At The Movies with Jane

in-depth film commentaries from a unique and mythical point of view

  • Adaptation
  • All The Real Girls
  • Amelie
  • Basic
  • Blue Crush
  • Bridget Jones’s Diary
  • Casa de Los Babys
  • Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind
  • Crash
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  • Dirty Pretty Things
  • Elephant
  • Frida
  • The Hours
  • In America
  • Kill Bill I and II
  • Lost Highway
  • The Manchurian Candidate
  • Master and Commander
  • Matrix Reloaded
  • Memento
  • Monster
  • Mystic River
  • No Man’s Land
  • Personal Velocity
  • The Pianist
  • The Princess and The Warrior
  • Quiet American
  • Run Lola Run
  • Safe
  • Solaris
  • Secretary
  • The Silence Of The Lambs
  • Talk To Her
  • Vanilla Sky
  • Vendredi Soir (Friday Night)
  • Y Tu Mama Tambien

    and

  • Cinemashrink: AIDS Movies
  • Cinemashrink on Animal Rights
  • Sightings of a Global Feminine Hero
  • The Feminine Trickster Hero In Contemporary Cinema
a thinking-person’s quick guide to current cinema

 

 

 

  • “The Secretary dramatizes the healing power of the one who gives in.”

     

  • “In Blue Crush, a teen-age girl doesn’t just do the usual and come of age. She becomes a woman.”

     

  • Memento rides Oscar momentum so, hurry, catch it up on the big screen. See if you can figure out who killed Lenny’s life —— oops, I meant wife.”

     

  • “Worried about your weight and feeling sorry for yourself? Put all the bad stuff in your diary and take all the good stuff to the office!” Bridget Jones’s Diary

     

  • No Man’s Land tells you everything you never wanted to know about war, making you shake your fist at the sky and shout ‘there’s got to be a better way’.”

     

  • “Romance, by definition, ends in tragedy. Think Romeo and Juliet. But love lasts forever. Think Casablanca.

     

  • “Forget the critics, Vanilla Sky is a wake up call you don’t want to miss.”

     

  • “Honey, take your honey. Amelie is a four star date movie.”