All old lists tossed - August 2006
Updated October 2006
INCORPORATES electronic files:
movies_tosee_94-01_fi.txt - July 23, 2001
movies_tosee_94-02_cleared3.doc - July 30, 2002
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The Third Man 1949 thriller
1989: A Brighter Summer Day - epic (Edward Yang) - 1991 - Taiwan - romance - "astounding"
- 60s nostaliga, better than Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love. <<<
1994
to come 1994
Lilah - Wayne Wang - huh? not on imdb.com
(Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
(Flesh and Bone - 1993 Texas - one girl not murdered in family) eh
(The Pelican Brief)
(I'll Do Anything (Hollywood)) eh
?My Father The Hero - Depardieu comedy 1994 - on vacation, his daughter pretends
he's her lover to get by
(Ace Ventura, Pet Detective (Jim Carrey) 1994
(Snake Eyes (Nicholas Cage & Madonna) 1998 thriller) eh
1/94
?Nell - 1994 Jodie Foster as backwards weird girl - Drama
Boys on the Side - Whoopi hmm - 1995 Comedy
Return of the Vampire 1943/44 Bella Lugosi - (Brad Pitt is in: Interview with
the Vampire 1994)
A Walk in the Clouds (by "Like Water for Chocolate" director) - Keanu
Reeves - Vet poses as hubby 1950s - ROM
Wolf (Nicholson) - 1994 Drama/Horror
1/94
(The Last of England - Derek Jarman - a dark meditation on London under Thatcher.
Heaven and Earth - Oliver Stone - Vietnam - US guy helps Vietnamese woman - hmm
"good performances" 1993
Summer 1994
(Croc Dundee II
(China Moon - suspense 1991 cult thriller 1994 - Ed Harri's lover's hubby murdered,
he's suspected
(Total Recall (Schwarzenager)
3/94
(Red Rock West - 1992 thriller - bartender has to kill - Nicolas Cage +
5/94
(Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
(House of the Spirits - from Allende's book (Jeremy Irons)
Crooklyn - Spike Lee - his childhood in Brooklyn <<<
6/94
Helas Pour Moi / Oh Woe Is Me - 1993 Godard w Depardieu (remake of Wenders?)
decision to leave live.<<<
(Go Fish - lesbian
7/94
Raining Stones - Ken Loach (Brit) - poor man trying to help his family
It Could Happen to You - Nicolas Cage & Rosie Perez lottery
Three of Hearts - lesbian hire gigolo - Argentina [NOT US version 2005]
8/94
(Natural Born Killers _ Oliver Stone
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
9/94
Sleep With Me <<< Gen X romance 1994 turbulent relationship, third
person - comedy INDIE<<<
The New Age - Judy Davis - offbeat comedy - Southern California couple <<<
11/94
The Lisa Theory ("love SF style") - 1994 Romance
? Interview With The Vampire - Brad Pitt - 1994 - I think I saw
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1995
The Usual Suspects - crooks
HOT 1995
102 Blvd. Haussmann - Fr 1990 TV - Marcel Proust <<<<<
Cat People ?
t.c. Jan/Feb 1995 -
Bottle Rocket
May to December 1995 -
The Bridges of Madison County
Dance Me Outside - Canadian Indians
Funny Bones - comedians
My Life and Times with Antonin Artaud ?
Dangerous Minds - teacher inner city school - Michelle Pfeiffer
? Kids
Wild Reeds - growing up in Algeria
To Die For - Gus Van Sant
? Jade
The Run of the Country - growing up in Ireland
Devil in a Blue Dress - private detective
Double Happiness - Canadian Chinese humor <<<
Unzipped - behind world of high fashion - even though others said shallow
Showgirls 1995
The Crossing Guard - only for Jack Nicholson, written & directed by Sean Penn
- complex, involved, messy (bravo for them) + great performance. (couldn't finish
because bad CD, but eh)
t.c. Nov 1995 -
Kicking & Screaming - college kids - eh
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1996
Island of Roses: The Jews of Rhodes in Los Angeles
(Last Man Standing - Bruce Willis - gunner for hire
Michael Collins (Ireland)
February 1996 -
Mountains of the Moon - Africa exploration
(Living in Oblivion - about filmmaking)
Party Girl
April 1996 -
Denise Calls Up ?
I Shot Andy Warhol
Great Scripting, recs. by John Sanborn:
North by Northwest
Psycho
Batman Forever
June 1996 -
Boca a Boca
Moll Flanders
1996 Calendar
<Watadoo> likes the opening music on:
Blue Collar 1978 Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel - robbery
Sometimes a Great Notion (chain saw) 1971 Paul Newman - family of Oregon loggers
High Wind in Jamaica 1965 Anthony Quinn - kids captured by pirates
October 1996 t.c. -
Manny & Lo
Looking For Richard - Al Pacino on Richard III - hmm
Palookaville - loser guys in nowhere town try to do robbery <<<
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1997 "movie drought" - must mean 95-96
The Watermelon Woman 1996 black lesbian searches for 1930s actress - Docudrama
The Devil's Advocate 1997 thriller - Keanu Reeves - attorney discovers boss is
evil
A Matter of Life and Death a/k/a Stairway to Heaven RAVE UK 1946 tries to stay
on earth and not die - no
Follow the Bitch 1996 - woman teaches poker guys a lesson
The Scottish Tale 1996 (Macbeth theme / low budget)
Jackie Chan"s First Strike 1996 <<<
1997 -
Lilies - Canada John Greyson - Brechtiian - in prison, convicts kidnap old priest,
re-create events that led him to priesthood & his long-ago male lover - gay
- eh
Mon Homme / MY MAN - Bertrand Blier (Get Out Your Handkerchiefs, Buffet Froid,
Too Beautiful for You) - Hooker takes in bum, who ends up pleasing her sexually
in a way she never thought possible. 1996 - DID Merci La Vie 1990 <<<<
1997 from handwritten list:
Johns - 1996 - realistic - Santa Monica prostitute
SubUrbia - Linkletter 1996 - teens
Follow Me Home 1996 ethnic muralists travels <<<< INDIE?
