Movies Seen
Removed from Current "To See" list
September-November 2006
Fantastic Voyage - writers group recs. for peeling plastic off Raquel Welch 1966
- voyage into the human body, but what's the big deal about that scene? silly
movie X Sept 2006
War Games - "great script - theme in every scene" 1983 kid breaks into
war computer X Oct 2006
The Sacrifice / Offret 1986 - Andrei Tarkovsky X Oct 2006
High Season RAVE UK 1987 Rhodes artists English theater musical chairs
(by the one who did: Rough Magic - magician female to Mexico shaman, psychedelics
1950s)
Caro Diario - Ital/Nanni Moretti
Backbeat - saw 1994 - could see again
May to December 1995
Delta of Venus - Zalman King 1939 Paris (Anais Nin novel) X Nov 2006
Nov. 1995
When Night Is Falling (Canada) woman attracted to carnival man X Sept 2006
January 1996 - (after return from Costa Rica)
Sabrina - WELL recs. - Harrison Ford - comedy X Sept 2006
X The Mystery of Rampo - unfemme fatale * - saw? & loved
March 1996 -
Carrington - WW2 England artist romance (Emma Thompson) (Mimi recommended as "great"
in 1999) X Oct 2006 * quite interesting - woman in love with a-sexual/gay writer
X Fugitive
The Butcher Boy 1997 comedy Ireland - Neal Jordan - X Oct 2006
March 1997
X Crash - saw on plane
X Shine - Mimi recs. 1996 pianist had breakdown - saw Sept 1997
Vive l'amour (Taiwan) 1994 X Sept 2006
1998
Out of Sight - Steven Soderbergh (George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez) - from Elmore
Leonard novel - about love in the head - criminal and cop romance X Sept 2006
X Life Is Beautiful - World War II - the Italian comedy in concentration camp
The Winter Guest - Scottish village X Sept 2006
X Underground - Kusturica - saw May 1976
Son of Gascogne X Sept 2006 cute
July, August 1998
Your Friends and Neighbors (did In the Company of Men) 1998 drama - Canada sex
roles Comedy X Sept 2006
Dance With Me X Sept 2006 - nice dancing, cute Latino guy
Sept 1998
Mulan (anim) X Sept 2006 (too Disney)
end of 1998
Practical Magic - Aidan Quinn X Oct 2006
X Grease
Fifth Element 1997 Fr - Bruce Willis - see for my writing - Alex & dcarn recs.
X Oct 2006 - sci fi - so stupid I could barely finish
1998
A Simple Plan - find money - for the end X Oct 2006 - gross and bloody, although
I suppose the ending, where he kills his own brother, and later burns up the money,
is traumatic to guys
Children of Heaven (Majid Majidi, Iran) 1997 - BEST OF 1999 - X Oct 2006
Hilary and Jackie - Pam says "intense" [Best Of 1998 - Late Night Video]
X Oct 2006
The King of Masks (China) 1996 Bian Lian (shown at SFIFF) X Oct 2006 very sweet
- I cried at the ending
X Hideous Kinky - Kate Winslet in Morocco
August 1999
The Dreamlife of Angels - Fr X Oct 2006
X Guinevere - good
Train of Life - French Holocaust comedy - Romanian-born Radu Mihaileanu. Jewish
shtetl Eastern Europe winter 1941. Concoct plan to fake their own deportation.
Hope and the human spirit, optimism and fantasy coexist with grim reality. Far
superior to Life is Beautiful and Jakob the Liar. X Oct 2006 stupid
from Toronto Festival 1999:
Kikujiro X Oct 2006 - silly
November 1999 -
Anywhere But Here - Susan Sarandon - Wayne Wang X Oct 2006 ok
X Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
Beyond the Clouds - Michelangelo Antonioni 1995 / Wim Wendersi - quartet of love
stories contemporary Europe, John Malkovich. Wim Wenders directed, perhaps because
Antonioni had a stroke prior to production. Static tho many gorgeously composed
shots, stories are repetitive noodlings, but two or three sex scenes are quite
amazing. X Oct 2006 just ok
Dark Side of the Sun - 1999 Brad Pitt X Oct 2006
2000
Heart of Light - Greenland/Denmark 1997 - X Oct 2006
The Color of Paradise - Majid Majidi, Iran (did: Children of Heaven) saw
East is East - comedy - Pakistan in UK - X Oct 2006
Butterfly - Jose Luis Cuerda - curious little boy and his first teacher, Spanish
mountain village 1936, brink of Spanish Civil - X Oct 2006, Nov 2001
From 2000 SFIFF:
Blossoms of Fire - Zapotecs X Oct 2006
Set Me Free - Fr 1999 - tomboy enthralled by Anna Karenina in Godard's "It's
My Life" 1962 X Oct 2006
From Cannes May 2000:
Yi Yi - 2000 - Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about
life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. (A one and a two) (Taiwan:
Edward Yang) X Oct 2006 - VERY GOOD - SUBTLE - STARTS SLOW & RUNS SLOW, BUT
WELL WORTH IT - SEE AGAIN
Sept 2000
X Beautiful (Minnie Driver & kid) looks fun - teen - saw
Madadayo - Akira Kurosawa 1993 - Kurosawa's last X Oct 2006
2001
The House of Mirth - romance schemer Edwardian - did Distant Voices, Still Lives
1988 - X Oct 2006, Nov 2001
May 2001
A Knight's Tale X Oct 2006 - silly
The Luzhin Defense - John Turturro chess genius X Nov 2006
June 2001
French Cancan - 1954 Jean Renoir's showbiz saga - attempts to revive Moulin Rouge
- a kick <Express liked> X Oct 2006 - cute
(The Road Home) - Zhang Yimou <BEST OF> X Nov 2006
August 2001
Amores Perros (Mex) X Nov 2006 - yuch, couldn't finish
December 2001
Lord of the Rings (#1) <Best of> X Nov 2006
Best ofs (2001):
The Mists of Avalon - the women of King Arthur (from: Marion Zimmer Bradley) X
Nov 2006
Donnie Darko - psychotic adolescent - indie X Nov 2006
2002
Iris - Iris Murdoch life and loves X Nov 2006 - descent into Alzheimer's
Last Orders X Nov 2006 eh
April 2002 -
My Big Fat Greek Wedding X Nov 2006
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