tháng 1 2011 ~ The Larsen Film Review

I Am Love: Io sono l'amore (2010)

I'm writing this post several weeks after seeing the film, therefore my hate for it has diminished. This is by far one of the worst films I've seen. Pretentious crap is the best way to describe it. I'll go ahead and warn that there might be a few spoilers here, but spoiling...

This film is the Emma Stone high school spin on The Scarlett Letter. Probably one that I would have skipped, had it not been nominated for a Golden Globe. I'm actually pretty happy that I ended up watching it. My assumption was that Stone would play a popular or snobby girl,...

I really want to stay on top of the foreign films this year. So now that the Globes are over and this one was not even short listed for an Oscar I thought I'd knock it out pretty early. The film is a Russian action/drama/romance taking place in a Siberian outpost just after...

Nominated for 10 Oscars and selected by many critics for their top 10 lists of the year. This western film based on the Charles Portis book is supposed to be more true to the book than the original film. To be honest I don't read a lot of books [I watch a lot of films], and...

I really felt it was necessary to watch the original before watching this year's remake of this classic western. I'll leave the comparison of the two for the remake post. The film starts with Mattie Ross [Kim Darby] saying goodbye to her father as he goes to town to make some...

Considered by many to be one of the very best films of the year, if not the best. The film is a physiological thriller about a dancer going through a nervous breakdown. Without spoiling the film, let's stop at that. Natalie Portman plays Nina, a ballerina in the New York City...

A film about 1950's Connecticut starring Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, and Dennis Haysbert (the All State Guy). Nominated for 4 Oscars in 2003, but winner of zero. This film was a little predictable and boring for me. From the outside it looks as though Cathy (Moore) has the...

Part 1 of the Apu Trilogy directed by Satyajit Ray, who is considered to be India's most important director ever and has been highly regarded on best international director lists and by his peer Akira Kurosawa. The first part of the trilogy starts just before the birth...

Fart jokes, jokes about sex with old ladies, fat jokes, all of what you can expect from a Happy Madison Production. The thing that is really frustrating is that this film is disguised as a family movie. It is as if Sandler gets together all the comedians who have only put out...

This one managed to make it into the top 15 of the top 100 films to see before you die by yahoo. Top 15 of all time... seems a little high for a movie most people have never heard of. A pretentious movie about a photographer who treats models like crap. In his free time he likes...

On a number of top 10 lists for 2003 and given an Oscar nomination for it's screenplay. This is the biography of Harvey Pekar, the average guy made into a comic strip called "American Splendor." Pekar is played by Paul Giamatti, Giamatti is now famous for his angry on film...

A glorified extended music video considered a great film. Treated like "normal" day in the life of the Beatles, this film is popular just because of nostalgia. Just because you like them and their music, does NOT mean they can act. Beatles telling jokes and their songs playing...

This one made the documentary short list last year for the Oscar but ended up getting cut from the nominees. Since last year was so strong with Food, Inc.and The Cove. I ventured into some of the other short listed films. A documentary about Lyme Disease, and the issues those...

A remake of the French film The Dinner Game about a group of friends who invite the dumbest person they can find to dinner as a competition. I haven't seen the original but it is regarded as one of the best French comedies of all time. Dangerous territory trying to remake comedy...

Recommended to me by my father, said to remind him of someone we both know very well. Also on Roger Eberts Top 10 list of the year [that is if you consider that he put 30 films on his top 10]. The third "S___ Man" film I've watch in the last year also, first there was A Serious...

The movie poster convinced me to watch this: "From the Author of Fight Club," hey I loved Fight Club so I should love this... The film is directed by Clark Gregg [you would recognize him, from a number of minor roles], this is his first film to direct. Winner of a special prize...

Let me start by saying this was much better than I expected from the imdb poster and pictures. It really looked like romance film that would be cheesy and dull. This is very far from the truth. A film that that has been hovering around the cellar of the current imdb top 250....

A film about two angels walking amongst the living, hearing their thoughts and helping those in need through a kind touch. A film in Time's 100 Movies of the Century, Yahoo's 101 Movies to See, and the 1001 Movies to See Before You Die. Starring Bruno Ganz [best known for his...

