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The Machinist (2004)

How do you wake up from a nightmare if you’re not asleep?

Trevor, an insomniac lathe operator, experiences unusual occurrences at work and home. A strange man follows him everywhere, but no one else seems to notice him.

16 Feb The Machinist (2004)

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One and a Half can hope for good films. When preparing for the journey, one communicates with one‘s self about what to expect. If the construction is like this, a ‘puzzle film,‘ then the conversation continues through the film as it sustains two souls watching....

Published February 16, 2024

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The White Diamond (2004)

Filmmaker(s): Werner Herzog

Documentary

This 2004 documentary by Werner Herzog diaries the struggle of a passionate English inventor to design and test a unique airship during its maiden flight above the jungle canopy.

23 Feb The White Diamond (2004)

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Flows, Roosters a Herzog documentary is first a mystery about why it was made. About halfway through you understand why: an obsessed man made a flying balloon, mostly by making stuff up and killed his cinematographer. Now he wants to do it again, in a...

Published February 23, 2024

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Layer Cake (2004)

Filmmaker(s): Matthew Vaughn

Drama

Thriller

Crime

When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...

23 Feb Layer Cake (2004)

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Taking the Drugs narrative form is the con story. All of these folding tricks are there to engage the viewer, to trick him or her into investing in the story. The idea is that some important things you understand about the story, your platform for...

Published February 23, 2024

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The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)

All the power in the universe can't change destiny

Filmmaker(s): David Twohy

Action

Science Fiction

After years of outrunning ruthless bounty hunters, escaped convict Riddick suddenly finds himself caught between opposing forces in a fight for the future of the human race. Now, waging incredible battles on fantastic and deadly worlds, this lone, reluctant hero will emerge as humanity's champion - and the last hope for a universe on the edge of annihilation.

03 Aug The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)

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Three Women go to opera now and then. Some people -- I suppose -- think that because much classical music is complex, so is opera. But there is a world of difference between a complex experience and a rich one. Opera is rich, and usually...

Published August 3, 2024

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The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

Where will you be?

Filmmaker(s): Roland Emmerich

After years of increases in the greenhouse effect, havoc is wreaked globally in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of a new Ice Age. Paleoclimatologist Jack Hall tries to warn the world while also shepherding to safety his son, trapped in New York after the city is overwhelmed by the start of the new big freeze.

22 Sep The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

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Burned Books oh why do makers of bad films sometimes put a really good actor in a minor part? It just makes everything else seem cheap. In this case, Ian Holm has a few small scenes that anchor the film. He plays the part that...

Published September 22, 2024

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The PianoTuner of EarthQuakes (2004)

Filmmaker(s): Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay

Dark fairytale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transforming her into a mechanical nightingale.

02 Dec The PianoTuner of EarthQuakes (2004)

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Man's Machine, God's Tune is a matter of abstraction. Always has been, in everything I suppose. But especially in film. The business is one of sharpening some edges and making others recede so as to cut us in some way. It is a dangerous business...

Published December 2, 2024

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2046 (2004)

Are you still in the mood for love?

Filmmaker(s): Wong Kar-wai

Drama

Science Fiction

Romance

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.

02 Dec 2046 (2004)

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Gloved Hand Welles, Tarkovsky and Kurosawa are the three past masters. Greenaway, Medem and Kar- Wai are the three greatest living filmmakers. All three weave incredibly deep and personal stories which bleed into the act of their creating the film. Each create striking images that...

Published December 2, 2024

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Tanner on Tanner (2004)

Off the record, on camera.

Filmmaker(s): Andrew Blake

Comedy

Sixteen years ago, Jack Tanner's bid for the White House ended at the 1988 Democratic convention. Now the former congressman is the subject of a documentary film directed by his daughter Alex focusing on the toll paid by failed contenders.

02 Dec Tanner on Tanner (2004)

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Woven Folds, Flattened Levels keep my own list of films worth watching and from that I draw a smaller list of "number fours," films that everyone should see before they die. The rules of this short list provide for only two films from any year...

Published December 2, 2024

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

Something wicked this way comes.

Filmmaker(s): Alfonso Cuarón

Adventure

Fantasy

Year three at Hogwarts means new fun and challenges as Harry learns the delicate art of approaching a Hippogriff, transforming shape-shifting Boggarts into hilarity and even turning back time. But the term also brings danger: soul-sucking Dementors hover over the school, an ally of the accursed He-Who-Cannot-Be-Named lurks within the castle walls, and fearsome wizard Sirius Black escapes Azkaban. And Harry will confront them all.

07 Mar Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

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Spaniard in the Works franchise is being managed extremely well, better than any other. The `Lord of the Rings' films were all of a single whole, while these Harry Potter movies are each cognisant of what went before, changing and maturing just as would an...

Published March 7, 2025

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21 Grams (2003)

How much does life weigh?

Filmmaker(s): Alejandro González Iñárritu

Drama

Crime

Thriller

Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife and mother of two girls; and Jack Jordan, a born-again ex-con, are brought together by a terrible accident that changes their lives.

13 May 21 Grams (2003)

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Every Hair on your Head of the key things a storyteller needs to decide is the tense of the story. Is it something that happened in the past, is happening now or will/could happen? Each of these bestows riches on a film and we have...

Published May 13, 2022

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