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I Am Not An Animal
Comedy Steve Coogan, Julia Davis, Amelia Bulmore
Fantastic when it first came out. I think it loses something on second veiwing, maybe because it relys too much on shock value. Still wonderfully controvertual and funny though. I love Clare the rat, and was inspired to alter my friend Clare's photo to make her look more rattish. The episode where Clare finds a boyfriend is my favourite- really foul and Glen Belt's songs are pure genius. Why no more series were made is beyond me.

I've Been Watching You
Horror Samuel Page, Josh Hammond, Bradley Stryker, Elizabeth Bruderman, Forrest Cochran, Michael Lutz (II), Donnie Eichar, Christopher Cullen, Brandon Beemer, Brian Bianchini, Chloe Cross, Rebekah Ryan, Matt Ebin, Lauren Bailey, Mario Adractas David DeCoteau
Let me say that I like bad films, sometimes bad can be so bad it is good - take Ed Wood, who has at least a discernable charm.
Let me expand on that - I like bad vampire films. A bad vampire film has even more charm, take the wonderous films of Jess Franco or even Razor Blade Smile. These films have a charm all their own, and makes them worth watching despite themselves.
This film has no discernable charm, there seems to be the least acting talent I've ever seen in a film. There is a story - just - it is just not interesting.
This is the worst film I ever had the misfortune to watch, I could find no saving grace within it - and I found saving graces in Vampire Killer Barbies. One to avoid.

The Idiots
Foreign Jens Albinus, Trine Michelsen, Louise Mieritz, Louise Hassing, Bodil Jorgensen, Henrik Prip, Paprika Steen, Troels Lyby, Knud Romer Jorgensen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Luis Mesonero Lars Von Trier
It is a shame that more publicity has been made about the Dogma 95 experiment than about the products they rendered. So try looking beyond the Dogma stamp. The Idiots is an amazing film built upon a complex story and reveals elements of the human condition rarely revealed on the big screen. Von Trier is an expert at creating shocking cinema. Not only is it shocking because it is filmed differently than almost any other film you've seen, but it is also shocking because it is filled with nudity, vulgarity and controversial themes. It makes fun of mentally retarded adults under the guise of a serious social experiment. It has violent fights, an orgy scene... Despite all this, try looking beyond the shocking elements. What you will find beyond all the things that many critics chose not to look past is an emotionally powerful portrayal of a group of individuals searching for a way in which to view their identity in a way that is devoid of all social artifices. It is a story of a people trying to actively live out an idea that there is something essential about their being which can be reached through an extreme modification of their behaviour. It becomes increasingly clear throughout the narrative that these people are running away from who they are rather than finding something essential. The emotional tension that is being withheld slowly rises to the surface and culminates in one of the most devastating scenes I've ever witnessed. It is moving not just because it deals with death, but because it illuminates in an exaggerated fashion the way in which people in society today hide from themselves and subsequently reveal themselves to be frail and insecure. Of course, all of the elements that go into making this such a shocking film are inextricably incorporated into the emotional power created. You need to watch this film while withholding moral judgements and consider the issues that are being so skilfully portrayed in a way no other director was able to do before Dogma 95.

Igby Goes Down
Kieran Culkin, Claire Danes, Jeff Goldblum, Jared Harris, Amanda Peet, Ryan Phillippe, Bill Pullman, Susan Sarandon, Rory Culkin, Peter Anthony Tambakis, Bill Irwin, Kathleen Gati, Gannon Forrester, Celia Weston, Elizabeth Jagger Burr Steers
In some ways, this is a fairly standard coming-of age story, but it's well enough executed that I found it engaging and entertaining. Well structured, with interesting characters (Kieran Culkin as Igby and Claire Danes as Sookie are particularly good) and set in New York, this film will appeal if you like American teenage films with a bit of intelligence.

Insomnia
Mystery & Suspense Al Pacino, Martin Donovan (II), Robin Williams, Oliver 'Ole' Zemen, Hilary Swank, Paul Dooley, Nicky Katt, Larry Holden, Jay Brazeau, Lorne Cardinal, James Hutson, Andrew Campbell (IX), Paula Shaw (II), Crystal Lowe, Tasha Simms Christopher Nolan

Intacto
Foreign Leonardo Sbaraglia, Eusebio Poncela, Mónica López, Antonio Dechent, Max von Sydow, Guillermo Toledo, Alber Ponte, Andrea San Vicente, Jesús Noguero, Ramón Serrada, Marisa Lull, Luis Mesonero, Pedro Beitia, Jaime Losada, Susana Lazaro Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
The central plot of Intacto revolves around a number of extraordinarily individuals for whom good luck seems to follow them in abundance. They make fortunes, survive fatal accidents, and benefit from unlikely coincidence. But at a cost; the luck they have is stolen from others. If they survive an accident, it's at the expense of everyone else.
Intacto is an engaging film and, like most slightly sci-fi thrillers, an interesting thought experiment in the "what would you do" category. Good performances all round, particularly from Max Von Sydow who is always good to watch. The film dives between Spanish and English, reflecting it's funding origins, so probably not one for those with poor eyesight or an allergy to subtitled foreign films. For everyone else, though, I would recommend you give it a go.

The Italian Job
Action & Adventure Michael Caine, Noel Coward, Benny Hill, Raf Vallone, Tony Beckley, Rossano Brazzi, Margaret Blye, Irene Handl, John Le Mesurier, Fred Emney, John Clive, Graham Payn, Michael Standing, Stanley Caine, Barry Cox Peter Collinson
The greatest Brit-flick crime caper comedy of all time, 1969's "The Italian Job" towers mightily above its latter-day mockney imitators. After "Alfie" but before "Get Carter" Michael Caine is the hippest ex-con around, bedding the birds (several at a time) and spouting immortal one-liners ("You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!"). The inheritor of a devious plan to steal gold bullion in the traffic-choked streets of Turin, Caine recruits a misfit team of genial underworld types--including a lecherous Benny Hill and three plummy public-schoolboy rally drivers--and uses the occasion of an England-Italy football match as cover for the heist.
In his final screen appearance, Noel Coward joyfully sends up his own patriotic persona, and there are small though priceless cameos from the likes of Irene Handl and John Le Mesurier. But "The Italian Job"'s real stars are the three Mini Coopers--patriotically decorated red, white and blue--that run rings round every other vehicle in an immortal car-chase sequence, which preserves forever the British public's love affair with the little car. Quincy Jones provided the irreverent music, naturally, while the cliffhanger ending thumbs its nose at anything so un-hip as a resolution. It's all unashamedly jingoistic--ridiculously, gleefully, absurdly so--but the whole sums up the "joie de vivre" of the 1960s so perfectly that future historians need only look here to learn why the decade was swinging.
On the DVD: "The Italian Job" disc contains three all-new documentaries--"The Great Idea" (conception), "The Self-Preservation Society" (casting), and "Get a Bloomin' Move On" (stunts)--which dovetail into a good 68-minute "making of" featurette. Contributors include scriptwriter Troy Kennedy Martin and Producer Michael Deeley, who also crops up on the sporadically interesting commentary track with author of "The Making of The Italian Job", Matthew Field. The deleted "Blue Danube" waltz scene is also included, with optional commentary. The print is a decent anamorphic transfer of the original 2.35:1 ratio, and the soundtrack has been remastered to Dolby 5.1. The animated Mini Cooper menus set the tone perfectly. --"Mark Walker"



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