I've Loved You So Long

30-Sep-08	I've Loved You So Long (2008)	Cinema
	Director: Philippe Claudel
	imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1068649/

Taken

28-Sep-08	Taken (2008)	Cinema
	Director: Pierre Morel
	imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0936501/

Redbelt

28-Sep-08	Redbelt (2008)	Cinema
	Director: David Mamet
	imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1012804/

Wonder Boys

26-Sep-08	Wonder Boys (2000)	Dvd
	Director: Curtis Hanson
	imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185014/

The Vanishing

24-Sep-08	The Vanishing (1988)	Dvd
	Director: George Sluizer
	imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096163/

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

24-Sep-08	Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)	Dvd
	Director: Guy Ritchie
	imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120735/

Quiz Show

23-Sep-08	Quiz Show (1994)	Dvd
	Director: Robert Redford
	imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110932/

Dog Day Afternoon

21-Sep-08	Dog Day Afternoon (1975)	Dvd
	Director: Sidney Lumet
	imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072890/

Disclosure

20-Sep-08	Disclosure (1994)	Dvd
	Director: Barry Levinson
	imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109635/

Tropic Thunder

20-Sep-08	Tropic Thunder (2008)	Cinema
	Director: Ben Stiller
	imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0942385/

Deep Impact

19-Sep-08	Deep Impact (1998)	Dvd
	Director: Mimi Leder
	imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120647/

Internal Affairs

14-Sep-08	Internal Affairs (1990)	Dvd
	Director: Mike Figgis
	imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099850/

Bad Influence

14-Sep-08	Bad Influence (1990)	Dvd
	Director: Curtis Hanson
	imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099091/

Snatch

13-Sep-08	Snatch (2000)	Dvd
	Director: Guy Ritchie
	imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0208092/

Eyes of Laura Mars

12-Sep-08	Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)	Dvd
	Director: Irvin Kershner
	imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077530/

Pretty bad. Interesting to see a young Tommy Lee Jones though.

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

09-Sep-08	The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)	Dvd
	Director: Joseph Sargent
	imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072251/

L' ami de mon amie

08-Sep-08	L' ami de mon amie (1987)	Dvd
	Director: Eric Rohmer
	imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092550/

Lolita

07-Sep-08	Lolita (1962)	Dvd
	Director: Stanley Kubrick
	imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056193/

I wanted to see this again to check if it is really a lesser Kubrick as some critics believe. It is quite good really, with some excellent points: James Mason, Sue Lyon, and above all Shelley Winters are great; the scene of Shelley Winters' death is a favourite of mine. What I just can't appreciate is Sellers' place in the film: the scene outside the hotel, when he talks to Humbert without ever looking at him, is so wrong, it just doesn't work. His acting is so fake that you wonder how is it possible Humbert doesn't realize the other guy is a fake?

The Verdict

06-Sep-08	The Verdict (1982)	Dvd
	Director: Sidney Lumet
	imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084855/

The Parallax View

05-Sep-08	The Parallax View (1974)	Dvd
	Director: Alan J. Pakula
	imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071970/

Seen this for the first time today. After the first scenes, I thought the film would go towards Antonioni's Blowup (1966) and Coppola's The Conversation (1974); after one character shows another a photo, asking "Have you seen this photograph?", I almost hoped it would. But it doesn't. There is the same sense of paranoia found in Coppola's film of the same year though, and Capricorn One (1978), and the same 'look' of those films. The end is similar to that of Arlington Road (1999), the film influenced by the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995, which, incidentally, contains one of my favourite scenes: a short one in which a very spooky Joan Cusack suddenly appears behind another character at a public phone (in the same way seen in many films by Brian De Palma).

8 1/2

02-Sep-08	8 1/2 (1963)	Dvd
	Director: Federico Fellini
	imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056801/

Quite simply, the best film I have ever seen.

Gone Baby Gone

01-Sep-08	Gone Baby Gone (2007)	Dvd
	Director: Ben Affleck
	imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452623/

I just wanted to see this again. Very good indeed.