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Memento (2000)
Some memories are best forgotten.
Filmmaker(s): Christopher Nolan
Mystery
Thriller

Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he's going, or why.

22 Nov

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Skin as Photograph rate this very high on my scale, primarily for its ambition and intellect. Usually I get annoyed at IMDB comments that report the story as if it were important, but it is here: ---Lenny's home is attacked, wife raped, him injured. He develops this...


Published November 22, 2022
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102 Dalmatians (2000)
Meet Two Unlikely Heroes With A Bone To Pick.
Filmmaker(s): Kevin Lima
Family
Comedy

Get ready for a howling good time as an all new assortment of irresistible animal heroes are unleashed in this great family tail! In an unlikely alliance, the outrageous Waddlesworth - a parrot who thinks he's a Rottweiler - teams up with Oddball - an un-marked Dalmatian puppy eager to earn her spots! Together they embark on a laugh-packed quest to outwit the ever-scheming Cruella De Vil.

15 Dec

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Character Engineering has the world’s most advanced character lab. That’s what these kinds of movies depend on. What we see are the broad strokes, but what’s more interesting are all the little touches that are added based on the science of discovery through tests. It all...


Published December 15, 2022
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Italian for Beginners (2000)
Attendance optional. Passion required.
Filmmaker(s): Lone Scherfig
Comedy
Drama
Romance

A group of strangers find friendship, family and love within an Italian beginners’ course.

13 Mar

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Red Hair in Venice know, intelligent filmmakers are faced with all sorts of philosophical dilemmas, not the least of which are controversies over storytelling styles. Let’s call them the North and South. The Northern style is a matter of creating a world whose fabric is a...


Published March 13, 2023
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Amores Perros (2000)
Love. Betrayal. Death.
Filmmaker(s): Alejandro González Iñárritu
Drama
Thriller

A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his sister-in-law, and a homeless man. Their lives are catapulted into unforeseen situations instigated by the seemingly inconsequential destiny of a dog.

01 Apr

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Panting Astrology believe that the future of film is now firmly in the hands of Spanish-speaking filmmakers. Not that they make the best films, but that they have the current crop of ideas. We saw Italians introduce us to the notion that a camera can...


Published April 1, 2023
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force (2000-2015)
Dancing is forbidden!
Filmmaker(s): Jerry Zucker
Animation
Comedy

The surreal adventures of three anthropomorphic fast food items: Master Shake, Frylock and Meatwad, and their human nextdoor neighbor, Carl Brutananadilewski.

01 May

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Abstraction Along the Folds game of animation is in large measure a matter of moving further and further into abstract universes. The game of modern movies is a matter of folding along self-referential dimensions. The rate of abstraction has been pushed pretty far, from Beavis...


Published May 1, 2023
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Arabian Nights (2000)
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Action & Adventure
Family

Targeted for assassination by his first wife and his evil brother, a young sultan must marry by the next full moon or he will lose his kingdom. His uncertainty over his newfound bride causes her to stall the sultan with a series of fantastic stories to ease the tension and stall her impending execution.

01 May

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In the Lamp key to master storytelling is the art of folding. That includes all sorts of techniques of overlapping narrative, spanning from overarching metaphor to stories within stories. It is an ancient technique, as old as any story we know. It is especially present...


Published May 1, 2023
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Beat (2000)
Sex and Drugs before Rock and Roll
Filmmaker(s): Gary Walkow
Drama

The true story of two murders that shaped the lives of several college students who went on to become some of the most influential writers of the "Beat Generation."

16 May

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Off Beat Off will travel to see a film that is “folded“ in the simple sense this one is: writing about writing, especially when the story is historically based and most especially when the literary tradition in question is all about just this manner of...


Published May 16, 2023
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Better Than Sex (2000)
3 days in the life of a 1 night stand.
Filmmaker(s): Jonathan Teplitzky
Romance
Drama
Comedy

After a one-night stand a couple is faced with the terrifying possibility of what they really want.

20 Jun

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Freckles, Neck slight project has nothing to recommend it, except wonder at its reason for being. But that is enough for me. See, the reason behind such a project is that the sexual charm of a woman — a certain woman — is an accelerating capture....


Published June 20, 2023
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Cheeky (2000)
Filmmaker(s): Tinto Brass
Comedy
Drama
Romance

While scouting out apartments in London for her Venetian boyfriend, Carla rents an apartment that overlooks the Thames. There she meet the lesbian hyper-horny real estate agent Moira.

03 Aug

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Nonchalant Openness films are simply about the appeal of one character. That's all that matters. There seem to be two types: those that depend on the charm of attractive women, and those that have to work some other engagement. Often that's the acting challenge. I'm thinking in...


Published August 3, 2023
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Billy Elliott (2000)
Inside every one of us is a special talent waiting to come out. The trick is finding it.
Filmmaker(s): Stephen Daldry
Drama
Comedy
Music

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.

27 Aug

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Battle Dancer is a replacement comment. Though the dance was passable here, the story is so vapid and unembellished, I sat there looking for another movie. And I found one, battling to get out. It was clever and true, overlooked because of the mediocrity placed in...


Published August 27, 2023
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