(2003) dir. Stephen Norrington
viewed: 12/27/03
There is an amusing notion here at the core of this film, though it really stems from the idea as it originated in the comic book by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill that this film was derived from (or so I am assuming, since I haven’t read it.) The idea [...]
Archive of entries posted on December 2003
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Solaris
(1972) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
viewed: 12/25/03
This film made me feel like a narcoleptic.
I’d sat down to watch it twice before and moved about 45 minutes forward each time before dozing my way to incomprehension. So, getting the kid to bed early, I made a fresh cup of tea and sallied my way through it from [...]
Morvern Callar
(2002) dir. Lynne Ramsay
viewed: 12/16/03
I had been quite keen to see this film when it came through the theaters, but it’s short stay side-stepped my efforts and then I can’t remember what happened the day that it was playing at the Red Vic and was on the Monday Night Movie Club schedule, but that fell [...]
I Vitelloni
(1953) dir. Federico Fellini
viewed: 12/15/03 at Castro Theater, SF, CA
I’ve said it before, and I will say it again, largely because I tend to repeat myself ad nauseum, but despite having been a film studies student, there are a multitude of significant directors of whom I have seen little or nothing. Of Federico [...]
X2
(2003) dir. Bryan Singer
viewed: 12/11/03
I had a period in my life, like many teenage boys, in which reading and collecting comic books was one of my primary activities. And like many others, too, one of my particular favorites was The Uncanny X-men. This period for me ran between ages 13-15 or so, I [...]
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
(2003) dir. Gore Verbinski
viewed: 12/24/03
I’d heard pretty consistantly that this movie was more fun than most people thought it would be, and in truth, it is. To say that a movie is based on a theme park ride is really a bit of a misnomer. The theme park ride is great, one of my personal [...]
A Mighty Wind
(2003) dir. Christopher Guest
viewed: 12/02/03
This mock-documentary format was getting tired several years ago, and by the time director Christopher Guest had created Best in Show (2000), the format of these ensemble, collaborative wacky character-driven comedies really made one wonder if he knew any other way of making a film. And the subject matter of [...]
