Dreams (1990)- 9/10
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)- 8/10

RED CLIFF II - A+
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button - A

Friday the 13th (2009) - B-

Breakfast at Tiffany's- 10/10
Tropic Thunder- 8/10

Lo sceicco bianco [The White Sheik] (Federico Fellini, 1952)- 9/10
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel Coen, 2000)- 10/10

The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky, 2006)- 6/10
The Station Agent (Thomas McCarthy, 2003)- 9/10

Holiday (Cukor, 1938) - 8.5/10
Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944) - all/10

Kiss of the Spider Woman (Hector Babenco, 1985)- 10/10
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam, 1988)- 10/10

"Teamwork, Sybil!"
-The king of the moon

Ok, a few words on the Baron: It at once reminds me of The Thief of Bagdad and many other entries in the genre, but it creates a world all its own. It's subversive, everything makes sense in two ways. That scene with the god and his monstrous machination Sybil flying after the Baron over the lunar landscape read to read me as man’s dependence on machine and how helpless we are when it breaks down on us. Uma Thurman is not Uma Thurman. I didn't even realize that was her until the credits rolled at the end. All I kept thinking was whoever that is is just a dead ringer for Keira Knightley. Seriously! And speaking about the gods and goddesses that appear in this movie, the birth of Venus sequence is simply breathtaking. Visual thrills abound. I really only rented this because the plot sounded somewhat like that of the coming Pixar feature Up and ended up loving it way more than I thought I would. Actually, that's a crude lie. I've been wanting to dive into Gilliam's filmography for some time but it's taken me until now to see anything by him other than The Brothers Grimm.

Baron Munchausen is my favorite Gilliam movie.

What do I see next, yosh? Somebody told me Brazil and Time Bandits. I'm scared to see Brazil.

See Time Bandits next. Leave Brazil for last.

two or three things I know about her - 10 out of ten

Man on Wire (James Marsh, 2008)- 8/10
Jungfrukällan [The Virgin Spring] (Ingmar Bergman, 1960)- 10/10
Ostre sledované vlaky [Closely Watched Trains] (Jirí Menzel, 1966)- 9/10

Lust, Caution
Nausicaa, of the Valley of the Winds

They both had a lot to like, but were also very flawed. Lust, Caution had the unfortunate luck of being released just after Black Book, which is a much better version of the same story. While I enjoyed Lee's elegant direction, by the end of it's nearly three hour running time I just couldn't help but feeling that that much time to tell such a bare story was rather indulgent.

As for Nausicaa, well it's certainly not Miyazaki's finest hour. For better of for worse, it has every anime cliche in the book. Plucky heroine with a cute shoulder pet who lives in a land of green rolling hills, a bunch of bad guys who don't realize that they're unintentionally going to destroy the world, a really bombastic ending with a surprise saccharine sweet ending. At times, it rises above the cliches. But the end was particularly disheartening. That said, Miyazaki's visuals are incredibly engaging - he really makes complete worlds that the audience can be fully immersed in, despite music that sounds straight out of a Super Nintendo game.

when a stranger calls - 7/10

The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg, 1985)- 8/10
Obchod na korze [The Shop on Main Street] (Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos, 1965)- 9/10

The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941)- 10/10
El ángel exterminador (Luis Buñuel, 1962)- 10/10

you only gave The Lady Eve 10/10???

100,589/10

that is preposterously nonsensical

In A Lonely Place A
James and the Giant Peach A-
The Third Man A+
All About Eve A+
Screw the theater, I love the public library. All the free muliti-week rentals I could ever want.

Actually, that's pretty close to accurate, I'd say.

Madame de... (Max Ophüls, 1953)- 9/10

Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)- 10/10, my first of 2008.
Happy Go Lucky (Mike Leigh, 2008)- 9/10 Lovely!!!! What little score there is simply divine!

Il y a longtemps que je t'aime [I've Loved You So Long] (Philippe Claudel, 2008)- 8/10
Un chien andalou (Luis Buñuel, 1929)- 8/10
Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme, 2008)- 8/10
L'âge d'or (Luis Buñuel, 1930)- 8/10
Milk (Gus Van Sant, 2008)- 9/10
A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, 2005)- 10/10