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THE
PEACEMAKER (dir: Mimi Leder, R) - Kurt says, "GEORGE
CLOONEY was an action star? Oh yeah! I sort of forgot he was blowing
stuff up and making head shots before he was the 'sexy old man.'
He's like a fine wine that was better from the start. THE
PEACEKEEPER is nothing short of a fine thriller with what must have
been a pretty decent sized budget. It’s always funny to watch
these big budget summer action flicks more than a decade after they
came out. Plus, NICOLE KIDMAN still SORT OF looks like a human being
in this movie and less of an alien/wax museum hybrid!"
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OSSOS
(dir: Pedro Costa, Not Rated) - Bart says, "You're familiar
with the work of Portuguese director Pedro Costa, right? No? Me
neither, until this weekend, when he became one of my favorite
filmmakers. I took note of his latest film COLOSSAL YOUTH when it
made lots of 'best of the year' lists three years ago, but there was
no way to see it in the US. Now that the same film has topped many
of the 'best of the decade' lists that have come out lately,
Criterion has been generous enough to release his
three Fontainhas-set films, all of which revolve around the lives of
a number of immigrants and junkies in a poor district of Lisbon.
OSSOS is the most beautiful of trilogy, comprised of lingering shots
of depressed teenaged parents and their unwanted babies, and other picturesque
scenes of poverty. Costa's work calls to mind the films of Bresson,
Fassbinder or Kaurismaki, though Costa's deadpan absurdity is so
dark and disturbing it's impossible to laugh."
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FAST,
CHEAP & OUT OF CONTROL (dir: Errol
Morris, PG) - Bart says, "I have a confession to make: I don't
really like documentaries. They can be fascinating, if the subject
is interesting enough or the personalities colorful enough, but they
rarely feel like movies to me. Too much of the time it's just about
getting the audience to say, 'Can you believe cameras caught that
thing happening or this person saying that?' FAST, CHEAP & OUT
OF CONTROL is one of the few exceptions because it's thematically
ambitious enough to be about everything - because I believe any
great work of art should encapsulate the entirety of human existence
and teach us something about ourselves as a species. I won't tell
you the specific thesis of this film because one of the major joys
of watching it is discovering for yourself what it's about. You
start out thinking you're just watching four oddball experts in
unrelated fields say wacky, obsessive things about their passions,
until you realize by the end that your whole life has been
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EDGE (dir: Lee Tamahori, R) – Greg
says, "You know how much you love Alec Baldwin? Well, if you’ve never seen this David Mamet fuelled adventure set in Alaska, you’re in for a treat. He gets to kill a bear with Anthony Hopkins AND tell cool stories about snorting cocaine off supermodels." |
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THE EEL (dir:
Shohei Imamura, Not Rated) |
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(1997) 7.2/10 (185101
votes)
- L.A.