David Lynch: Lost Highway
Sling Blade
Absolute Power 1997 Clint Eastwood - career thief witnesses crime involving President
Le Samourai
The Devils Own - IRA - with Brad Pitt
Unforgiven - Clint Eastwood 1992 <<<
Love & Other Catastrophes - Aussie Sundance - film school students 1992
Traveller
The Daytrippers - 1996 - family in station wagon
Kissed - 1996 - necrophilia
Broken English 1996 Croatian refugee family in NZ - "trite plot" (did:
Once Were Warriors)
Schizopolis - Soderbergh
The Van - Roddy Doyle - British humor
Dream with the Fishes - Sundance
Kiss Me Guido - good start <<<
Angel Dust - Japanese thriller, complex 1994 psychiatrist hunt for killer leads
to other psychiatrist
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Con Air - very good first hour
Air Force One
Star Maps - eh
This World, Then the Fireworks - eh - grifter attempt
Leave It to Beaver
(Mimic
Copland
(G. I. Jane
(Different for Girls
Excess Baggage 1997 rich brat fakes kidnapping
(The Game
(The Peacemaker
Fire Down Below 1997 enviro agent fight Kentucky toxic waste dumpers
The Edge - Anthony Hopkins - surviving after plane went down
1997 Movies to See (Finally some things worth seeing again)
Wishmaster ? - eh - ghouls thriller
Fast, Cheap & Out Of Control
Slingshot - Stockholm 1920s boy 1993 Kadisbellan - socialist father, Jewish
mother <<<
Man by the Shore - Fr 1993 - Haiti under Papa Doc
Obsession - 1976 thriller nod to Hitchcock
Lumiere and Company - forties filmmakers use Lumiere camera <<<
Jackie Brown
Angel Baby
1997 Video Store Burnout:
Walking and Talking - US 1996 ROM <<<
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1998 get all of these
Mother and Son - SFIFF97 hit - Germany/Russia (Mat i syn / Mutter und Sohn)
Oliver Assayas (did Irma Vep): French <<<
Paris at Dawn 1991
A New Life 1993
Cold Water 1994
Brother (Japanese Yakuz in Los Angeles 2000 looks interesting)
(Celebrity (Woody Allen) 1998) eh?
1998 from handwritten list:
(Amistad)
Wag the Dog - Dustin Hoffman - Michael Sragow's Top Ten List for 1997 - fabricate
a war - for Willie Nelson
(Lisbon Story - Wim Wenders)
(Kundun)
(Happy Together, Chungking Express - Wong Kar-wai - never mind
The Sweet Hereafter - Atom Egoyan
Oscar and Lucinda
Live Flesh - Almodovar
The Apostle (?)
The Wedding Singer <<<
CHINA TRIP
The X-Files
Portland Street Blues - Hong Kong (tho perhaps with violence)
(Primary Colors)
Post Coitum animal triste - Fr <<<
Love and Death on Long Island
Wilde
Sliding Doors - comedy
Four Days in September
The Last Days of Disco
May 1998 -
Bulworth - Warren Beatty runs for president as honest
? Henry Fool - Hal Hartley
? The Hanging Garden
? Cousin Bette
Hollow Reed - Martin Donovan
? Cafe Society
July, August 1998 -
The Governess - Minnie Driver
I Went Down - Irish gangsters comedy (Irish Pulp Fiction) (SFIFF 1998) <<<
(Snake Eyes - Nicolas Cage)
Pi / 3.14 - inside head of paranoid obsessed Jewish mathematician [Best Of 1998
- Late Night Video]
The Thief 1997 "Vor" - Russian <<
Next Stop Wonderland - romance with plumber through ad - offbeat comedy (did:
The Darien Gap - "best Gen X film")
Mrs. Dalloway
September 1998 -
Slums of Beverly Hills 1998 Comedy <<<
(I saw: Down & Out in Beverly Hills 1986 - FEB 1996)
Why Do Fools Fall in Love <<< eh
Dr. Doolittle
The Emperor's Shadow
Clockwatchers
(Buffalo '66 - [Best Of 1998 - Late Night Video]
Western
Insomnia (did Memento) (Norway thriller) - see imdb rave <<<
Insomnia (Robin Williams 2002 - looks like a remarke)
Yellow 1998 - Los Angeles teens grad night <
The Mighty - nearly perfect film - oddball childhood friendship (brilliant with
leg braces + hulk with learning disabilities) 1998 Gena Rowlands - hmmm
The Eel / Unagi 1997 Japanese - kills wife's lover < [Best Of 1998 - Late Night
Video]
Apt Pupil 1998 (Stephen King) boy blackmails Nazi
Clay Pigeons 1998 small town young man sees friend suicide because of Clay's affair
with friend's wife - eh
Dancing at Lughnasa - the loss of sexual innocence <<<
Pleasantville - black and white world turns color [Best Of 1998 - Late Night Video]
<<<
Love is the Devil (gay) eh
? Beloved - Jonathan Demme
Very Bad Things
The Cruise
(Antz)
A Bug's Life
? The Mark of Zorro
Without Limits 1998 runner's boyhood [Best Of 1998 - Late Night Video] - Donald
Sutherland - won Golden Globe <
Bad Manners 1997 eh <
Chalk - UK TV comedy (high school staff)
The Celebration 1998 "Festen" Denmark - family truths revealed at 60th
birthday [Best Of 1998 - Late Night Video]
Party Monster
La Separation 1994 Fr ?
(Little Voice 1998 UK shy girl to singer [Best Of 1998 - Late Night Video] <<<
Unmade Beds - four single New Yorkers 1997 <<<
Steam: The Turkish Bath
Celebrity - Woody Allen
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
One True Thing - Meryl Streep, Rene Zellwegger - cares for sick mother
TO SEE FROM SFIFF 1998:
Surrogate Mother
The Saltmen of Tibet - German/Swiss doc
Marius and Jeannette - Fr
The Spider's Stratagem (Italy) - Bertolucci 1970
He Ran All the Way - 1951
A Captive in the Land
W. R.: Mysteries of the Organism (Yug/Germ)
Black Tears (Netherlands
Sacrifice - doc from Sundance
Paulina - doc from Sundance
Blind Faith (USA)
(Green Fish - South Korea) - see Express put-down
Vision Man / Rat - Greenland native doc <<<
Every Little Thing (Fr) doc
In My Father's House (Neth) - Morocco
Animated by Dr. Freud
Gummo
Father, Son and Holy Torum (Estonia
The Ark of the Desert - Algerian Romeo & Juliet
Junk Mail (Norway)
1998 Calendar:
God of Gamblers - Chow Yun Fat - dcarn recs. - Du Shen 1989 - rave IMDB. com <<<
The Train - with Scofield - Mike recs. 1964 - Fr stop German train stealing
art, without damaging <<<
Love Life
Playing God?
Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion ?
Gore Vidal likes: Coen Brothers movies / Airplane
The Night of Hunter - 1955 - creepiest - dcarn likes Lilian Gish
The Politician ! - 1916 - The Woman in Politics <<<
Summer of 42 - for young man 1971
Happiness 1998 - three sisters < [Best Of 1998 - Late Night Video]
Lolita
TV animation: Miega
The Politicians Wife - Masterpiece Theater - Minnie Driver - wife gets perfect
revenge <<<
1998 Best Ofs - Late Night Video's list - GOOD LIST - 5736 Thornhill Dr, Oakland
339-3546
Saving Private Ryan
The Thin Red Line
Elizabeth <<<
(Out of Sight
Beloved
Rushmore <<< - I think I saw this on a plane - stupid.
The General
Love & Death on Long Island 1997 - widower gets hung up on actor (gay subtext)
Slam - housing project
Affliction <<< - sheriff from disfunctional family - life comes apart
Zero Effect - Sherlock Holmes reworked
Waking Ned Divine - town tries to get dead lottery winner's money <<<
Living Out Loud ?
The Prince of Egypt (anim)
The Farm: Life in Angola Prison
The Last Days - Hungarian Jews tell stories of pre-1944 <<<<<
1998 Video Store Burnout:
Volcano - eh
Mystic Origins of the Martial Arts
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1999
Un Air de Famille (did: When the Cats Away) - Fr
(God Said, "Ha!" - story of brother having cancer
Straight Time w Dustin Hoffman 1974 <<< hmm 1978
20 Dates - eh?
Sweden TV 1996
The Swindle (Rien Ne Va Plus) (French) - Chabrol <<<
Twin Falls Idaho 1999 Siamese twins
Xiu Xiu: The Send-Down Girl - Joan Chen director <<<
The Insider - 1999 tobacco
Magnolia ? - intertwined stories - San Fernando Valley
Liberty Heights Jewish Baltimore in 1954 <<<
Princess Mononoke (anim) (did: Spirited Away) [ Alvin Lu's 1999 bestof]
The Sixth Sense ? - boy sees spirits
Plunkett & Macleane ? - action/mystery 1999 <<< recs. - gentlemen
highway men of the 1700s
1999
Arlington Road - Jeff Bridges, Tom Robbins - thriller - professor suspects neighbor
is a terrorist.
The Wood - Inglewood, 3 aging 20somethings on day of best friend's wedding - writer/director
Rick Famuyiwa grew up on this turf & knows the feel and language, but fails
to capture the pathos and friction of that time when young men start drifting
apart, when so-called real life begins.
1999 from handwritten list:
Still Crazy - rock band reunion 1998
The Great Conqueror's Concubine 1994 - Xi chu bawang
Hurlyburly - Hollywood
(Psycho - Gus Van Sant - see Sragow overview)
? Un Air de Famille
? Conceiving Ada
Windhorse (about Tibet) - indie - eh
The Harmonists comedian Harmonists - German male sextet <
Stepmom
? Playing by Heart
Office Space
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - UK - workers put on poker game, lose
March 1999 -
Go <BEST OF> <<< drug deal from 3 POVs
Metroland 60s - Fr/Span/UK 1997 eh
Seventh Heaven (Fr) 1996 - therapists-go-round <<<
Private Confessions (Bergman wrote, Liv Ullman dir.) <<< eh
May 1999 -
Get Real - British school boys fall in love (gay)
From SFIFF 1999:
Late August, Early September (Fr) - Assayas - Alvin Lu - eh
Life of Earth (Mali) - cf Aime Cesaire <<<
The Lovers of Pont-Neuf (Fr) 1990 - I think I saw this
The Terrorist (India)
Wagner (Bulgaria)
The War Zone (Tim Roth directs, England) - quiet nightmare, superb acting
Negative Space (England)
Last Stop Paradise (Romania / France)
The Indian Runner (USA 1991)
Getting to Know You <<<
Liquid Sky ?
The Animated Zoo - anim collection
The Fall of Ottar (Kazakh)
Flower of Shanghai <<<
The Hole (Taiwan/ France)
August 1999 -
My Son the Fanatic (Hanif Kureishi) UK 1997
American Beauty (except end) eh
Destiny - gypsies + - huh? couldn't find on imdb.com <<<
Besieged - Bertolucci <<< eh
Big Daddy (funny) - man adopts kid
Trick 1999 Romantic comedy (gays) eh
Get Bruce! - doc of comedians i.e. Robin Williams <<<
Jeanne and the Perfect Guy - Fr (aids)
Illuminata ? - John Turturro - about theater
Floating Life - Chinese retired in Australia
Tea with Mussolini ?
eXistenZ - Alvin Lu
A Dog of Flanders ?
The Blair Witch Project
Better Than Chocolate ? - lesbians move in together, Vancouver
Kasaba - a year in Turkey - 1998
Jakob the Liar - maybe for Robin Williams?
Mystery, Alaska
The Children of Chabannes 1999 - US about Jewish kids hidden in French village
Ichigensan / The First Time <<<
The Straight Story - David Lynch <
The Adventures of Prince Achmed - 1926
Happy, Texas
---- to end of October 1999 ---
t. c.
All About My Mother (Almodovar) ?
The Source - about the Beats
from Toronto Festival 1999:
The Jaundiced Eye - gay father accused of molesting son
American Movie - hapless filmmaker
La Fille Seule / Pas de Scandale - Single Girl 1995 - eh
Lies
September 1999 -
? The Muse - remake of Taxi Driver - comedy of Tinseltown's bad manners - Jeff
Bridges
November 1999 -
Man on the Moon - Jim Carrey
Anna and the King - for Malaysian scenery & Chow Yun Fat (Jodie Foster) -
saw a bit on an airplane I think
The Green Mile - Stephen King novel - prisoner with spiritual powers - eh?<<<
(? Flawless) - "feel good"
(The End of the Affair) - cf English Patient
Breakfast of Champions (from Vonnegut novel)
From 1999 Calendar:
Golden Globe:
Primary Colors (Kathy Bates) - US political campaign
Gods and Monsters (Lyn Redgrave) - director of Frankenstein talks to gardener
(gay under-theme) <<<
Sandy and Jeff liked:
Arbrak (Leon) ?? ?=? Arak el-balah (Egypt)
Never Been Kissed 1999 high school - Drew Barrymore
(Shooting Fish - 1997 cons
Polish Wedding ? 1998
1999 Video Store Burnout:
Thundercrack 1971 huh?
