Spreadin' The Love Around With A Spread Of Great Movies!
Aug 09 '06
The Bottom Line Something for everyone on this list, I think...
If you learn anything from this list of movies I’ve really enjoyed recently and hopefully will again, it is that I love a wide range or spread of movies. If you find me pretty strange for this odd collection, so be it. There’s something to appeal to everyone here, I think. A few movies I’ve not listed, but have enjoyed recently in a lesser degree are Raising Helen, Sin City, Tristram Shandy, Half Light and Basic Instinct 2.
This list continues my Spreadin’ The Love Around series to highlight reviews of other wonderful writers on epinions.com. Links are included to the rest of their reviews. I hope this helps you to discover great writers as well as movies to love!
Forbidden Games (1952): Rene Clement, director; starring Brigitte Fossey, Georges Poujouly. Reviewed by mellalluk.
Paulette buries Jock, her dog, with Michel’s help, but becomes concerned that Jock will be lonely. Together, they begin to construct an elaborate animal cemetery, burying the corpses of rats, cockroaches, worms, chicks, and the like, alongside Jock. It is imperative, they imagine (from their observations of human burial rituals) that these graves be marked with crosses. In order to please Paulette, Michel begins initially to make crosses from sticks but later turns to stealing more elaborate crosses – from his brother’s funeral hearse, the church altar, and finally even from the town cemetery. Despite the superficial “weirdness” of these activities, all of the relationship between Michel and Paulette is permeated by the pure innocence of childhood and a genuine affection between the two lonely and confused youngsters. The “forbidden games” referred to in the title are, of course, the ceremonial animal burial rituals developed by the children and not sexual games as some unwitting viewers might be anticipating.
Read the rest: http://www.epinions.com/content_141573262980
Summer Magic (1963): James Neilsen, director; starring Hayley Mills, Burl Ives. Reviewed by jaynrand.
Sometime between 'Pollyanna' and 'The Trouble With Angels', Hayley Mills made a few teen-age films for Walt Disney. This one is the most delightful. It is based on the novel "Mother Carey's Chickens." From the first title when we find out that the place is Boston and the time is RAG, the movie is enjoyable.
Hayley plays Nancy Carey - daughter of recent widow Dorothy McGuire. She has two younger brothers Gilly and Peter. The older is played by Broadway's Eddie Hodges who was the original Winthrop Paroo on the New York stage in 'The Music Man' and in films with Frank Sinatra in 'A Hole in the Head.' Here he is a little older but no less delightful and the perfect sibling for Hayley. Jerry Mathers' (the Beaver) younger brother Jimmy Mathers plays Peter and he is a more natural actor than Jerry and also shines.
Read the rest: http://www.epinions.com/content_27684081284
Le Samourai (1967): Jean-Pierre Melville, director; starring Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon. Reviewed by ChrisJarmick.
Le Samourai The perfect film? No. Unique, influential, and an-Emperor-without-clothes? Yes
John Pierre Melville’s Le Samourai is a film scholars' wet dream of a movie. It is stylish, accessible, well made, French and a product of American Noir influence and Japanese folklore. Because it’s a minimalist styled film wearing several influences on its sleeves there is much to consider, contemplate and write about.
Read the rest: http://www.epinions.com/content_233668775556
From Beijing With Love (1994): Lee Li Chi and Stephen Chow, directors; starring Chow, Anita Yuen. Reviewed by sadlovepoet.
Directed by Lee Li Chi and Stephen Chow, this movie is a humorous sort of parody of the famous James Bond movie series. The plot is mostly of an orphaned woman brought up by a greedy man who killed her parents is set on a mission to kill a spy (Stephen Chow) who has not been in duty for years. The woman faces much internal conflict and drama within herself whenever she gets an opportunity to put an end to the spy's life. The plot moves fairly quickly. There are a few fight scenes in the movie, and a big one at the climax. Throughout the movie, many funny parts and suggestions are slipped in to produce a humorous effect despite the drama and action.
Read the rest: http://www.epinions.com/content_186207014532
Golden eye (1995): Martin Campbell, director; starring Pierce Brosnan, Famke Janssen, Judi Dench. Reviwed by cntaur5.
If you are looking for political correctness, or perhaps a theatrical performance that will make you shed tears, then look elsewhere. Bond fans know Ian Fleming's fictional character. GoldenEye lives up to the novelist fantasy as it takes you on a combative joy ride to be remembered. This Bond flick will satisfy the die-hard Connery fan. This movie runs for two hours and 10 minutes and has been rated PG-13 due to its violence, suggestive language and sexuality. What filmmakers realize, is that there are a group of consumers that want mindless racy action dressed in tuxedo with a little British class.
