Directed by Rebecca Miller Jack and his daughter Rose live together on an isolated, mostly self-sustaining community that once housed dozens of young, free-spirited hippies. He is dying, and she has it in mind to kill herself when he does. If her pronouncement frightens him, he doesn't show it. Instead Jack (Daniel Day-Lewis) quietly resolves … Continue reading The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)
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My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
Directed by Stephen Frears A social-minded independent film centered around a small business which escalates into some level of violence, My Beautiful Laundrette feels like the precursor to Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. It's theatrical with its plotting, but every dramatic turn seems to say something about society at large. In that way the scope … Continue reading My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
Patriot Games (1992)
Directed by Philip Noyce It's easy to get Patriot Games mixed up with any other number of Harrison Ford action movies, whether it's Witness, The Fugitive, Air Force One, Frantic, Presumed Innocent, Clear and Present Danger, etc. In these movies he plays a gruff, over the hill agent of some kind who finds himself involved in a dangerous plot out … Continue reading Patriot Games (1992)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson Paul Thomas Anderson is one of the greatest working filmmakers, and many believe There Will Be Blood to be his masterpiece. I think this is an incredible movie but one which lends itself to the 'masterpiece' category. It's an ambitious story about one man, told over the course of about thirty … Continue reading There Will Be Blood (2007)
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