Category: 2001
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Reel 86: The Magnificent Andersons
And this, children, is what happens when you don’t hit the “Publish” button. Enormous apologies and thanks for your patience. I’ll make up for it by publishing another episode tonight, since that was the plan anyway. While I’m at it, I also apologize for the cover art. I couldn’t come up with anything good. This…
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R.I.P., Gene Hackman
Ever since the movies became a business in the U.S. (which started way back in the silent era), the men behind them sold an image not only of the U.S., but of glamour and beauty, which extended to the people that appeared on-screen. Many of the best movies ever made in Hollywood then (and even…
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Ocean’s Eleven (2001) – Review
In 1997, when he reluctantly (at first) agreed to direct Out of Sight, Steven Soderbergh’s career was foundering. Though he had started out strong with his feature debut, sex, lies, and videotape being a box office and critical success (as well as winning the Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival the year it was…
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Reel 66: The Remake Was Better 2
As noted in the previous episode, once in awhile a film gets remade that actually manages to eclipse its predecessor for one reason or another. This is the second of two episodes wherein we look at two films that stand as a good example. We begin with The Thomas Crown Affair, from 1999. It was…
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Reel 57: Wedding Blues
To quote from a certain Very Impressive Clergyman, “Mawage is wot bwings us togeder today.” Weddings are kind of weird. You get a lot of friends and family together, and it’s a multi-day thing leading up to a relatively small amount of time for the ceremony and subsequent reception. (It reminds me of the Super…
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Reel 51: Alfonso Cuaron’s Mexico
It’s not going out on a limb to say that Alfonso Cuarón has directed a wide variety of films. From the sex comedy Sólo con tu pareja to the near-future Children of Men (which we discuss in Episode 11), to the pure fantasy of the third film in the Harry Potter series, to the films…