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Paprika (2006)
Filmmaker(s): Satoshi Kon

When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it and recover it before damage is done: Paprika.

His Own Mirror happens when you see a wonderful film, a truly wonderful one, and you are disappointed because the very last one you saw was from the same filmmaker and was very much better? I should have watched some trash first. The better film I'm...


Published February 20, 2025
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Stand by Me (1986)
For some, it's the last real taste of innocence, and the first real taste of life.
Filmmaker(s): Rob Reiner

After learning that a boy their age has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four Oregon boys decide to go see the body. On the way, Gordie, Vern, Chris and Teddy encounter a mean junk man and a marsh full of leeches, as they also learn more about one another and their very different home lives. Just a lark at first, the boys' adventure evolves into a defining event in their lives.

What Happened to Lardass? first duty of a filmmaker is to worry about how to transport the viewer into the special world they have in mind. The hard way to do this is by devising a very strong narrative. Expert filmmakers then worry about the...


Published January 27, 2025
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Grand Tour: Disaster in Time (1991)
Filmmaker(s): David Twohy

Before they can complete renovations on their new inn, a father and daughter are visited by a woman seeking immediate lodging for her strange group of travelers.

Genre Baseball of the joys I find in film, is the ability to see a movie the way I want instead of the way the market prefers. Because the market likes to sell discrete things, it sustains a metanarrative that you buy one experience at...


Published January 13, 2025
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Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Dare to dream the impossible.
Filmmaker(s): Werner Herzog

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.

Constrained Frenzy invention of modern drama was the birth of twins, and they have been spatting ever since. One of these is the Shakespearean tradition: characters transform, sometimes even extending beyond the constraints of the movie to create themselves or some reality. Situations are complex,...


Published January 6, 2025
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Treasure Island (1950)
PIRATE'S PLUNDER a young cabin boy, a roguish buccaneer... match wits in a swashbuckling adventure!
Filmmaker(s): Byron Haskin

Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint's old pirate crew are aboard the ship, including Long John Silver.

Two Heads, One Leg is rather hard to appreciate in the sea of movies we have now, but once upon a time the world of imagination was owned by books, and this was a king among them. Stevenson invented the modern notion of pirates: the...


Published January 5, 2025
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The Baby of Mâcon (1993)
Exploring thoroughly modern taboos
Filmmaker(s): Peter Greenaway

Set halfway through the 17th century, a church play is performed for the benefit of the young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman gives birth to a beautiful baby boy. The child's older sister is quick to exploit the situation, selling blessings from the baby, and even claiming she's the true mother by virgin birth. However, when she attempts to seduce the bishop's son, the Church exacts a terrible revenge.

Tapestry of Self-reference art to be real, worthwhile, it has to be more than a mere political statement. It has to be ‘open,' producing rewards beyond what the artist might have had in mind. Greenaway is the richest artist working in film and this film...


Published December 30, 2024
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8 1/2 Women (1999)
If every man thinks of sex once every nine minutes, what does he think of the other eight?
Filmmaker(s): Peter Greenaway

Following the death of a mother, a father and son open up their very own harem in their Genevan estate after watching 8½.

Women: Types and Missteps master visual allegorist reaches farther and fails. But not for the reasons others claim here. Greenaway has never centred his films in the narrative — we'd always be frustrated to look for satisfaction there. (‘Drowning' which among his works most delivers...


Published December 30, 2024
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Nightwatch (2007)
Murder, Conspiracy and the Masterpiece that Revealed the Truth
Filmmaker(s): Peter Greenaway

An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting The Night Watch.

The Inner Eye and the Lover's Lens a way, Greenaway is my touchstone for deep film experience. It was with him that I first studied the things that have since become part of every viewing experience, from "Godzilla versus the Sea Monster" to the more...


Published December 30, 2024
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Love Actually (2003)
The ultimate romantic comedy.
Filmmaker(s): Richard Curtis

Eight London couples try to deal with their relationships in different ways. Their tryst with love makes them discover how complicated relationships can be.

Structured Simultaneity am a sucker for date movies: I laugh and cry - especially cry - along with the rest. And then feel violated afterwards by the asymmetry of reward: they get my money time and a piece of my soul and I get useless...


Published December 24, 2024
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Smilla’s Sense of Snow (1997)
Some Tracks Should Never Be Uncovered.
Filmmaker(s): Bille August

Smilla Jaspersen, half Danish, half Greenlander, attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that has made several mysterious expeditions to Greenland. Scenes from the film were shot in Copenhagen and western Greenland. The film was entered into the 47th Berlin International Film Festival, where director Bille August was nominated for the Golden Bear.

Snow Job is a replacement comment, the original having been removed because of a complaint. One of the reasons for leaving IMDB and setting up this site is because possibly over a thousand of my comments were lost because some fundamentalist warrior took it on...


Published December 24, 2024
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