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Stealing Beauty - dir. Bernardo Bertolucci - 1996 - Italy/France/UK After the international success of The Last Emperor , Bernardo Bertoluc...

Wild Things - dir. John McNaughton - 1998 - USA Inspired by a comment that my friend Brad made to me last night about a possible reteaming ...

V for Vendetta - dir. James McTeigue - 2005 - USA/Germany There’s the occasional film that comes out that allows me to forget my misanthrop...

I just wanted to wish a blessed birthday to one of my favorite screen goddesses, Nomi Malone... I mean, Elizabeth Berkley. She turns 34 tod...

Close to Léo ( Tout contre Léo ) - dir. Christophe Honoré - 2002 - France Here is part one of my unofficial Death in France festival that I...

Caché - dir. Michael Haneke - 2005 - France/Austria/Germany/Italy A friend of mine really hates bandwagons. So naturally, he chose not to ...

Sometimes, a film, no matter how good or bad it may be, just cannot connect with me. Today, I received Cassavetes' Opening Night and M...

Hotel - dir. Mike Figgis - 2001 - UK/Italy Cinema so rarely gives us that beautiful escapist feeling any more ( The Transporter 2 , which I...

Swimming Pool - dir. François Ozon - 2003 - France/UK In preparation for Ozon’s latest, Le Temps qui reste , I revisited Swimming Pool and...

House of Sand and Fog - dir. Vadim Perelman - 2003 - USA Rarely do films come along that solely exist to just make you feel miserable. Thi...

Wild Side - dir. Sébastien Lifshitz - 2004 - France/Belguim/UK In creating my 100th post, I reminded myself of all the wonderful films I sa...

Sofia Coppola is public enemy number 1. I was masturbating and laughing reading all the negative reviews of her upcoming Marie Antoinette ,...

Somersault - dir. Cate Shortland - 2004 - Australia There are numerous ways that important facets of films can become oblivious to the audi...