Movie Review | 'Once': Some Love Stories Have a Better Ending Than the Altar
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âOnceâ makes a persuasive case that the real future of the movie musical may lie not in splashy grandeur but in modesty and understatement.
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A good story and great performances make this an engrossing film to watch.
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âLongingâ intrigues because it presents an outwardly decent man falling equally in love with two women but eschews simplistic judgments.
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Ashutosh Gowariker's new film has a nice romance, but the history seems to get in the way.
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I>Bride and Prejudice has some interesting marriage festivities in store for its audience.
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I met an old friend for coffee in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, and had a few hours to kill before stopping in at the Wired reunion party. I didn't want to drive back to Berkeley because the weather was so crummy, and I was just across teh street from a movie theater and was just in time for the start of a movie that lots of people had been telling me to see. So I went. The movie -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, I had no idea what it was about until the movie started, then I remembered hearing a Fresh Air show about it and finding it too painful to listen to. Now here I was in the theater, not just being asked to listen to it, but being asked to live it. Through some very wonderful film-making, you feel as if what is happening to the main character is happening to you. Or more accurately, probably, you get the slightest hint of what it's like to be this person. My immediate impulse, one which I gave serious consideration to, was to pack up my things and leave. Anything would be better than spending three hours living this guy's life.  Two things happen over time: 1. You get over it. 2. They change perspective, and instead of being inside his body, you move outside it.  I think those two things are the story we all live as we mature and learn to live inside our own bodies, with their limits. You learn to step outside and see the humor in your predicament. The main character says he lives in a diving bell because it's as hard for him to communicate with other people as it would be at the bottom of the ocean inside a diving bell. The movie teaches that it's not much easier for the rest of us, even though we can manipulate symbols better. On the other hand, of course it is. The film develops a relationship between the hero and his father, between the hero and his own children, his ex-wife, his lover.  We strive for deeper understanding of ourselves and each other. But it may be ridiculously easy to find the only meaning that exists, without language, without intellect, by just being. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly should probably be the picture of the year for 2007, it's that good. But like all great art it shows you something truthful about yourself, and you may or may not want to see it.
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At last, a love story for adults. In 'Closer,' Mike Nichols explores the thrilling and damaging effects of passion
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Too often, inspirational movies about extreme bravery in the face of affliction are pure goo. They only manage to inspire a few rolls of the eyes in those of us with more ironic constitutions.
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It's a thoroughly Hollywood version of a "true story," but this film's got heart -- and a worthwhile message
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past. Filmmaker Kerry Conran has made a soaring action adventure that&#39;s both a glorious labor of love and, in the end, irrelevant.
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It looks like no one wants to see routine love stories any more. They want it either with a dash of humour (Mujhse Shaadi Karoge) or erotica (Julie). Or both.
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Even two-time Oscar winners like  Kevin Spacey sometimes need a career makeover.
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Even two-time Oscar winners like Kevin Spacey sometimes need a career makeover.
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"Hitler's Hit Parade" is hardly a trip down memory lane. This film's juxtaposition of romantic songs and wartime brutalities can cause viewers to squirm or turn away in horror.
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Anurag Basu's latest film is a well cast, crisply made film that entertains perhaps more than it intended to.
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The beautifully acted ensemble film âThe Witnessesâ sidesteps most of its opportunities for high drama, political sermonizing and the jerking of tears.
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'The Wedding Date' suffers from a lack of chemistry.