2046 (2004)
Are you still in the mood for love?
Filmmaker(s): Wong Kar-wai
Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.
Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996)
Filmmaker(s): Mira Nair
Tara and Maya are two inseparable friends in India. Their tastes, habits, and hobbies are the same. Years later, the two have matured, but have maintained their friendship. Tara gets married to the local prince, Raj Singh, who soon succeeds the throne as the sole heir. After the marriage, Raj gets bored of Tara and starts seeking another female to satisfy his sexual needs. He notices Maya and is instantly attracted to her. He has her included as one of his courtesans, and is intimate with her. Watch what happens when Tara finds out and the extent she will go to keep her marriage intact.
24 Nov Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996)
Club Exotica One of the several foibles of the United States is that we have no indigenous sexual exotica. All sexual archetypes are inherited from predecessor cultures (excepting the competing African-American cultures), which is one reason — I believe — that US popular culture is...
An Inspector Calls (1954)
Is he real... or the creature of conscience?
Filmmaker(s): Guy Hamilton
An upper-crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious circumstances. It seems that any or all of them could have had a hand in her death. But who is the mysterious Inspector and what can he want of them?
24 Nov An Inspector Calls (1954)
Inspecting the Story If you want to understand film, the first thing on the list is narrative structure, specifically cinematically structured narrative. If I were teaching in film school, I would introduce this subject in a semester’s worth of detective narrative. Nowhere are more tricks...
A Single Man (2009)
Filmmaker(s): Tom Ford
The life of George Falconer, a British college professor, is reeling with the recent and sudden loss of his longtime partner. This traumatic event makes George challenge his own will to live as he seeks the console of his close girl friend Charley, who is struggling with her own questions about life.
22 Nov A Single Man (2009)
Julianne’s Floating There’s something offensive about this, and it is a rather delicious experience finding out what it is. Of course, there is the feint, the whole business about gay love being unremarkable. Even ten years ago, most of the American public would have struggled...
Dude, Where’s My Car (2000)
After a night they can't remember, comes a day they'll never forget.
Filmmaker(s): Danny Leiner
Two stoners wake up after a night of partying and cannot remember where they parked their car.
22 Nov Dude, Where’s My Car (2000)
Who’s On First Movies like this are made like chewing gum: a cheap commodity that occupies you if you’re normally sleepwalking. It is nothing but a collection of various jokes in one bag, so the best we can hope for is that one or two...
Girl With a Suitcase (1961)
Filmmaker(s): Valerio Zurlini
Lorenzo, who's 16 and born to a wealthy family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a showgirl, Aida, whom his older brother has mistreated. In extending kindness and standing up for her, he comes of age. But, is there anything he can do that will alter Aida's situation or her prospects?
20 Nov Girl With a Suitcase (1961)
Million Dollar Baby I watched this together with Eastwood’s “Million Dollar Baby.” I knew I would be challenged by that film (you can read my comment), and I wanted something that I knew would be a safe island after the offences therein. I chose this....
Far and Away (1992)
What they needed was a country big enough for their dreams.
Filmmaker(s): Ron Howard
A young man leaves Ireland with his landlord's daughter after some trouble with her father, and they dream of owning land at the big giveaway in Oklahoma ca. 1893. When they get to the new land, they find jobs and begin saving money. The man becomes a local barehands boxer, and rides in glory until he is beaten, then his employers steal all the couple's money and they must fight off starvation in the winter, and try to keep their dream of owning land alive. Meanwhile, the woman's parents find out where she has gone and have come to America to find her and take her back.
13 Nov Far and Away (1992)
Another Slap Here is another film in the tradition of “The Quiet Man:” Irish as hard drinkin hard fightin dopes downyou luvem. Once again, the hero is a fighter with a pure heart who the fight-addicted crowds love. Once again, the fiery redhead needs to...
Just a Little Harmless Sex (1998)
Filmmaker(s): Rick Rosenthal
A young married couple faces a serious break-up when the husband is caught committing adultery with a prostitute.
07 Nov Just a Little Harmless Sex (1998)
Prophylactic Intolerance We all want to be teenagers and some films are built to pander to that drive. The teenage condition is one in which all things are subservient to sex, but sex isn’t something you do. It isn’t something that is a component of...
Paris, je t’aime (2006)
Stories of Love From the City of Love
Filmmaker(s): Isabel Coixet, Christopher Doyle, Tom Tykwer, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Richard LaGravenese, Wes Craven, Gus Van Sant, Vincenzo Natali, Gurinder Chadha, Walter Salles, Alfonso Cuarón, Alexander Payne, Gérard Depardieu, Sylvain Chomet, Bruno Podalydès, Frédéric Auburtin, Olivier Assayas, Nobuhiro Suwa, Oliver Schmitz, Daniela Thomas
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to chose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.
07 Nov Paris, je t’aime (2006)
Tombstones, Subways Recently, I walked through a Japanese cemetery that is several hundred years old. There is in this place a variety of tombstones, a very wide variety. There are stylistic similarities, weaving through eras, religious traditions (which are remarkably complex and subtle). The place...
Sex and Lucia (2001)
Filmmaker(s): Julio Medem
Various lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inextricably entwined with his own life.
