Mandatory English language films (part 5)
 
 







  
A Man of Flowers4 reviews
Norman Kaye, Alyson Best

Image Entertainment, 2001

Charming and unique.

+ Man of Flowers - An excellent film
+ A Real Gem!

"Man of Flowers" shows a few months from the life of a man who as the result of childhood traumas has become devoid of the need for human relationships, and consequently, never developed social skills necessary to build and sustain them. Being thus freed from the hang-up on relationships, he has ...
  
  











  



  
Dress to Kill398 reviews
Eddie Izzard

WEA Corp., 2002

1 star? Really? That's just nuts!

+ DVD
+ Hilarious and Brilliant
+ Historically Funny!!
  
  











  



  
Naked Lunch - Criterion Collection93 reviews
Peter Weller, Judy Davis

Criterion, 2003

One of the best movies ever!!

+ Dark, Disturbing, and worth watching
+ BENWAY!
+ There is a bug that is bugging me in my bug's mind
  
  











  



  
Barton Fink123 reviews
John Turturro, John Goodman

20th Century Fox, 2003

Great!!

+ Another good one from the Coen brothers
+ Tweaked 'til it screams...
+ Great movie; why so few DVD features?
  
  











  



  
Night on Earth [Region 2]60 reviews
Gena Rowlands, Winona Ryder

Strangers in the night -- a Jim Jarmusch classic

+ Independent Film's Boss
+ "I see by your outfit that you are a cowboy, bbbb bbbbb bbb..."
+ Travel the world with Tom and Jim
  
  











  



  
Spectres of the Spectrum6 reviews
Caroline Koebel, Sean Kilkoyne

Other Cinema, 2005

Nothing in this film is science fiction,

+ If Ed Wood made a GOOD movie
+ Entertaining and outrageous overview of the rise of mass media

"Nothing in this film is science fiction," is the tagline of mad scientist/media archeologist Craig Baldwin's SPECTRES OF THE SPECTRUM, a film that picks up where his previous works have left off. In SONIC OUTLAWS (a documentary about culture-jammers), Baldwin explored the ownership of the ...
  
  











  



  
Death of a President (Widescreen)37 reviews
Hend Ayoub, Brian Boland

Lions Gate, 2007

October 19th, 2007 - Where will you be?

+ Initial impression was wrong.
+ Brilliant and Utterly Fascinating

Possibly no man is so universally regarded as the strongest contender in the Worst President Awards than George W. Bush. I know I certainly would nominate him. He and his administration exploited the worst tragedy in our nation's history to push their own dreams of war with Iraq, tremendous gas ...
  
  











  



  
Nuts in May8 reviews
Roger Sloman, Anthony O'Donnell

Water Bearer Films, Inc, 2004

Hilarious - way ahead of it's time

+ the best film ever
+ You will either love it or hate it!
+ one of his best
+ Bald as a baby's bum, Keith...
  
  











  



  
Dead Man299 reviews
Johnny Depp, Crispin Glover

Miramax, 2000

Brilliant Study of Western American Cultural Roots

+ A work of art
+ Very Much Alive

It's creepy in parts but it's also beautiful and funny too. I think it's one of the most honest Westerns ever made.
  
  











  



  
Everything Is Illuminated138 reviews
Elijah Wood, Eugene Hutz

Warner Home Video, 2006

Everything is Illuminated

+ Inspiring
+ Surprisingly good
+ Movie with heart and extreme laughter
  
  











  



  
Coffee and Cigarettes98 reviews
Roberto Benigni, Steven Wright

MGM (Video & DVD), 2004

Go. Make art.

+ An Off-beat, Hilariously Dry Study of Human Interaction
+ Different from the Usual
+ Weird, But Worth It
  
  











  



  
Draughtsman's Contract34 reviews
Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman

Fox Lorber, 1999

Ignore the 1 & 2 star reviews

+ under rewarded film noir
+ A brief comment
+ Master's Smile
  
  











  



  
Children of Men (Widescreen Edition)413 reviews
Michael Caine, Pam Ferris

Universal Studios, 2007

A TERRIFYING DYSTOPIAN VISION NOT FAR OFF

+ Possibly the best SF movie in a decade
+ A medieval miracle tale cast in the year 2027, with a fine performance by Clive Owen

Alfonso Charón's "Children of Men" is an adaptation of the P.D. James dystopian novel about the breakdown of all social institutions when the human race ceases the ability to procreate and faces the likelihood of its own extinction. Chaos and civil war overtake the globe, and, in Great Britain, ...
  
  











  



  
The Science of Sleep56 reviews
Gael García Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg

Warner Home Video, 2007

Great romantic movie

+ A surprisingly dark movie
+ Tonight, I'll show you how dreams are prepared
+ The best!
  
  











  



  
Black Books - The Complete Second Series8 reviews
Black Books

BBC Warner, 2006

You said we'd never mention Canada!!!

+ Superb Comedy
+ More of one of the best shows ever.
+ You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll cringe
  
  











  



  
Brothers of the Head12 reviews
Luke Treadaway, Harry Treadaway

Fuse Network, 2006

Best Film of 2006

+ sick, crazy, cool
+ These Brothers Stick Together--A Musical Indie About The Closest Of Familial Bonds
+ Sad with Great Music
+ To Never Be Alone
  
  











  



  
Butterfly Kiss11 reviews
Amanda Plummer, Kathy Jamieson

FIRST RUN FEATURES, 2002

Very nicely done

+ A quirky little art film
+ sad and disturbing

This film is, as other reviewers have mentioned, sad and disturbing in many ways. However, I also found some parts of it hilarious--for the relationship between "Eu" and "Mi" is a mirror, albeit an exaggerated one, of so many relationships. When I saw this in the movie theater, my best friend and ...
  
  











  



  
Young Adam46 reviews
Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton

Sony Pictures, 2004

Yummers

+ Sexual, erotic thriller--great combo of McGregor and Swinton..
+ More Black Scottish Humor

One of the hottest movies ever of Ewan McGregor. It's one of those slow English things but you get to see 'all' of Ewan, so well worth the slow times. Gotta love the tag, tartan noir!!
  
  











  



  
The Films of Kenneth Anger, Vol. 122 reviews
Kenneth Anger

Fantoma, 2007

A Craftsman And His Works

+ Fantomas' DVDs have absolutely solidified my appreciation of Anger as a filmmaker.
+ The Most Influential Filmmaker You've Never Heard Of
+ Happy about Anger
+ What was that?
  
  











  



  
Bartleby3 reviews
Paul Scofield, John McEnery

Image Entertainment, 2003

Eerily Successful

+ Very Good Rendering!
+ Bartleby - the movie

This shot at one of Melville's best known stories is both a startling short film and on target as to it source. Moved to that banal modern London that Prince Charles is always grumbling about, it turns those plain buildings and awful alleys into the sort of wierd surrealistic beauty that is food ...
  
  











  






   



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