http://blog.lib.umn.edu/npaul/okok/ because you don't exist if you don't en-us 2005-01-18T20:17:45-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/npaul/okok/014072.html Wow. I was not expecting this. There is a plot twist here that knocked the wind out of me. This is a "small" movie, low budget, pure story, no flash or special effects, and it really shows how all the... Movies npaul 2005-01-18T20:17:45-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/npaul/okok/014071.html I was prepared to like this ok....how could they really do Kate Hepburn without making it a horrible caricature, and I'm so over Leonardo DiCaprio. But I was seduced. It was like being in a time machine, you were there... Movies npaul 2005-01-18T20:07:33-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/npaul/okok/014070.html Spencer and I went to see this on a frosty Saturday afternoon. It is fun, easy to watch, matinee material. Nothing particularly challenging to it, the characters are charming and true and I liked that the did not tie up... Movies npaul 2005-01-18T19:53:20-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/npaul/okok/014069.html Last Thursday IFC local had a benefit... a showing of the Sean Penn movie "The Assassination of Richard Nixon" with a Q&A afterward with the director and writer Niels Mueller. Sean Penn has got to be one of the top... Movies npaul 2005-01-18T19:50:42-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/npaul/okok/014067.html In many ways this was a film like Schnidler's List - a very powerful and personal story of a person who was able to find inner resources to meet a horrific situation. The entire cast did an amazing job but... Movies npaul 2005-01-18T19:35:39-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/npaul/okok/013194.html The movie got a terrible review - so it was really more fun than I expected it to be. Ben Stiller and Robert Deniro are such good foils for each other. But you can definitely wait til it is out... Movies npaul 2004-12-30T20:38:54-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/npaul/okok/013193.html I go to the "alternative" movie theater a lot. They had been showing the preview for Life Aquatic for the past three months - I was sick of it, but intrigued by the movie and really looked forward to seeing... Movies npaul 2004-12-30T20:31:56-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/npaul/okok/013192.html I see a lot of movies. This is the first one I've been to in years that people applauded at the end. It was a beautifully done bio-pic - even if you didn't know or care who Bobby Darin is... Movies npaul 2004-12-30T20:27:34-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/npaul/okok/013191.html You know how you usually say, "The book was better." In this case "the play was better." This Phantom dragged and you really realized how boring the music is. Plus, the Phantom was way too sexy and not at all... Movies npaul 2004-12-30T20:23:35-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/npaul/okok/012916.html Anne invited me to a preview of the new movie with whatshername from Amalie. I'd seen the previews and presumed, from the selected scenes shown, that this would be a standard sort of "romance split apart by war" and that... Movies npaul 2004-12-20T22:31:08-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/npaul/okok/012914.html I think the best parts of this movie are Jim Carrey and the art direction. The story was clever, but dragged in some parts. But it was very fun to watch - you couldn't really tell a time period. I... Movies npaul 2004-12-20T22:26:26-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/npaul/okok/012913.html Johnny Depp is by far my favorite actor. He transforms himself for every role. In this movie he is James Barrie and he has become Scottish, impish, and totally adorable. While there are certainly some liberties taken with the record,... Movies npaul 2004-12-20T22:24:32-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/npaul/okok/012802.html wow. this was a really seductive movie - I had no idea what the movie was about except it was this guy that hadn't slept in a year and it appears someone is out to get him. I won't say... Movies npaul 2004-12-17T19:03:45-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/npaul/okok/012800.html Franco Zefferelli's love letter to Maria Callas is a wonderful movie experience for opera lovers and those who just admire interesting women. While this is by no means any kind of accurate biography, and doesn't claim to be, the portrait... Movies npaul 2004-12-17T18:58:04-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/npaul/okok/012705.html This year's Waking Ned Levine - cute village with quaint people doing clever things to pull something over on someone. In this case it was trying to get a doctor to come to this remote maritime village so they can... Movies npaul 2004-12-15T21:51:37-06:00