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[Nidhi]

In the name of the Father (1993). I saw this old one on cable. It is a great movie based on a true story of how an irish family is wrongly implicated & imprisoned as irish terrorists. The biased, uncompromising and unrelenting approach of the British Police, shows them in poor light, as they were aware of the actual terrorists. The trials & tribulations that the innocents undergo in proving their innocence after 15 years is the story line. Great acting by Daniel Day Lewis.

Rumor of Angels(2000): A sentimental movie about the friendship between a boy & an old lady(Vanessa Redgrave) who helps him in getting over the tragedy of having lost his mother in an accident.

Just like Heaven(2005): A sweet romantic movie. The romance is between the ghost of a lady in coma & the new tenant in her apartment. It stars Reese Witherspoon.

We own the night(2007): Cops & Drug lords stuff starring Mark Wahlburg & Joaquim Phoenix. It is the routine hollywood stuff.

I am still to see the following 2007 movies: 'Eastern Promises', 'Gone Baby Gone', 'The Assassination of Jesse James', No Country for Old men', 'He was a Quiet Man', 'In the Valley of Elah', 'Into the Wild', 'Michael Clayton' & 'Atonement'. I have all these on divx format. The convenience of having a standalone dvd player that plays divx too is that one can record 6 english movies of good quality on a single dvd disc & watch them at leisure.

This post has been edited by Nidhi: Jun 30 2008, 08:14 AM

[mmuk2004]

Black Dahlia(2006)

Oomphy atmosphere of LA in the 1940s.

Based loosely on the real, famous unsolved mystery of the "Black Dahlia murder" of a girl savagely murdered in Los Angeles, the movie is actually based on a fictional book by James Ellroy. It is about two LAPD detectives, Bucky and Lee, nicknamed Fire and Ice, (Josh Hartnett and Aaron Eckhart) who are pursuing the case of a child rapist, but when the dismembered, mutilated body of an aspiring actress, Elizabeth Short, is discovered thrown in a field, Lee becomes obsessed with the case and switches him and his partner to this other case. Scarlett Johansson is Lee's fiance and there is the typical noir complication of the attraction between her and Bucky. She looks gorgeous hidden behind the fumes of her ever-present cigarette in her period costumes and hairstyle. Her role and acting are not ultimately punchy enough tho. Hillary Swank as the nervous, haggard femme fatale is superb... The film is gorgeously atmospheric, playing the noir features of light and shade, the cigarette fumes, the jazz music and the hard-boiled dark underworld that still manages to shock you with its revelations, to the hilt. Brian de Palma builds the atmosphere perfectly but somehow the movie is not satisfying. It has to do with the ending, which though dramatic enough, is too fantastic and neat. A must see for noir fans though.