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2013

Someone to Watch Over Me (aka I skuggan av ett brott) (SVT 1, 130525): Rating: TTT
Produced & directed by Ridley Scott, 5 years after Blade Runner.
Cactus Flower (~~SVT 1~~ iTunes, 130522): Rating: TTTT
With Ingrid Bergman and Walter Matthau. Introducing(!) Goldie Hawn.
The Visitor (SVT 1, 130521): Rating: TTTT
Repo Man (SVT 1, 130517): Rating: TTT+
Swing vote (SVT 1, 130517): Rating: TTTT
Kevin Costner, Kelsey Grammer.
The Greatest (SVT 1, 130503): Rating: TTTT
Pierce Brosnan, Susan Sarandon.
Untraceable (aka Utan spår) (SVT 1, 130427): Rating: TTTT
A well made movie with many familiar views and a gruesome story in Portland, Oregon.
Changeling (SVT 1, 130426): Rating: TTTT
The Cooler (SVT 1, 130426): Rating: TTTT
God afton, herr Wallenberg (SVT 1, 130419): Rating: TTT+
Rachel Getting Married (SVT 1, 130419): Rating: TTT
iSteve (www.funnyordie.com, 130417): Rating: TTTT
King Kong (SVT 1, 130416): Rating: TTT+
It's three hours long!
Little Black Book (aka Alla hans ex) (SVT 1, 130412): Rating: TTT+
An number of good actors in a story a bit like Bridget Jones' diary, i.e. about a young woman struggling with her love life and career, framed with music by Carly Simon.
Shoeshine boy (SVT 2, 130405): Rating: TTTT
Oz the great and powerful (Bergakungen 5, 130324): Rating: TTTT
A prequel made by Disney to The Wizard of Oz. Disney wanted to make the original too, bug MGM bought the rights to L. Frank Baum's book. The musical Wicked is another prequel (with the tag line "so much happened before Dorothy dropped in".)
Coraline (DVD, 120316): Rating: TTT
Låt den rätte komma in (aka Let the Right One In) (SVT 2, 120309): Rating: TTTT
TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard (www.tpbafk.tv, 130304): Rating: TTTT
Watch it on Youtube.

2012

Hope Springs (Biopalatset 2, 120912): Rating: TTTT
American Pie: Reunion (Biopalatset 2, 120407): Rating: TTTT
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (aka Hotell Marigold) (Biopalatset 6, 120328): Rating: TTTT
Charming British comedy with several distinguished actors.
Management (SVT 1, 120302): Rating: TTTT
Jennifer Aniston. Nice scene in the Japanese Garden in Portland.

2011

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Biopalatset 10, 111223): Rating: TTTT
Tower Heist (Biopalatset 6, 111103): Rating: TTTT
Source Code (Bergakungen 6, 110803): Rating: TTTT
Melancholia (Biopalatset 5, 110616): Rating: TTTT+
Lars von Tries doesn't use the Hollywood movie template, and he does not need a Hollywood movie budget.
Limitless (Bergakungen 8, 110531): Rating: TTTT
Rio (The Empire 5, Leicester Square, London, 110522): Rating: TTTT
In 3D.
The Lincoln Lawyer (Biopalatset 9, 110512): Ratiing: TTTT
The Adjustment Bureau (Bergakungen 8, 110322): Matt Damon.
Rating: TTTT
Hur många lingon finns det i världen? (Biopalatset 6, 110411): Rating: TTTT
Burn After Reading (TV 4, 110410): Rating: TTTT
Just Go With It (aka Min låtsasfru) (Bergakungen 6, 110316): Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston
Rating: TTTT
True Grit (Bergakungen 2, 110301): The Coen brothers, Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon.
Rating: TTTT
The King's Speech (Odeon, Leicester Square, London, 110131): Colin Firth.
Rating: TTTTT

