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Open Your Eyes
Carola Angulo (II), Gérard Barray

Artisan Entertainment, 2001

Open Your Eyes

+ Watch this first!
+ Great Movie If You Like Alternative Realities
+ Man on the television
  
  











  



  
All About My Mother
Eloy Azorín, Carmen Balagué (II)

Sony Pictures, 2000

Mama Said There'd Be Gays Like This

+ Beautifully weaved Masterpiece
+ All About My Mother
+ Hard to get one's head around this one
  
  











  



  
American Beauty (Widescreen Edition)
Annette Bening, Thora Birch

Dreamworks Video, 2000

From Pain To Pleasure

+ American Reality
+ Enough has been said but....

My girlfriend bought this movie. I didn't want to see it. I thought it was a "chick flick". It was raining outside, and I had used up all my options. Now I had to watch it. I should have known it would be good with Kevin Spacey in it. Everything he does it great. But I had no idea it was ...
  
  











  



  
Summer of Sam
Michael Badalucco, Adrien Brody

Walt Disney Video, 1999

S.O.S.

This film, for the most part is great, everything except for the scene that involves an orgy. For the most part though, the cast and crew did great work, and it should of been a hit. Great DVD to own.
  
  











  



  
Fight Club (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Edward Norton, Brad Pitt

20th Century Fox, 2000

classic!

+ THE BEST MOVIE EVER
+ A Predictable B- flick...
+ A Winner!
+ Brutal... but sort of hollow
  
  











  



  
Sleepy Hollow
Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci

Paramount Home Video, 2000

Johnny Depp does it again!

+ Well Done and stylish film
+ The legend brought to life.
+ One of the scariest movies I've ever seen.
  
  











  



  
Payback - The Director's Cut (Special Collector's Edition)
Mel Gibson, Gregg Henry

Paramount, 2007

Straight up outstanding!

+ Good movie, but.......
+ Not the same movie!

This is almost a completely different film from the theatrical release (which I thoroughly enjoyed) Gone is the voice over and in it's place is an implied narrative that needs no explanation. Porter is a bad man. But he has principles. And he has no problem whatsoever in following those principles ...
  
  











  



  
Arlington Road
Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins

Sony Pictures, 1999

Sugar Coated Punch

+ An Unintentionally Good Film about the "Far-Right"
+ You never see it coming!

Although I rented this movie a while back, I still rememeber most of the "action". You see, there was once a song, and a line from that song says, "paranoia strikes deep, into your life it will creep." Well, the Jeff Bridges character (who teaches terrorism at the local college) starts ...
  
  











  



  
Rosetta / La Promesse [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Belgium ]

Cineart

Under Bresson's effluvium !

Rosetta was winner of the Palme d' Or at Cannes, and enthusiastically acclaimed around the world. The film breathes that existential sense of despair and hopeless, mirroring the merciless portrait of a young girl trying to survive a life of poverty. Her stomach cramps (The cure in "Dairy of a ...
  
  











  



  
Eyes Wide Shut (R-Rated Edition)
Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman

Warner Home Video, 2001

Minds Wide Open

+ Illuminati secret symbolism layed out for the public to see...
+ 'Forever' Is A Scary Word

I saw this movie in a theater, when it was premiered years ago. I found it haunting, dreamlike, and outside the normal realm of moviemaking. Most people did not like the movie then and I would assume most would not like it now. Its a movie that polarizes. I recently had the chance to view it ...
  
  











  



  
Election
Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon

Paramount, 1999

The Next Female President . . .

+ An Enjoyable Flick with Flick!
+ "Dear Lord Jesus, I really must insist that you help me win the election tomorrow"

You've probably seen the snippet on YouTube that proclaims "Hillary Clinton IS Tracy Flick!" Well, my friends, it's true. If you enjoyed that little scene, you must revisit Alexander Payne's darkly comic 1999 gem and see for yourself how oddly prescient it was in depicting the precise dynamic ...
  
  











  



  
The Limey
Terence Stamp, Lesley Ann Warren

Lions Gate, 2001

A hidden masterpiece

+ Way Above the Action Flick Level
+ scattered and unreliable, like memories always are
+ Slightly Overrated
  
  











  



  
Stir of Echoes (Special Edition)
Zachary David Cope, Kevin Bacon

Lions Gate, 2004

Finding that "open door"

+ A solid supernatural thriller that many will enjoy.
+ Absorbing supernatural movie!
+ Great movie
  
  











  



  
Limbo
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, David Strathairn

Sony Pictures, 1999

Another John Sayles Gem

+ Powerful and emotional movie
+ Well-acted character driven drama (loved the ending)

God love and protect John Sayles. Not because he hits every ball out of the park, because he clearly doesn't; but because he never lets his few strikeouts compel him to try to hit a five-run homer the next time out. In an era marked by increasingly degraded and degrading notions of "entertainment" ...
  
  











  



  
Cradle Will Rock
Hank Azaria, Bob Balaban

Buena Vista Home Video, 2000

A Bad Day at Black Rock - Unforgettable

+ A play about the play
+ Love It or Hate It - I Think It's Brilliant!

Bad Day at Black RockA Masterpiece that should be rediscover for the screenplay, for the direction and this powerfull acting of Spencer Tracy. Carlito Camargo
  
  











  



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