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A brilliant surreal comedy by cher maitre, Luis Bunuel. After the opera, some aristos
attend a dinner party -- and find they don't want to leave, or can't leave. Weeks pass. There's a death and a suicide.
When freed, they seek solace in a church. They're trapped there too.
A personal comment on society and
the Church.
A needy creep steals the FACEBK idea.
Best US Pic of Year: Flawed but smart.
No competish.
Julianne Moore & Annette Bening play
a lesbian couple who've mothered
two kids from the same sperm donor.
An adult comedy - are ya ready? -
from Hollywood. Not deep but hopeful.
Intense espionager from
Sam Fuller about petty criminal who
accidentally steals govt microfilm.
A spellbinding documentary of a death
in a N Carolina mansion. For crime buffs, it
doesn't get any better than this. (US title:
'The Staircase')
Mostly unknown but knockout pic.
Further proof that LatinAm dirs have greater talent than Hollyfools w comic book brains. It thrills because of
cinematic power, pace, composition by
Marcelo Pineyro. Textured relations
amid (another) heist. Pic shows distinctive
eye & temperament. (US title: Burnt Money.)
A handsome music hall performer
needs a heart transplant in a croissant
de merde that plops crumbs in Paris.
Why doesnt he just go to Bon Marche.
That store has everything.
Claude Chabrol's simple but stunning
psychological suspense story deals
with a schoolteacher and a butcher.
Their mutual, confused attraction is
handled with delicacy and sensuality,
but there will be blood.
Two NY sisters cope with dying grama
and married nabes who plan expansion
to soon vacant apt. Without cliches or
sentiment, yet not quite a wow. Excellent cast; darkly comic.
The Coen Bruds reveal Jewish rites, rituals and righteous rabbis in a black
-or beige - comedy about their culture
in US heartland. Some moments of hilarity,
stretches of oy-angst.
Graham Greene's story of post-war Vienna, a city of 4-power Occupation,comes from the truth: the
penicillin racket. He also learned about the
'underground police' who patrolled the vast sewer system. A baroque classic in
which the fadeout goes to white instead of black.
Memo to the Vatican: A hilarious and sexually explicit mount into the life of a sex therapist. Fresh and tasty. Bon appetit!
Philistines beware: this triangle tragedy
of love fr Max Ophuls isnt for you. It's
all about controlling emotions. It's also about filmmaking at its most elegant. Caviar in silver spoons.
Gorgeous, cerebral Godard pic that mixes
real-fictional contempt. Bardot gives stunning perf as scwriter's wife during a
shoot on Capri. Adapted fr Alberto Moravia novel.
A mother-love psychological 'mystery' fr
SoKorean dir Bong Joon-ho. Despite
flawed midsection - longueurs galore -
it has socko payoff as Mum dips into blood to prove son's innocence.
Review error, see new review above.
Sizzling on the grill -- a perfect
espionager w accidental death.
The D.C. denizens are hot Kevin Costner
and beautiful Sean Young. Dir Roger
Donaldson knows how to thrill.
Robert Bresson's handsome thief strolls
Paris, unable to stop his hands from an
erotic obsession. Bresson is just damn
great.
Salut to Vadim's swanky, modernized
version of 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses.'
With Moreau & Philipe as the depraved aristos (1959), it's heels over head of
any 'recent' cineprattle.
Sensationally droll & black & worldly.
A coup because there's not one likeable
in this pic of deception and self-deception.