2010

Tron: Legacy (Biopalatset 10, 101231): In 3D. Olivia Wilde (Quorra) and Garrett Hedlund (Sam Flynn) weren't even born when the original Tron (1982) was released.
Rating: TTTT
Svinalängorna (Biopalatset 1, 101227): Rating: TTTT
Night at the Museum (TV4, 101225): Rating: TTTT
The Next Three Days (Bergakungen 4, 101204): Russel Crowe, Olivia Wilde, Brian Dennehy.
Rating: TTTT
V for Vendetta (DVD, 101128): Rating: TTTTT
Natalie Portman, Stephen Fry.
13 going on 30 (SVT 1, 101126): Rating: TTTT
Jennifer Garner, Mark, Ruffalo, Judy Greer.
Closer (SVT 2, 101120): Julia Roberts, Jude Law (Alfie, eXistenZ), Clive Owen, Natalie Portman.
Rating: TTTT
Transformers (TV 4, 100925): Rating: TTT
Dan in real life (TV 4, 100905): Rating: TTTT
Inception (Bergakungen 2, 100814): Impressive visual effects and a lot of pointless action.
Rating: TTT+
When the Truth Lies (SVT 1, 100718): Rating: TTT
Alfie (TV 4, 100515): Rating: TTTT
The Blind Side (EY 57, 100407): Sandra Bullock!
Rating: TTTT
It's Complicated (EY 451, 100406): Meryl Streep, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin. Not just comedy.
Rating: TTTT
Old Dogs (EY 451, 100406): Robin Williams and John Travolta.
Rating: TT
The Informant! (EY 450, 100327): With Matt Damon. Directed by Steven Soderbergh.
Rating: TTT
Couples Retreat (EY 450, 100327): With Vince Vaughn, also seen in The Break-Up, and Kristin Davis from Sex and the City.
Rating: TTT
The Invention of Lying (EY 56, 100326): Rating: TTTT
All About Steve (EY 56, 100326): Sandra Bullock!
Rating: TTTT
Up in the Air (Bergakungen 10 100205): Rating: TTTT
Fish Tank (Biopalatset 5, 100129): Rating: TTTT
Sin Nombre (Bergakungen 13, 100122): Rating; TTTT
Nasty Old People (www.nastyoldpeople.org, 100108): Rating: TTTT
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (Biopalatset 7, 100102): Rating: TTTT

2009

Luftslottet som sprängdes (Biopalatset, 091210): Rating: TTTT
Shooting Dogs (DVD, 091206): About the genocide in Rwanda in 1994.
Rating: TTTTT
This Is It (Filmstaden 6, Luleå, 091029): Rating: TTTT
Surrogates (Filmstaden 2, Luleå, 091024): Rating: TTT+
The Ugly Truth (Filmstaden 2, Luleå, 091016): Rating: TTTT
Flickan som lekte med elden (Filmstaden 6, Luleå, 091010): Rating: TTTT
The Hangover (Gaumount Champs-Élysées 14, 090924): Rating: TTTT
Män som hatar kvinnor (Bergakungen 7, 090808): Rating: TTTTT
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (Bergakungen 4, 090805): Nice, but how many variants of Die Hard do we need? (This is acually a remake of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three from 1974, so I guess being original was not on the agenda.)
Rating: TTT
Le Couperet (aka The Ax, aka Mördande Konkurrens) (SVT 1, 090709): Rating: TTTT
The Proposal (Biopalatset 6, 090701): Rating: TTTT
In Good Company (SVT 1, 090614): Rating: TTTT
Mogadischu (playprima.se, 090613): Good movie about the hijacking of Luftansa Flight 181 in 1977.
Rating: TTTT
The Illusionist (TV 4, 090531): Rating: TTTT
Star Trek (Bergakungen 3, 090521): Rating: TTTT
The Darwin Awards (TV 4, 090516): Rating: TTT
Fanny Hill (playprima.se, 090419): Charming!
Rating: TTTTT
Conspiracy Theory (SVT 1, 090409): Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts.
Rating: TTTT
Sliding Doors (TV4+, 090318): Rating: TTTT
The Faculty (SVT1, 090310): A pearl with some notable rising stars.
Rating: TTTT
Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (TV?, 0903??): Heartwarming humor.
Rating: TTTT
Seven Girlfriends (TV7, 090307): Rating: TTTT
Efter bryllupet (SVT 1, 090306): A Danish movie with Rolf Lassgård is a real treat!
Rating: TTTTT
Mamma Mia! (DVD, 090217): A charming movie. Meryl Streep is amazing!
Rating: TTTT
Quantum of Solace (DVD, 090213): Rating: TTT
The Pink Panther (TV 4, 090209): Rating: TTT
The Girl Next Door (SVT 1, 090206): Rating: TTTT
La Dolce Vita (SVT 1, 090206): Rating: TT+
Eyes Wide Shut (SVT 1, 090125): Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in the last movie directed by Stanley Kubrick.
Rating: TTTT
Reconstruction (SVT 1, 090105): Rating: TTT+

2008

Nick of Time (TV 4, 081231): Thriller with Johnny Depp, Christopher Walken & Peter Strauss
Rating: TTT
Tomten är far till alla barnen (TV 4, 081225): Rating: TTT+
Strange Days (4+, 081129): Rating: TT++
Wedding Crashers (SVT 1, 081018): Rating: TTT+
Get Smart (Bergakungen 11, 081001): Rating: TTT
A Perfect Murder (TV3, 080823): It's always nice to see familiar places in New York.
Rating: TTTT
Laws of Attraction (SVT 1, 080816): Romantic comedy with Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore
Rating: TTT
Broken Flowers (SVT 2, 080726): Bill Murray.
Rating: TTTT
Scarlet Street (SVT 2, 080701): Rating: TTT
Enchanted (KL 691, 080318): Rating: TTTT
Contract Lover (KL 691, 080318): Rating: TTT
The Brave One (Bergakungen 13, 080103): Jodie Foster.
Rating: TTTT

