http://filmjournal.net/100films 12 months. 100 films. Hopefully. Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:35:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 1996 | Kenneth Branagh | 232 mins | DVD | PG / PG-13 Following his success with Henry V and Much Ado About Nothing, Kenneth Branagh tackled arguably Shakespeare's most revered play, Hamlet. And he didn't do it by half. It's the first ever full-text screen adaptation, which means it clocks ... http://filmjournal.net/100films/2008/08/21/50-hamlet-1996/ 2008 | Julian Jarrold | 133 mins | cinemas | 12A / PG-13 I've not seen the miniseries and I've not read the book, but I do know that both are considerably longer than Jarrold's two-and-a-quarter hours film. So why does it feel so slow? Perhaps it's the pair of opening ... http://filmjournal.net/100films/2008/08/19/49-brideshead-revisited-2008/ 2008 | Andrew Stanton | 98 mins | cinema | U / G "Pixar films" seem to have become a bit of a genre unto themselves -- yes, they fit into "animation" (always dubious as a genre), "family" (almost as bad), "comedy", and occasionally a few others, but, much as the ... http://filmjournal.net/100films/2008/08/08/48-wall-e-2008/ 2008 | Christopher Nolan | 152 mins | IMAX | 12A / PG-13 One of the joys of spending five weeks of this summer in New York is that I have the opportunity to see anything that's out in the US before the UK early. I haven't entirely used this to ... http://filmjournal.net/100films/2008/08/05/48a-the-dark-knight-the-imax-experience-2008/ 2008 | Doug Sweetland | 5 mins | cinema | U / G The last Pixar film I bothered to head to the cinema for was 1999's Toy Story 2, back in the days before "it's made by Pixar" was reason enough to see a film (remember those times? They seem ... http://filmjournal.net/100films/2008/07/31/47b-presto-2008/ 2007 / 2008 | Francis Lawrence | 104 mins | Blu-ray | 15 This review contains spoilers. I only watched the theatrical version of I Am Legend earlier this year (it's #35), but, for reasons I won't elaborate on for once, I've found myself watching this alternate version already. Most of the comments ... http://filmjournal.net/100films/2008/07/29/47a-i-am-legend-alternate-theatrical-version-20072008/ I don't normally do "coming up" posts here, but as I'm a few reviews behind and don't really know when I'll catch up I thought I'd let y'all know that I've recently seen... #47a: I Am Legend: Alternate Theatrical Version (2007/2008) Mildly different, and proportionately superior, version of I Am Legend. #47b: Presto ... http://filmjournal.net/100films/2008/07/26/coming-soon/ 2008 | Christopher Nolan | 152 mins | cinema | 12A / PG-13 The Dark Knight -- the sixth film in the modern Batman series (though not connected to the first four) -- comes with a heavy weight of expectation on its back. It's the sequel to the last film, Batman ... http://filmjournal.net/100films/2008/07/20/47-the-dark-knight-2008/ To quote my own recent review of Wanted: "I spent much of the film presuming it would finish on an open-ended note, as the structure reminded me of films like X-Men and Iron Man: all set-up and origin story... done with an eye (or, indeed, both eyes) on a sequel. ... http://filmjournal.net/100films/2008/07/16/wanted-more/ 2008 | Timur Bekmambetov | 110 mins | cinema | 18 / R Did you see the trailer for Wanted? Did you think the loopy, somewhat Matrix-y stunts -- like bending bullets, driving cars into trains, and numerous others -- looked cool? Did you want to see more? If the answer ... http://filmjournal.net/100films/2008/07/11/46-wanted-2008/