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Carolina (2003)
Charming
Not a masterpiece, even a great movie, but very worth watching. Quite good performances too, specially from MacLaine, as always, and Stiles, who deserves a challenging role right now, and not two scenes in The Bourne Supremacy. And well, it's that an American romantic comedy doesn't treat the public as stupids, which isn't completely surprising, but it's great to know that, sometimes, they can make it better than anyone. Because it wouldn't be so charming if it were an European film, it would be more cynical... (despite the fact that Carolina is directed by a dutch woman).
Anyway, in a perfect world, there would be more movies like this one.
Lost and Delirious (2001)
Short of almost everything
I felt very disappointed with this movie; and not because the topic; the fact is that this is a poor film; the story is completely underdeveloped; only the Piper Perabo's character (who makes a quite good work) seems to matter. It's true that Mischa Barton didn't show any interesting skill in her interpretation to hope that she'll become more than the pretty, stupid girl of O.C. (a very camp, funny TV series, anyway). But I think that Jessica Paré deserved more screen time. She makes, along with the old professor, the best works in this movie; but anyway, they can't save this, in fact, bland and unrealistic film. And what a ridiculous ending...
Well... I hope that sometime Denys Arcand's Stardom will be released here in Spain, if only because the huge art-house hit that Les Invasions Barbares was here, to enjoy a bit more of this gorgeous actress that is Jessica Paré. And if you want to watch a lesbian film, not a cinematographic poem in the vein of the most unbearable XIX's romantic writer, pick Fucking Amal, instead. F.A. shows life, not tragical monologues.
Broadcast News (1987)
Albert Brooks deserved the oscar over Sean Connery
I didn't like "As Good as it Gets" very much, but I am a big fan of William Hurt and Holly Hunter's work, so I decided to watch this movie. And the most surprising thing for me was the superb work of Albert Brooks. Here, in Spain, he's little-known, and only as a 2nd division version of Woody Allen in the West Coast. He played a great part, but Hunter and Hurt were good too, specially Hurt, in an relatively unusual role for him. Hunter played the role that reminds me a bit of her part in "Once Around" (Lasse Hallstrom, 1991).
Finally, the rest of the cast is great, too. Robert Prosky, one of these familiar faces of the american cinema, the ex-bond girl Lois Chiles, pretty good placed on that role, I think, the always perfect Joan Cusack in her early years; and specially the brief appereance of Jack Nicholson. Maybe he doesn't have any good scene, but it's Jack Nicholson, anyway... The Best movie by James L.Brooks, great story (well resolved), and superb cast for one of the, surely, best movies of the 80's