Long-retired gunslinger William Munny (Clint Eastwood) reluctantly takes one last job -- and even more reluctantly accepts a boastful youth (Jaimz Woolvett) as a partner. Together, they discover how easily complicated truths are distorted into simplistic myths about the Old West. Gene Hackman (who won an Oscar) and Richard Harris stand out as old foes who have an unhappy reunion. Other Oscars include Best Picture and Director (Eastwood).
clint eastwood starts off quite the wuss and then goes to battle with the biggest badass gene hackman thus turning clint into the ultimate badass. Oh yeah morgan freeman is there to teach wise ol' ways. pretty solid, pretty standard western
7/10
man bites dog
A satirical look at how the media affects and promotes violence in modern society. Spoofing reality television, a fascinated documentary crew follows a charismatic yet unrepentant serial killer on his murder sprees. The crew attempts to objectively document the horror, but as the violence escalates, they ultimately get sucked into participating. Man Bites Dog won the International Critics' Prize at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.
pretend that ricky gervais worked as a serial killer rather than a paper co. boss. Amazingly funny but not for the faint of heart. Beautifully shot and and acted as most criterion stuff.
10/10
naked lunch
Director David Cronenberg brings William S. Burroughs' hallucinatory, "unfilmable" novel to the screen. Part-time exterminator and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Peter Weller) plunges into the nightmarish netherworld of the Interzone, pursuing a mysterious project that leads him to confront sinister cabals and giant talking bugs. Special features include an audio commentary by Cronenberg and Weller
my least favorite cronenberg movie to date, but still pretty awesome gore and talking buttholes and weird humping scorpion centipedes. Probably for fans of heroin and fear and loathing in las vegas.
6/10
amarcord
Awarded both a Golden Globe and an Oscar for Best Foreign Film, acclaimed Italian director Frederico Fellini's Amarcord is a richly visual film about Rimini, a traditional seaside village during the uncertainty of Mussolini's fascist rule. Fellini drew from personal experience to bring the small town and all its colorful characters to life in this story about the escapades of a boy on the cusp of becoming a man.
an early form of slapstick that probably highly influenced mel brooks. This movie really wasn't for me, but i don't really enjoy zany humor especially from a foreign country so i don't even get it's social commentary
6/10
vicky christina barcelona
Academy Award winner Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men) stars in the latest effort from legendary filmmaker Woody Allen as a flamboyant painter who finds himself in the middle of a unique relationship with Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Christina (Scarlett Johansson), a pair of American tourists. Penélope Cruz (Volver) also stars as Bardem's insanely jealous ex-wife, Maria Elena, in this quirky romantic dramedy set in Barcelona.
Woody Allen back to his more traditional movie making. His movies seem very relateable, it's got a neurotic personality for every one. Scarlett is the sort of deviant side, while rebecca hall is the much more conservative side and javier bardem is just a real ladies man. Funny and pretty adorable, watch with a date.
8/10
Woody Allen back to his more traditional movie making. His movies seem very relateable, it's got a neurotic personality for every one. Scarlett is the sort of deviant side, while rebecca hall is the much more conservative side and javier bardem is just a real ladies man. Funny and pretty adorable, watch with a date.
8/10
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