About Time 2013
123 minutes When he’s 21, a
young man’s father tells him that the men in their family can travel back in
time. It works but there are
limitations, and eventually he figures out that his gift is very limited, even
though it has led to the romance of his life--
Rachel McAdams -- and once enabled him to save his sister from
the results of a terrible auto accident.
It may be a bit of fluff, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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Emperor 2012
131 minutes Tommy Lee Jones
plays General MacArthur in the first days of the occupation after WW II.
Matthew Fox plays Brigadier General Feller, whom MacArthur assigned to investigate
the Emperor’s role in the war. Feller’s eventual
conclusion was that it was impossible to determine the Emperor’s role in
starting the war, but that it was clear that he overruled the military to end
it and saved many lives by doing so.
There is also a tragic love story, which is worth the price of admission
all by itself.
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King of Devil’s
Island 2010 116 minutes The Scandanavians make some very good
movies, even when they’re not kicking over hornet nests. This one is about an inmate uprising early in
the 20th C at the Bastoys Boys Home, a reform school on a Norwegian
island. When a new boy arrives, he
inspires the inmates to rise up against the daily brutal treatment they
experience. It’s a bit depressing but
well worth seeing.
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Romeo & Juliet 1995
150 tedious minutes Nureyev choreographed this production at the Opera
Bastille. I had recently seen a
non-ballet version, so I was up on the details of the story. In the opening minutes Romeo is on stage for
a long time, both solo and with other dancers. He looks ridiculous – this has to be Nureyev’s
fault. The rest of the production isn’t
much better. I hated it, and I love
ballet.
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The Vow 2012
104 minutes You don’t learn
until the final credits that this unlikely story of lost memory is based on the
lives of two real people. Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum meet, fall in love
and marry. She’s a sculptor with an
important commission from the city and he runs a recording studio. All goes well until she goes through the windshield
and loses her memory of recent events including her career as an artist and her
romance with Tatum. Her wealthy parents
suddenly appear after five years estrangement and insist she come home with
them and resume her previous life as a young socialite and law student. Tatum realizes he must court her all over
again. Eventually he gets her back, even
though she never regains her memory of their earlier romance. This is about as good a romantic movie as we
are ever likely to see.
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