USA 2002 (120′)- Dir.: Sam Mendes. With Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep, Claire Danes. Official site The Hours was marketed as a film with fantastic women in it. And of course it has a wonderful ensemble of actors (male and female), my attention went entirely to Claire Danes who is such a pretty lady….
USA 2002 (135′)- Dir.: Spike Lee. With Edward Norton, Barry Pepper, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rosario Dawson. My rating: | Official site Montgomery Brogan (Edward Norton) has to go to jail, because he is a drugs dealer. And the film focuses on his last day in the ‘free world’. Monty thinks he got betrayed by his…
USA 2002 (135′)- Dir.: Spike Lee. With Edward Norton, Barry Pepper, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rosario Dawson. My rating: | Official site Montgomery Brogan (Edward Norton) has to go to jail, because he is a drugs dealer. And the film focuses on his last day in the ‘free world’. Monty thinks he got betrayed by his…
Dutch creative spirit Arjen van Lith, the director of the much-acclaimed Dutch Bondfilm Never Chick Out, hits again. Many things have been said, many things have been written, including by yours truly about the imminent War in Iraq (is it really imminent?), but Van Lith has a more interesting suggestion: Pornography for Peace. He made…
USA 2002 (113′)- Dir.: George Clooney. With Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, George Clooney, Rutger Hauer. My rating: | Official site | George Clooney Unofficial Site | Chuck Barris Fan Club | Rutger Hauer Official Site It’s Kaufmann/Clooney time this week for me (See Adaptation and Solaris). Actor/Director/Producer Clooney is without a doubt one of the…
FR 2003 (95′)- Dir.: Pascal Bonitzer. It can be called quite an accomplishement to make actresses Kristin Scott-Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier look ugly. But the DP of Petites Coupures managed to do so. The film got pretty good reviews in France, which says a lot about the Gallic cerebral obsession. I thought it was crap.
In an era before the Internet and Cable Television, people had encyclopedias to learn about things. It’s not even that long ago. I had one in my children’s bedroom. I read in it before going to sleep, and the fun was to discover subjects you never heard about. It was the smell of the paper,…
Last week I read an article in one of my favourite newspapers, The New York Times, about the different views of the media in Europe and the US on the conflict in Iraq. The article, which was titled The Great Divide, and written by Paul Krugman was interesting, yet did not quite explain why there…