2007

As Good as It Gets (SVT 1, 071229): From a stumbling start, it just gets getter and better...
Rating: TTTT+
1408 (Bergakungen 9, 071117): A horror movie based on a short story by Stephen King. Well baked, but the recipe feels familiar.
Rating: TTTT
Playing by Heart (SVT, 071109): Amazing cast, very nice stories.
Rating: TTTT
The Break-Up (DVD, 071027): Rating: TTTT
Dreamgirls (DVD, 071027): Rating: TTTT
Live Free or Die Hard (DVD, 071021): Like Terminator 3, this movie came 12 years after the previous one in its sequence. Also, like Terminator 3, it has the original hero, a young reluctant hero, and a ridiculous amount of demolition!
Rating: TTTT
Predator (TV6, 071006): Rating: TTT+
Yin shi nan nu (1994) (aka Eat Drink Man Woman) (SVT 2, 071005): Rating: TTTT
Hable con ella (aka Talk to Her) (SVT 2, 070928): Rating: TTTT
Anger Management (TV6, 070927): Rating: TTTT
Galaxy Quest (TV4+, 070922): Rating: TTTT
In Enemy Hands (aka U-Boat) (SVT 1, 070918?): It's always nice to see William H. Macy.
Rating: TTTT
Who Killed the Electric Car? (SVT 2, 070903): After driving a Toyota Prius hybrid car for a few days, regular cars seem so stone age. But after seeing this movie, I realize that pure electric cars are what we really want. And they would already have been in widespread use today today, if it weren't for corporate greed and the corrupt U.S. government.
Rating: TTTTT
Lucía y el sexo (aka Sex and Lucia) (SVT 1, 070902): Rating: TTTT
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (SVT 2, 070901): Rating: TTT+
The Bourne Ultimatium (Lloyd Center 10, Auditorium 7, 070816): Rating: TTT+
Ogifta par - en film som skiljer sig (TV4+, 070714): Rating: TTT+
High Crimes (SVT, 070630): Rating: TTTT
Children of Men (DVD, 070604): Rating: TTTT
The 40 Year Old Virgin (DVD, 070602): Rating: TTT
Out of Time (SVT, 070518): Rating: TTTT
Pane e tulipani (SVT1, 070517): Rating: TTT
Chocolat (SVT1, 070511): Rating: TTTT
La Pianiste (SVT2, 070424): Rating: TTTT
Maybe Baby (DVD, 070329): Hugh Laurie again.
Rating: TTTT
Mulholland Drive (SVT1, 070323)
Pushing Tin (SVT1, 070309): Rating: TTTT
The Gift (SVT1, 070228): Rating: TTTT
Nine Queens (SVT, 070213): Rating: TTTT
Amélie (SVT2, 070203): Rating: TTTT
Chica de Río (SVT2, 070115): A Silly comedy with Hugh Laurie.
Rating: TTTT
Tacones lejanos (SVT1, 070105): Pedro Almodóvar.
Rating: TTTT
Stranger Than Fiction (Biopalatset 6, 070103): Rating: TTTTT

2006

Babel (Biopalatset 2, 061227): Rating: TTTT
Serendipity (SVT1, 061215): Rating: TTTT
Femme Fatale (SVT1, 061208): Rating: TTTT
Akeelah and the Bee (LH 469, 061026): Rating: TTTT
The Lake House (LH 469, 061026): Rating: TTT?
The Sentinel (DVD, 0610??): Rating: TTT
Lucky Number Slevin (DVD, 061011): Rating: TTT+
Scoop (Laurelhurst Theater, 060929): Rating: TTTT
Night Listener (Pioneer Place, Auditorium 2, 060805): Rating: TTT+
The Devil Wears Prada (Pioneer Place, Auditorium 3, 060724): Rating: TTTT
A Scanner Darkly (Fox Tower 10, Auditorium 9, 060722): Interesting animation technique.
Rating: TTT
L.A. Story (DVD, 060716): Rating: TTTT
Match Point (DVD, 060715): Rating: TTT
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (DVD, 060708): Rating: TTTT
Click (Pioneer Place, Auditorium 5, 060704): Rating: TTT
Over the Hedge (Pioneer Place, Auditorium 4, 060611): Nice fur and grass!
Rating: TTT
Word Wars (DVD, 060507): Scrabble!
Rating: TTT
X-Men: The Last Stand (Pioneer Place, Auditorium 6, 060529): Rating: TTT
The Da Vinci Code (Pioneer Place, Auditorium 6, 060526): Rating: TTTT
The Weather Man (DVD, 060511): Rating: TTTT
Insomnia (DVD, 060507): Rating: TTTT
Persuasion (DVD, 060505): Rating: TTT
Flightplan (DVD, 060422): Rating: TTTT
The Village (DVD, 060407): Rating: TTTT
The Inside Man (Pioneer Place, Auditorium 6, 060326): Rating: TTTT
The Return of the Pink Panther (DVD, 060312): Rating: TTT
The Apartment (DVD, 060308): Rating: TTTT
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (DVD, 060303): Rating: TTTT
The Philadelpia Story (DVD, 060301): Rating: TTTT
Manderlay (Regal Broadway Metroplex, Auditorium 1, 060224): (Shown as part of the 29th Portland International Film Festival)
Rating: TTTT
Junior Bonner (DVD, 060205): Rating: TTT
Insomnia (DVD, 060127): Rating: TTTT
The Final Cut (DVD, 060120): Rating: TTTT
Casanova (Pioneer Place, Auditorium 3, 060115): Rating: TTTT
In Her Shoes (NW 41, 060105): Rating: TTTT
Just Like Heaven (NW 41, 060105): Rating: TTTT

