Review: The Journals of Knud Rasmussen
Posted by: Scott Hayes • September 29, 2006 @ 11:59am
As unconventional as the storytelling may be, The Journals of Knud Rasmussen is indeed a powerful recollection of not just a relevant event in the history of Inuit people, but also a stunning social document on who they were as a people not more than 100 years ago.
Review: The Journals of Knud Rasmussen
Posted by: Dean Kish • September 29, 2006 @ 11:59am
It's a bleak world in the Arctic.
In 1912, Danish explorers come upon a tribe of Inuit who are still embracing the old ways. Their traditions have been passed down from generation to generation and they really have no desire or drive to change.
Jon Heder stars as Roger, a meter maid who lacks self confidence, and all he wants in the world is to ask out his cute neighbor, Amanda (Jacinda Barrett).
Roger gets some advice from one of his friends about a class that helps people with self confidence and that the class did wonders for his friend.
The class is taught by the mysterious Dr.
There have been at least a thousand different films about arrogant rookies who endure basic training and make their new commanding officer proud. We have had army, air force, and marines, but has there ever been one about U.S.
Jon Heder is getting dangerously close to Will Farrell and Owen Wilson territory: playing the same character in every movie.
In School for Scoundrels, Heder is uber-nerd Roger. He works for the New York Parking Authority, handing out tickets for parking violations. He gets harrassed on the job, gets no respect from co-workers, and can't find the cajones to ask his neighbor out.
There have been so many movies made about World War II and so many of them are considered classics. Films like The Guns of Navarone, Midway, Dirty Dozen, and Saving Private Ryan are all considered classics of the war genre.
It has been nearly twenty years since Brian De Palma directed the landmark film of his career. That film garnered Sean Connery an Oscar, solidified up-incomer Kevin Costner as a leading man, and thrilled us with Robert DeNiro's portrayal of Al Capone. Who can forget that beautifully executed "baby carriage" scene? The film I am obviously talking about is 1987's The Untouchables.
The new relationship dramedy, The Last Kiss, is all about the last kisses we all have during different phases of relationships we have in life. You have the last kiss before an infidelity, the last kiss before a separation, the last kiss after a one-night stand, and so on.
How about that? A movie about young people that is actually intelligent and contains no fart scenes, all right, one fart scene.
You can thank Paul Haggis for that. He wrote the screenplay for The Last Kiss. Mr. Haggis also wrote the Oscar-winning movies Million Dollar Baby and Crash.
Based on a true story and on the 1993 documentary, The Gridiron Gang stars Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as Sean Porter, a counselor at a juvenile detention centre in Los Angeles.
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