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Lucas Lacámara: Filmography

09 Sep 10
Almost Famous

Possibly my favorite coming-of-age film of all time.

Almost Famous

The biggest question running through my head after this movie was whether or not it was more epic than awesome or more awesome than epic. I eventually decided on "epically awesome."

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
26 Jul 10
Mallrats

I don't care what anyone says, this movie made me laugh.

Mallrats
20 Jul 10
Despicable Me

Cute. Pretty forgettable, though.

Despicable Me
20 Jul 10
Inception

I'm currently attempting to straighten my mind from the massive bending that this film did to it.

Inception
10 Jul 10
Cyrus

Very interesting film. I liked the acting a lot, especially from Jonah Hill and Marisa Tomei, and the writing was subtle and dramatically funny, if that's a thing. The Duplass Brothers should have gotten a different DP for this one, though.

Cyrus
05 Jul 10
The Room

The finest piece of cinematic brilliance ever laid before the motion picture screen.

The Room

Now here's a film that achieves what it sets out to accomplish. This is a well-acted and well-written biopic of Émile Zola that succeeds in retelling the infamous Dreyfus Affair.

The Life of Emile Zola
19 Jun 10
The Broadway Melody

Simply a hackneyed excuse to have sound in a film. No more. No less.

The Broadway Melody
19 Jun 10
Cimarron

What a terribly written, badly acted, and ironically racist movie. This won Best Picture... how?

Cimarron
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    I'd contest the 'ironically racist', except in one very early scene at the dining-table, which is in the stock idiom of the time, but doesn't care. Usually it does care. It tries very hard to deal with racism, works it into the script as an ongoing problem, and counters it with big mixed crowd scenes - as well as Richard Dix making speeches, obviously. A shame the Big Pioneer Man is never blamed for anything and it's all shuffled off on nasty rough guys and women with not enough in their purty little heads.... It's not perfect, but it tries, and for 1931 that's creditable, no?

16 Jun 10
Broken Flowers

This and Rushmore are Bill Murray's best attempts at any possible type of foray into dramatic acting (which is not meant to disparage his comedic acting at all, that's obviously great stuff).

Broken Flowers
14 Jun 10
The Graduate

A close contender for my favorite film of all time. You can literally spend an entire afternoon just going through it shot by shot and analyzing it on an artistic/intellectual level (which I've done haha).

The Graduate
12 Jun 10
To Die For

I am baffled why nobody ever talks about this film. It's my personal favorite Gus Van Sant film, although its primarily great because of its darkly-hilarious screenplay by Buck Henry (one of my favorite screenwrights). I also have to mention that this is one of the few times that Nicole Kidman didn't annoy me, in fact she was fantastic in it. Fantastic all-round!

To Die For

He did it! He got him to the Greek! God, I love twist endings.

Get Him to the Greek

Quirky, funny, subtle, this is defintely Jarmusch's best. Its mise-en-scène alone is enough to make you love this film, bolstered by fantastic cinematography by Tom DiCillo.

Stranger Than Paradise
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02 Jun 10
Down by Law

I really should re-watch this, because it was without a doubt one of the (surprisingly) nicest cinematic experiences I've had.

Down by Law
02 Jun 10
American Beauty

Look at Sam Mendes trying to be all artsy! I find new reasons to like this film every time I watch it.

American Beauty

Very Spinal Tap, but it's real and you actually start to care for the well-being of the band.

Anvil! The Story of Anvil
10 May 10
Iron Man 2

Not nearly as good as the first one, but it was still entertaining and had some good action sequences. I definitely like Don Cheadle a lot more as Rhodes than Terrence Howard, but Sam Rockwell was a bit too annoying for my taste.

Iron Man 2
09 May 10
Moon

Fantastic stuff. I love the mixture of sci-fi and poignant character study, and Sam Rockwell is great in it.

Moon
03 May 10
Slaughterhouse-Five

A great adaptation, but why aren't there any Tralfamadorians hopping around?

Slaughterhouse-Five
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11 Apr 10
Spellbound

An interesting Hitchcock film. It's main problem is that it doesn't seem to know what to do with its surrealism. I guess Hitchcock's thoughts on the film sum it up best: "Well, it's just another manhunt story wrapped in pseudo-psychology."

Spellbound
09 Apr 10
Hype!

A fantastic documentary about the Grunge movement (oops, they don't like it to be called a movement, so apologies all around).

Hype!

I honestly didn't know what to think of this film. Throughout the entire movie I was trying to decipher what the point of it all was, but I obviously failed. It also claims to be historically accurate, despite the fact that Clooney's character is apparently an amalgam of two real people. Having said that, it had a funny screenplay and the actors were great at comedic timing, so all in all it entertained me.

The Men Who Stare at Goats
09 Apr 10
The Messenger

In my opinion, much like The Hurt Locker, this film goes beyond any war film that I've seen recently. There's something very personal and human about this film, most likely stemming from the highly vulnerable way that they present their characters, which I respect greatly and which transcends it beyond the title of a "war film." One of the best of '09.

The Messenger

Capra at his best. The chemistry between Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert is almost unparalleled, the writing is phenominal, and Capra's direction is fantastic as usual.

It Happened One Night
31 Mar 10
Withnail and I

One of the best by Handmade Films. Not a perfect movie, but its oddly funny and Richard E. Grant is great in it.

Withnail and I
29 Mar 10
The Wolfman

Actually better than I thought it was going to be. The action was really good, the special effects were great, and I liked the whole mindf**k aspect of it. Having said that, I also thought that the script drudged on and didn't feel concise and well-put-together. It entertained me, though.

The Wolfman
24 Mar 10
Hamlet

Best adaptation of the play by far.

Hamlet
24 Mar 10
The Informant!

A generally good movie. I think that it suffers from an overly dense script and the fact that Soderbergh can be really full of himself sometimes, but if you pay attention its funny and interesting. P.S.: Cinematography FTW.

The Informant!