2005

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Pioneer Place, Auditorium 1, 051126)

Rating: TTTT

Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Regal Broadway Metroplex, Auditorium 3, 051118)

Rating: TTTT

Bewitched (DVD, 051031)

Rating: TTT

Memento (DVD, 051015)

Some random quotes:

Leonard: "Memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the color of a car. And memories can be distorted. They're just an interpretation, they're not a record, ..."

Leonard: "I've tried this before. I can't remember to forget you."

Leonard: "How am I supposed to heal if I can't feel time?"

Teddy: "You don't want the truth. You make up your own truth."

Teddy: "So you lie to yourself to be happy. There's nothing wrong with that. We all do it."

Rating: TTTT

Hitch (DVD, 051008)

Hitch: "Like I tell all my clients: begin each day as if it were on purpose."
Rating: TTTT

Toy Story 2 (DVD, 050903)

Rating: TTTT

Crash (Fox Tower 10, Auditorim 3, 050716)

Rating: TTTT

Novocaine (DVD, 050716)

Rating: TTTT

Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Pioneer Place, Auditorium 3, 050710)

Rating: TTT

The Usual Suspects (DVD, 060626)

Rating: TTT

Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (DVD, 060626)

Rating: TTT

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (DVD, 050423)

Lacuna Inc. erases painful memories to help you become a happier person.
Rating: TTTTT

The Core (DVD, 050423)

Rating: TTT

The Educators (Regal Broadway Metroplex, 050221, shown as part of the 28th Portland International Film Festival)

A story with a heart. Filmed with one digital video camera.
Rating: TTTTT

Schultze Gets the Blues (Whitsell Auditorium, Portland Art Museum, 050218, shown as part of the 28th Portland International Film Festival)

About Schmidt, as Kaurismäki would have done it.
Rating: TTT

About Schmidt (DVD, 050123)

Rating: TTT

The Motorcycle Diaries (Fox Tower 10, Auditorim 4, 050108)

Rating: TTT

2004

Ocean's Twelve (Regal Broadway Metroplex, Auditorium 1, 041210): Rating: TTT
Kinsey (Fox Tower 10, Auditorim 8, 041205): Rating: TTTT
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (Pioneer Place, Auditorium 6, 0411??): Rating: TTT
Say Anything... (DVD, 041114): Rating: TTT
Pride and Prejudice (DVD, 041107): Rating: TTTT
After the Sunset (Regal Broadway Metroplex, Auditorium 2, 041106): A nice comedy set in the Bahamas with Pierce Brosnan, Woody Harrelson, Salma Hayek and Naomie Harris.
Rating: TTTT
Forces of Nature (OMSI Omnimax Theater, 041031): Rating: TTTT
The Great Escape (DVD, 041023): Rating: TTTT
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (KL 667, 041017): Rating: TTTT
What Women Want (DVD, 040930): Rating: TTTT
Two Weeks Notice (DVD, 040926): Rating: TTT
The Bourne Supremacy (Pioneer Place, Auditorium 3, 040924): Rating: TTTT
Under the Sun (DVD, 040829): Rating: TTTTT
Jersey Girl (NW 56, 040803): Rating: TTT
I, Robot (Regal Broadway Metroplex, Auditorium 1, 040716): Rating: TTTT
Dead Again (DVD, 040711): Rating: TTT
Fahrenheit 9/11 (Fox Tower 10, Auditorim 6, 040710): Michael Moore's distrurbing & award-winning movie... Support for the facts claimed in the movie can be found on the Fahrenheit 9/11 notes + sources page.
Rating: TTTTT
Spider-Man 2 (Pioneer Place, 040705): Rating: TTTT
The Magnificent Seven (DVD, 040702): A note: Ocean's Eleven was released two months earlier the same year (1960)!
Rating: TTTT
Three Days of the Condor (DVD, 040616): The first time I saw this movie (in 1998?), I thought it was just fiction, but now, almost 30 years after the movie was made, "this movie has incredible relevance to today's geo-political reality", as one IMDB user put it in June 2004.
Rating: TTTT
Real Women Have Curves (DVD, 040612): Rating: TTTT
The Matrix Revolutions (DVD, 040428): Rating: TTT?
Spider-Man (DVD, 040427): Rating: TTTT
Dirty Pretty Things (DVD, 040326): Rating: TTT
Kitchen Stories (Regal Fox Tower 10, Auditorium 6, 040324): Rating: TTTT
Italian for Beginners (DVD, 040306): Rating: TTTT
So I Married an Axe Murderer (DVD, 040229): Rating: TTT
Scrooged (DVD, 040228): Rating: TTT
Big Fish (Regal Fox Tower 10, 0402??): Rating: TTTT
Harvey (BA49, 040211): A silly movie with James Stewart.
Rating: TTT
21 Grams (Regal Fox Tower 10, Auditorium 4, 040123): Rating: TTT?
American Wedding (DVD, 040118): Rating: TTTT
Nowhere in Africa (DVD 040118): Rating: TTTT

