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Sequel?...read review »
About 30 percent of the series is fascinating. The rest is just self-indulgent. I recommend the Howard Bloom extra footage. His book is here....read review »
Brings back memories......read review »
The fourth in the series has all of the elements of an Indiana Jones film (except for the tension prior to the romance sub-plot)....read review »
Watch 21 if you like a higher budget film with a romance sub-plot. Watch The Last Casino if you prefer a lower budget film with a little more quirkiness in...read review »
This film gets an extra star because it was filmed at Carnegie Mellon, my alma mater....read review »
... pretty much sums up one side of the legal system (aside from the murders)....read review »
This footage from a Talking Heads concert really builds in intensity with time. There is no inclusion of extraneous information - only the performance itself is shown....read review »
Ahhhh... childhood memories......read review »
Upon seeing this film again, it still has the spark that made it great the first time I watched it. This talkative duo wander through the streets of Vienna after...read review »
Private contractors fill the gaps of services that the military is undermanned to provide. This film does very well in presenting the large and influential private military contracting industry. It...read review »
I wonder if this movie sub-plot was the real-life context behind the man (beard and all) I saw with breasts on Clement Street last year. Somehow, I doubt it: Billie:...read review »
Football, gambling, and an insight into what makes people like Jim Cramer so appealing. Losers will pay others for instruction on where to lay bets. The question is whether the...read review »
The filmmakers shot over 200 hours of footage with the Panasonic DVX100A handheld camera to make this documentary film. They did an excellent job of developing a story chronologically, while...read review »
After seeing many of these films documenting the peak oil phenomenon and resulting impacts, I didn't learn much. There are the same essential facts communicated in all of them, voiced...read review »
A great collection of shorts with the common themes of love and Paris. Directing is shared by some film greats, and it surprised me to see some well-known American actors....read review »
This film is pretty much your run-of-the-mill peak oil and oil politics film. It is much more credible in the introductory chapters, but introduces some collateral issues and hyperbole later...read review »
Heretofore I have chosen not to post movie screenings that I have already seen in the past. There are always the great films - Star Wars, Indiana Jones, etc -...read review »
The book was more descriptive and included many more subplots, obsessions over weaponry, and the Marines' mythology of war. Yet the film was an decent portrayal....read review »
Ever want to see 11,000 rats take over a city? This is your movie!...read review »
I saw the movie at the Red Vic, and Jim Jones, Jr. was there for a Q&A session....read review »
This documentary captures Werner Herzog's struggle to film Fitzcarraldo in the Amazon jungle. His difficulties primarily arise as he realizes his dream of pulling a 30-ton boat over a mountain....read review »
Where would we be without American Dream mythology? On a side note, I enjoyed the film's location in San Francisco....read review »
This Werner Herzog film apparently is based upon a true story....read review »
Watch this movie if you'd like to know what a lobbyist (or a lawyer) has to do to pay their mortgage....read review »
This documentary offers insights into the 1999 San Francisco mayoral election....read review »
A collection of short films reflecting upon 9/11/2001....read review »
Ken Burns's Jefferson history porn. Only sparse utilization of the "Ken Burns Effect" here....read review »
A documentary about the three years of struggles faced by European Jews liberated from WWII concentration camps, and the creation of Israel....read review »
Woody Allen, Scarlett Johansson, and Ian McShane are featured in this comedic murder mystery about a college journalist (Johansson) and a magician (Allen) trying to uncover the identity of the...read review »
Evelyn Glennie is a truly awesome percussionist. This film shows her in action throughout the world, collaborating with different artists and demonstrating her virtuosity. The most remarkable aspect of this...read review »
This documentary about the Nazi regime has a unique perspective: The roots of Nazism were through the creative vision of a "pure" race and a "perfect" society. Albert Speer, architects,...read review »
A documentary filmmaker interviews ordinary Iraqi citizens a few months after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. The perspective this gives upon the following years is apropos....read review »
I was in NYC this weekend and went to the Prada store in SOHO for the first time. I found the store obnoxious, particularly the high prices and the decor...read review »
If you'd ever like to know why dominant/submissive lawyers and their secretaries eventually get married, here is dramatized version. It has the gestalt familiar in Garden State....read review »
