High Fidelity
RELEASED: 2000RUNTIME: 113 minsWRITTEN BY: John Cusack, Nick Hornby, D.V. DeVincentis, Steve Pink, Scott RosenbergDIRECTED BY: Stephen FrearsSTARRING: John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, Todd Louiso, Jack Black, Lisa Bonet, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Joan Cusack, Tim Robbins I wish that the characters were…
Lost in Translation
RELEASED: 2003RUNTIME: 102 minsWRITTEN BY: Sofia CoppolaDIRECTED BY: Sofia CoppolaSTARRING: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris, Akiko Takeshita, Fumihiro Hayashi, Kazuyoshi Minamimagoe Loved the themes, the score and the performances but damn this movie is just too slow.…
12 Years a Slave
RELEASED: 2013RUNTIME: 134 minsWRITTEN BY: John Ridley, Solomon NorthupDIRECTED BY: Steve McQueenSTARRING: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Lupita Nyong'o, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Sarah Paulson It wasn’t all that groundbreaking to me but overall, this is a decent, well-made and very…
Annie Hall
RELEASED: 1977RUNTIME: 93 minsWRITTEN BY: Woody Allen, Marshall BrickmanDIRECTED BY: Woody AllenSTARRING: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Paul Simon, Shelley Duvall, Janet Margolin One of the most New York Jewish (with a capital J) movies ever made…
Lawrence of Arabia
RELEASED: 1962RUNTIME: 227 minsWRITTEN BY: Michael Wilson, Robert Bolt, T.E. LawrenceDIRECTED BY: David LeanSTARRING: Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Quinn, José Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains It didn’t blow me away or hit me as hard…
Midnight Cowboy
RELEASED: 1969RUNTIME: 113 minsWRITTEN BY: Waldo Salt, James Leo HerlihyDIRECTED BY: John SchlesingerSTARRING: Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro, Barnard Hughes, Ruth White, Jennifer Salt Not sure if I was blown away by this but it’s…
On the Waterfront
RELEASED: 1954RUNTIME: 108 minsWRITTEN BY: Budd SchulbergDIRECTED BY: Elia KazanSTARRING: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning, Eva Marie Saint, Leif Erickson An engrossing, brilliantly written drama about morality, guilt and having the guts to stand…
The Usual Suspects
RELEASED: 1995RUNTIME: 106 minsWRITTEN BY: Christopher McQuarrieDIRECTED BY: Bryan SingerSTARRING: Stephen Baldwin, Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Pollak, Pete Postlethwaite, Suzy Amis I was never once engaged in this because I never had a reason to care about…
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
RELEASED: 1961RUNTIME: 115 minsWRITTEN BY: Truman Capote, George AxelrodDIRECTED BY: Blake EdwardsSTARRING: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, José Luis de Villalonga Entertaining but for a lot of the movie, the characters are somewhat murky and…