2004: Movies Seen
Submitted by Imposter on Sat, 07/17/2004 - 03:52
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- Before Sunset - dir: Richard Linklater; st: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy
****½
- 2046 - dir: Wong Kar-Wai; st: Tony Leung, Zhang Ziyi, Faye Wong, Gong Li, Takuya Kimura, Carina Lau
- The Aviator - dir: Martin Scorsese; st: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, John C. Reilly, Kate Beckinsale, Alan Alda
- Downfall - dir: Oliver Hirschbiegel; st: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Juliane Kohler, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes
- Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind - dir: Michel Gondry; st: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Ruffalo
- Kill Bill, Vol. 2 - dir: Quentin Tarantino; st: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen, Gordon Liu
- Layer Cake - dir: Matthew Vaughn; st: Daniel Craig, Colm Meaney, Sienna Miller, George Harris, Michael Gambon
- Million Dollar Baby - dir: Clint Eastwood; st: Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, Mike Colter, Jay Baruchel
- The Motorcycle Diaries - dir: Walter Salles; st: Gael Garcia Bernal, Rodrigo De La Serna, Mia Maestro, Gustavo Bueno
- Nobody Knows - dir: Hirokazu Kore-Eda; st: Yuya Yagira, Ayu Kitaura, Hiei Kimura, Momoko Shimizu, Hanae Kan
- Shaun Of The Dead - dir: Edgar Wright; st: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Lucy Davis, Kate Ashfield, Dylan Moran
- A Very Long Engagement - dir: Jean-Pierre Jeunet; st: Audrey Tatou, Gaspard Ulliel, Marion Cotillard, Dominique Pinon, Chantal Neuwirth
****
- Bad Education - dir: Pedro Almodovar; st: Gael Garcia Bernal, Fele Martinez, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Francisco Boira, Lluis Homar
- Clean - dir: Olivier Assayas; st: Maggie Cheung, Nick Nolte, Martha Henry, Beatrice Dalle, James Dennis
- Closer - dir: Mike Nichols; st: Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Julia Roberts, Clive Owen
- Collateral - dir: Michael Mann; st: Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith, Mark Ruffalo
- Crash - dir: Paul Haggis; st: Don Cheadle, Jennifer Esposito, Matt Dillon, Thandie Newton, Brendan Fraser, Sandra Bullock, Ludacris
- DiG! - dir: Ondi Timoner; st: members of the Dandy Warhols and Brian Jonestown Massacre
- Fahrenheit 9/11 - dir: Michael Moore; st: Bush & Co.
- Finding Neverland - dir: Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie, Radha Mitchell, Dustin Hoffman
- House Of Flying Daggers - dir: Zhang Yimou; st: Zhang Ziyi, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau, Dandan Song
- I ♥ Huckabees - dir: David O. Russell; st: Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin, Jason Schwartzman, Isabelle Huppert, Jude Law, Naomi Watts, Mark Wahlberg
- The Incredibles - dir: Brad Bird; st: Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Jason Lee, Sarah Vowell, Samuel L. Jackson, Wallace Shawn
- Kinsey - dir: Bill Condon; st: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Peter Sarsgaard, John Lithgow, Oliver Platt
- Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster - dir: Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky; st: James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, Lars Ulrich, Jason Newsted, Bob Rock
- The Nomi Song - dir: Andrew Horn; st: Klaus Nomi
- The Perfect Crime - dir: Alex de la Iglesia; st: Guillermo Toledo, Monica Cervera, Luis Varela, Enrique Villen, Fernando Tejero
- Quill - dir: Yoichi Sai; st: Kaoru Kobayashi, Kippei Shiina, Teruyuki Kagawa, Keiko Toda, Tomaka Kurotani
- Sideways - dir: Alexander Payne; st: Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh
- Super Size Me - dir: Morgan Spurlock; st: Morgan Spurlock, his girlfriend, a bunch of McDonald's employees
- Tony Takitani - dir: Jun Ichikawa; st: Issei Ogata, Rie Miyazawa, Yumi Endo
***½
- Blood And Bones (Chi to home) - dir: Yoichi Sai; st: Takeshi Kitano, Hirofumi Arai, Miako Tadano, Tomoko Tabata, Yuko Nakamura
- The Bourne Supremacy - dir: Paul Greengrass; st: Matt Damon, Joan Allen, Brian Cox, Karl Urban, Julia Stiles
- Friday Night Lights - dir: Peter Berg; st: Billy Bob Thornton, Tim McGraw, Lucas Black, Garrett Hedlund, Derek Luke
- Garden State - dir: Zach Braff; st: Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Ian Holm, Peter Sarsgaard
- Hellboy - dir: Guillermo del Toro; st: Ron Perlman, John Hurt, Selma Blair, Rupert Evans, Jeffrey Tambor
- In Your Hands - dir: Annette K. Olsen; st: Ana Eleonora Jorgensen, Trine Dyrholm, Nicolaj Kopernikus, Lars Ranthe, Sonja Richter
- The Ladykillers - dir: Joel & Ethan Coen; st: Tom Hanks, Irma P. Hall, Marlon Wayans, J.K. Simmons, Tzi Ma
- The Hidden Blade - dir: Yoji Yamada; st: Masatoshi Nagase, Takako Matsu, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Ken Ogata, Hidetaka Yoshioka
- The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou - dir: Wes Anderson; st: Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Jeff Goldblum, Cate Blanchett, Anjelica Huston, Willem Dafoe
- Ocean's Twelve - dir: Steven Soderbergh; st: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Elliot Gould, Carl Reiner, Andy Garcia
- Ray - dir: Taylor Hackford; st: Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Regina King, Curtis Armstrong, Sharon Warren
- Spider-Man 2 - dir: Sam Raimi; st: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Alfred Molina, James Franco