Once you get the overall picture, the details seem to all fit into place. A few examples are given and everything else becomes redundant. Yet the most redeeming part of...read review »
While the characters in this movie would be more complicated in reality, their lives as presented are simple and understandable. It brings up feelings of both pity and solidarity. The...read review »
Vince Vaughn makes himself difficult to take seriously. I still don't understand why Jennifer Aniston would want him back after they were both so vindictive....read review »
If you ever wanted to know about Tibetan nomads and 160 yak making an annual spring pilgrimage to gather raw salt at remote lakes, then this is your movie....read review »
The man portrayed in this documentary is phenomenal. He has a wonderful outlook on life, notwithstanding some very traumatic experiences - e.g. the Allies bombing his German town in WWII....read review »
Perhaps the best fictional film that I have seen in some time. The plot develops based upon the divorce of two writers, and their two sons are caught between. Literary...read review »
Klaus Kinski is a genius (or an absolute maniac). Regardless, he had to be the center of attention at all times....read review »
This is the quirkiest documentary that I viewed in some time. An older French woman explores the importance of gleaners in France - the history, law, and individual experiences of...read review »
Common prostitutes vs. artists! Who will emerge triumphant?...read review »
Both war and natural resources are powerful elements of this world. Werner Herzog explores the ruin in Kuwait following the 1991 Gulf war. The cinematography is wonderful....read review »
Money doesn't necessarily make for a great life....read review »
The 50 Cent story, dramatized... I do take issue with the humanization of a crack dealer, but the Horatio Alger story of (a social outcast) going from rags to riches...read review »
The debut of "Springtime For Hitler" within the play was cause for great laughter!...read review »
Sounds familiar......read review »
Tom Cruise makes his post-psycho comeback to blow up cars in the Vatican and stage heists in Shanghai. But this time, he's married and his wife is taken hostage! Oh,...read review »
Stories are told by those that experienced the occupation of France during WWII. The documentary filmmakers diligently piece together the interpersonal dynamics, as well as the broader political and social...read review »
A dramatic portrayal of Palestinians and those who become suicide bombers....read review »
A documentary filmmaker begins making a film about William Tecumseh Sherman's devastating march through the South during the Civil War. Yet he becomes distracted with a self-examination of his love...read review »
A documentary about Chomsky's political dissent and criticism of the media. It gives examples of the media's treatment of news about Cambodia and East Timor. Chomsky defends his theories about...read review »
Quirky and emotional story about an actor daughter and her famous author father who becomes a recluse. Well made, good cast, and funny odd moments....read review »
Aside from the factual irregularities and recurring focus on the victims' children, the movie might pass as something believeable and heart wrenching....read review »
It wasn't a "perfect" robbery! Solution: Take all of the cell phones and clothing and ask each person what they were wearing and what type of cell phone they had....read review »
A film that portrays a pro-Castro perspective of circumstances during the Batista government in Cuba. You can tell that the film was made by the Soviets for propaganda... they don't...read review »
Errol Morris strikes again with a long interview with the man who re-designed the modern electric chair used for capital punishment....read review »
This film is derived from the work of the Shoah Foundation, an organization that interviews and films Holocaust survivors. Five survivors recount their experiences and paint a picture of Hungary's...read review »
An interesting look at life from Allen's perspective. The character (fictionally) attends a festival of his own films, is harassed by the attendees, and is told that his older comedies...read review »
Herzog takes over 100 hours of documentary footage from Timothy Treadwell's archives. Treadwell was living among grizzly bears in Alaska for 13 summers, and was eventually eaten alive by one...read review »
Woody Allen wrote and directed this complex film that consists of a 1930's film character jumping off the screen and falling in love with a film aficionado. Wonderful performances, humorous,...read review »
This Allen film has the spirit of Hannah and Her Sisters but without the humor. A little more inclination towards the darkness of Interiors....read review »
Another Woody Allen film about a philosophy professor that shelters herself from life's true emotions....read review »
I saw this movie at The Independent last night. It was great to see the opening of the film (surging bass tones of the band being heard outside of a...read review »
Woody Allen's black and white piece about circus performers, serial killers, vigilante groups, and brothels. Very Kafka-esque....read review »
Much like Interiors in the exploration of relationships between three sisters, this film introduces lighter elements of love affairs and Woody Allen's obsession with death and faith....read review »
