six good movies on DVD

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Movies from comedy to drama to your favorite Hollyweird Star.

Since I just trashed two movies, I should at least throw out some good ones to make a positive contribution. Pulled from my recent netflix history...
In America: Jim Sheridan's best film to date IMO, superbly crafted and acted. Sentimental (ugh), but not egregiously so, and the emotional payoff is well earned.
Startup.com: Already posted about this documentary, but saw it again since then. The filmmakers stuck with the main characters for 18 hours/day during an entire year and cut down 400 hours of footage to produce this 107-minute case study and historical document.
Bottle Rocket: Wes Anderson's first. Like other recent debuts by young American directors (P.T. Anderson's Hard Eight, Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs), this one is less ambitious than his films to follow (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums), but has a simple freshness. Highly entertaining, and completely unpretentious -- thank you! This was Owen Wilson's acting debut; he is also a co-writer here.
The School of Rock: Talk about pretense -- Linklater finally let it go! I've generally been a lukewarm fan of his sophomoric ramblings (I even liked Tape), but I hope he stays on this new track. Hilarious.
The House of Sand and Fog: What fate and misfortune can do to good people when a weak man enters their lives. Like watching a train wreck, one cannot look away. A mighty attempt not to take sides, my wife and I felt it slanted in favor of the immigrants. But some reviews detected a slant in the opposite direction. Good for post-flick discussion.
Focus: Good adaption of an Arthur Miller novel about wartime anti-semitism in the U.S., starring William H. Macy and Meat Loaf.
Enjoy.

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Topic - six good movies on DVD - ephemere 14:46:18 05/17/04 (2)

Re: six good movies on DVD - Buckeye 15:49:22 05/17/04 (1)

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