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BIRTH
(dir: Jonathan Glazer, R) - Bart says, "Why does everybody hate
this movie? I think this beautiful and enigmatic psychological drama
is absolutely one of the ten best of the last decade, and I think
even more highly of it than I do the director's previous film, SEXY
BEAST, which I thought was superb. So what if Nicole Kidman shares a
bath with a 10-year-old boy? Have you never seen a Swedish movie
before? The whole picture reminds me of one of those great
perplexing European films of the Sixties where you're never sure
exactly what's going on until the end, and even then it's still open
for interpretation. Is the boy really a reincarnation of the woman's
dead husband? Beats me."
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THE DOOR IN
THE FLOOR (dir: Tod Williams, R) - Greg says, "Jeff Bridges
is in top form as usual, in this drama based on the first segment of
A Widow For One Year by John Irving. Bridges and Kim Basinger play a
couple numbed and distant as the result of an accident that killed
their sons. A young Exeter student they hire for the summer soon
finds himself caught up in their quiet battle of wills. Full of
compelling and complex characters, this is the rare Hollywood film
made unapologetically for adults. It has no need to cater to
teenagers and is uninterested in pat, sophomoric endings."
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ETERNAL SUNSHINE
OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (dir: Michel Gondry, R) - Michelle says,
"Just yesterday, I was writing about Emmanuel Kant’s
'Critique of Aesthetic Judgment,' and you know the part about his
distinction between good, beautiful, and pleasant texts? Well, I was
thinking that some films totally fulfill the pleasant category for
me: they’re sensory, they make me laugh, or they make my heart
race, but they don’t challenge me emotionally at all. Most of the
stuff I’m willing to actually watch from beginning to end at this
point, since I don’t really like movies that much, is kind of like
that because I’m lazy. And I don’t want to watch 'good' movies
that appeal to some sort of universal moral construct, like all
those boohoo documentaries about good and evil in American politics
or society or whatever. But then there’s beautiful movies that
engender a real emotional conviction that I’m watching a perfectly
constructed story about damaged lovers who can’t undo their
attachment to each other, no matter what lengths they go to in
trying to escape their dysfunctional union. And this film goes into
that category. It’s pure romantic cynicism that anyone with taste
would fall for. I mean Kant says that stuff’s actually really
subjective, but whatever dead German guy, I love this movie!"
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BROTHERS (dir: Susanne
Bier, R) - Bart says, "I figured with the American remake due
out at the end of the week, it's the perfect time for me to write
about one of my favorite films of the decade. It's basically just a
superbly structured and acted domestic drama about a presumed dead
prisoner-of-war in Afghanistan who unexpectedly comes home to his
wife and daughters, and must contend with his drifter brother who
has been 'comforting' his family in their time of need. I suppose
the remake could potentially capture the intense emotions of the
original with Jim (MY LEFT FOOT, IN AMERICA) Sheridan directing, but
other than the fact that Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal were born
to play brothers, the featherweight casting (Natalie Portman, in
particular) seems like Hollywood spoofing itself." |
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METALLICA:
SOME KIND OF MONSTER (dir: Joe Berlinger / Bruce Sinofsky, R)
– Greg says, "The directors of PARADISE LOST and BROTHER’S
KEEPER started out making a documentary about the recording of
Metallica’s new album. What they ended up capturing is
astonishing. Unlike any music documentary ever filmed, Berlinger and
Sinofsky follow the band through group therapy as raw emotions spill
across the screen. At moments the proceedings are so unguarded and
intimate, the level of voyeurism is uncomfortable. This is
fascinating stuff and certainly not only for fans of the band." |
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DiG!
(dir: Ondi Timoner, R) |
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INNOCENCE (dir:
Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Not Rated) |
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SIDEWAYS (dir:
Alexander Payne, Not Rated) |
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Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
8.5/10 (162307 votes)
- Kill
Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) 8.1/10 (136452 votes)
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...aka Kill Bill 2 (2004) (USA: informal title)
...aka Vol. 2 (2004) (USA)
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...aka Innocent Voices (2004) (International: English title)
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...aka Riding Giants (2004) (France)
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...aka Mountain Patrol (2004) (International: English title)
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(Czech Republic: long title)
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(2004) 7.6/10 (801 votes)
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(International: English title)
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...aka Trilogie: Die Erde weint (2004) (Germany)
...aka Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow (2004) (International: English
title)
...aka Weeping Meadow, The (2004) (Europe: English title)
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äáêñýæåé (2004) (Greece: original Greek ISO-8859-7 title)
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Clips (2004) 7.7/10 (763 votes)
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Diamond, The (2004) 7.5/10 (762 votes)
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the Realms of the Unreal (2004) 7.4/10 (683 votes)
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(2004) (Australia: DVD title)
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Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing, The (2004) 7.4/10 (503
votes)
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The (2004) 7.4/10 (492 votes)
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(2004) 7.4/10 (473 votes)
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...aka Or (My Treasure) (2004) (USA: festival title)
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The (2004) 7.4/10 (464 votes)
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(390 votes)
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de Santiago (2004) 7.6/10 (382 votes)
...aka Days of Santiago (2004) (International: English title)
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ying tong nian (2004) 7.7/10 (366 votes)
...aka Electric Shadows (2008) (International: English title)
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