Read the preceding of review: http://www.epinions.com/content_124858699396
The Full Monty (1997): Peter Cattaneo, director; starring Mark Addy, Robert Carlyle (and some Chippendale hunks!). Reviewed by bwykoff1.
This review is about a film I have seen several times since its release. The Full Monty is a British Film that was released back in 1997 and now on video. There seem to be certain films I gravitate towards over and over. I have no idea why this is. The Full Monty is starting to grow on me. Pop it in your VCR, pop your kernels of buttered joy, turn the lights down nice and low and let the show begin!
Read the rest: http://www.epinions.com/content_20361154180
Who Am I? (1998): Benny Chan, Jackie Chan, directors; starring Jackie Chan, Michelle Ferre. Reviewed by degeneration.
Who Am I? is a strange film as far as Jackie Chan film's go. Why? Well, because he quite clearly is trying to get a plot into this film! In my opinion there are more resembelences to a plot here than in several other of his films combined. I for one though, do not watch Jackie Chan films mainly for the plot, with him it is the action and the humour that are the most important. And does this film deliver? I think: yes it does.
I bought this Hong Kong version of the film as I discovered that it was something like 15-20 minutes longer than the British region 2 version which I used to own, and also because it was supposed to be uncut. That was enough of a reason for me to flog on the region 2 version then by this, desperate to see what the minutes that were cut out contained. I was hoping for another fight scene or something like that, and in that department I was disappointed. However what I got instead I've got to say was still good, as it was entertaining and still interesting, and I honestly do not know why the scenes were not included in the British version. What were the scenes? Read on to find out...
Read the rest: http://www.epinions.com/content_61869756036#ow
Amelie (2001): Jean-Pierre Jeunet, director; starring Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz. Reviewed by janteloven.
That you're reading this review, I can infer one of two things. Either you've taken a shine to me or my writing (in which case, let me put you in my will; you inherit a walnut), or more realistically you've an interest in the movie Amelie. But in any case, I feel safe enough to keep writing in this vein, because you're most likely not to kind of reader/movie viewer/human being with a great aversion to schmalzy, heart-plucking fluff.
Given that, it's probably on reasonable authority that I assume you understand where I'm coming from when I say that so often I find myself on the verge of a breakdown for fear that I'm the only one who feels that life's gone sour long before I'm old enough to justify my unhappiness…
I found my saviour last Wednesday in this extra-curricular cinema discussion class I take to fulfill an art requirement at my university. In the past few years and especially since beginning my university study, I'd given up all hope and resigned myself to my very frustrating, nothing place in the world. Then I saw Amelie, and remarkably, miraculously, I was happy without any apparent reason for the first time in so long I can't remember. For all the reasons I'm about to describe and more, this movie is the golden epitome of life-affirming cinematic art.
Read the rest: http://www.epinions.com/content_121517149828
Shaolin Soccer (2002): Stephen Chow, director; starring Chow, Vicki Zhao. Reviewed by wsmunch.
Nutshell for Shaolin Soccer: Disgraced soccer legend, poor kung-fu trainer, creation of rag-tag soccer team, final showdown, courage and honor win.
Shaolin Soccer gripped my interest, kept me laughing the entire time, and left me wanting more good kung-fu to watch. All of the elements of action, feats, dialogue, culture, comedy, and style are implemented in this movie and it is really fun. The CGI, while discernable, is done tastefully and only when necessary to showcase superhuman kung-fu talent. Sometimes cheesy? Yes, but the action scenes are exciting to watch and choreographed well. Entertaining? Yes!
Read the rest: http://www.epinions.com/content_154122358404#ow
Primer (2004): Shane Carruth, director; starring Carruth, David Sullivan. Reviewed by dijinn.
Primer is brilliant both in its dialogue as well as in its plot line. But don’t come expecting Back to the Future level special effects or even Memento’s coolness. But even so there are too few movies out there that make the viewer wake up and pay attention. Most movies allow all the truly complicated concepts to be left for graduate philosophy text books. But Primer at least has made an attempt where others haven’t even dared.
And so I highly recommend this movie to all those interested in peeling the onion layers off of their entertainment. If you enjoy thinking and re-thinking about a movie until you begin to get your arms around it, maybe just maybe you might enjoy this movie. Otherwise, rent Multiplicity or Back to the Future and laugh away the moral implications and the bigger issues inherent within the mind-job that is Primer.
Read the rest: http://www.epinions.com/content_216574824068
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