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Director: Andy Wachowski & Larry Wachowski Genre: Crime/Drama/Thriller Year: 1996 Only now am I getting around to seeing this movie, even if people at my old job had been telling me about it for ages…or what seemed like ages. For whatever reason this one kept getting edged down on my Netflix list, until I finally [...]
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Director: Dave McKean Genre: Family/Fantasy/Adventure/Drama Year: 2005 If Alice in Wonderland had to be retold for the children of the digital generation, this is probably the film one would show them. Penned by one of my all time favorite authors, I was excited to see this movie, and extremely disappointed when I found out it [...]
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Director: Gaspar Noe Genre: Drama/Thriller Year: 1998 My introduction to Gaspar Noe was “Irreversible” the movie he made after this one and which takes an open mind to appreciate. This film is no different, disturbing, edgy and gritty. The main character is a butcher (I don’t believe they ever say his name, and if they [...]
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Director: Lars Von Trier Genre: Thriller/Drama Year: 1984 If ever you fell into a habit of watching a movie because of the name of a director, this is a prime example of why that is a bad idea. I have seen some pretty good Von Trier movies, and the synopsis of this movie was more [...]
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Director: Rob Marshall Genre: Drama/Romance/Biography Year: 2005 I had high expectations for this movie, carried by a powerful trailer, a good cast and the fact that my wife had read the book and had only praise for it. In the end, this movie still felt like a typical Hollywood Romance film with the advantage of [...]
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Director: Ki-duk Kim Genre: Drama Year: 2004 In an effort to raise enough money to purchase two plane tickets to Europe Jae-yeong sells her body, without any remorse and actually finding the process rather interesting, maybe even fun. Her best friend Yeo-Jin is not entirely thrilled with the idea, but manages her friends amateur business [...]
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Director: Lars Von Trier Genre: Drama/Romance Year: 1996 Dogme 95, the collective of directors that swore to bring film back to its rightful place has put out a number of momentous films. Having read their Vows of Chastity, I am not entirely sure I agree with everything they stand for, but one thing is for [...]
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Director: Jaques Rivette Genre: Drama Year: 1991 It is extremely unfortunate that this film is going to be passed over by the greater audience for multiple reasons: its length, its language (French, subtitled), its art orientation, the amount of nudity or its seemingly pretentious statement. The excuse is going to be there for most everybody [...]
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Director: Wayne Kramer Genre: Drama/Crime/Action/Thriller Year: 2006 We ended up watching this movie, because the person I was with probably would not have wanted to watch “The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada” and I did not want to make a push for it, given that I have not heard much about the film and had [...]
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Director: Peter Greenaway Genre: Drama Year: 1985 I have always been a fan of strange. When I watched Naked Lunch, I enjoyed the surrealistic feel, something that a lot of people have a problem with. This movie had that feel, nowhere near as surrealistic, but definately off beat and different. The story starts off with [...]