Her Name is Sabine and A Blonde In Love

Man On Wire

Wonderful! Absolutely wonderful! I cannot do it justice! Film of the year!

Proper review to come.

The Sweet Smell of Success

"Conjugate a verb for me Sidney. For instance to promise. You promised you would do something for me."

Wonderful dialogue, sets, setting - New York shown in all its dramatic, glamourous, seedy glory.

The X-Files: I Want To Believe

I read a review of this that called it "the summer's dourest blockbuster". And that wasn't a compliment. But it would be from me. Let me get this straight, I don't think it was a good film, in fact it was pretty unremarkable in every way, only of interest to X-Files fans (of which I am one) and of little to even them. They seemed to be going through the motions.

However, what I thought was commendable about it was exactly that dourness. Set in Virginia in the winter, the palette of this film is one of greys, blues, and blacks. There is no sun, no grass, no trees. Everything is caught under a layer of thick snow or harsh rock. Snowstorms batter the investigators, never letting up. The moral and emotional landscape is not much better either. Mulder has gone to seed and Scully works at a strange Catholic hospital, where she seems at loggerheads with the more traditional members of the staff. (Oh, and Mulder and Scully live together, sleep together, are people "that come home at night", as Scully remarks. It's all rather strange.) Everything is understated and half-lived. There is bleakness over everything and it is not shied away from. I thought that was worth mentioning.