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Mulholland Dr. (2001)
Irritating!
I'm baffled as to why so many reviews here praise this film while admitting it makes no sense! Do you ENJOY sitting in a dark room for two and a half hours waiting for a story to emerge? I can handle a cerebral film or two, but I've GOT to be able to draw a theme from it!Without a story, this absurd film is just another Hollywood excuse to splash sex on the screen. Sorry Mr. Lynch, strangeness does NOT equal ingenuity.
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Perfect Title
This film's title is PERFECT. Eyes Wide Shut. I cannot think of anything more clever, intriguing or fitting. It plays off a common phrase yet makes us read it twice, it abbreviates the film's theme in three words, and it summons creepy, somewhat erotic images of sexual misbehavior.
Xi yang jing (2000)
Chinese "Nuovo Cinema Paradiso"
This is a beautiful, funny, vivid film. It's even better than "Nuovo Cinema Paradiso" -- which it parallels but doesn't replicate. The story completes a full circle and had the theater beaming as the credits rolled. A hundred years after this story takes place, we're just as intrigued by flickering images in a dark theater.