Monthly Archives: May 2002

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Posted on May 30, 2002

Agent Smith, General Zod, and Leonard Shelby turn the conventions of the road movie upside down all across the Australian desert on a lavender bus in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Priscilla, of course, is the bus. … Continue reading →

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Blood Simple

Posted on May 29, 2002

Ethan and Joel Coen have made 10 movies together over the last 18 years, sharing writing, directing, and producing chores, even editing most of them under the screen name Roderick Jaynes. All of them, without exception, have been odd, outside … Continue reading →

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The Pallbearer

Posted on May 27, 2002

Because Friends is a successful TV show, the six stars get to make movies. David Schwimmer got to make The Pallbearer and somehow convinced not only Gwynneth Paltrow but also Barbara Hershey and Carol Kane to sign on. He gets … Continue reading →

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High Tide

Posted on May 26, 2002

1988 Australia, a drunken backup singer finds herself unemployed and stranded in a backwater town where she runs across her daughter in Gillian Anderson’s High Tide. Judy Davis, who’s also done some work over here (last year she got an … Continue reading →

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Enough

Posted on May 25, 2002

“You have a divine animal right to protect your own life and the life of your offspring.” Of course, a slutty waitress (played by Juliette Lewis) knows the philosophical laws of life, right? Anyway, Enough is a decent movie, especially … Continue reading →

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Insomnia

Posted on May 24, 2002

About a Boy was sold out so we switched around the schedule and saw Insomnia instead. Make no mistake, this is an Al Pacino acting showcase. Hilary Swank is alright but has a fairly small role; Robin Williams’ part is … Continue reading →

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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Posted on May 23, 2002

This was one of three landmark films Sidney Poitier made in 1967, along with In the Heat of the Night and To Sir, With Love, which changed Hollywood in sort of the same way that Jackie Robinson changed baseball. Not … Continue reading →

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The Earl of Chicago

Posted on May 23, 2002

I bet you never heard of this one either. But thanks to the magic of Tivo Suggests, I ended up with 1940′s The Earl of Chicago on my playlist and on a whim watched it. Robert Montgomery plays the title … Continue reading →

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A Knight's Tale

Posted on May 16, 2002

Heath Ledger goes a little over the top in this fictional biography called A Knight’s Tale. Gleefully filled with anachronisms, imagine one of the better teen flicks of recent years (such as Ledger’s own 10 Things I Hate About You) … Continue reading →

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Apocolypse Now Redux

Posted on May 13, 2002

Back in 1979, when Apocalypse Now first came out, I saw it and loved it. Francis Ford Coppola made a masterpiece, simple as that. Saw it once straight and once, right in the front row, stoned out of our gourds. … Continue reading →

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