| East is East |
9.00 |
1999 |
O'DONNELL, Damien |
PURI, Om; BASSETT, Linda; |
Clever and delighful. (Sad about the humour drawn from the brides' appearance though) |
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0166175 |
2 |
No |
| East of Eden |
8.50 |
1955 |
KAZAN, Elia |
DEAN, James; HARRIS, Julie; MASSEY (I), Raymond; IVES, Burl; DAVALOS, Richard |
Fine drama. Surprisingly political. Troubled youths again. |
http://us.imdb.com/M/title-exact?East+of+Eden+(1955) |
1 |
No |
| Eat Drink Man Woman |
8.00 |
1994 |
LEE, Ang |
Sylvia Chang, Vincent Chao, Chao-Jung Chen, Lester Chen, Ju Chen, Sihung Lung, Chien-lein Wu, Kuei-Mei Yang |
Wonderful view of Taipai upper class life, family relationships. |
|
1 |
No |
| Ed Wood |
8.50 |
0 |
BURTON, Tim |
DEPP, Johnny, LANDAU, Martin |
Extremely clever. Made somewhat in Wood's style (I presume), although a 'straight' true-life story. therefore stylistic references. |
q |
1 |
No |
| Election |
7.75 |
1999 |
PAYNE, Alexander |
BRODERICK, Mathew; WITHERSPOON, Reese; KLEIN, Chris; CAMPBELL, Jessica |
Thoughtful and cleverly disturbing. Also highly believable. |
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0126886 |
1 |
No |
| Elementary School, The |
8.00 |
1991 |
SVERAK, Jan |
Jan Triska, Zdenek Sverak, Daniela Kolarova, SAFRANKOVA, Libuse |
Beautiful post-WWII Czech film of schoolteacher / political analogies and uncertainties. (nice trains) |
q |
1 |
No |
| Elizabeth |
8.00 |
1998 |
KAPUR, Shekhar |
BLANCHETT, Kate; RUSH, Geoffrey; FEINNES, Joseph; ATTENBOROUGH, Richard |
Stirring and well made |
http://us.imdb.com/Title?Elizabeth+(1998) |
1 |
No |
| Enchanted April |
8.25 |
1991 |
NEWELL, Mike |
Miranda Richardson, Joan Plowright, Poly Walker, Alfred Polina, Jim Broadbent, LAWRENCE, Josie |
Beautifully shot; intense but belieavable characters. Slightly abrupt character transformations. |
q |
1 |
No |
| Enemy of the State |
8.75 |
1998 |
q |
SMITH, Wil; HACKMAN, Gene; VOIGHT, John |
One of the best thrillers (with the least improbability problems). |
http://us.imdb.com/Details?Enemy+of+the+State+(1998) |
1 |
No |
| Enfants de Lumiere, Les |
8.25 |
1995 |
PHILIPPE, Pierre |
? |
? |
|
1 |
No |
| English Patient, The |
9.25 |
1996 |
MINGHELLA, Anthony |
Ralph Feins, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas, Naveen Andrews, Colin Firth, Julian Wadham, Juergen Prochnow, Kevin Whately, Clive Merrison, Nino Castelnuovo, Hichem Rostom |
An almost perfectly made film. Disappointing but perhaps necessarily simplifed version of the book. |
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0116209 |
1 |
No |
| Entrapment |
7.75 |
1999 |
AMIEL, Jon |
CONNERY, Sean; ZETA-JONES, Catherine |
Somewhate lame story for such an exciting thriller |
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0137494 |
1 |
No |
| Eraser |
5.00 |
1996 |
RUSSELL, Chuck |
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Venessa Williams, James Caan, Robert Pastorelli, James Coburn, Camryn Manheim, Danny Nucci |
Pretty awful flick |
http://us.imdb.com/cache/title-exact/25955 |
1 |
No |
| Erin Brockovich |
8.50 |
2000 |
SODERBERGH; Steven |
ROBERTS, Julia; FINNEY, Albert; COYOTE, Peter |
Very surprisingly good. Julia's best ever performance. Albert fantastic. Moving |
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0195685 |
1 |
No |
| Ethan Frome |
8.25 |
1992 |
John Madden |
Liam Neeson, Patricia Arquette, Joan Allen |
Beautifully shot, slow but flawless story and character development, slightly mysterious ending |
q |
1 |
No |
| Even Cowgirls get the Blues |
6.50 |
1994 |
VAN SANT, Gus |
Uma Thurman, Keanu Reeves, Rosanne Arnold… |
Despite some interesting symbology, a pretty weak attempt. |
|
1 |
No |
| Everyone Says they Love You |
8.00 |
1996 |
ALLEN, Woody |
Woody Allen, Daryl Hannah, Goldie Hawn, Allan Alda, Ed Norton, Drew Barrymore |
Hilarious musical. Some scenes dragged, but altoghether good with interesting levels of adherance to the genre |
q |
1 |
No |
| Evita |
8.25 |
1996 |
PARKER, Alan |
Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Johnathon Pryce |
Extremely well made. (Major tear jerker.) Possibly too long towards end. A couple of crowd scenes, set years apart, seemed to have been shot too similarly. |
http://us.imdb.com/Details?0116250 |
2 |
No |
| Executive Decision |
7.25 |
0 |
q |
q |
q |
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0116253 |
1 |
No |
| Executive Decision |
7.75 |
1996 |
BAIRD, Stewart |
RUSSELL, Kurt, SEAGAL, Steven, BERRY, Halle, PLATT, Oliver, LEGUIZAMO, John, MORTON, Joe, WONG, B.D. |
One of the best action thrillers I've ever seen. Deeper psychology than some, not too impossible, and more properly paced. Oops, Ebert shows some improbabilities I'd missed. |
q |
1 |
No |
| Exodus |
6.75 |
1960 |
PREMINGER, Otto |
NEWMAN, Paul; SAINT, Eva Marie |
DID IT HAVE TO BE SO LONG? Sub-rivetting - with lots of people wearing silly shorts |
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0053804/ |
1 |
No |
| Exotica |
8.75 |
1994 |
EGOYAN, Atom |
GREENWOOD (I), Bruce; KIRSHNER, Mia; McKELLAR, Don; KHANJIAN, Arsinee |
Very very good characterizations, mood, style |
http://us.imdb.com/M/title-exact?Exotica+(1994) |
2 |
No |
| Extreme Measure |
7.00 |
0 |
? |
GRANT, Hugh; HACKMAN, Gene; JESSICA-PARKER, Sarah |
Pretty good and largely believable thriller with a moral dilemma |
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0116282 |
1 |
No |
| Eyes Wide Shut |
9.00 |
1999 |
KUBRICK, Stanley |
CRUISE, Tom; KIDMAN, Nicole |
Wonderfully made, judiciously paced. Cruise fairly good - Kiddman better |
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120663 |
1 |
No |