Without introducing portrayals of Mohammed himself, this film tells the story of the exile in Medina and the eventual return to destroy the 300 idols of the Kaaba....read review »
Documentary about the work of Robert Oppenheimer on the first atomic weapon....read review »
Unique Christmas story... reminds me of Meet the Parents, yet with more serious themes....read review »
Leonard Zelig (Woody Allen) is a human chameleon....read review »
Woody Allen's future exploits and adventures....read review »
A much darker Woody Allen film about an old couple that divorces and the relationships between the three daughters....read review »
I'm out of focus!!! (Viewed on 2/16/2006)...read review »
Saw the score performed live (for the second time) by the Philip Glass Ensemble. Truly an amazing experience....read review »
If only I could have translated the Italian scenes......read review »
Cheech: "Olive, I think you should know this: you're a horrible actress."...read review »
A more slapstick Woody Allen film... "The subjective is objective... To love is to suffer..."...read review »
It is disconcerting how people could live underground in the NYC train tunnels for so many years....read review »
A tragic story of love and murder (with a Woody Allen perspective)....read review »
Woody Allen's narcissistic tendencies at their best....read review »
Best intro monologue for a film *ever*....read review »
How all of those children were able to be sent to England from the Holocaust... unimaginable......read review »
Kottke recommended this one. The cinematography was excellent, but the story compounded with the film's length made me end it prematurely... So-so films can never get the last word in...read review »
A documentary about a 1974 gun battle incident between FBI agents and AIM members ona North Dakota reservation....read review »
Errol Morris' oddly is able to combine imagery and interviews on animals, robots, and topiary gardening....read review »
Incest, feces, bodily fluids, and beastiality....read review »
Two great interviews - one with a airline pilot that survived a crash, and one with a bar bouncer with a 210 IQ....read review »
A great series of interviews in the style of Morris' subsequent film, The Fog of War....read review »
Edward R. Murrow v. Joseph McCarthy...read review »
Another Herzog film in the Amazon, albeit a documentary about experimental aircraft....read review »
Great Woody Allen movie! It's your typical love triangle, but the audience gasped when the closing credits came....read review »
Is it just me, or are the Potter plotlines becoming more erratic as we progress through the series?...read review »
Complex story of garage inventors and time machines....read review »
Woody Harrelson's kookiness....read review »
In 2002, Werner Herzog documented the creation of the central physical and spirtual symbol of a detailed sand mandala. It is the centerpiece of the Kalachakra initiation, a Buddhist ceremony...read review »
Tragedy or comedy?...read review »
Challenging film, and a very odd conclusion (if you prefer to call it that)....read review »
It is amazing how some can be so confident in their views....read review »
Perspectives on the Vietnam War....read review »
If you don't succeed, it's your own fault....read review »
An inspiring documentary about one man's vision of environmental conservation....read review »
Circular Woody Allen film....read review »
Similar to those revolutionaries in the Weather Underground....read review »
Deep....read review »
An inspiring and heartwarming sequel....read review »
Liz's recommendation....read review »
Hyperbole: Worst movie ever....read review »
Excellent film with many plot turns! As a viewer, it is difficult to unravel the reality....read review »
Over 90 minutes, only a single take in the Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg that condenses three centuries of Russian cultural history....read review »
I enjoy not only the subject matter, but the cameraperson's fixation on the details of the surroundings while interviewing wine industry people....read review »
Great footage. The narrator was insightful. The first-person narratives (yes, penguins telling their own stories) was not. Bland song lyrics broke up the great visuals and sound effects. [Update: I...read review »
That's the last of them! I've seen them all. Yet I watched Season 3 after Season 4. Strange ending to the series....read review »
Every celebrity known to man is in this movie....read review »
The most thoroughly documented hijacking ever, located in Brazil. Excellent. Excellent. Excellent....read review »
That is the second time that I watched the series. The first time was in two five-hour sittings with Patrick Durham. It was brutal....read review »
The footage that two brothers captured that day is striking....read review »
Another Werner Herzog movie about man vs. the Amazon jungle (like in Aguirre, the Wrath of God). More accessible Herzog film....read review »
Interesting Coen brothers film. Has a funny David Lynch-esque style....read review »
I couldn't tell if this was an actual documentary or a fictional work at first. It only became evident when you could tell that they were actors forcing drama....read review »
Coen brothers. Not as good as Miller's Crossing or Big Lebowski....read review »
An "everyday" television drama movie....read review »