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The thing about animated features is, even if the little details are new, the basic plot structure is cast in stone and rarely does any movie dare to violate it. Lilo and Stitch is no different in this regard. The plot involves an intergalactic federation sentencing a self-prclaimed evil genius to life imprisonment for having…
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Making movies about artists cannot be easy. The tougher the artist’s paintings are to understand, the more difficult it is to depict what inspired it. And to be able to present a picture of both the artist and the person underneath… that is even more difficult. Well nigh impossible, I’d say. And yet, this is…
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A man and a woman meet regularly in an empty Paris apartment and have sex. They don’t know each other’s name, or anything about each other’s lives: the man insists on it. In there, they don’t need names, he says. They leave everything else behind and just bring to that apartment, some essence of themselves.…
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To me, Heat is essentially two scenes. One comes in the middle, the other at the end. Together, they represent what the movie is about. The big one is the conversation between Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) the thief and Joseph Hanna (Al Pacino) the cop over coffee at a diner. This is one of…
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Was the working title of this movie Thirty nine progressively excruciating ways to embarass oneself? Most of the running time is devoted to Renee Zellweger moving from one embarassing situation to another, while a love triangle and assorted eccentric Brits hover in the background. Some of those moments work quite well, others not so much.…
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Most people remember Col. Kilgore’s line: I love the smell of napalm in the morning. That scene stands out as my favourite, but the thing I remember most is not that line but the one following it. The entire exchange reads as follows: Kilgore: Smell that? You smell that?Lance: What?Kilgore: Napalm, son. Nothing in the…
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The opening scene in The Untouchables shows Al Capone giving a newspaper reporter an interview while he is getting a shave. At one point, the barber makes a mistake and nicks Capone, annoying the latter. It’s a tense moment, for he knows (and we do, thanks to a title card in the beginning, in case…
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There are movies that tickle the funny bone. There are movies that gently tug at your heartstrings and tickle the funny bone at the same time. And then there are movies so delightful that you can’t stop smiling for a long time after you see them. And then, there’s Amelie. Here is a movie constructed…
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The thing that stands out for me in all of Kill Bill is the dialogue. Not the spectacular geysers of blood in the first volume, or even the brilliant segment with Pei Mei in the second. Which is why I found it immensely satisfying when the final confrontation with Bill was mostly just the two…
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The problem with Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. is simply this: it never really takes flight. It is well conceived and occasionally well written. There’s much warmth and sexiness on display. And it’s far more interesting than the other honeymoon movie that came out around the same time – Just Married. But somehow, it just doesn’t…
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