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Naked
Fame - Filmmaker Christopher Long is really grasping
at desperate straws to make a movie out of this story.
Napoleon
Dynamite - Is quirky and funny.
Narc
- One of the most interesting and engrossing crime dramas
to appear in a number of years.
National
Lampoon's Van Wilder - may not be the best movie
ever made, but it has some really hilarious gross-out
jokes that are sure to evoke laughs.
National
Treasure - A warm and wonderful action film that
takes "Indiana Jones" style action and gives it the
kick of American history.
Natural
Selection -
I imagine that the filmmakers will say that it was their
intent to mock everything about the pop cultural phenomenon
of serial killers. What would be next, a send up of
Columbine?
The
Nature of Nicholas - One of the things that keeps
the film from seeming derogatory and incorrect is that
it is set in what appears to be the 60's.
Neil
Young: Heart of Gold -
This may very well be the greatest visual document of
Young's work ever.
Never
Again - The set-up and boldness of the characters
is really awesome.
Never
Talk to Strangers - I shouldn't be so mean, but,
damn it, this movie has some potential which it blows
massively.
The
Newton Boys - It is a good film that should be more
involved, more penetrating.
The
Next Best Thing - The whole film is about as unpalatable
as beef tips in chocolate pudding.
Next
Friday - This thing rocks. I would try to do my
whole review in cool, hip, urban, gangsta lingo except
I really don't know how to talk like that.
Nico
and Dani - Takes on a "coming of age/coming out"
story that I haven't really ever seen explored before.
Nicholas
Nickleby - This epic, novelesque telling of the
classic Charles Dickens tale is as heart-breaking as
it is heart-warming.
A
Night at the Roxbury - Light fluff comedy that is
nothing more than mind candy.
Stephen
King's The Night Flier - Has some interesting ideas
and it tries to mean something.
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
- Complicated and elliptical conversations all
but call out their hatred and bigotry
Night of the Living Dead
(1990) - Savini's version is as terrifying and as
original as the Romero black and white.
The
Night of the White Pants - This film’s plot and
dialogue ring as false as an electronic plastic Christmas
bell.
Nina
Simone: Love Sorceress - Forget punk posturing,
forget Jim Morrison's poetic superiority complex, Simone
is the real thing.
Nine Days of One Year - We are generally drawn into
the story by the characters here and not by the scientific
aspects of the plot.
9
Dead Gay Guys - The gay "Snatch."
Nine
Months - This movie is for women. It never misses
an opportunity to make the males look bad.
Nine
Queens - No, this isn't a film about a gay baseball
team!
9
Songs - Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll: The Movie
Nobody
Knows - Slow, languid and meditative.
NODANCE
Shorts Program #2
- Including: Moses vs. Jesus, Studio Notes, Let'sMeet
Johnny, Bathtub Bully,The Good Heart.
Noi
the Albino - Unreels slowly, paces itself perfectly
in tune with its plot and setting, and slowly grows
upon us.
The
Nomi Song - What is most amazing about this film
is the inordinate amount of footage of Nomi that is
included.
Northfork
- A disappointing effort from The Polish Brothers whose
"Twin Falls, Idaho" really impressed me a couple years
ago.
North
Shore - This teen adventure surfing drama is really
kinda neat.
No
Skin Off My Ass- I
no longer feel any need to make my own movies. I no
longer feel I have anything necessary to say. I have
seen my movie. I have experienced the best that film
has to offer. I have a new queer filmmaking hero and
his name is Bruce La Bruce.
Nostradamus
- One can't really be sure how much of this is really
based in fact.
Not
Another Teen Movie - Like "Scary Movie" and "Airplane"
before it, this film skewers a genre of films almost
flawlessly.
The Notebook - Watch
the first hour. Tell yourself they live happily ever
after and walk out of the theater.
Nothing
to Lose - This is a film that would of been heralded
as "socially aware" in 1977. In 1997 it seems contrived,
simplistic, and almost politically incorrect.
The
Notorious Bettie Page - Does an incredible job of
presenting Bettie's story, albeit in the language of
independent film.
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