Confidential (1997) 8.4/10 (132896 votes)
- Good
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- Fifth
Element, The (1997) 7.3/10 (105098 votes)
...aka Cinquième élément, Le (1997) (France)
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...aka MIB (1997) (USA: promotional abbreviation)
- Vita
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- As
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- Jackie
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...aka Devil's Advocate (1997) (USA: DVD box title)
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- Game,
The (1997) 7.7/10 (56454 votes)
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- Chasing
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- Donnie
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- Mononoke-hime
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...aka Princess Mononoke (1999) (USA)
- Cube
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- Full
Monty, The (1997) 7.2/10 (34509 votes)
- Grosse
Pointe Blank (1997) 7.4/10 (33719 votes)
- Lost
Highway (1997) 7.5/10 (33550 votes)
...aka Lost Highway (1997) (France)
- Wag
the Dog (1997) 7.0/10 (29720 votes)
- Ice
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...aka Open Your Eyes (1999) (USA)
...aka Ouvre les yeux (1998) (France)
...aka Permanent Midnight (1999) (USA)
- Rainmaker,
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...aka John Grisham's The Rainmaker (1997) (USA: complete title)
- Sweet
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- Spanish
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- Funny
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- Hana-bi
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- Kundun
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- Carne
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...aka En chair et en os (1997) (France)
...aka Live Flesh (1997) (USA)
...aka Trembling Flesh (1997) (International: English title:
literal title)
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The (1997) 7.1/10 (6674 votes)
- In
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- Chun
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...aka Chun guang zha xie (1997) (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)
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...aka Happy Together (1997/I) (Hong Kong: English title) (USA)
- Boxer,
The (1997) 6.9/10 (4983 votes)
- Castle,
The (1997) 7.4/10 (4833 votes)
- Shin
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7.9/10 (4781 votes)
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...aka End of Evangelion: Air/Sincerely Yours (1997) (informal
English title)
...aka Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (2002) (USA)
- Mrs
Brown (1997) 7.3/10 (4643 votes)
...aka Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown (1997) (USA)
...aka Mrs Brown (1997) (USA)
- Big
One, The (1997) 7.3/10 (4498 votes)
- Karakter
(1997) 7.9/10 (4429 votes)
...aka Character (1997)
- Insomnia
(1997) 7.3/10 (4369 votes)
- Bacheha-Ye
aseman (1997) 8.0/10 (4314 votes)
...aka Children of Heaven (1999) (USA)
- Wings
of the Dove, The (1997) 6.9/10 (4161 votes)
- Butcher
Boy, The (1997) 7.0/10 (3994 votes)
- Ma
vie en rose (1997) 7.4/10 (3950 votes)
...aka Ma vie en rose (1997) (USA)
...aka My Life in Pink (1997) (USA)
- Eve's
Bayou (1997) 7.1/10 (3894 votes)
- Ulee's
Gold (1997) 7.1/10 (3597 votes)
- Henry
Fool (1997) 7.1/10 (3435 votes)
- Lawn
Dogs (1997) 7.4/10 (3314 votes)
- Ta'm
e guilass (1997) 7.4/10 (3286 votes)
...aka Goût de la cerise, Le (1997) (France)
...aka Taste of Cherry (1997) (USA: DVD box title)
...aka Taste of Cherry, A (1997) (USA)
- Rosewood
(1997) 6.9/10 (3207 votes)
- Welcome
to Sarajevo (1997) 6.9/10 (2804 votes)
- Nil
by Mouth (1997) 7.3/10 (2745 votes)
...aka Ne pas avaler (1997) (France)
- Trekkies
(1997) 6.9/10 (2511 votes)
- Winterschläfer
(1997) 7.3/10 (2383 votes)
...aka Winter Sleepers (2000) (USA)
...aka Wintersleepers (1997) (Europe: English title)
- Brat
(1997) 7.7/10 (2327 votes)
