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My best movie from 2001 (Reply to this comment)
by saritadutta
would have to be Fellowship of the Rings.(The Lord of the Rings trilogy is in my list for top ten movies ever)
I immensely liked Moulin Rouge but felt that the movie was occasionally too loud. The love story was touching and the music good but the film with its Jacobean drama setting often went a bit over the top.
As far as Romantic musicals are concerned, I would prefer sticking to Disney (nothing beats The Little Mermaid and Snow White) or the 6os musicals like My Fair Lady and Sound of Music.
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May 23 '06
8:46 am PDT
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Aha! (Reply to this comment)
by artbyjude
This is the review I have been anticipating with glee (Why , you ask, did it take me so long to rerad it?) You know I will always get to your reviews, but I like to savor your writing as a composite group of essays. They stay with me longer and I don't have to spend any time getting used to changing styles of writing, as I would if I read more authors more frequently.
(This is my excuse)
There are some other films I would have expected you to mention...but I will keep them to myself for now .LOL.
Very interesting list by the way. Thanks.
Jude
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Jun 18 '03
11:17 pm PDT
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by Stephen_Murray,  in Movies
I frequently have trouble with Jack Nicholson smirking and hamming, but I thought that in "The Pledge" he made credible a far more tragic story than Durrenmatt's more intellectal one. His character had a sense of vocation, but had to retire. The only important thing in his life was the relationship that developed and which he put at risk. Durrenmatt's retired detective just uses the child, but Nicholson's forges a genuine bond with mother and child and is left with nothing, not even the professional satisfaction.
"Black Hawk Down" is a disturbing example of the calculus of American and non-American lives, but perhaps it increases the distaste of the Bush war machine for a battle in Baghdad. As always, the US preference is to bomb from an altitude where Americans don't even have to see the people they kill, but bombing did not inspire the people of London, Berlin, Tokyo, or Hanoi to rise against their rulers and the fantasy of demoralizing the civilian population into turning on their rulers persists in the face of all the evidence. (Not that the evangelical Texan in the White House care about evidence...)
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Mar 14 '03
10:41 am PST
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by Stephen_Murray, in Movies
Jean Genet and his title are more deeply embedded in my brain than Fernando Vallejo, and you remember the title correctly.
Road movies are 'spozed to be rambling, but I thought that the parts fit well together and I liked how the film (not to mention its star) looked.
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Mar 10 '03
12:39 pm PST
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Agree wholeheartedly......... (Reply to this comment)
by millinocket,  in Movies
.........with your selection of "The Pledge". A wonderful film and much underappreciated!
Sue
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Mar 10 '03
9:26 am PST
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hmm (Reply to this comment)
by jankp
Guess I should see A.I. and Moulin Rouge and Ghost World are the only ones I've seen here. You must watch movies all the time, don't you?
Jan
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Mar 09 '03
9:27 pm PST
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