The Cat and the Canary 1927
The Disenchanted - Fr 1990 <<<
The Girl-Getters - UK 1966
Death by Design - documentary
My Sex Life . . . (or How I Got Into an Argument) - Fr 1996 <<<
La Sentinelle - Fr - 1992 - saw? thief discovers head in his luggage
Bone 1972 - comedy - thief discovers couple he planned to rob are poor and messed
up - eh
? Two-Lane Blacktop 1972
The Ogre - John Malkovich 1997 Fr/Ger (Nazi story) <
<BEST OF> 1999:
Boys Don't Cry (USA) - Brandon Teena
Fight Club
The Brandon Terena Story
Meeting People Is Easy - UK
Alvin Lu's choices:
Perfect Blue - Japan
The Personals - Taiwan
Romance - France
Ride with the Devil - Ang Lee, USA
Spectres of the Spectrum - USA
Dr. Akagi - Japan / France
Eyes Wide Shut
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2000
Bronte 1983
The Ninth Gate - Polanski (Johnny Depp)
My Best Friend (Herzog on Klaus Kinski)
Romeo Must Die Hong Kong style at Oakland waterfront / Jet Li
The Road to El Dorado - 2000 (not Disney) (anim)
The Last September - Drama: Irish family 1999
Gladiator ?
Sausalito - China: Yi Jianzhong Quing - Maggie Cheung "Love at First Sight"
<<<
Titan A.E. (sci fi anim) <<<
It Happened Here - 1966 UK - what if Nazis won - War/Drama
Chicken Run - comedy UK - claymation anim - Action/Comedy<<<
2000
War - based on three short stories of Manuel Rivas - looks like good acting &
characters.
Catfish in Black Bean Sauce - Viet-Amer siblings - birth mother arrives. Sweet,
but not well told.
Smiling Fish and Goat on Fire - La La Land
2000 from handwritten list:
(Holy Smoke - Campion) no
42 Up
Post Concussion (Asian American film festival)
(Kadosh
Keeping the Faith ? <
February 2000 -
Wonder Boys - German
(The Next Best Thing - ?
A Moment of Innocence / The Silence - Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Gabbeh) - Iranian
Kirkou and the Sorceress - African 1998 Belgium, Fr
Such a Long Journey - India
The Terrorist - India
Two Women - Tahmineh Milani - Iran
Deterrence politicians caught in roadhouse <BEST OF> 2000 - East Bay Express:<<<
The Eighth Day
T. C. - on Sayles tape:
Whatever
Homegrown ??
David Mamet: The Spanish Prisoner - thriller
A Friend of the Deceased
2000 trailers:
(from: Sleepy Hollow):
Mission Impossible - Tom Cruise, Anthony Hopkins - John Woo
Angela's Ashes - SEE! - Ireland - leaving for America - ROM
(from: A Walk on the Moon):
(Music of the Heart - Meryl Streep, Aidan Quinn) - teaching in Harlem
The Other Sister - mentally retarded
Playing By Heart - LA love stories
Midsummer Nights Dream
From 2000 SFIFF:
Mask of Desire / Munkundo - Nepal / Japan
American Gypsy - documentary
Ballerina
Beresina or the Last Days of Switzerland
Hidden River / Rio Escondido - Argentina - affair (& 1948)
Lessons of Darkness - Herzog - Kuwaiti oil fields in flame
Moloch
Where the Sky Meets the Land - doc - Kyrgyzstan
T.C. July 2000
Groove ?
Sunshine ?
Boys & Girls ?
The Tic Code - boy wants to be pianist (Gregory Hines) 1999
Imposter - huh?
Loving Jezebel - 1999 Rom comedy - eh
Mad About Mambo ?
Solomon & Gaenor - 1999 UK - Jewish man, Welsh woman 1900
Went to Coney Island . . . ?
Restless ?
The Story of O
From Cannes May 2000:
Days of Being Wild - Wong Kar-Wai 1991
Les Destinees sentimentales Fr: Oliver Assayas
Koroshi - Japan Crime/Mystery
Gohatoo (Taboo)
Die Unberuhrbare (No place to go) - German
June 2000
(The Perfect Storm)
The Five Senses - Drama (Canada)
Aug 2000 -
From the Edge of the City - Greek director & writer Constantinos Giannaris
- Russian, Pontian, & Albanian immigrants living in and around Athens. Dreamy,
Fellini-esque sequences. Camera captures the sense of lost youth and isolation;
booming soundtrack of techno, house, and Greek trad. 1998
The Tao of Steve - eh
The Soong Sisters - Chinese
(Girl on the Bridge) <BEST OF> 2000 - East Bay Express
Getting to Know You * - US teenager - comedy? <<<
The Original Kings of Comedy (Spike Lee)
Alice et Martin - Fr drama - 10 year old boy forced to meet the father he had
put off seeing every year. At 20, runs away from home. Falls in love with brother's
roommate (Juliette Binoche). <<<
The Crew - comedy
The Deep End <Best of Sundance Jan 2001> - David Segel & Scott McGehee
- Sundance cinematography prize in drama.
Sept 2000 -
Listen to the Movie ** <<<
Cotton Mary (India)
The Broken Hearts Club (West Hollywood gays)
October 2000 -
Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier - dogma) <<<
[Rodney Ascher]
Dr T & the Women (Richard Gere)
Place Vendome (Catherine DeNeuve)
The Sorrow and the Pity - Fr 1971 - World War II
Live Nude Girls Unite! (local SF female director)
The Legend of Drunken Master (Jackie Chan - remake) <<<
Just Looking - 1999 comedy - boy learning about sex
Bamboozled (Spike Lee) - blackface minstrel show becomes hit <<<
Stardom - 2000 Denys Arcand (Canada) supermodels - eh?
A Time for Drunken Horses (Iran) (did: Marooned in Iraq) <<<<<<
In the Wake (Erica Jordan - local) - indie; also her Walls of Sand 1995
The Opportunists - Christopher Walken - "fine character study"
November 2000 -
A Room for Romeo Brass (UK) 1999 - coming-of-age, British Midlands gentry. <<<
Solas (Spain) - Benito Zambrano - courtly old gentleman is catalyst for two women.
Burlesk King - 1999 Filipino <<<
What's Cooking? - UK comedy - LA ethnic thanksgivings
Orfeu - 1999 Brazil romance
Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man (Imax?)
