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Gwyneth Paltrow, James Rebhorn & Matt Damon on set of 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' by Brigitte Lacombe (1998)

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INDEPENDENCE DAY 1996

Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. "Mankind." That word should have new meaning for all of us today.

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The Talented Mr Ripley

1999. Psychological Thriller

By Anthony Minghella

Starring: Matt Damon, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jack Davenport, James Rebhorn, Lisa Eichhorn, Sergio Rubini, Philip Baker Hall...

Country: United States

Language: English, Italian

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Blank Check (1994)

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He Knows You're Alone (1980)

"Most people do, actually. I mean like to be scared, it's something primal, something basic. Horror movies and the roller coasters and the house of horror ride -"

"I wanna go on that next!"

"You can face death without any real fear of dying. It's safe. You can leave the movie or get off the ride with a vicarious thrill and the feeling that you just conquered death, one hell of a first class rush."

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Meet the Parents (2000)

This is a Movie Health Community evaluation. It is intended to inform people of potential health hazards in movies and does not reflect the quality of the film itself. The information presented here has not been reviewed by any medical professionals.

Meet the Parents has a scene in a moving vehicle where the sun shines through the leaves of trees, creating a realistic strobe effect.

The opening sequence depicting home movies uses handheld camera work, which includes some shaking. A few other scenes use very mild handheld camera work.

Flashing Lights: 2/10. Motion Sickness: 2/10.

TRIGGER WARNING: There is one gross-out gag involving a baby spitting up on a person, and another one where people are sprayed with fecal matter.

Image ID: A promotional poster for Meet the Parents

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The Game (1997, David Fincher)

11/19/22

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The story is good. But the performances are great. Al Pacino exudes such a powerful aura, while Chris O’Donnell is earnest and likeable.

Scent of a Woman is a 1992 American drama film produced and directed by Martin Brest. The film is a remake of Dino Risi's 1974 Italian film Profumo di donna, adapted by Bo Goldman from the novel Il buio e il miele (Italian: Darkness and Honey) by Giovanni Arpino. It stars Al Pacino and Chris O'Donnell, with James Rebhorn, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Gabrielle Anwar.

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Bad movie I have Scent of a Woman 1992

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21 marzo … ricordiamo …

21 marzo … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2022: Eva-Ingeborg Scholz, attrice e doppiatrice tedesca. Nata a Berlino nel 1928, si avvicina alla recitazione dopo la seconda guerra mondiale grazie all’attrice austriaca Hilde Körber, che le offre lezioni gratuite che Eva alterna al suo lavoro di donna delle pulizie. Nel 1948 viene scelta tra 300 candidate per il ruolo principale in 1-2-3 Corona di Hans Müller, al quale seguono altri di gran…

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Meet the Parents, Spanish lobby card. 2000

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Up Close and Personal (1996)

While watching Up Close and Personal, I kept having the nagging feeling I’d seen all of this before and had just blocked out most of it. This romantic comedy is so bland it’s exactly the kind of movie you would watch once, sell for $1 at a garage sale and then accidentally buy again years later, only for the cycle to repeat itself.

Miami station manager Warren Justice (Robert Redford) sees something in aspiring news anchor Sally Atwater (Michelle Pfeiffer) and hires her. She has no real experience but under his tutelage, she grows her talents as a journalist. Unfortunately, the natural drama of the news world and their attraction to each other threatens to derail her career.

The problem with the film begins right away. Robert Redford is a handsome guy but he’s not “get away with dating Michelle Pfeiffer” handsome. The dude’s 21 years her senior. It doesn’t help that he starts off as her boss, reinvents her for the television with a new name (Tally) and that when the movie begins, he’s already been married and divorced twice. Worst of all, they have no chemistry. I know the film is based on the life of Jessica Beth Savitch but between this film and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, I think the Will Ferrell film is more accurate. I didn’t do any research and in fact, Jessica Savitch died before I was even born but I can’t believe this film has any resemblance to the truth; it’s merely a collection of romantic drama clichés floating in a soup of TV journalism jargon. This movie isn’t interested in what it means to be a news anchor, what responsibilities come with that position, or anything like that. Everything about it is surface and by the time it tries to make a point, not only is it too late but what it has to say isn’t novel or provocative in any way so it feels unearned.

The film begins with Sally already a big success and the rest of the story is told in flashback. You’re so bored by the romance you think something else is going to happen, maybe a murder mystery, or a scandal, or something. There is an off-hand remark about a cross-dresser early on, and someone whispers something about a sex-change operation. You keep hoping something will happen. Even if it's bad or tasteless, it doesn't matter. You just want some sort of jolt of electricity to zap you awake. You don’t get any. The meat of the story is the mushy stuff and Sally’s big break? it won’t engage you because you already know she'll survive the dangerous situation she finds herself in.

I can’t criticize the actors necessarily for this film’s ultimate failure. Pfeiffer and Redford are well suited for these roles - they just don’t work together. The real culprits are writers Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne or, more likely, the suits who forced them to work and re-work this story until it became this beige soap opera - Touchstone Pictures a.k.a. the Walt Disney Company. At least the film features a great musical theme by the most beloved of Canadian musical treasures the world has seen: Celine Dion.

