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5. Adaptation. What a lovely movie. I own it. First time I've watched it since the theatre.
What colossal gall on the part of Charlie Kaufmann though, writing a movie about himself.
And not just about himself, but about TWO of himselfs. Man. Some nice lines, but the gall. Oh, the gall.

4. Me, You, And Everyone We Know. I think this is Collette's DVD. It's funny, hilarious actually. Combines the blunt oddity of Little Miss Sunshine with the searing reality behind The Squid And The Whale. A touch of goofy artistic flare from Miranda July makes this movie really worth quoting (see upcoming post). Warning: this movie can be unflinching in looking at its subjects' indecency sometimes. Definitely R-rated for naughty dialogue.

3. Duma. The heartwarming story of a boy and his father and his cheetah cub and his father dying and his mom moving them to the city and the cheetah following and the boy running away with the cheetah to take it back to the wild and the boy and his cheetah overcoming many challenges and surviving dangers and eventually both of them getting home where they belong. Like I said, heartwarming. Seriously though, a great movie. I love cheetahs.

2. The Proposition. A screenplay and soundtrack by Nick Cave tells the epic and poetic story of a gang of outlaw brothers turned against each other by the strong-willed machinations of a British immigrant sherriff trying to make the Outback safe for his wife and their friends. Beautiful and surprising, this film is the first from Australia to actually deal with the reality of 19th century race relations in the Outback. A warning though, that the reason this movie can explore the morality of corporal punishment and frontier justice in such an effective and poignant way is that brutal, gory violence is seen throughout the film. If you can stomach film gore, see this film, because it is amazing. And while it is violent and emotionally brutal at times, it has no sex, because that's how Nick Cave likes his movies.

1. The Cutter. Chuck Norris combs the streets of Spokane, engaging in deadly combat with a handsome German super-assassin and master of disguise, in an attempt to rescue both the devastatingly beautiful jewel cutter girl and the jewel-encrusted priestly Ephod found during a remote archeological dig in southern Israel and entrusted to her by her master jewel cutter uncle before his kidnapping at the hands of the diabolical super-nazi war criminal Speerman. This one sells itself.