2003

Analyze This (SK 937, 031229): Rating: TTT
Rembrandt (SK 937, 031229): Rating: TTTT
Matchstick Men (SK 938, 031216): Rating: TTTT
Groundhog Day (DVD, 031128): Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell in an amazingly clever and amusing movie.
Rating: TTTTT
The Santa Clause 2 (DVD, 031127): Rating: TTT
Intolerable Cruelty (Regal Fox Tower 10, Auditorium 8, 031123): Rating: TTTT
Love Actually (Pioneer Place, 031118): Rating: TTTTT
The Man Without a Past (DVD, 031115): Rating: TTTT
Enemy of the State (DVD, 031114): Rating: TTTT
Mystic River (Pioneer Place, 031112): Rating: TTTT?
Down with Love (DVD, 031104): Rating: TTTT
Pleasantville (DVD, 031025): Rating: TTTT
Big Night (DVD, 031011): Rating: TTTT
The Full Monty (DVD, 031004): Rating: TTTT
Lost in Translation (Pioneer Place, 030920): A nice movie with Scarlett Johanssen (the girl from The Horse Whisperer) and Bill Murray (seen in e.g., Charlie's Angels, Groundhog Day and Ghostbusters).
Rating: TTTTT
The Princess Bride (DVD, 030917): A very heart-warming humorous movie, with very nice photography. Directed by Rob Reiner.
Rating: TTTTT
Bringing Down the House (DVD, 030810): Rating: TTTT
28 Days Later (Lloyd Mall 8, 030806): Rating: TTT+
Star Trek: Nemesis (DVD, 030705): Rating: TTTT
The Terminator (DVD, 030705): Still a good movie!
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (Regal Broadway Metroplex, Auditorium 1, 030704): Rating: TTTT+
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (Regal Broadway Metroplex, Auditorium 1, 030629): Rating: TTT
The Matrix Reloaded (Lloyd Center 10, Auditorium 5, 030620): A sequel, with more extensive action scenes but less impressive dialogue than The Matrix (there is nothing that compares to Morpheus' or Agent Smith's brilliant monologues). And if you wanted some revelations about the end of the story, I am afraid you'll have to have to wait another six months for Matrix Revolutions...
Rating: TTT
Bruce Almighty (Regal Broadway Metroplex, Auditorium 1, 030525): Another nice comedy with Jim Carrey, similar in spirit to Liar Liar. Costarring Jennifer Aniston, knows as Rachel in Friends.
Rating: TTTT
Secretary (DVD, 030513): Rating: TTTTT
Harold and Maude (Cinema 21, 030510): Rating: TTTTT
Fight Club (DVD, 030427): Rating: TTT
Identity (Regal Broadway Metroplex, Auditorium 1, 030426): Scary, but too convoluted...
Rating: TTT?
Manon des source (aka Jean de Florette II) (DVD, 030422): Rating: TTTT
Jean de Florette (DVD, 030419): Rating: TTTT
Phone Booth (Regal Broadway Metroplex, Auditorium 2, 030417): Rating: TTTT
Gangs of New York (Bagdad Theater & Pub, 030415): Rating: TTT
The Wizard of Oz (DVD, 030402): Very entertaining. Good special effects. And, finally I understand where the line "...buckle your seatbelt, Dorothy, 'cause Kansas is going bye-bye." in The Matrix comes from!
Rating: TTTT
The Pianist (Regal Fox Tower 10, Auditorium 8, 030321): Rating: TTTT+
Rabbit-Proof Fence (Koin Center 6, Auditorium 3, 030314): Rating: TTTTT
The fellowship of the Ring (special extended DVD edition, 030308): Rating: TTT
Adaptation. (Regal Fox Tower 10, Auditorium 1, 030307): Very good acting by Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep and Chris Cooper in a comedy which is as much about real life as it is about the movie itself, Charlie Kaufman's struggles as a writer, to be specific. Yes, there is an element of recursion here! It starts off with a scene from the filming of Being John Malcovich, another movie with an element of recursion, also written by Charlie Kaufman.
Rating: TTTTT
Regina! (Guild Theatre, 030301, shown as part of Portland International Film Festival): A very amusing musical, in vivid colors.
Rating: TTTTT
About a boy (DVD, 030228): Rating: TTTT
Monday Morning (Regal Broadway Metroplex, Auditorium 1, 030227, shown as part of Portland International Film Festival): A very soothing movie with nice photography.
Rating: TTTTT
Open Hearts (Regal Broadway Metroplex, Auditorium 1, 030222, shown as part of Portland International Film Festival): Rating: TTTT
Minoes (Regal Broadway Metroplex, Auditorium 1, 030222, shown as part of Portland International Film Festival): A charming dutch movie about cats and a shy journalist.
Rating: TTTTT
Soft Shell Man (Whitsell Auditorium, Portland Art Museum, 030219, shown as part of Portland International Film Festival): Rating: TTT
Bowling for Columbine (Koin Center 6, Auditorium 2, 030217): Rating: TTTTT
Lilja 4-ever (Whitsell Auditorium, Portland Art Museum, 030215, shown as part of Portland International Film Festival): A sad story by Lukas Moodysson about a russian girl who does not have much luck in life...
Rating: TTT++
Die Another Day (Mission Theater & Pub, 030206): James Bond...
Rating: TTT
Shi shen (aka God of Cookery) (DVD, 030117): A Hong Kong movie with Stephen Chow, who I also saw in Shaolin Soccer, another good Hong Kong movie, which will be released in the US in April 2003).
Rating: TTT+
Ocean's Eleven (DVD, 030111): Rating: TTT
Murder by Numbers (DVD, 030111): Rating: TTTT+
eXistenZ (DVD, 030111): Another virtual reality move from 1999. This one is directed by David Cronenberg. Twisted.
Rating: TTT+
Atanarjuat (aka The Fast Runner) (Cine Magic Theatre, 030105): Very nice. It is nice to see that it is possible to make good movies without a $100 million budget!
Rating: TTTT
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (DVD, 030101): An influential western with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Music by Burt Bacharach (Raindrops keep falling on my head).
Rating: TTT

