Tag: Memento

• Favorite Films of 2001

  I’m creating my movie best-of lists retroactively. See all of them. We’re now over 20 years away from the films in question. This means my impressions of the ones I haven’t rewatched somewhat recently are encased in metaphorical amber, for better or worse. It also means I wouldn’t have seen a good number of them…

  April 10, 2022

  Film

  best of, film, lists, Lord of the Rings, Memento, movies, review

• Best Films of the 2000s

  The Lives of Others (2006) – A German film about a surveillance expert who spies on a playwright in Communist Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall, The Lives of Others won the Best Foreign film at the Oscars and for good reason. Unbearably suspenseful and surprisingly moving, The Lives of Others shows that…

  December 30, 2009

  Film

  Children of Men, In America, Memento, Once, review, The Lives of Others, Unbreakable, WALL-E, Zodiac

• The Prestige

  The Prestige is a film about magicians and their illusions, but it is also an illusion itself. In the film and in magic, we are first shown the Pledge; a seemingly ordinary scenario that we will assume is probably not so ordinary. Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) and Rupert Angier (Hugh Jackman) two rival magicians who…

  October 22, 2006

  Film

  Batman Begins, Christian Bale, Christopher Nolan, Hugh Jackman, Memento, Michael Caine, movies, review, Scarlett Johansson, The Prestige