RATINGS & THUMB-NAIL NOTES BY CARYL & AL, MOVIES SEEN IN 2007

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(c) A.J. Malouin 2007

Last updated Thursday, 18 October, at 23.00 hours.

Caryl & Al see upwards of nine (9) films and movies each and every week. It is not likely they can therefore give in-depth reviews of everything they see. Some of their viewings in 2007 will have to be therefore only covered in the thumb-nail reviews you read below. See only the films which at least one of them has rated a “9” or better (“1” being the best rating they can give a movie, and “31” being the worst.)
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GIRL INSIDE
(Rating: 5 by Al.)
This guy is really a girl, and is willing to undergo all the surgeries and other upheavals it takes to get to girlhood. This three-year odyssey, supported totally by his/her grandmother, is a sweet and natural recording, from first frame to last, of what actually Should be.

HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO
(Rating: 7 by Al.)
Director Preston Sturges is Probably the King of the romantic screwball comedy, and this ain’t his best one. Not without its moments, it cannot match “The Lady Eve,” “The Palm Beach Story,” nor (Especially!) “Sullivan’s Travels” for sheer wondrous entertainment. Nevertheless, if the creek is rising and you’re confused for rentals…go rent this Eddie-Bracken vehicle about a soldier who washes out of Basic because of hay fever and then comes home to a hero’s reception

HONEYDRIPPER
(Rating: 5 by Al.)
John Sayles is the white man writer/director who documents the words of a grieving black man drinking on the gravestone of his blues-singer lover in the 1950s South. “Time to make room for whatever coming next.” In the early scenes it all feels like black folks talking white. The incredible story-telling talents of Sayles, however, build this film into a satisfying documentation of the time when juke joints started giving way to the electronically amplified constructs of rhythm-and-blues, Chicago Blues, and that devil of all times, Elvis Presley.

KILLER OF SHEEP
(Rating: 4 by Al.)
An incredibly bluesy sound track, an incredibly low budget, and an often-inarticulate sound track cannot combine to stop this classic in its tracks. Here are black ghetto kids in the 1950s acting like their white counterparts— building forts, throwing dirt bombs, riding bicycles in silly combinations. Here, also, is a man who works in a sheep abattoir, trying to make ends meet and make meaning of his life. It’s all part of this incredibly beautiful vision that shows anyone with an interesting point of view can make a successful film.

THE KITE RUNNER
(Rating: 5 by Al)
We support the people who support great films. That’s how we got invited, as a Friend of the Detroit Film Theatre to see this film, two months before its opening. We’ll post a lengthy review of the whole thing well before Halloween (2007, Gregorian.)

LADY CHATTERLEY
(Rating: 9 by Al.)
Again with the Lady Chatterley story!!! This French interpretation wuz seen by Al at midnight during the 55th Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival. Beautiful, turgid, slow-moving and no car chases, this is not the film anyone should view at midnight after a long day. It does, nevertheless, have its charms and rewards. We’ll post Al’s agonizingly realized review of this film early-on in the coming days.

LAURA
(Rating: 6 by Al.)
Everyone’s in love with Laura…so which one of them killed her? A brilliant and delicious film noir that continues to give rewards with repeated viewings. The opening voice-over monologue alone is worth the price of admission— or, in this case, rental.

MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES
(Rating: 2 by Al.)
This is one of the most important films of our current days. We all need to view it and then take appropriate steps to save the Earth, only Home we have. Al says that this is the film you should see next, whatever you do!!!

MICHAEL CLAYTON
(Rating: 10 by Caryl and a pass, so far, by Al.)
Caryl characterizes this entertainment as “a showcase for George Clooney.” The Clayton character is a lawyer “fixer” who steps in to take care of the un-take-carable-of. Clayton is, however, in a deep hole himself, and how this all gets sorted out is…. predictable. Caryl calls this a mainstream film, and said to Al, along those lines…”you *have* to see it.”

PIERROT LE FOU
(Rating: 6 by Al.)
It’s gangster and gun doll on the run. It’s Godard slamming advertising and other social conventions. It’s sunshine and flowers and fun. And yet, when Jean-Paul Belmondo wraps those dynamite parcels to his head, we KNOW that it is not going to be a sunshine ending. (It’s Godard! What do you care that we might have spoilt the ending??!? Getting there is *at least* half the fun!!!)

THE PRINCESS OF NEBRASKA
(Rating: 6 by Al.)
Welllll, after Wayne Wong gets done with a highly structured film, he tolt us, prior to this screening, that he loves to do something totally unstructured…without even a script to guide it. Enter this film, a incompletely unstructured film about a high school girl in the USA— a modern pregnant Chinese girl who is toooo young to remember the impact of the events in Tiananmen Square.

RED RIVER
(Rating: 12 by Al.)

REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT
(Rating: 2 by Al.)
When you’re washed up and punch-drunk as a heavy-weight boxer, the world of opportunity shuts down alarmingly quickly. Who would *not* want to know about what happens to a boxer named Louis “Mountain” Rivera, a man who was, once upon a time, ranked Number Five in the world? Stunning performances by Mickey Rooney, Anthony Quinn, Julie Harris, Jackie Gleason, and Stanley Adams, among others.

ROCKET SCIENCE
(Ratings: 8 by Al and 17 by Caryl.)
A high school boy with a speech impediment gets sucked into the debating team by a high-powered girl who is trying to save the world…or at least get it into a better debating frame of mind. Slow-starting, but well worth not walking out on.

SALMAR FRA KJOKKENET [KITCHEN STORIES]
(Rating: 1 by Al.)
One of the best films our people saw at the 55th Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival, this film is witty and charming. It belongs on the list of “50 Films A.J. Would Watch Again.” Reviewed on the blog under the archive for October, 2007.

THE SHORT FILMS OF THE QUAY BROTHERS
(Rating: 5 by Al.)
Strange, familiar, archaic, modern, this retrospective of short films which the Quay brothers have constructed feels alien yet part of every dream we ever have had. Perhaps a wee bit too long, the retrospective nevertheless takes us into a myriad of places we have already visited in dreamland.

WAY DOWN EAST
(Rating: 3 by Al.)
Okay, this movie is just Totally entertaining. It features Andy Devine just before he perfected his sidekick role and Margaret Hamilton just before she perfected her Wicked Witch role. This entertainment also features an innocent Henry Fonda, and a heroine who is trapped on an ice floe. Starring an ensemble cast of an entire small town, this Henry King film, shown on a big screen at the 55th Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival, is a stunning verification of what the movies are all about!

WHERE GOD LEFT HIS SHOES
(Rating: 1 by Al.)
A down-on-his-luck boxer (and Gulf War veteran) tries to provide the one thing his wife and two kids disparately want for Christmas: their own apartment. This was the best film of seven that Al reports seeing at the 55th Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival last September in northern Spain. It will not be released in the USA until Christmastime. When it *is,* don’t miss seeing it. We’ll cover it off in great length in a blog post soon. Don’t miss seeing this film!!!