The Sixth Day (Schwarzenegger) <<<
Charlie's Angels <<<
The Weekend - Gina Rowlands 1999
Suzhou River *** <<<<<<
December 2000 -
Me & Isaac Newton
Voyages - 1999 Fr/Poland - holocaust
2000 Video Store Burnout:
Short
The Decalogue
<BEST OF> 2000 - East Bay Express:
Vers la Mer (To the Sea) - Annik Leroy - Belgium 1999 - Danube River SFW 2/16-22
<BEST OF> <<<
Not One Less - Zhang Yimou
Erin Brockovich
Meet the Parents - comedy teen saw
Two Family House - drama 1956 - Italians on Staten Is - ROM
movies to see from 2000 calendar book:
Center Stage (2x) - dance (drama) ballet
Mercy? (S&M)
It's all about boys - huh?
What Planet Are You From? - Mike Nichols director - sci fi / com - 2000
Makioka Sisters (Jean rec - isn't this a book?) - also a movie: Sasa Meyuki 1983
Wall Street 1987 - Oliver Stone
American Hot Wax (about Doo Wop) 1978 - about 1959 start of rock n roll.
German director Doris Dorrie (Men)
2001
In the Light of Reverence - Toby McLeod (South Bay) study of Native American
sacred sites.
It All Starts Today - Bertrand Tavernier - French town preschool teacher tries
to balance life - DId: Coup de Torchon 1981, 'Round Midnight 1986, Life and Nothing
But 1989.
101 Reykjavik - real life in Iceland
Iron Monkey - dazzling martial arts
Seance - Kiyoshi Kurosawa
January 2001 -
Lies - Korea Jang Sun-Woo - funny, sex
Traffic (Steven Soderbergh - on drugs)
Kestrel's Eye (Sweden - on birds) - Swedish documentary
also by Terence Davies:
Distant Voices, Still Lives 1988 - have I seen?
The Long Day Closes 1992
An Everlasting Piece - 2000 comedy Belfast - comedy in mental institution.
Cast Away - exec must transform self to survive on a deserted island
Shadow of the Vampire - 2000 John Malkovich - Nosferatu redux
George Washington * - 2000 drama <<<
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Coen Bros retell Odyssey) - Joel & Ethan Coen
- Homer's Odyssey - elaborate, funny.
Before Night Falls (bit of Johnny Depp)
Chunhyang - 2000 Korea
The Invisible Circus - 2001 drama - Paris: girl follows dead sister - Cameron
Diaz - A teenage girl travels to Paris in the 1970s trying to find out about her
sister's suicide, and falls in love with her dead sister's boyfriend.
February 2001 -
Battle Royale (Japan)
Taboo (Nagisa Oshima) Taboo - samurai fall in love with each other <<<
The Sun's Burial
Death by Hanging
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
Standing on Fishes - 1999 comedy <<<
(Pollock)
Monkeybone - 2001 anim / com <<<
March 2001 -
The Debut (Filipino)
The Flip Side (Filipino)
The Legend of Rita - 2001 Germany - terrorist in hiding - eh?
The Widow of Saint-Pierre - 1850s sailors commit murder on island. While waiting,
turns out to be brave and ethical man. <<< - eh?
Memento <Express liked> <Sundance Jan 2001> - 2000 - loss of memory
- Action <<<
Faithless (Liv Ullman does Bergman script) - Bergman-like love triangle.
(Haiku Tunnel - Josh Kornbluth 2001)
In Absentia (Brothers Quay - different than usual) - mad woman uses only pencil
stubs.
The Taste of Others - Fr comedy - Le Gout des autres 1999
Himalaya - Fr 1999 Adventure - Nepalese - annual trek - hair-raising - nominated
for Oscar - cf Red River, cf Wages of Fear <<<
The Tailor of Panama <Express liked> <<<
April 2001 -
Blow (Johnny Depp)
The Center of the World (Wayne Wang) - SFIFF May 2001 opener - immature dot-com
wiz kid's Vegas rendezvous with coolly in-control stripper - WAYNE WANG <<<
Shadow Magic - 2000 China - photographer
Strange Fits of Passion ? - australia - coming of age
With a Friend Like Harry
SFIFF Apr-May 2001 (didn’t go):
The Claim - (Based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge) - California gold
prospector traded his wife for a claim; the wife and daughter show up + (eh)
Daresalam - (Fr, Burkina Faso, Chad)
May 2001 -
Eureka - Japan - 2000 - Drama <<<
Under the Sand - Francois Ozon - woman on vacation and vagabond - Fr - 2000
Moulin Rouge <BEST OF> - musical romance
The Golden Bowl (Merchant Ivory) <<<
Shrek <BEST OF>
Yield to Total Elation (architect Rizzoli)
Big Eden (romance, gay theme in midwest town)
(Pearl Harbor)
June 2001 -
The King is Alive (Dogma #4)
Julien Donkey-Boy (Dogma #6)
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (Disney but "good")
Time & Tide (Tsui Hark) - street kid Hong Kong - very complex plot
Simon Magus - Eastern Europe Jews (UK & Hungary) <BEST OF>
Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale - Shy gay NYer Tobias Schneebaum
anthropolgist explores New Guinea. Filmmakers take him back to Peru jungles where
he encounters old tribal friends. Documentary. <Express liked>
July 2001 -
Signs and Wonders
Jump Tomorrow
The Vertical Ray of the Sun / A la Verticale d'ete (height of summer) - Viet family
- Viet visuals - Cannes 2000 <<<
Brother ?
Sidewalks of New York <SFIFF May 2001>
E. T. C. - Trudeau's
Minor Characters (Kerouac putdown - coming of age)
August 2001 -
Original Sin - femme fatale
(Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
Thomas in Love - Fr - isolated guy falls in love - see imdb review
Rush Hour 2 - Jackie Chan
Following (did: Memento, "earlier good one")
Our Song - Brooklyn <BEST OF> <<<
September 2001 -
A Matter of Taste (Fr)
Happy Accidents
Va Savoir ?
October 2001 -
Waking Life - Richard Linklater <Sundance Jan 2001> <<<
The River (Taiwan) 1997 He liu - family dramatics - Taipei by Tsai Ming-liang
K-Pax (Kevin Spacey)
From Hell (Johnny Depp as the Ripper) ?
