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Police Beat
Pape Sidy Niang, Anna Oxygen
Homevision, 2007
Interesting and haunting
I enjoyed this movie. It may help that I live in Seattle where it was filmed. It's a dark and beautifully filmed love story of sorts. It's a love story told to the backdrop of ACTUAL police incidents. The writer of the film writes a column called "Police Beat" in the weekly publication "The ...
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Father and Son
Andrei Shchetinin, Aleksandr Razbash
Fox Lorber, 2004
Heart Piercing
+ who needs freud?
+ One of Sokurov's most difficult but rewarding films...
+ beautiful and unbalanced
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Goodbye South, Goodbye
Annie Shizuka Inoh, Giong Lim
Fox Lorber, 2002
Not for all tastes, but great in my opinion
+ "So Far Away, Almost There"
+ Taipei blues in slow motion
+ inspiring
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Louisiana Story
Joseph Boudreaux, Lionel Le Blanc
Homevision, 2003
Another Robert Flaherty work of art
+ Fascinating!
+ Louisiana Story
The Bayou, Louisiana.
This documentary is shot with a beautiful black & white photography. The music perfectly matches the tempo and feeling of the story. Lasts only 75 minutes but captures our emotion and interest right from the first scene.
The box of the dvd misleads. It made me expect ...
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Children of Men (Widescreen Edition)
Michael Caine, Pam Ferris
Universal Studios, 2007
Stunning
+ A Startling Version of a Dystopian Future
+ This movie is GREAT!
+ children of men
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Black Robe
Lothaire Bluteau, Aden Young
MGM (Video & DVD), 2001
Stunning & Heartbreaking
+ A true Priest trying to save the damned
+ Blackrobe
+ Oustanding feature!
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Stalker: A Film by Andrei Tarkovsky
Aleksandr Kajdanovsky, Alisa Frejndlikh
Kino Video, 2006
tarkovsky
+ No Word Exists to Describe This Movie
dvds are kind of a pain in the a-- (movie is split between 2 discs), but great movie. criterion needs to release this title.
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2046
Chen Chang, Maggie Cheung
Sony Pictures, 2005
Excellent foreign film.
+ Review for 2046
+ Clarification
+ The Good, the Bad, and the Well, there is no Ugly
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Come and See
Aleksei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova
Kino Video, 2003
USA NEEDS TO SEE THIS MOVIE: WHAT IS WAR, WHY WAR IS ALWAYS IMMORAL, WAR IS HELL
+ The Inner Demon is real!
+ Faces! Late masterpiece of Soviet cinema
+ raw power
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Nostalghia
Oleg Yankovsky, Erland Josephson
Fox Lorber, 1998
One of the most beautiful films ever committed to celluloid...
+ There is beauty in Nostalghia.
+ Corrected Film Year
This is Tarkovsky's most underrated film. It is also his most beautiful, with some of the greatest cinemtography ever committed to celluloid (Giuesppe Lanci was the cinematographer). The film concerns itself with a Russian coming to Italy to research on a Russian composer who died there. As ...
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Iraq in Fragments
Typecast Releasing, 2007
A Truly Extraordinary Film
+ Disturbing and Thought-Provoking
+ For a true portrait of each of the three sections of Iraq, Iraq in Fragments can't be topped
+ Simple yet Artfully Complex
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George Washington - Criterion Collection
Mike Hertel, Jack Grindle
Criterion, 2002
A stunning and poetic debut film -- the rebirth of a nation
+ not for everyone...but an indisputable masterpiece for others
+ A dazzling and imaginative debut
+ I hope you live forever.
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Spirit of the Beehive - Criterion Collection
Fernando Fernán Gómez, Teresa Gimpera
Criterion, 2006
Through Ana's eyes: a masterpiece of childhood
+ Forbidden Game
+ Mysterious and allusive
Every once in a while I stumble upon a masterpiece. This is a masterpiece of childhood set in Franco's Spain in 1940. There are political allusions and asides that somehow escaped Franco's censors, or maybe they were indulged. It matters not because the bleak landscape surrounding the house with ...
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Ivan's Childhood - Criterion Collection
Criterion, 2007
Another artistic movie from the master - Tarkovsky
+ Ivan's Childhood
+ Remarkable First Feature
+ A stunning first feature
+ black and white wonder
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Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo
Starz / Anchor Bay, 2000
A stunning film, both as hypnotic descent into madness and as metaphor
+ "I am the great traitor!"
+ It's not a movie, it's an experience.
+ Aguirre: A brilliant Herzog-Kinski collaboration.
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