Name: John Lars Ericson
Weblog: filmateur.blogspot.com
Articles: 23
First Published: Friday, January 2, 2004
Last Published: Monday, February 14, 2005
Currently listing articles 23-1:
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And the Grammy winners are...— As usual, if you're dead - the sentimental Grammy tearducts just can't help but award you.
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Add one more to the list: The ten best films of 2004— I've been been ignoring doing this year-end thing in hopes that somehow I'll get to the likes of Moolaadé, Notre Musique, Goodbye, Dragon Inn, Vera
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Emmy a mix of surprises and snoozes— Angels in America takes home everything as expected, but the hilarity of Arrested Development surprises.
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Twenty-five sentences, twenty-five films— Twenty-five sentences on the twenty-five greatest films ever made.
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Safe: M. Night Shyamalan's The Village— Welcome to the fourth installation of what has become M. Night Shyamalan's cinematic formula: twists, twists and more twists.
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Fear and loathing in suburbia: Todd Haynes' Safe— Is Safe a horror flick? An extended AIDS metaphor? A disguised gay film? A satire of 80s suburbia and New Age healing? A tale
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Dawn of the dead: Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man— Jim Jarmusch's polarizing, mysterious and ultimately brilliant masterpiece.
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And a one, and a two: Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Volume 2— The success or demise of a Quentin Tarantino film depends on how well the viewer responds to his dialogue. The first volume of Tarantino's Kill
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The Dance of Life: Robert Altman's The Company— Robert Altman's masterpiece is not for everyone, but those willing to look for subtle themes amongst a beautiful observation of dance will find the film
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Night memories: Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind— Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind desires to see the beauty of love, while acknowledging its pain. Call me a dreamer, but that moves me.
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The twenty best films ever made— ...
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Frenzy of unknowns: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's Rosetta— The Dardenne brother's 1999 masterpiece is so profound in its display of the complexity of humanity and morality, I cannot help but name if one
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Add one to the crowd: The best films of 2003— A belated attempt at honoring the best that 2003 had to offer for cinema.
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Chimes at midnight: Jean Renoir's The Rules of the Game— Jean Renoir's masterpiece remains one of the most profound on desire, class and the sheer beauty and tragedy of film and the human experience.
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Halls of sorrow: Gus Van Sant's Elephant— Gus Vant Sant's controversial look at school violence deservingly captured the Palme d'Or and Best Director prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, no doubt because
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In praise of love: Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge!— Baz Luhrmann's love/hate 2001 feature marks itself as an aesthetic marvel that remains just as exciting with multiple viewings as the very first time it
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Past imperfect: Andrei Tarkovsky's The Mirror— Andrei Tarkovsky's mirror of past memory and stylism serves as one of the most beautiful examples of his art - and one of his most
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Song of the long road: Alexander Sokurov's Mother and Son— Alexander Sokurov's 1997 experiment (of sorts) with visuals, length and tone reveals itself to also be a beautiful, ambigious, poetic and moving film on death,
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The man and his myth: Joel and Ethan Coen's The Big Lebowski— The Coen brothers' cult hit, released after the sweep of their critical success, Fargo serves as a more interesting look at a continuing dialogue between
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Stand alone together: Gus Van Sant's Gerry— Gus Van Sant's controversial return to non-traditional narrative supplies a lot of ambiguity and insight into attitudes on American cinema.
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The measure of a man: Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket"— Stanley Kubrick's masterful Vietnam epic, viewed more as a pop-culture classic than the legitimate piece of texured cinema that it is, remains to be one
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City at the edge of the world: Jim Sheridan's "In America"— Jim Sheridan's latest feature offers a strange paradox of a romanticized and sometimes realistic New York City.
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Long and winding road: Anthony Minghella's "Cold Mountain"— Miramax Oscar-mongering may have prevented many from admiring an otherwise excellent film.
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