Band of Outsiders (Godard)
November 2001 -
Fat Girl <Best of>
(The Business of Strangers
December 2001 -
Vanilla Sky (Cameron Crowe)
The Shipping News <Best of>
No Man’s Land (Bosnia) <Best of> <<<
In the Bedroom <Best of>
Gosford Park <Best of> <<<
Best ofs (2001):
Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back (comedy)
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (anim Disney)
Vengo (did Latcho Drom) - Span. flamenco revenge <<<
Pandaemonium - Coleridge & Wordsworth
The Adventures of Felix
Intimacy (Hanif Kureishi / downer)
Nico & Dani (Span – boys discover sex)
A.I. (Spielberg)
The Deep End
The Gleaners & I
Monsters, Inc. (Pixar anim)
The Pledge (Nicholson)
Mulholland Drive
Focus
++++++++++++++
2002
(Kandahar)
The Count of Monte Cristo - I think I saw this
What Time Is It There? (Taiwan – Tsai Ming-liang)
Beijing Bicycle
American Adobo (Phil-Am)
Chop Suey
Monsoon Wedding
Eloge de L’amour (In Praise of Love) – Godard
from handwritten notes, so recs.
Irréversible (Canada 2002) - in French <<<
The Crime of Padre Amaro - Spanish 2002
Gangs of New York 2002 - action
Abandon ? - action/mystery 2002
Spider - Ralph Fiennes - indie 2002 - David Cronenberg, Fr/Canada/UK
April 2002 -
Crush (“dreary”) (older women)
The Piano Teacher (Fr)
Pauline & Paulette (Belg/Dutch)
May 2002 -
Triumph of Love
American Chai (Indian-American)
Enigma (rom thriller)
The Importance of Being Earnest < --
The Mystic Masseur (Merchant Ivory)
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
CQ (scifi in 60s) <<<
Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India ??
Rain – NZ adolescent <<< recs.
June 2002 -
Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood
Cherish ?? (girl under house arrest)
Promises (Israeli & Palestinian children)
The Sleepy Time Gal (Jacqueline Bisset)
Windtalkers (Navajo code writers)
Les Destinees (Fr) (enduring marriage)
Home Movie (com? Doc) (did Amer Movie)
Lilo & Stich ? com
Sunshine State – John Sayles (indie) <BEST OF>
The Emperor’s New Clothes (Napolean)
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (Imamura)
Elling ? (Norway 40yrolds come of age)
July 2002 -
Karmen Gei - Senegalese (Carmen story - "Africa's first musical")
Men in Black II
Lan Yu (Beijing – Stanley Kwan)
Green Dragon (Viet)
Breaking the Silence (Sun Zhou – w Gong Li)
Road to Perdition (for the cinematography)
Notorious C.H.O. (comedian Margaret Cho)
Minority Report ? Tom Cruise – Philip K. Dick
(catching criminals before their crime)
Late Marriage (Koshashvili – Israeli)
Never Again (did My Life’s in Turnaround)
50 yr olds romance
Read My Lips (Sur mes levres)
Tadpole
Tosca (Fr) (Italian)
Vicente Aranda: Lovers (did: Mad Love - Spanish Queen) <<<
t.c. From Cannes June 2002:
(Long Way Home = Fr name) Raising Victor Vargas - Brooklyn boy
Morvern Callar ? comedy
Japon - Carlos Reygadas, Mexico <<<
Sept 2002 -
24 Hour Party People - raves in Manchester (indie)
His Secret Life - Turkish - Steam's Ferzan Oztepek - home sensuality in Italy
(sexy older woman)
The Four Feathers - beautiful, epic (action/mystery)
Iggy Goes Down ?
The Experiment (German)
Everyday Eastlake
Quitting (Japanese - about heroin addiction) - eh? (pan) ?
Oct 2002 -
White Oleander - Michelle Pfeiffer (female flick) - rom
Tuck Everlasting ? - family
(Bowling for Columbine - Michael Moore)
Personal Velocity (women) (female flick) indie
Jimmy Scott
Real Women Have Curves - rom
Roger Dodger ? - comedy
t. c. October 2002 -
Mitsein 2004
Nov 2002 -
Standing in the Shadows of Motown - music
(Femme Fatale) oy
Tully - indie
Waking up in Reno <<<
8 MIle ?
Far from Heaven ?
Daughter from Danang
Dec 2002 -
(The Hours)
Blissfully Yours - Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand, France- BESTOF
Ken Park - sex scenes - BESTOF
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (#2)
The Lion King
(Pinocchio - Robert Benigni)
<BESTOFs> 2002
The Fluffer (romance)
Showboy
Divine Intervention (Israel Palestinian comedy) Elie Sulieman x3
Sweet Sixteen (Ken Loach UK) (tape broke - MAY 2004)
++++++++++++++++++++++++
2003
from handwritten notes, so recs.
The Shape of Things ? - romance 2003
Mona Lisa Smile - Julia Roberts 2003
How to Deal 2003 <<<
Festival Express 2003 (filmed 1970) 60s music
Jan 2003 -
Mysterious Object at Noon (Weerasthakul - Thai in US) - documentary on Thai film-making.
Complex, layered.
Catch Me If You Can
Feb 2003 -
Russian Ark (Sokurov)
Till Human Voices Wake Us 2002 - Australia <<<
April 2003 -
Medea - Lars von Trier 1988
May 2003 -
A Mighty Wind ? - folk musicians - Christopher Guest, US - BESTOF
Waiting for Happiness (Abderrahmane Sissako, Mauretania) - BESTOF <<<
The Matrix Reloaded <<<<<<
+ The Matrix Revisited
Ten ?
101 Rekjavik
June 2003
Alex and Emma ? (Rob Reiner - based on Dostoevsky's The Gambler) - "disappointing"
The Heart of Me (Helena Bonham Carter) ?
Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon
The Education of Gore Vidal
Love the Hard Way
July 2003
Cet Amour-la - Jeanne Moreau affair with young secretary <<<
Valentin (Argentina) ?
Lucia, Lucia (Mexican) ?
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas - anim (voices of Brad Pitt, Michelle Pfeiffer)
Postmen in the Mountains (Chinese 1999 award winner)
(Seabiscuit)
(The Housekeeper (Fr) )
Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets ?
(Bruce Almighty) (Morgan Freeman though)
The Secret Lives of Dentists ?
summer 2003
The Saddest Music in the World
Finding Nemo - Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich, USA - (dcarn) - comedy - BESTOF
x2
Sweet & Lowdown (comedy)
August 2003
(The Medallion - Jackie Chan) ? (action/mystery)
Masked?/or/Naked? & Anonymous (Dylan +) ?
