USA 2002 (86′)- Dir.: Antony and Joe Russo. With William H. Macy, Isaiah Washington, Luiz | Official site | George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh produce, through their company Section Eight, films like Ocean’s Eleven, Insomnia, and the pompous Full Frontal. Welcome to Collinwood is another Soderbergh/Clooney production, and reminds vaguely of O Brother, Where are…
USA 2002 (78′)- Dir.: Gerry Winick. With Aaron Stanford, Sigourney Weaver, Bebe Neuwirth. | Official site | Oscar is a fifteen year old charming guy who likes Voltaire better than young pussies. He falls in love with his stepmother (Sigourney Weaver) who has so much more experience than the pretty girls in his class at…
UK 2002 (112′)- Dir.: Gurinder Chadha. With Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers. Official site (in Dutch) | Official site (en Français) | Jess wants to become a football player, but growing up in a traditional Indian family is not compatible with her wild ambitions. A girl she meets in the park (played by the…
I’ve seen 100 films in a theatre so far this year, which is a new personal high (I saw 87 films in 2001). Number 100 was Bend it Like Beckham, which was the tenth British film I saw this year. Other nationalities: 33 American films, 25 French films, 11 Spanish films, 5 Dutch films, 4…
Everybody logs nowadays. But a blog is only interesting when it’s updated a couple of times a week. Something I don’t always do. So people start to ask me whether I could update this site more often, maybe even daily. Well, I will do my best but I can’t promise anything. But please come back,…
ES 2002 (96′)- Dir.: Daniela Fejerman & Inés París. With Leonor Watling, Rosa Maria Sarda, Silvia Abascal. Three daughters are introduced to their mother’s new lover, but there’s one problem: the lover is a young girl. And that’s not what the daughters want. In order to get her out of the way the three sisters…
FR/BE 2002 (130′)- Dir.: Delphine Gleize. With Chiara Mastroianni, Jacques Gamblin, Angela Molina. | My rating: | Official site | One of the reasons I love living in France is because people make films like Carnages. Carnages is a kind of roadmovie telling the voyage of the corpse of a dead ‘toro’. Somehow its bodyparts…
UK/USA 2002 (123′)- Dir.: Lee Tamahori. With Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Toby Stephens, Rosamund Pike. | Official site I saw Die Another Day for the second time, this time in Bond’s original habitat, London. And I liked it much less than the first time I saw it. Spending time in a exclusive circle of real…
Kicking against the political establishment is a normal tradition in most democracies. But in the United States there’s only Michael Moore. His book Stupid White Men was ment to be released on September 12, 2001, but its contents was so explosive that the publisher decided to keep the 50,000 copies in stock. However, through the…
Bowling for Columbine USA 2002 (120′)- Dir.: Michael Moore. With Charlton Heston, Marilyn Manson. My rating: | Official site | Writer/director Michael Moore does not really like America. Bowling for Columbine shows what’s wrong with America when it comes to armed violence. One of Moore’s questions is how it is possible that every year 11.227…
