Saturday 22 November 2003

Lantana (2001 Ray Lawrence)

 With Anthony LaPaglia, Rachel Blake, Kerry Armstrong.

DP Mandy Walker.

Excellent. Good music.

Anger Management (2003 Peter Segal)

Jack Nicholson, Adam Sandler, Marisa Tomei, Luis Guzman.

Got funnier as it went along, apparently.

Bringing Down the House (2003 Adam Shankman)

Steve Martin, Queen Latifah, Eugene Levy, Joan Plowright.

Good fun. (Can't remember a thing about it now.)

Edited by Jerry Greenberg

Sunday 16 November 2003

The One and Only (2002 Simon Cellan Jones)

Newcastle kitchen builder with cute African child wins pregnant girl. OK.

Justine Waddell, Richard Roxburgh, Jonathan Cake, Patsy Kensit.

DP Remi Adefarasin, composer Gabriel Yared, editor Pia di Ciaula.

I didn't realise at the time it's a remake of Susanne Bier's original Den Eneste Ene (1999) with Borgen's Sidse Babett Knudsen and The Killing's Sofie Gråbøl (not, unfortunately, subtitled for English).

Hable Con Ella / Talk To Her (2002 Pedro Almodóvar & scr)

 Javier Camara good in the lead, good story. Screenplay won Oscar.