I guarantee you I won’t remember Up Close and Personal a few weeks from now -

*Wait*

I HAVE seen this movie before! I just didn’t see the old file saved on my computer because I spelled the title with an ampersand the first time! !@#$!@#!@!!!!! (May 20, 2022)

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FILM REVIEW; Snow Falling on Cedars: Prejudice Lingers in a Land of Mists

''Snow Falling on Cedars'' is an almost heartbreaking example of what can happen when a filmmaker becomes so overawed by his source that he confuses dramatic storytelling with the production of mammoth coffee-table art books. Bathed in deepening shades of snow-lit Prussian blue, this screen adaptation of David Guterson's popular 1994 novel is admirably high-minded and visually gorgeous but fatally anesthetized by its own grandiosity.

Frame by frame the movie, directed by Scott Hicks (of ''Shine'') and filmed by Robert Richardson (the virtuoso cinematographer behind several Oliver Stone movies), isn't just a series of shots but a sequence of exquisitely balanced photographic compositions. The piling on of so much visual beauty, however, only contributes to the sense of the movie as a frozen artifact cut off from the real world and designed to be viewed from behind a glass casement.

There's a lesson here about the aesthetics of mass-audience movies. Pretty pictures, as nice as they may be, are finally no substitute for a living, breathing screenplay. And ''Snow Falling on Cedars,'' like many an elegant coffee-table book, has a skimpy text (by Mr. Hicks and Ron Bass) that too often substitutes distilled, poeticized oration for everyday speech.

Hardly a moment passes when we're not conscious of the movie's messages about tolerance and forgiveness being shoved in our faces. Even when they are delivered by an actor as gifted as Max von Sydow, playing a defense lawyer who is the movie's official conscience, ''Snow Falling on Cedars'' rings with the hollow boom of a Sunday school sermon.

Perhaps the biggest mistake in translating the novel to the screen was to have the film imitate the book's intricate flashback structure. Flipping back and forth between the present and the past on the page is one thing. (It encourages your imagination to make leaps and allows you to take whatever time you need to bridge those transitions.) But when a movie does the same thing, the imagination is short-circuited, and there is hardly time for reflection. The film is so busy darting back and forth between past and present that from scene to scene its characters barely have time to breathe.

There are also far too many lingering close-ups of haunted faces. And a surreal montage that harks back to the early films of Alain Resnais (specifically ''Hiroshima, Mon Amour''), brings the movie to a dead halt. This might have been a coup de cinema in another film, but here it seems narratively evasive.

The story unfolds as a series of flashbacks from the 1950 murder trial of Kazuo Miyamoto (Rick Yune), a young Japanese-American accused of killing a fisherman on his boat off the coast of the fictitious San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound. Most of the events are seen through the eyes of Ishmael Chambers (Ethan Hawke), a morose young reporter covering the trial for the local newspaper. Many years earlier Ishmael and the defendant's wife, Hatsue (Youki Kudoh), were teenage lovers who met secretly in the hollow trunk of a cedar tree deep in the rain forest. The affair ends when it is discovered by Hatsue's mother, who is vehemently opposed to interracial relationships.

The film's strongest scenes look back to World War II when the island's Japanese-Americans were interrogated, rounded up and sent to internment camps for the duration of the war. The murder trial revolves around the bitterness surrounding a land deal on which Kazuo's family defaulted while imprisoned. During the trial, the prosecutor (James Rebhorn) blatantly appeals to the local whites' lingering anti-Japanese prejudice in speeches that play on the racist stereotype of Asians as treacherous and inscrutable.

As the movie jumps back and forth in time, we meet Ishmael's late father, Arthur (Sam Shepard), the crusading local newspaper editor who stood up to the anti-Japanese hysteria that swept the community after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Nine years later Ishmael, poring over evidence in the case, decides to strike his own blow for truth and justice.

''Snow Falling on Cedars'' may be dramatically inert, but it is well acted, and it succeeds in sustaining a mood of spellbound reflection. The endless swirling snow, the blue-lit fog and the rain forest with its dripping evergreens evoke a brooding interior landscape where memory and reflection loom solemnly over the present.

But even this mood is undermined by James Newton Howard's bombastic score, which suggests the romantic minimalism of Michael Nyman encrusted with heavenly vocal choirs. The overwrought score is the final lethal touch in a movie that buckles under the weight of its own pretensions.

''Snow Falling on Cedars'' is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It has sexual situations.

SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS

Directed by Scott Hicks; written by Ron Bass and Mr. Hicks, based on the novel by David Guterson; director of photography, Robert Rchardson; edited by Hank Corwin; music by James Newton Howard; production designer, Jeannine Oppewall; produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Harry J. Ufland and Mr. Bass; released by Universal Pictures. Running time: 130 minutes. This film is rated PG-13.

WITH: Ethan Hawke (Ishmael Chambers), James Cromwell (Judge Fielding), Richard Jenkins (Sheriff Art Moran), James Rebhorn (Alvin Hooks), Sam Shepard (Arthur Chambers), Max von Sydow (Nels Gudmundsson), Youki Kudoh (Hatsue Miyamoto) and Rick Yune (Kazuo Miyamoto).

Snow Falling on Cedars Director: Scott Hicks Writers: David Guterson (novel), Ronald Bass, Scott Hicks Stars: Ethan Hawke, Max von Sydow, Yûki Kudô, Reeve Carney, Anne Suzuki Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 2h 7m Genres: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

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