Kaze's Movie Notes: Archive 13

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) *****
Maybe filmdom’s most ambitious meditation on man in the universe. Demanding on your time and patience, it repays you with mystery and transcendence. After 40 years, still the rarest of movies.

Tears of the Sun (2003) ****
Bruce Willis at his grim best, leading his Navy SEALs and a ragtag bunch of Nigerian refugees through the sopping jungle, with genocidal rebels in pursuit. War hokum, but it grabs you.

In Bruges (2008) ****
Tightrope walking between gangster doings and farce, here’s a kind of quirky Irish cousin to “Pulp Fiction.” This is a far better movie. Ralph Fiennes’s accent uncannily like the GEICO gecko’s.

Microcosmos (1996) ****
A reminder that the world is full of wonders. We’re allowed to see and hear in startling close-up the lives of everyday creatures in woods and meadows. Food for jaded eyes and ears.

Fort Apache (1948) *****
A cavalry picture, one of Ford’s great “print the legend” parables of the West, made in the decade following WWII when screen westerns reached their zenith. Fonda, Wayne, Monument Valley.