2002

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Royal, 021229): Nice. Better than the book, I think.
Rating: TTTT
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (DVD, 021207): Amazing computer graphics. The story is a very good illustration that fighting evil with more evil, instead of understanding it, is not a good idea. (A hint to George W...)
Rating: TTTT+
Gun Shy (DVD, 021129): Rating: TTT+
Ice Age (DVD, 021128): A entertaining animated movie.
Rating: TTTT
Standing in the Shadows of Motown (Cinema 21, 021126): Rating: TTTT
The Bourne Identity (SK 937, 021117): Rating: TTTT
Klassfesten (aka The Reunion) (SK 937, 021117): Rating: TTTT
Donnie Brasco (DVD, 021102): Rating: TTTT
Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (aka Spirited Away) (Fox Tower, auditorium 6, 021019): A very nice Japanese animated movie.
Rating: TTTTT
The Pledge (DVD, 021015): A very nice, capturing story, directed by Sean Penn (who I incidentally recently saw in The Game). His friend Jack Nicholson and his wife Robin Wright act.
Rating: TTTTT
Charlie's Angels (DVD, 021011): Very amusing and uplifting. Good photo. Good music, e.g., the old disco hit Heaven must be missing an angel by the Tavares, Enigma, Twiggy Twiggy by Pizzicato Five.
Rating: TTTTT
Babettes gæstebud (DVD, 020920): What a feast!
TTTT+
The Game (DVD, 020907): When Nick van Orton (Michael Douglas) asks about The Game, one of the characters in the movie replies I envy you, I wish I could go back and do it for the first time, all over again. I guess I had a similar feeling after seeing The Game, thinking it would be completely pointless to see it a second time. But I acutally enjoyed watching it again, paying extra attention to some details. For example, I enjoyed seeing Anson Baer (Armin Mueller-Stahl), wearing the same suit as Grierson in The Thirteenth Floor. Also, when Nick van Orton visits, Consumer Recreation Services, for the first time, the camera deliberately pans down to emphasize the fact that their office is located on the 14th floor...
Rating: TTTTT
Fargo (DVD, 020825): A very nice movie, much better than A Simple Plan, which in a sense picks up where Fargo ends. Both stories take place in similar settings during the winter in Minnesota.
Rating: TTTTT
The Big Lebowski (DVD, 020804): Rating: TTT
The X Files (DVD, 020726): I have seen this before, probably at Biopalatset in 1998, but I forgot to write it down...
Rating: TTT+
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (Biopalatset 2, 020704): Rating: TT++
Kate & Leopold (NW 48, 020627) (DVD, 030620?): Nice, but hasn't Meg Ryan done more than enough of these romantic comedies already?
Rating: TTTT
Snow Dogs (NW 48, 020627): A nice family comedy!
Rating: TTTT
28 Days (DVD, 020622): Rating: TTTTT
Minority Report (Regal Broadway Metroplex, Auditorium 1, 020621) (Biopalatset 6, 020711): Rating: TTTTT
La Vita è bella (DVD, 020607): Rating: TTTT
Disclosure (DVD, 020526): Rating: TTTT
Erin Brockovich (DVD, 020526): Rating: TTTTT
The Thirteenth Floor (DVD, 020525): A nice virtual reality movie.
Rating: TTTT
Black Cat, White Cat (VHS, 020523): Rating: TTTT
Riget (The Kingdom) (DVD, 020512): Rating: TTTTT
Artificial Intelligence: AI (DVD, 020323): Rating: TTT+
Blade Runner (The Director's cut) (DVD, 020320): Still a very good movie!
Rating: TTTT+
Metropolis (Cinema 21, 020320): Rating: TTT+
A Beautiful Mind (Lloyd Center 10, 030206): Rating: TTTTT
Gosford Park (Lake Oswego, 020228): Another movie by Robert Altman.
Rating: TTTT
American Pie 2 (DVD, 020222): Rating: TTT+
Lawless Heart (Guild Theatre, 020220, shown as part of Portland International Film Festival): Rating: TTTT+
On the Line (UA 60, 020216): Nice music with Al Green.
Rating: TTT
The Man Who Wasn't There (KOIN Cinema, 020121): Rating: TTTTT
Planet of the Apes (DVD, 020106): Rating: TTT+