- Three...Extremes - dir: Fruit Chan, Chan-wook Park, Takashi Miike; st: Miriam Cheung, Bai Ling, Byung-hun Lee, Won-hie Lim, Hye-jeong Kang, Kyoko Hasegawa, Atsuro Watabe
***
- Eros - dir: Wong Kar-Wai, Stephen Soderbergh, Michelangelo Antonioni; st: Gong Li, Chen Chang, Robert Downey Jr., Alan Arkin, Christopher Buchholz, Regina Nemni, Lusia Ranieri
- The Manchurian Candidate - dir: Jonathan Demme; st: Denzel Washington, Liev Schreiber, Meryl Streep, Kimberly Elise, Jon Voight
- Melinda And Melinda - dir: Woody Allen; st: Radha Mitchell, Chloe Sevigny, Will Farrell, Chewetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet
- Miracle - dir: Gavin O'Connor; st: Kurt Russell, Patricia Clarkson, Eddie Cahill, Michael Mantenuto
- The Passion Of The Christ - dir: Mel Gibson; st: Jim Caviezel, Monica Bellucci, Maia Morgenstern, Francesco De Vito, Hristo Jivkov
- Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow - dir: Kerry Conran; st: Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi, Ling Bai
**½
- Izo - dir: Takashi Miike; st: Kazuya Nakayama, Takeshi Kitano, Ryuhei Matsuda, Chikage Natsuyama
- Kung Fu Hustle - dir: Stephen Chow; st: Stephen Chow, Chi Chung Lam, Qiu Yuen, Wah Yuen, Sheng Yi Huang, Xiaogang Feng
**
- The Day After Tomorrow - dir: Roland Emmerich; st: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum, Dash Mihok, Sela Ward
- I, Robot - dir: Alex Proyas; st: Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, James Cromwell, Bruce Greenwood, Alan Tudyk
*
- Napoleon Dynamite - dir: Jared Hess; st: Jon Heder, Jon Gries, Aaron Ruell, Efren Ramirez, Tina Majorino
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Oh come on, Fahrenheit 9/11? Moore's arguments are weak and scattered (as evidenced by the horrible attempt to bring them together at the end), his 'games' (this time, reading Patriot act to Congress) are stupid and inconsequential, his directing is twice as manipulative as Bowling, etc.
I loved Bowling, and Fahrenheit is a better-than-average documentary, but four and a half stars?
Anyway, all I really want is a quick elaboration (oxy moron?) on why you liked it so much :-)
So far I've seen about 5 bad reviews of The Passion Of Christ on Listology. Not counting the critical bashing it took. Yet I am asked constantly asked "Have you seen The Passion of The Christ". Should I watch it just to have watched it?
On a side note, I met someone on Saturday who said their fave movie was "Scooby Doo 2" and she was about 20. How cute is that. :?|
T'ho
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That's probably the only reason I watched it. In a nutshell, it's about 30 minutes of story with 90 minutes of sheer, brutal torture, with not a whole lot of spirituality thrown in.
Watch the South Park episode on The Passion instead. :-)
Ah, Passion Of The Jew, tis a classic.
Thanks for the synopsis, I'm not sure if I wanna sit through 90 grueling minutes of blood n' guts.
T'ho
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Did either of you happen to catch this back when I posted it?
Yep, that articles great and sad all at the same time. "Jerusalem Chainsaw Massacre". I will at no point ever want to see this movie. Yet I feel as if Mel's point was lost in all that gore. Surely he was saying "Rot you damn sinners, for this was jesus dying for your sins!" in a voice of belching hysteria and candid mysanthropy. But then again he probably missed the point that no matter how much fake blood you use it ain't the crucifixtion. It's sad that noone feels they can go to a shrink in our day and age.
T'ho
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Now that I've seen the movie, the article really does make a lot of great points. Without a few (thousand) gallons of blood, and putting that 30 minutes of flagellation to better use (like, I don't know, maybe showing what a good guy J was), he could have made the movie that would have benefitted his audience, rather than nauseate them. Anybody else but Jesus and this film wouldn't have made it past the MPAA.
How'd you see 2046?!
Gotta love that ebay! A few folks overseas are selling the Guangdong DVDs for pretty low prices, and you end up getting what you pay for (the video quality is not so hot). So I ended up getting one for about $10, incl. shipping.
Wow, Before Sunset edged out Eternal Sunshine, eh? There's something poetic there, but I'm too tired to make something of it. Anyway, I'm glad you loved it so much. You're definitely not alone on that score 'round here.
Oh, I have Eternal Sunshine from Netflix, and I hope to get to it this weekend!
I had the benefit of watching both movies back to back, which probably helped put the second one that much higher. And it got me thinking about old acquaintances, and what they're up to now, and how we'd all get along nowadays....really, how can anything compete with that?
Will this be your first Eternal Sunshine viewing? Oh, to be able to see it again for the first time...
Yup, first viewing! I have a great set of movies from Netflix right now: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Infernal Affairs, and Maria Full of Grace. Wouldn't you know it, three movies I can't wait to see, and NOW is when I'm having a hard time carving out the time?!
Nice coincidence, I watched Infernal Affairs this weekend, and really enjoyed it. Hope you get the time soon!