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Monday, August 28, 2006
Sunday, August 27, 2006
(*) Resident Evil ***
UK/Germany/France/USA: Paul W.S. Anderson, 2002
(Watched with commentary by Paul W.S. Anderson, Jeremy Bolt, Milla Jovovich and Michelle Rodriguez)
Saturday, August 19, 2006
Friday, August 18, 2006
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion ****
Original title: Indagine su un Cittadino al di Sopra di Ogni Sospetto
Italy: Elio Petri, 1970
"You can commit any crime you want, you know. You really could."
This is the central premise of Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion. A celebrated police inspector (Gian Maria Volontè) murders his mistress, Augusta Terzi (Florinda Bolkan), and intentionally leaves a trail of evidence proving his guilt, but, because of his status, he is never considered a suspect, even when his fingerprints are all over the woman's apartment and he has actually told various people that he is the killer. A farcical plot played straight, this backwards police procedural (the element of mystery is whether the inspector will be caught, not whether he is guilty) heads along at a meandering pace and yet never feels over-long, thanks to the intense performances of Volontè and the magnificent Bolkan, and some rather obvious but well-intentioned social commentary (at one point the deranged inspector, practically slavering at the mouth, lumps prostitutes, Communists, murderers and homosexuals together as examples of "subversives" whose activities must be stamped out).
Great offbeat score by Ennio Morricone and simple yet precise photography by Luigi Kuveiller. Oh, and I was amazed to learn that this film won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film of 1972. It's nice to know that the Hollywood crowd was not completely ignorant of what was going on in Italian genre cinema at the time.
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Sunday, August 13, 2006
Tuesday, August 8, 2006
(*) My Neighbor Totoro ****½
Original title: Tonari no Totoro
Japan: Hayao Miyazaki, 1988
Movies Watched in August 2006
- (*) Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery **½
- (*) Resident Evil ***
- (*) Audition ****
- (*) Frenzy ****½
- Being John Malkovich ****½
- (*) Unleashed ****
- Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion ****
- (*) Lara Croft: Tomb Raider ***
- (*) Sleepy Hollow ****
- (*) My Neighbor Totoro ****½
- (*) The Hole **½
- (*) Lara Croft: Tomb Raider ***
- Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro ***
- (*)Torso **
- Cars ****
- (*) V for Vendetta ***½
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