2001

The Score (NW 33, 011230): Another nice movie by Frank Oz, who also directed Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, for example.
Rating: TTTT
Bandits (Mission Theater & Pub, 011213): Rating: TTTT
Made for Each Other (Realvideo from the Internet, 011125): A nice movie made in 1939 with the now well known actor James Stewart. (This was the first time I saw a full length movie via the Internet, from movieflix.com, to be precise.)
Rating: TTT+
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Lloyd Center 10, 011121): Very nice. I also read the book.
Rating: TTTT+
In the Line of Fire (DVD, 011005): Rating: TTT++
Bridget Jones's Diary (Bagdad Theater & Pub, 010901): Rating: TTT
Miss Congeniality (Biopalatset 8, 010429): Rating: TTT+
The Family Man (KL 664, 010412): Rating: TTTT
Pay It Forward (NW 33, 010403): Rating: TTTT
Men of Honor (NW 33, 010403): Boring drama.
Rating: TT
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Biopalatset 6, 010116): Rating: TT++

2000

Unbreakable (Biopalatset 6, 001217): Night Shyamalan, Bruce Willis and James Newton Howard (composer) try to repeat the success they had with The Sixth Sense.
Rating: TTT+
The 6th Day (Filmstaden 2, 001202): Arnold Schwarzenegger in a movie inspired by recent advances in genetics. The opening scene flashes the story on the cloned sheep Dolly and the recent completion of the Human Genome Project. The movie itself seemed to be created by cloning suitable ideas and parts from other movies :-)
Rating: TTT
Flykten från hönsgården (Biopalatset 1, 000929): Animation by Nick Park, famous for the movies about Wallace & Gromit.
Rating: TTT
American Beauty (Filmstaden 8, 000607): Rating: TTTT
Gladiator (Biopalatset 9, 000605): An ambitious $100million movie by Ridley Scott. I still think his earlier movies Alien ($11million) and Blade Runner ($28million) are better.
Rating: TTT++
Anna och kungen (Biopalatset 7, 000411): Based on the diaries of Anna Leonowens, employed as a governess by Mongkut, the king of Siam, around 1860.
Rating: TTTT (i.e., better than its reputation, I think)
I huvudet på John Malcovich (Biopalatset 2, 000331): Rating: TTT
Hälsoresan (Chalmers, 000222): Lasse Åberg är ute och reser igen.
Rating: TTTT
Kändisliv (Filmstaden 2, 000218): Woody Allen, directing, but not acting, for a change.
Rating: TT+
Sjätte sinnet (Filmstaden, 000125): Rating: TTTTT

1999

Deep Blue Sea (Filmstaden 14, 991226)

Rating: TT

The World is Not Enough (Biopalatset 6, 991216)

James Bond
Rating: TTT

The Thomas Crown Affair (Chalmers, 991111)

Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo in a remake of The Thomas Crown Affair from 1968.
Rating: TTT+

Office Space (Chalmers, 991104)

By Mike Judge, who invented Beavies and Butthead.
Rating: TTTT

Matrix (Biopalatset 3, 991007)

A movie that contains a lot of exaggerated violence of the kind that some people think would have a bad influence on the teenaged audience the movie is intended for. However, most of it takes place in a virtual reality, so the official message still is "don't try this at home kids, buy a video game!". There also were some better than average philosophical reflections on the relation between reality and virtual reality.
Rating: TTTT

Runaway Bride (Biopalatset, 990924)

Julia Roberts and Richard Gere and some other people from Pretty Woman meet again.
Rating: TTTT

