basmotor.blogg.se - Shawshank Redemption Quotes Rehabilitation

My parents had a long-standing and quite firm policy of not allowing me to watch R-rated films until I was 17. In 1994, I began my senior year of high school and started to spread my movie-viewing wings.

(Kieslowski’s work remains on my ever growing to-see list, especially The Dekalog.)īut the one film I didn’t include in the above 1994 list (!!!) is the one I’m going to talk about – The Shawshank Redemption (written and directed by Frank Darabont based on the Stephen King novella). I am ashamed (proud?) to say I have seen zero of them and made it through 2-plus years of film snobbery. I assume this is a great trilogy, since I was required to watch all of them before starting at the American Film Institute. It was also the year of the legendary Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Whitefollowed by Red, ending his renowned “Three Colors” Triology. (Several of the above movies will be written about in the future…) The above lists can only be followed by this: !!! That’s right – three exclamation points.

The Crow (where Brandon Lee plays, posthumously, a character who is posthumous).

1994 was all Jim Carrey, all the time: Dumb & Dumber AND Ace Ventura: Pet DetectiveAND The Mask.

Ang Lee’s awesomely entitled Eat Drink Man Woman.

Wong Kar-Wai’s kinetic Chungking Express.

Leon(also known as The Professional, featuring a pubescent Natalie Portman).

Hoop Dreams(started its run in 1993 I believe).

It was an incredible year for movies, one of the best in recent memory for American studio and independent films. So instead, let’s go to 1994 – which, astounding to me, is now seventeen years ago. But it’s so obvious that I’m going to have to hold off on it for a few posts to get warmed up.

For those of you who know me (which I assume is all six of you since you’re reading from the inception of this weblogging endeavor), the obvious pick for me to begin writing about my favorite movies would be Star Wars.