering the plot from it, compared with the other two films. As it turns out on this viewing, that it’s actually pretty cool in [...]
Archive of entries posted on July 2003
For a Few Dollars More
Lost In La Mancha
(2002) dir. Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe
viewed: 07/03/03
Originally started as a “making of…” documentary about Terry Gilliam’s project The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Lost in La Mancha wound up documenting instead the disaster that the film’s production became. Lost in La Mancha, in the end, is a decent film about the film-making process and a [...]
The Pianist
(2002) dir. Roman Polanski
viewed: 07/01/03
Roman Polanski’s The Pianist is a simply, but elegantly filmed adaptation of Wladyslaw Szpilman’s account of his survival, hiding out in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. It passingly reminded me of a film that I had always really liked, Agnieszka Holland’s Europa Europa (1990), as it was another remarkable tale [...]
Adaptation
(2002) dir. Spike Jonze
viewed: 06/22/03
Until Spike Jonze directs a feature from a script other than a Charlie Kaufman work, it will be hard to assess how much of his own stamp he manages to put on his films. Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze were the writer and directer pair that brought out Being John [...]
The Hulk
(2003) dir. Ang Lee
viewed: 06/28/03 at Platinum Theaters, Dinuba, CA
When I used to live down in Reedley, CA (a small town in the San Joaquin Valley — for those of you who do not know), we would have to drive to either Fresno or Visalia to go see a movie, which would amount to a [...]
