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…
NL 2002 (110′) – Dir.: Pieter Kramer. With Loes Luca, Tjitske Reidinga, Paul de Leeuw. | My rating: | Official site Ja Zuster, Nee Zuster (‘Yes Nurse, No Nurse’) is based on what probably is Holland’s most famous tv-series with the same title (1966-1968), written by Holland’s most loved author Annie M.G. Schmidt. When the…
USA 2002 (101′)- Dir.: Steven Soderbergh. With Julia Roberts, Blair Underwood. | My rating: | Official site | Steven Soderbergh is without a doubt one of Hollywood’s most talented directors. Out of Sight and Traffic were his best, but Full Frontal is definitely his worst (although I haven’t seen Schizopolis). In the marketing campaign the…
PAL/FR 2001 (92′)- Dir.: Elia Suleiman. With Elia Suleiman, Manal Khader, Naeif Daher. | Official site The Middle East is a great place to be. It has good food, a nice climate and beautiful women (especially the Israelian ladies). O yes,and the occasional friendly neighbourhood fights. But these are so surreal that one can hardly…
