Who doesn’t love a movie list? Whether it’s super specific sub-genre, like I don’t know – time travel films, or a fun list like “Top 10 Weepy Breakup Films to Eat a Pint of Ice Cream During”, there’s enough of them out there. So it was interesting when this one…
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Lost In La Mancha (2002)
Lost in La Mancha chronicles director Terry Gilliam’s (Time Bandits, Brazil) attempt to make “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” a long simmering project close to the director’s heart. Johnny Depp was to star in the movie as Toby Grisoni, an advertising executive from the future that is transported in time to…
Chocolat (2000)
Chocolat (2000) directed by Lasse Hallström tells the story of a insular French village in the late 1950s that finds it’s conservative attitudes and morality challenged when a young single mother and her child come to town and open a Chocolateir. Juliette Binoche’s character Vianne quickly becomes the lightning rod…
The Man Who Cried (2000)
Director Sally Potter wrote and directed this story about a young Jewish Fegele Abramovich and her struggle to reconnect to her identity and find her father. The story opens in 1927 in a small Jewish village in Russia where Fegele and her father live. A villager returning from the United…
Before Night Falls (2000)
Johnny Depp turns up in this 2000 film from director Julian Schnabel in two small, but pivotal roles. Before Night Falls examines the life and death of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas in a series of vignettes from his life. Javier Bardem plays Arenas with the great emotion, conveying not only Reinaldo’s sexual…
The Brave (1997)
Johnny Depp’s directorial debut The Brave (1997) tells the story of Raphael (Depp), a young Native American father who, out of desperation, makes a pact with a sadistic McCarthy (Marlon Barndo) to be tortured and killed in exchange for $50,000. The film premiered at Cannes in 1997 to standing ovations , yet devastatingly bad reviews…
Happy Birthday Johnny!
Happy Birthday to Johnny Depp who turns 50 today – June 9th. If that isn’t hard enough to fathom, chew on this – the man has been acting in film and tv for THIRTY years. Yup you read that right. 30 years. I’ve been falling behind on my year long…
S is for Satire and Sarcasm
Satire (n) –1) the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc. 2) a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn derision or ridicule. At an early age, long before I could…
M is for Movies
Here we are at the halfway mark in the month long A to Z Challenge. On the one hand, I am like “Wow, it’s half way done!” and on the other hand, I am like “What do you mean we’re only half way done!”. For the letter M I thought…
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
In the same year that saw Depp hit the screens in John Water’s Cry-Baby, the actor was busy teaming up with another eccentric director with a very distinct style – Tim Burton. Having previously directed the off-beat and commercially successful, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985) and Beetle Juice (1988), Burton was…