...aka Brother (1998) (USA)
...aka Brother, The (1997) (UK)
...aka âÒÁÔ (1997) (Russia: original Cyrillic KOI8-R title)
- Gadjo
dilo (1997) 7.2/10 (2160 votes)
...aka Crazy Stranger, The (1997) (International: English title)
...aka Strainul nebun (1997) (Romania)
...aka Étranger fou, L' (1998) (France)
- Love
and Death on Long Island (1997) 7.0/10 (2108 votes)
...aka Amour et mort à Long Island (1997) (Canada: French title)
- Hamam
(1997) 7.0/10 (2067 votes)
...aka Bagno turco, Il (1997) (Italy)
...aka Hamam: The Turkish Bath (1998) (UK)
...aka Hamam: el baño turco (1998) (Spain)
...aka Steam: The Turkish Bath (1998) (USA)
...aka Turkish Bath: Hamam, The (1997)
...aka Turkish Baths, The (1998) (USA)
- Bent
(1997) 7.2/10 (2060 votes)
- Unagi
(1997) 7.3/10 (1973 votes)
...aka Eel, The (1998) (USA)
- Career
Girls (1997) 7.0/10 (1965 votes)
- Cure
(1997) 7.4/10 (1903 votes)
...aka Cure (1997) (International: English title)
...aka Cure, The (1997) (UK)
...aka Kyua (1997) (Japan)
- Shin
seiki Evangelion Gekijô-ban: Shito shinsei (1997) 7.5/10
(1685 votes)
...aka Evangelion: Death & Rebirth (1997)
...aka Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth (2002) (USA)
- Fast,
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- Winter
Guest, The (1997) 6.9/10 (1649 votes)
- Hanging
Garden, The (1997) 7.0/10 (1640 votes)
...aka Jardin suspendu, Le (1997) (Canada: French title)
- Comedian
Harmonists (1997) 7.3/10 (1594 votes)
...aka Harmonists, The (1999) (Canada: English title) (USA)
- Men
with Guns (1997/II) 7.5/10 (1582 votes)
...aka Hombres armados (1998) (USA: Spanish title)
- Roseanna's
Grave (1997) 6.9/10 (1546 votes)
...aka For Roseanna (1997) (USA: festival title)
...aka For the Love of Roseanna (1997)
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Dieter Needs to Fly (1997) 8.2/10 (1513 votes)
...aka Flucht aus Laos (1997) (Germany)
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Le (1997) 7.0/10 (1308 votes)
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...aka Duell der Degen (1997) (Germany)
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- Mrs
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- Martín
(Hache) (1997) 7.8/10 (1098 votes)
...aka Martin (H) (1997)
- Regeneration
(1997) 7.1/10 (1030 votes)
...aka Behind the Lines (1998) (USA)
- 4
Little Girls (1997) 7.7/10 (1016 votes)
- Artemisia
(1997) 6.9/10 (972 votes)
...aka Artemisia (1997) (USA)
...aka Artemisia - Schule der Sinnlichkeit (1998) (Germany)
...aka Artemisia - passione estrema (1997) (Italy)
- Mat
i syn (1997) 7.5/10 (902 votes)
...aka Mother and Son (1997) (USA)
...aka Mutter und Sohn (1997) (Germany)
...aka íÁÔØ É ÓÙÎ (1997) (Russia: original Cyrillic KOI8-R
title)
- My
Son the Fanatic (1997) 7.0/10 (817 votes)
- He
liu (1997) 7.6/10 (807 votes)
...aka He liou (1997) (Taiwan)
...aka River, The (1997)
- Orphans
(1997) 7.0/10 (735 votes)
- I
Married a Strange Person! (1997) 6.9/10 (677 votes)
- Eye
of God (1997) 7.4/10 (672 votes)
...aka Beyond Obsessions (1997)
- Gokudô
kuroshakai (1997) 7.3/10 (646 votes)
...aka Criminal Underworld: Rainy Dog (1997) (International:
English title: literal title)
...aka Rainy Dog (1997)
- Vie
de Jésus, La (1997) 7.0/10 (633 votes)
...aka Life of Jesus, The (1997) (USA)
- Education
of Little Tree, The (1997) 6.9/10 (604 votes)
...aka Éducation de Little Tree, L' (1999) (Canada: French title)
- Xiang
Gang zhi zao (1997) 7.7/10 (551 votes)
...aka Heung Gong jai jo (1997) (Hong Kong: Cantonese title)
...aka Made in Hong Kong (1997) (Hong Kong: English title)
- Rajio
no jikan (1997) 7.8/10 (496 votes)
...aka Radio no jikan (1997)
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- Island
on Bird Street, The (1997) 7.0/10 (487 votes)
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The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (1997)
7.6/10 (465 votes)
- Sunday
(1997) 6.9/10 (390 votes)
- Ayneh
(1997) 7.5/10 (384 votes)
...aka Mirror, The (1997)
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ko gaurusu (1997) 7.0/10 (341 votes)
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