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August 2005


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8/31/05    Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow  posted by noelbotevera (0 comments)

Jesus Christ, what a beautiful, totally lifeless piece of chrome. This movie would work if yo...
8/30/05    Lucio Fulci's The Beyond  posted by noelbotevera (0 comments)
Saw Fulci's The Beyond, and it's, well, let me put it this way: Argento is the very picture of co...
8/29/05    Top Fifty Movies Kids Should See  posted by noelbotevera (0 comments)

From The Cinephile:

Top Fifty Mov
8/26/05    The Brothers Grimm  posted by noelbotevera (0 comments)

From Forum With No Name:

Dock Miles: Terry Gilliam just got hammered in the New ...
8/26/05    Happy Gilmore  posted by noelbotevera (0 comments)

Hard to believe, but I liked Dennis Dugan's Happy Gilmore (1996)--first Sandler flick I can s...
8/26/05    The Skeleton Key  posted by noelbotevera (0 comments)

The Skeleton Key
8/24/05    Cooking in Wyoming  posted by noelbotevera (0 comments)

When I was vacationing in Wyoming at my sister-in-law, I offered to do dinner. So: bought two...
8/23/05    Hayao Miyazaki's "Sherlock Hound" (disc 1)  posted by noelbotevera (0 comments)

Saw the first disc of the Sherlock Hound DVD and didn't have to know who directed what to rea...
8/22/05    Steamboy  posted by noelbotevera (0 comments)

I love Steamboy, but it's so clearly a reworking and expansion of Miyazaki's Laputa: Castle i...
8/21/05    Howl's Moving Castle  posted by noelbotevera (0 comments)

Saw Howl's Moving Castle today. Frankly, I don't know what Ebert's talking about--Sophie "mor...
8/20/05    City of No Limits  posted by noelbotevera (0 comments)

City of No Limits
8/18/05    Appleseed  posted by noelbotevera (0 comments)

Saw Shinji Aramaki's Appleseed, and it's gorgeous, so long as it sticks to machinery and armo...
8/18/05    Michael Bay on "March of the Penguins"  posted by noelbotevera (0 comments)

This is so cool:

Michael Bay on March of the Penguins
8/18/05    John Carpenter's "Prince of Darkness"  posted by noelbotevera (2 comments)

From Forum With No Name's Guilty Pleasures thread:

John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness...
8/16/05    John Carpenter's "The Fog"  posted by noelbotevera (2 comments)

From Forum Without a Name's "Guilty Pleasures" thread:

I'd say John Carpenter's The Fo...
8/15/05    Douglas Sirk's "All That Heaven Allows," and Filipino melodrama  posted by noelbotevera (0 comments)

Watching Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows (1955)reminds me of claims (in the Toronto fes...
8/14/05    Johnny Belinda  posted by noelbotevera (0 comments)

Jean Negulesco's Johnny Belinda is a straight melodrama, no chaser, that at least for the fir...
8/14/05    Biography of the creator of "King Kong" (1933)  posted by noelbotevera (0 comments)
Biography of the co-creator of "King Kong" (1933--the only version, far as
8/13/05    Cinemanila 2005 ("Decalogue," "Steamboy," "Ghost in the Shell 2")  posted by noelbotevera (0 comments)

Some thoughts on some of the films in Cinemanila 2005
8/11/05    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory  posted by noelbotevera (0 comments)
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
8/10/05    Stuart Gordon movies (Dagon, Re-Animator)  posted by noelbotevera (0 comments)

From Forum with No Name:

TonyaJ: Maybe I need to watch Dagon again - had a bad reactio...
8/10/05    Bollywood beginner  posted by noelbotevera (0 comments)

From pinoydvd:

oggsmoggs: I'm currently building my collection of Indian cinema, and I...
8/8/05    Nestor Torre's advice to new filmmakers  posted by noelbotevera (0 comments)

From pinoydvd:

indie boi: I just read this today and thought that this would be a good...
8/7/05    Miss Saigon  posted by noelbotevera (0 comments)
I remember the best kare-kare I ever had was at The Aristocrat, at Taft Avenue in Manila--which i...
8/6/05    "Maborosi"  posted by noelbotevera (0 comments)

I saw Hirokazu Kore-eda's Maborosi--about a woman whose husband was run over by a train, an a...
8/5/05    "The Other Side of the Bed;" "Box 507"  posted by noelbotevera (0 comments)
"The Other Side of the Bed;" "Box 507"
8/4/05    Fallen Angels  posted by noelbotevera (0 comments)

Took a look at Wong Kar Wai's Fallen Angels again, and had to note how much it owes to Chungk...
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