A round-up of my reviews for non-Criterion movies in the past month.
IN THEATRES...
* The Conspirator, Robert Redford has some questions about Lincoln's assassination. Asked and answered!
* Hanna, the feisty action picture starring a young female lead to see right now.
* Meek's Cutoff, Michelle Williams and fellow pioneers get lost on the Oregon Trail. So lost, they end up someplace where it's not even raining. Directed by Kelly Reichardt.
* Miral, Julian Schnabel's fascinating yet muddled look at the history of a string of Palestinian women in Israel in the latter half of the 20th Century. Starring Freida Pinto.
* Stake Land, a derivative but totally entertaining vampire-killing road trip.
* Super, in which James Gunn takes on the whole "real world crimefighter" thing, and his hero gets upstaged by a little girl.
* Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Apichatpong Weerase-thakul's divisive meditation on death, folklore, and horny fish.
* Your Highness: Oooh! Oooh! I got one. "Puff, puff, pass--emphasis on the pass."
In addition to my regular movie reviews, check out my contribution to the Portland Mercury, in which I pick a few movies to go along with the a recent week-long booking of Full Metal Jacket. (Longer reviews of two of the movies mentioned: The Strange One and Paths of Glory.)
ON DVD/BD...
* A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Spielberg meets Kubrick, and the results are stunning.
* Arabeseque, Stanley Donen tries to recapture the magic of his previous success and fails. With Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren.
* The Incredibles, Pixar's killer superhero adventure gets the Blu-Ray treatment.
* Ingrid Bergman in Sweden, three films from the homeland, before the iconic actress went to Hollywood.
* Leaving, an absolutely ordinary, and thus boring, infidelity drama with Kristin Scott Thomas.
* No One Knows About Persian Cats, noble in its ambitions, not quite as successful in its final execution, a rock 'n' roll movie from Iran and Bahman Ghobadi.
* The Paranoids, a quirky dramedy from Argentina. An intriguing character study made all the better by its awesome lead actor.
* The Perfume of the Lady in Black, a chilly, pretty entry in the "blonde woman goes mad" genre of psychological horror. From 1974.
* Ricky, Francois Ozon's version of a family movie. Those crazy French! (Also, check out my capsule review of his most recent film, Potiche.)
* The Scent of Green Papaya, the perennial art house film from the early '90s is gorgeous on Blu-Ray. A romantic cinematic poem.
* Summer in Genoa, a movie from Michael Winterbottom, starring Colin Firth as a widower father trying to lead his family back to normalcy.
* The Vanquished, an early triptych by Michelangelo Antonioni.
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