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Volume 5, Number 52
This Week's Reviews: The School of Rock, Cold Mountain, Paycheck, 21 Grams, In America.
This Week's Omissions: NONE.
Director: Starring: Release: 3 Oct. 03
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The School of Rock BY: DAVID PERRY
Dewey Finn (Black) rocks. Okay, maybe it’s more like, he
thinks he rocks -- regardless, he understands the key tenets of Rock
(capital R, of course) that can make a great class syllabus or a great
movie. |
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©2003, David Perry, Cinema-Scene.com, 26 December 2003 |
Director: Starring: Release: 25 Dec. 03
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Cold Mountain BY: DAVID PERRY
In terms of Christmastime Miramax literary prestige pictures,
Cold Mountain may be their most prestigious in a decade. This isn’t to say
that Cold Mountain is a better film than The English Patient, The Wings of
the Dove, Shakespeare in Love, The Cider House Rules, The Talented Mr.
Ripley, All the Pretty Horses, Chocolat, In the Bedroom, The Hours, Gangs of
New York and The Quiet American -- the film just seems to think it is. |
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©2003, David Perry, Cinema-Scene.com, 26 December 2003 |
Director: Starring: Release: 25 Dec. 03
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Paycheck BY: DAVID PERRY
With Hollywood still attempting to adapt the entire works of
Philip K. Dick, onetime art auteur John Woo gets his hands on the short
story Paycheck, a mediocre film that shows that everything isn’t simply good
(Minority Report, Blade Runner) or bad (Screamers, Imposter) in these
adaptations. |
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©2003, David Perry, Cinema-Scene.com, 26 December 2003 |
Director: Starring: Release: 21 Nov. 03
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21 Grams BY: DAVID PERRY
Alejandro González Iñárritu might be the Mexican equivalent
of Lars von Trier. His films precipitate on the inner demons and moral
destruction of individuals as the audience is compelled to share the misery.
They both have a heady love for the experiment, so much that their films are
almost overpowered by the pretensions that made them notable in the first
place. They are both deeply troubled, amazingly gifted filmmakers. |
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©2003, David Perry, Cinema-Scene.com, 26 December 2003 |
Director: Starring: Release: 26 Nov. 03
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In America BY: DAVID PERRY
Gene Siskel used to decry the majority of movies he saw with
a father figure. He had been offended by a barrage of films in which the
pater familias was either inept and worthy of ridicule or drunk and
abandoning. His aggravation was precipitated by the fact that he was a
representation of a real father: loving, well-meaning, and flawed. I wish
Siskel had survived to see In America. |
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©2003, David Perry, Cinema-Scene.com, 26 December 2003 |
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