Tycoon (Russian)
Teknolust
Children of the Century (Fr) - George Sand's affair with younger poet
September 2003
Confusion of Genders (Fr) - older sex (gay)
Demonlover - Oliver Assays (Fr) - "William Gibson world" - looks yuch
Small Voices (Philippines)
The Embalmer
October 2003
Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion
Mystic River - Sean Penn, Tim Robbins - looks yuch
(The Singing Detective - Robert Downey Jr)
Emerald Cowboy - Japanese in Colombia
The Holy Land ?
Power Trip - SFIFF - Russia in transition
Pieces of April - family falling apart
Beyond Borders ??? (pan)
The Death of Klinghoffer - Penny Woolcock, Canada/UK - BESTOF
In The Cut - Meg Ryan actually acting
November 2003
Master and Commander - Russell Crowe
The Matrix Revolutions <<<
Off the Map - girl comes to grips with father's depression
The Flower of Evil - Claude Chabrol (Fr)
The Legend of Johnny Lingo (NZ) ?
December 2003
The Company - ballet
(The Last Samurai)
The Return of the King (Lord of the Rings) (#3)
The Fog of War - interviews McNamara - Erroll Morris, USA - BESTOF
Gloomy Sunday <<<
Yossi and Jagger (Eytan Fox, Israel) - shades of My Beautiful Launderette - BESTOF
One From the Heart ??
BESTOFs 2003
The Brown Bunny - Vincent Gallo, USA
Ford Transit - Hany Abu-Assad, Palestine/Israel
Goodbye, Dragon Inn - Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan
I-San Special - Mingmongkol Sonakul, Thailand
Jealousy Is My Middle Name - Park Chan-Ok, South Korea
Los Angeles Plays Itself - Thom Andersen, USA
Memories of Murder - Bong Joon-Ho, South Korea
A Thousand Months - Faouzi Bensaidi, Belgium/France/Morocco
Vibrator - Ryuichi Hiroki, Japan
Harmful Insect
Pulse - Japanese - the glourf our minds - K. Kurosawa 2001
Bubba Ho-Tep - two seniors who may or not be Elvis & JFK - comedy
Thirteen - Catherine Hardwicke, USA/UK
The Magdalene Sisters - Peter Mullan, UK/Ireland
Gerry - Gus Van Sant, USA x2
Irreversible - Gaspar Noe, France x4
(Dog Days - Ulrich Seidi, Vienna - no - sounds yuch
School of Rock - Richard Linklater, USA
Bus 174 - Jose Padilha, Brazil x2
Ten - Abbas Kiarostami, Iran x2
Hukkle (SFIFF) - Hungarian beautiful silent, detective
Gozu (Toronto Fest, import DVD) - Japan
Woman of Water (SFIFF) - sexy Tadanobu Asano - gorgeous, engrossing
At the First Breath of Wind (Mill Valley) - Italian - tone poem
The Son - Luc Dardenne & Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Belgium/France
City of God - Katia Lund & Fernando Meirelles, Brazil/France/USA x2
Elf - Jon Favreau, USA
Elephant - Gus Van Sant, USA x2
Lilya 4-Ever - Lukas Moodysson, Sweden
Suddenly - Diego Lerman, Argentina
Oasis - Chang-Dong Lee, South Korea
28 Days Later - Danny Boyle, Netherlands/UK/USA
Cabin Fever - Eli Roth, USA
(Spellbound)
(Capturing the Friedmans)
t.c. (Buffalo Soldiers - action/mystery, comedy - eh
+++++++++++++++++++++++++
2004
Paper Clips 2004 (Holocaust lesson)
Jan 2004
Tokyo Godfathers (Jap anim) - sci fi
FEBRUARY 2004 - found Global Video - 5132 Telegraph - WOW!
Feb 2004
My Architect: A Son's Journey
The Dreamers - Bertolucci
Osama ?
Crying Ladies - Filipino
Kitchen Stories ?
Rana's Wedding - Palestinian
Red Trousers: The Life of the Hong Kong Stuntmen
Hidalgo
March 2004
The Reckoning - medieval
The Big Animal - Polish
April 2004
Mayor of the Sunset Strip
Starkiss: Circus Girls in India - Dutch
I'm Not Scared (Italian) <<<
Distant (about Istanbul) (Turkish)
Mean Girls
Broken Wings (Israeli)
Clay Bird (Bangladesh, Pakistan)
Young Adam (Scotland)
SFIFF:
Investigation into the Invisible World (Fr)
Route 181 - Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel
Some Secrets - Czech
Grimm - Dutch
Ana and the Others - Eric Rohmer
Turning Gate - Hong Sang-soo - "the best French film in years"
May 2004
2046 - Tony Leung - Wong Kar-wai (Cannes 2004) <<<<<<<
Cannes: Nobody Knows - Jap
Cannes: La Nina Santa
Troy
Coffee and Cigarettes - Jim Jarmusch - ?
James' Journey to Jerusalem
Two Men Went to War
The Twilight Samurai
Carabdury - Brazil
June 2004
A Day Without a Mexican
Thirst (documentary on water)
X Napoleon Dynamite - saw on plane (partial)
The Notebook - Nick Cassavetes tearjerker - may be good
Two Brothers - tigers
July 2004
The Deserted Station - Iranian
Marmoulak (The Lizard) - Iranian thief becomes Moslem cleric - comedy hit <<<<<<<<<<<<
The Bourne Supremacy ?
August 2004 t.c.
Code 46 ?
Hero - Zhang Yimou <<< see note three lines below
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (beautiful but incomprehensible) (feels like retread
of Blade Runner) <<<<<<<
August 2004
Hero - Jet Li - SAW in DEC 2005, this one or Zhang Yimou's???
Intimate Strangers ? - she thinks he's her shrink (did The Man on the Train)
Kaena: The Prophecy - Fr anim - little girl rebels against planet rulers
Garden State
Code 46 - sci fi (for my writing)
Divan
September 2004
Vanity Fair
Bulgarian Lovers (gay)
Bright Young Things (Evelyn Waugh novel)
Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War - one of the best war movies ever
Head in the Clouds - (did Sirens) sexy + Penelope Cruz
Bang Rajan - Thai
The Motorcycle Diaries - Che Guevara X Sept 2006
Zelary (Czech)
October 2004
Stage Beauty (gays & women)
Shall We Dance? - Richard Gere X Sept 2006
p.s.
