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LawrenceA
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The Return of Martin Guerre
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Mariska Hargitay is the daughter of Mickey Hargitay.
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Greer Garson was in Julia Misbehaves with Lucile Watson.
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32 Short Films About Glenn Gould
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kingrat, did you ever see The Decalogue (1989)? If so, what did you think of it?
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film lover, you didn't like Clueless enough for 1995?
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But what did Ice T like?
Ice Cube
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Una O'Connor
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Frank McKluskey, C.I.
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Under California Stars
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Esther Williams was in Million Dollar Mermaid with Walter Pidgeon.
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Hercules - Steve Reeves in Hercules Unchained
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Blue Valentine
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Margaret Dumont
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Red River
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Tryon, Tom
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Lawless Nineties
HET GARRNIO SWEETTIN
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The Sixth Day
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MAGNOLIA is a title I want to briefly comment upon, if I may. I like the film in spite of itself, but I can't say it's very effective. Maybe as a surrealist whole, but not the parts. Some of the vignettes seem thematically disconnected (unless there was a different, commoner theme that somehow escaped me). I do think it is a beautifully photographed motion picture, and mostly I enjoy the cast. Though Tom Cruise is wildly out of control in a desperate attempt to nab an Oscar which thankfully he did not receive for his overwrought performance.
It wasn't effective for you, but it was to me...I absolutely love Magnolia. The only theme of the film was "Stuff happens". Stop getting hung up on past events that are random and out of your control, and move on with your life before the past destroys you. I remember reading and hearing so many reviewers and others asking, "..but what does it mean? What was with the rain of frogs? Why did he do this? Why did she do that?" The meaning was that there is no meaning. Embrace and/or accept the chaos and move on.
As far as performances, I thought everyone in the film was fine. Most year-end critics lauded Cruise. However, some performances can grate on some people while impressing others. The Al Pacino syndrome.
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1990-1999
I do not have 10 films for this decade. If I determine the list using the same measure of excellence as in other decades I only come up with 7 films.
1. Goodfellas (1990)
2. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
3. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
4. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
5. Shakespeare In Love (1998)
6. The Crying Game (1992)
7. To Die For (1995)
Ha! Look at your #1 and #3! Copier!
Just kidding...I did like the 90's more than you, I guess.
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1990's Round-Up!
Top Ten Favorite Films
1. Goodfellas
2. Fight Club
3. The Silence of the Lambs
4. Unforgiven
5. JFK
6. Braveheart
7. Fargo
8. L.A. Confidential
9. Schindler's List
10. Heat
Favorite Dudes
Anthony Hopkins (Silence of the Lambs, Howard's End, Remains of the Day, Nixon, Amistad)
Gary Oldman (State of Grace, JFK, Bram Stoker's Dracula, True Romance, The Fifth Element)
Ralph Fiennes (Schindler's List, Quiz Show, Strange Days, The English Patient)
Robert DeNiro (Goodfellas, Awakenings, Cape Fear, A Bronx Tale, Casino, Heat, Jackie Brown)
Kevin Spacey (Swimming with Sharks, Usual Suspects, Time to Kill, American Beauty)
Harvey Keitel (Bugsy, Reservoir Dogs, Bad Lieutenant, The Piano, Smoke, Clockers)
Morgan Freeman (Unforgiven, Shawshank Redemption, Seven, Kiss the Girls, Amistad)
Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction, Hard Eight, Time to Kill, 187, Jackie Brown)
Johnny Depp (Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Dead Man, Donnie Brasco, Fear & Loathing)
Edward Norton (Primal Fear, People vs Larry Flynt, American History X, Fight Club)
Favorite Senoritas
Emma Thompson (Dead Again, Howard's End, Remains of the Day, Sense & Sensibility)
Jodie Foster (Silence of the Lambs, Little Man Tate, Sommersby, Nell, Contact)
Kate Winslet (Heavenly Creatures, Sense & Sensibility, Hamlet, Titanic)
Annette Bening (The Grifters, Bugsy, Richard III, The Siege, American Beauty)
Susan Sarandon (Thelma & Louise, Lorenzo's Oil, The Client, Dead Man Walking)
Angela Bassett (Malcolm X, What's Love Got to Do with It, Strange Days)
Julianne Moore (Short Cuts, Safe, Boogie Nights, The Big Lebowski, Magnolia, End of the Affair)
Juliette Binoche (Damage, The English Patient)
Parker Posey (Dazed & Confused, Party Girl, Waiting for Guffman, The House of Yes)
Salma Hayek (Desperado, Midaq Alley, From Dusk Till Dawn, Dogma)
Favorite Tyrants
Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas, Cape Fear, Age of Innocence, Casino, Kundun, Bringing Out the Dead)
Paul Thomas Anderson (Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia)
David Fincher (Seven, The Game, Fight Club)
Oliver Stone (The Doors, JFK, Heaven & Earth, Natural Born Killers, Nixon)
Joel & Ethan Coen (Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, The Big Lebowski)
Steven Spielberg (Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, Amistad, Saving Private Ryan)
Michael Mann (Last of the Mohicans, Heat, The Insider)
Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown)
Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, Ed Wood, Mars Attacks, Sleepy Hollow)
Woody Allen (Bullets Over Broadway, Everyone Says I Love You, Deconstructing Harry)
Larry's Choicest Choices
1. Feeders
2. The Satan Killer
3. Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
4. Addicted to Murder
5. Return to Savage Beach
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Here are the 1001 Movies to See Before You Die entries for 1999:
All About My Mother
American Beauty
Attack the Gas Station!
Audition
Beau Travail**
Being John Malkovich
The Blair Witch Project
Eyes Wide Shut
Fight Club
Magnolia
The Matrix
Rosetta**
The Sixth Sense
Taboo
Three Kings
Time Regained**
Toy Story 2
The Wind Will Carry Us**
**denotes films I have not seen
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I'll post the 1999 list from the 1001 book after 8 EST, then a decade wrap up list if you wanna.
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Beulah Bondi was in Of Human Hearts with Jimmy Stewart.