The latest Sofia Coppola film, daughter of Francis Ford Coppola, best known for her film Lost in Translation. This one was on Roeper's Top 10 of the Year (#10) and had a small contingent pushing for an Oscar nomination for this film. It was also the winner of the Golden Lion...

There is something about Danny Boyle's films that make them easy to identify. He has a style all his own with films such as Trainspotting, The Beach, and Slumdog Millionaire. The film seems to almost channel the colors and sounds of Slumdog, I'm not sure if he was just very...

This is going to be a short review, but I guess you can already see that... Another Hayao Miyazaki film, I'm getting really tired of his entire body of work cycling onto the IMDB Top 250. This one, currently not on the top 250 was #248 on Jan. 1st when I create a static list....

I stumbled across this film last year and thought I'd hold onto it and give it a chance eventually. Guess that time finally came around.... An early 90's biography film about Charles Chaplin starring Robert Downey Jr. and nominated for three Oscars. I'm very glad that it took...

When I was in junior high a kid from California moved to my school in Oklahoma. He was surprised to find that we didn't life on ranches with cowboys and indians running around. This is the film I expect kids in LA and New York think all people in the Ozarks [Tennessee, Missouri,...

Let me start by admitting that when I saw this was Julianne Moore and Annette Bening in a lesbian movie, I thought. Crap. Do I really have to watch this one. Might as well get it over with. Honestly I remember this coming out on dvd and would have passes on it, had it not been...

Barely making the AFI 100 Thrills list at #98 this completed the AFI 100 Thrills for me! The first Joel & Ethan Coen movie definitely showed their likely tight budget. Cheap sets, average actors, and sub-par audio/music make this a film with a lot to be desired. Frances...

Starring Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, and Maribel Verdú, and directed by Alfonso Cuarón (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Children of Men), this Mexican film is a story about teenage sexual exploration. The film is about two boys and their summer between high...

Let me start by saying this is a three hour dramatic epic about a family in Taipei. We follow a number of family member through everyday life starting at a major family gathering, and ending at another. Winner of "Best Foreign Language Film" at a number of film festivals, but...

This was a pretty good film about a nuclear power plant accident. Starring Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, and Michael Douglas and nominated for Oscars, for both Lemmon's and Fonda's performances as well as screenplay and set. Lemmon lost to Hoffman, and Fonda lost Sally...

#92 on the AFI 100 Thrills was probably one of the weakest films on the list for me. Opinions will diverge at this point of a Top 100 so I'm not surprised. This romance turned crime film really wasn't very thrilling though. The film stars William Hurt and Kathleen Turner with...

Nominated for 7 Oscars, and winner of 2. This addition on the AFI 100 Thrills is an oldie, but goodie. Starring Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten, and Angela Lansbury in her acting debut. Bergman won the Oscar in a role for which she spent two weeks in a mental institution...

Yay! The last movie of the AFI 100 Laughs, #74 is a film starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton. The three play co-workers who share the same boss. A boss who just hired Fonda, treats Tomlin like a maid, and sexually harasses his secretary Parton. After an office...

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I Am Love: Io sono l'amore (2010)

Easy A (2010)

The Edge: Kray (2010)

True Grit (2010)

True Grit (1969)

Black Swan (2010)

Far from Heaven (2002)

Song of the Little Road: Pather Panchali (1955)

Grown Ups (2010)

Blow-Up (1966)

American Splendor (2003)

A Hard Day's Night (1964)

Under Our Skin (2008)

Dinner For Schmucks (2010)

Solitary Man (2009)

Choke (2008)

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003)

Wings of Desire: Der Himmel über Berlin (1987)

Somewhere (2010)

127 Hours (2010)

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind: Kaze no tani no Naushika (1984)

Chaplin (1992)

Winter's Bone (2010)

The Kids Are Alright (2010)

Blood Simple. (1984)

And Your Mother Too: Y Tu Mamá También (2001)

A One And A Two: Yi Yi (2000)

The China Syndrome (1979)

Body Heat (1981)

Gaslight (1944)

Nine to Five (1980)

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