Being Julia (Annette Bening)
Vera Drake - Mike Leigh (abortion)
What the4 #$*! Do We Know?
Beyond the Soul - ayurvedic healing
The Final Cut
Tropical Malady - Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thai) <<<
About Schmidt
November 2004
Reconstruction ?
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason ?
Born Rich
Lightning in a Bottle
Callas Forever
December 2004
Springtime in a Small town (China)
Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi (Israel) ?
Closer - Mike Nichols (funny)
The Inheritance (Denmark)
Bear Club (Spain)
(Maria Full of Grace)
A Very Long Engagement (Fr) (actress from Amalie)
Bad Education
Moolaade [/ on e] (Senegal)
(Million Dollar Baby - Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman (gravitas) ?
The Aviator (Howard Hughes) ?
2004 <BEST OFs>:
Bright Future - Kiyoshi Kurosawa
+++++++++++++++
January 2005
Hotel Rwanda
The Assassination of Richard Nixon (Sean Penn)
The Merchant of Venice (Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons, Joseph Fiennes)
In the Realms of the Unreal
A Talking Picture <<<<<<<<<< SEE
Sky Blue - anim
Fear X (John Turturro is brilliant, but the movie is a mess)
Veer - Zaara - Bollywood (Shahrukh Kahn)
February 2005
Born into Brothels
Infernal Affairs - hit in Hong Kong
The Wedding Date
Head-On
Hutch ?
Because of Winn-Dixie (Wayne Wang + Eva Marie Saint)
March 2005
The Jacket (Adrien Brody)
Walk on Water (Israel - did Yossi & Jagger)
Up and Down - Czech
Lost Embrace (Argentina)
(Melinda and Melinda - Woody Allen) ?
Millions (Ireland) <<<<<<< SEE
After Midnight - cute & quirky
April 2005
Eros
Look at Me (Fr) <<<<<<<<<< SEE
Schizo (Kazakhstan)
Kontroll (Hungary)
May 2005
The Holy Girl (Argentina)<<< SEE
+ earlier did: La Cienega
Ladies in Lavender
June 2005
Kings & Queen (Catherine Deneuve)
Deep Blue
Happily Ever After
My Summer of Love ?
July 2005
? War of the Worlds - Spielburg
Apres Vous - French hit
The Beat That My Heart Skipped - French, gorgeous star
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory - Tim Burton / Johnny Depp
Saraband - Ingmar Bergman
Wheel of Time - Werner Herzog documentary
Lila Says - French
The Beautiful Country - Vietnamese
Must Love Dogs - John Cusack
August 2005
Ma Mere - French
Nina's Tragedies - Israeli
The Warrior - India
Broken Flowers - Jim Jarmusch, Bill Murray
Fear and Trembling - Belgian in Japan (French) <<<
Valiant - anim re WWII in UK
Me & You and Everyone We Know <<<
Sept 2005
A State of Mind - Korea
The Oil Factor
Mad Hot Ballroom
(The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
The Talent Given Us
Corpse Bride - Tim Burton
Who Is Bozo Texino?
Oct 2005 -
Elizabethtown?
The Squid & the Whale - Brooklyn divorce <BEST OFs>
Sequins - Fr - older & younger woman
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - Robert Downey Jr + Val Kilmer
The Legend of Zorro - Catherine Zeta-Jones
Make It Funky! - New Orleans music scene
November 2005 -
A Touch of Spice - slow, bad ending but boy & grandfather meet
Naked in Ashes - India's yogis
Three of Hearts - two gay guys add a woman
One - Ram Dass +
Syriana - the high price of oil <BEST OFs>
Duma - boy and puma
(March Point - Woody Allen
X Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austin
2005 <BEST OFs> - East Bay Express
The Best of Youth - six hours - Italian history 1966 to present
The New World - Pocahontas - all shot in natural light
t.c.
Transamerica
Yesterday
Go For Zucker - German / Jewish 2005
Grand Voyage <<<<<<
Mr. & Mrs. Smith - saw on airplane
+++++++++++++++++
2006
January, February, March 2006 -
Fateless - holocaust
The Ister - Romania to Black Forest - history since Greece <<<
The Libertine - Johnny Depp
Battle in Heaven
May 2006 -
4 - Russian bar satire <<<<<<<
(Mongolian Ping Pong)
Water - India Deepa Mehta "Elements" trilogy - about Hindu widows
July 2006 -
A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick (Richard Linklater) graphic animation
Crossing the Bridge - Istanbul Turkey music scene
Barnyard - cheeky anim
The Devil Wears Prada - Meryl Streep in fashion industry
An Inconvenient Truth
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
The Oh in Ohio (orgasm in midwest town)
Omkara <<<
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
(A Prairie Home Companion)
Strangers With Candy - f con to student - frequently hilarious
Who Killed the Electric Car?
August 2006 -
The Bridesmaid - Claude Chabrol (sensuous seductress: Senta)
Conversations with Other Women - Helena Bonham Carter meets stranger, but turns
out they have a complex past. Split-screen.
The Dogwalker - indie
Quinceañera - Echo Park community - saucy, heartfelt
Step Up - dance (cf. Fame, Save the Last Dance)
Half Nelson - a more honest white teacher in black school - What can I teach them?
Sounds good. Sundance acclaim.
September 2006 -
Cinema, Aspirins, and Vultures - indie
Stolen Life - indie
Vajra Sky Over Tibet - doc on current Tibet
The Science of Sleep ??
(Renaissance - sci fi - only for the animation - rotoscoping)
13 Tzameti - Georgians in France <<<
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints ?? (Robert Downey Jr.)
October 2006 -
The Motel
Milarepa
++++++++++++++++
Grease <<<<<<
The Magnificent Lover (L'amant magnifique) 1986 - SEE AGAIN <<<
Aline Issermann, director / Isabel Otero, Hippolyte Girardot
My So-Called Life <<<<<<
++++++++++++++++
Mickey One (again)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Spielberg)
Ralph Bakshi: American Pop
Franco Zefferelli: Romeo and Juliet
City of Angels (Nicholas Cage) 1998
Rough Magic - magician female to Mexico shaman, psychedelics 1950s
1995 Calendar: MUSIC:
Jack in & Get Anything You Want
Haunted By Waters - with Majenta Crow
from summer 2004: White Chicks - hilariously funny trash (did: Little Man 2006)
Asoka - the gorgeous Bollywood one - Shah Rukh Khan
Mirror Mask 2005 (Neil Gaiman)