Movies Seen
Removed from Current "To See" list
September-November 2006

Fantastic Voyage - writers group recs. for peeling plastic off Raquel Welch 1966 - voyage into the human body, but what's the big deal about that scene? silly movie X Sept 2006

War Games - "great script - theme in every scene" 1983 kid breaks into war computer X Oct 2006

The Sacrifice / Offret 1986 - Andrei Tarkovsky X Oct 2006

High Season RAVE UK 1987 Rhodes artists English theater musical chairs
(by the one who did: Rough Magic - magician female to Mexico shaman, psychedelics 1950s)

Caro Diario - Ital/Nanni Moretti

Backbeat - saw 1994 - could see again

May to December 1995
Delta of Venus - Zalman King 1939 Paris (Anais Nin novel) X Nov 2006

Nov. 1995
When Night Is Falling (Canada) woman attracted to carnival man X Sept 2006

January 1996 - (after return from Costa Rica)
Sabrina - WELL recs. - Harrison Ford - comedy X Sept 2006
X The Mystery of Rampo - unfemme fatale * - saw? & loved

March 1996 -
Carrington - WW2 England artist romance (Emma Thompson) (Mimi recommended as "great" in 1999) X Oct 2006 * quite interesting - woman in love with a-sexual/gay writer

X Fugitive

The Butcher Boy 1997 comedy Ireland - Neal Jordan - X Oct 2006

March 1997
X Crash - saw on plane

X Shine - Mimi recs. 1996 pianist had breakdown - saw Sept 1997

Vive l'amour (Taiwan) 1994 X Sept 2006

1998
Out of Sight - Steven Soderbergh (George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez) - from Elmore Leonard novel - about love in the head - criminal and cop romance X Sept 2006

X Life Is Beautiful - World War II - the Italian comedy in concentration camp

The Winter Guest - Scottish village X Sept 2006

X Underground - Kusturica - saw May 1976
Son of Gascogne X Sept 2006 cute

July, August 1998
Your Friends and Neighbors (did In the Company of Men) 1998 drama - Canada sex roles Comedy X Sept 2006
Dance With Me X Sept 2006 - nice dancing, cute Latino guy

Sept 1998
Mulan (anim) X Sept 2006 (too Disney)

end of 1998
Practical Magic - Aidan Quinn X Oct 2006

X Grease

Fifth Element 1997 Fr - Bruce Willis - see for my writing - Alex & dcarn recs. X Oct 2006 - sci fi - so stupid I could barely finish

1998
A Simple Plan - find money - for the end X Oct 2006 - gross and bloody, although I suppose the ending, where he kills his own brother, and later burns up the money, is traumatic to guys

Children of Heaven (Majid Majidi, Iran) 1997 - BEST OF 1999 - X Oct 2006

Hilary and Jackie - Pam says "intense" [Best Of 1998 - Late Night Video] X Oct 2006

The King of Masks (China) 1996 Bian Lian (shown at SFIFF) X Oct 2006 very sweet - I cried at the ending

X Hideous Kinky - Kate Winslet in Morocco

August 1999
The Dreamlife of Angels - Fr X Oct 2006

X Guinevere - good

Train of Life - French Holocaust comedy - Romanian-born Radu Mihaileanu. Jewish shtetl Eastern Europe winter 1941. Concoct plan to fake their own deportation. Hope and the human spirit, optimism and fantasy coexist with grim reality. Far superior to Life is Beautiful and Jakob the Liar. X Oct 2006 stupid

from Toronto Festival 1999:
Kikujiro X Oct 2006 - silly

November 1999 -
Anywhere But Here - Susan Sarandon - Wayne Wang X Oct 2006 ok
X Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
Beyond the Clouds - Michelangelo Antonioni 1995 / Wim Wendersi - quartet of love stories contemporary Europe, John Malkovich. Wim Wenders directed, perhaps because Antonioni had a stroke prior to production. Static tho many gorgeously composed shots, stories are repetitive noodlings, but two or three sex scenes are quite amazing. X Oct 2006 just ok

Dark Side of the Sun - 1999 Brad Pitt X Oct 2006

2000
Heart of Light - Greenland/Denmark 1997 - X Oct 2006
The Color of Paradise - Majid Majidi, Iran (did: Children of Heaven) saw
East is East - comedy - Pakistan in UK - X Oct 2006
Butterfly - Jose Luis Cuerda - curious little boy and his first teacher, Spanish mountain village 1936, brink of Spanish Civil - X Oct 2006, Nov 2001

From 2000 SFIFF:
Blossoms of Fire - Zapotecs X Oct 2006
Set Me Free - Fr 1999 - tomboy enthralled by Anna Karenina in Godard's "It's My Life" 1962 X Oct 2006

From Cannes May 2000:
Yi Yi - 2000 - Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. (A one and a two) (Taiwan: Edward Yang) X Oct 2006 - VERY GOOD - SUBTLE - STARTS SLOW & RUNS SLOW, BUT WELL WORTH IT - SEE AGAIN

Sept 2000
X Beautiful (Minnie Driver & kid) looks fun - teen - saw
Madadayo - Akira Kurosawa 1993 - Kurosawa's last X Oct 2006

2001
The House of Mirth - romance schemer Edwardian - did Distant Voices, Still Lives 1988 - X Oct 2006, Nov 2001

May 2001
A Knight's Tale X Oct 2006 - silly
The Luzhin Defense - John Turturro chess genius X Nov 2006

June 2001
French Cancan - 1954 Jean Renoir's showbiz saga - attempts to revive Moulin Rouge - a kick <Express liked> X Oct 2006 - cute
(The Road Home) - Zhang Yimou <BEST OF> X Nov 2006

August 2001
Amores Perros (Mex) X Nov 2006 - yuch, couldn't finish

December 2001
Lord of the Rings (#1) <Best of> X Nov 2006

Best ofs (2001):
The Mists of Avalon - the women of King Arthur (from: Marion Zimmer Bradley) X Nov 2006
Donnie Darko - psychotic adolescent - indie X Nov 2006

2002
Iris - Iris Murdoch life and loves X Nov 2006 - descent into Alzheimer's
Last Orders X Nov 2006 eh

April 2002 -
My Big Fat Greek Wedding X Nov 2006

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