Directed by Susan Lacy Steven Spielberg has been making full length films for almost fifty years now, and Spielberg celebrates the director's career by touching on all of the high notes. There isn't much drama to this documentary, not that there needs to be, and the story tries to explain some of Spielberg's impulses but mostly … Continue reading Spielberg (2017)
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Punishment Park (1971)
Directed by Peter Watkins In Punishment Park, those arrested for crimes agains the country have three days to make their way a couple dozen miles to a designated location in order to earn their freedom. They are mostly nonviolent protestors of the Vietnam War, but by a tribunal and the U.S. government they are seen … Continue reading Punishment Park (1971)
Spirited Away (2001)
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki, Kirk Wise I wish I could've seen Spirited Away when I was a child. For friends who did, it seems this movie is rooted deep within their memories, as if it's something they themselves experienced. Watching it for the first time recently I found it cute, strange and fantastical but nothing more … Continue reading Spirited Away (2001)
Atlantic City (1980)
Directed by Louis Malle Lou (Burt Lancaster) is an aged gangster who longs for the mythologized days of old, and Sally (Susan Sarandon) is a young waitress who hopes to absorb some of his sophistication. Though they live next door to each other it's only over the course of a handful of days that they … Continue reading Atlantic City (1980)
Run Silent, Run Deep (1958)
Directed by Robert Wise Burt Lancaster is the symbol of virtue, it seems, in just about all of his most iconic roles. Maybe he's not so much so in films like The Sweet Smell of Success and others I can't think of right now, but when I picture Lancaster I picture Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The … Continue reading Run Silent, Run Deep (1958)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Directed by Stanley Kubrick 2001: A Space Odyssey lives on in certain striking images, like the ape turning a bone into a weapon, HAL 9000's termination or the astronaut, Dave (Keir Dullea) meeting himself in an austere royal bedroom. Upon rewatching this movie what I was struck by was how almost unapologetically this film stitches … Continue reading 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Das Boot (1981)
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen Das Boot is a wonderfully intense, painfully bleak vision of war from the perspective of a German U-boat in 1941. Sure, maybe all war is bleak (I think so!), but some movies have a way of finding glory in such a conflict. Its soldiers are heroic, mighty, humble and self-sacrificing, all … Continue reading Das Boot (1981)
Ponyo (2008)
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki A fish turns into a human thanks to the love of a young boy, Sōsuke, in the deliriously cheerful, optimistic, kind Ponyo. Before becoming "Ponyo," the fish is Brunhilde and lives underwater with her father, Fujimoto. She declares her intention to become a human, but worried that she's been kidnapped Fujimoto will … Continue reading Ponyo (2008)
Meet Joe Black (1998)
Directed by Martin Brest Death is quite sultry and naive in Meet Joe Black, perhaps the most unlikely three hour movie of all time. Brad Pitt plays a young, frosted tip'd enthusiastic man in a coffee shop who lights on fire the world of Susan Parrish (Claire Forlani). Then he gets hit by a car and … Continue reading Meet Joe Black (1998)
Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)
Directed by John Carpenter John Carpenter and Chevy Chase make for an unlikely duo in Memoirs of an Invisible Man. Chase plays Nick Halloway, a narcissist broker living in San Francisco who's not unlike Fletch or any other number of Chase personas, and just like in that 1985 film he finds himself embroiled in a plot … Continue reading Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)
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