The Movie Book

SMALL WORLD 279 Frank Darabont Director The child of Hungarian immigrants, Frank Darabont was born in 1959 in a refugee camp in ...

280 What else to watch: Monsters, Inc. (2001) ■ The Incredibles (2004) ■ Toy Story 2 (1999) ■ Ratatouille (2007) ■ WA LL·E (2008 ...

SMALL WORLD 281 IT’S NOT HOW YOU FALL THAT MATTERS. IT’S HOW YOU LAND LA HAINE / 1995 What else to watch: The 400 Blows (1959, p ...

282 I’M NOT SURE I AGREE WITH YOU ONE HUNDRED PERCENT ON YOUR POLICE WORK THERE, LOU FARGO / 1996 F argo is a tragic farce that ...

SMALL WORLD 283 What else to watch: Blood Simple (1984, p.339) ■ Miller’s Crossing (1990) ■ The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) ■ The Big ...

284 What else to watch: Short Cuts (1993) ■ Exotica (1994) ■ Breaking the Waves (1996) ■ Ararat (2002) ■ Mystic River (2003) ■ 2 ...

SMALL WORLD 285 I MISS MY FATHER CENTRAL STATION / 1998 O n its release in 1998, Walter Salles’s breakout hit was immediately no ...

286 HERE’S TO THE MAN WHO KILLED MY SISTER FESTEN / 1998 O n March 13, 1995, a group of Danish filmmakers came together to creat ...

SMALL WORLD 287 What else to watch: The 400 Blows (1959, pp.150–55) ■ À bout de souffle (1960, pp.166– 67) ■ Breaking the Waves ...

288 EVERYONE’S FEAR TAKES ON A LIFE OF ITS OWN RINGU / 1998 A s with many Western horrors— Poltergeist (1982) and The Blair Witc ...

SMALL WORLD 289 The teen-horror element initially seems to be a misdirect, since Ringu quite quickly becomes a detective yarn, w ...

A SWORD BY ITSELF RULES NOTHING. IT ONLY COMES ALIVE IN SKILLED HANDS CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON / 2000 ...

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292 CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON M ovies including Sense and Sensibility (1995), The Ice Storm (1997), and Ride With the Devil ...

SMALL WORLD 293 00:06 Shu Lien delivers the legendary sword Green Destiny to Sir Te in Beijing. There she meets the young Jen Yu ...

294 CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON confess their feelings. Both are constrained by notions of honor. These unspoken desires heig ...

SMALL WORLD 295 Lien live by. She is contemptuous of their self-discipline, or as she sees it, their self-repression. “Stop talk ...

296 YOU DON’T REMEMBER YOUR NAME? SPIRITED AWAY / 2001 T he animators at Tokyo’s Studio Ghibli—chief among them cofounder Hayao ...

SMALL WORLD 297 Hayao Miyazaki Director Hayao Miyazaki was born in Tokyo in 1941; he and his family were evacuated to escape the ...

298 I LIKE TO LOOK FOR THINGS NO-ONE ELSE CATCHES AMÉLIE / 2001 A fter enjoying critical success in France, Jean- Pierre Jeunet’ ...