A Short List of
Recommended Films
(Note: Clicking on any of the film titles below will generally
place you, rather abruptly, in the middle of one of my weekly columns,
and many of the reviews begin with some sort of reference to the
preceding review, which you may not yet have read. When in doubt,
therefore, scroll. You'll find my star ratings up at the
top.)
Absolute Power
Afterglow
Ah-Chung
Air Force One
Alien Resurrection
Amistad
Anastasia
The Apostle
As Good As It Gets
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Bang
Black & White & Red All Over
The Bloody Child
Boogie Nights
Box of Moonlight
The Boxer
The Bread and the Vase
Breakdown
Brothers in Trouble
Capitaine Conan
Career Girls
Chasing Amy [third viewing, Mar 2012]
Chronicle of a Disappearance
Conspiracy Theory
Conspirators of Pleasure
Contact
Crash
Cyclo
The Daytrippers
Deconstructing Harry
Deep Crimson
The Designated Mourner
Destiny
The Devil's Advocate
Diary of a Seducer
Donnie Brasco [second viewing, Aug 2011]
East Side Story
The Edge
The Eighteenth
The End of Violence
Eve's Bayou
Face/Off
FairyTale -- A True Story
Family Name
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
Fire
Flamenco
For Ever Mozart
Forgotten Silver
4 Little Girls
From Today Until Tomorrow
The Full Monty
G.I. Jane
Gabbeh
The Game
Gattaca
Good Will Hunting
Gray's Anatomy
GRIDLOCK'd
Grosse Pointe Blank
Guantanamera
Gummo
Habit
Hamsun
Happy Together
Hard Eight
Hercules
Hollow Reed
Hoodlum
The House of Yes
How I Spent My Summer Vacation
The Ice Storm
In & Out
In the Company of Men
Irma Vep
Jackie Brown [third viewing, Dec 2011]
John Grisham's The Rainmaker
The Keeper
Kitchen
Kolya
Kundun
L.A. Confidential
La Promesse
Liar Liar
Licensed to Kill
Lilies
Little Angel
The Long Way Home
Lost Highway
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Love Serenade
Ma vie en rose
Martín (Hache)
Men in Black
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
A Mongolian Tale
Mrs Brown
Murder at 1600
My Mother's Courage
My Sex Life, or How I Got into an Argument
Nénette et Boni
Night Falls on Manhattan
Nowhere
One Night Stand
Oscar and Lucinda
The Pillow Book
Ponette
Portland
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
Prisoner of the Mountains
Private Parts
The Quiet Room
Rainclouds over Wushan
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
Saint Clara
Salut Cousin!
Schizopolis
Scream 2
A Self Made Hero
Shall We Dance?
She's So Lovely
Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
Soul in the Hole
Squeeze
Star Maps
Starship Troopers [second viewing, Dec 2011]
subUrbia
Sunday
The Sweet Hereafter
Telling Lies in America
Temptress Moon
Titanic
To Have (Or Not)
Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern
Ulee's Gold
Ulysses' Gaze
Underground
The Van
Waco: The Rules of Engagement
Wag the Dog
Waiting for Guffman
Washington Square
The Watermelon Woman
Welcome to Sarajevo
When the Cat's Away
Will It Snow for Christmas?
The Wind in the Willows
The Wings of the Dove
The Winner
Year of the Horse