Star Wars: Episode I (Biopalatset 6, 990826)

Nice, but not very deep. Created from the same recipe as the old Star Wars movies. Nice graphics, with lots of computer generated characters (mostly robots) and environments.
Rating: TTTT

10 Things I Hate About You (aka 10 orsaker att hata dig) (Filmstaden 1, 990808)

Humorous, unpretentious, treatment of an old, familiar theme.
Rating: TTTT

Tango (Bio Capitol, 990807)

By Carlos Saura, who also made Pajarico, which was shown at Göteborgs filmfestival 1999.
Rating: TTT

Cruel Intensions (aka En djävulsk romans) (Filmstaden 12, 990722)

Based on the same book as Dangerous Liaisons (aka Farligt begär(?)), but set in New York and with American teenagers as the intended audience.
Rating: TTT

A Simple Plan (Svea, 990717)

Three men find a bag full of money (millons of dollars). Should they be honest and turn it in or keep it for themselves and get a chance to escape from their dull life in a small town? The theme and the story is somewhat similar to Very Bad Things, but whereas Very Bad Things is too hysterical (in the typical Hollywood exaggerated acting style), reaching its peak of intensity already after 20 minutes, leaving you a bit numb and indifferent to what happens in the rest of the movie, A simple plan is so slow paced in the beginning that a narrator has been added to bring some kind of life to it. It gets better, though, but perhaps not good enough to wake you up if you happened to fall asleep in the beginning. In both movies there is a woman (played by Cameron Diaz in Very Bad Things and by Bridget Fonda in A simple plan) that affects her man to do things against his better judgement.
Rating: TTT+

Notting Hill (Viktoria, 990702)

Starring: Julia Roberts & Hugh Grant.
Rating: TTTT

Entrapment (Palladium, 990604)

A nice, but not very capturing story.

Plus: The opening scene, particularly the sound effects, seems to be inspired by a similar scene in The Wrong Trousers. One of the characters resembles Jabba de Hutt in the Star Wars movie Return of the Jedi.
Minus: The cut was a bit sloppy, I think. One wonders if the original cut was considered to be too long and the movie was cut down by someone who was not involved in the original production.
Rating:: TTT

The Third Man (Draken 990422)

Rating: TTT+

Manhattan (Draken, 990415)

Excellent relationship comedy by Woody Allen.
Rating: TTTTT

Shakespeare In Love (Biopalatset, 990408)

Good, but without surprises. The romance was not capturing as it could have been.
Rating: TTT

Central do Brasil (Biopalatset, 990329)

Touching story about a young boy, who is left helpless after his mother dies in an accident, and a old woman, who is forced by her conscience to help the boy find his father.
Rating: TTT+

You've got mail (Biopalatset, 990322)

Romantic comedy with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. Remake of The shop around the corner (with James Steward) from 1940.
Rating: TTTT

Nosferatu (Draken, 990304)

Tysk klassisk Vampyrfilm från 1922. Stumfilm med levande piano-musik.

It happened one night (Draken, 990209)

Comedy from 1934 by Frank Carpa with Clark Gable.

Göteborgs Filmfestival 1999 (990130-990206)

Antz (Biopalatset, 990115)

Computer Animated.
Rating: TTTT

1998

The Truman Show (Biopalatset, 981124): Jim Carrey as Truman, whose life is a TV show...
Rating: TTTT
The Mask of Zorro (Palladium, 981029): Rating: TTTT
The Horse Whisperer (Biopalatset, 980911): Touching, almost 3 hours long, but never boring, movie by Robert Redford who also plays the leading part as the "horse whisperer", a man who understands what goes on in the head of a horse. He also understands what goes on in the heads of other people, it turns out.
Rating: TTTTT
In & Out (Palladium, free sneak preview 980820): Heart warming, silly commedy, directed by Frank Oz, who also directed Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Rivierans Guldgossar). Starring Kevin Kline, Tom Selleck, et al. Not the kind of movie that leaves a lasting impresstion, though, I think.
Rating: TTT
Armageddon (Biopalatset, 980717): Rating: TT+ (+ for a generous amount of humor)
Blues Brothers 2000 (Biopalatset, 980704): Rating: TTT-
The Jackal (Biopalatset, 980622): Bruce Willis, Richard Gere
Rating: TTT
Red Corner (Biopalatset, 980613): Richard Gere, Bai Ling
Rating: TTTT
Wag the dog (Biopalatset, 980403): Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Woody Harrelson.
Rating: TTT
Lone Star (Svea, 9803??): Rating: TTT
Göteborgs Filmfestival 1998 (980131-980206)
Starthip Troopers (Royal, 980104): Directed by Paul Verhoeven, who also directed Total Recall, Robocop and Basic Instinct. The only good actor in the move was Michael Ironside, who also appeared in Total Recall and the TV series V. The remaing actors are all very young and seem to have been hired for their good looks rather than their acting skills. The graphical effects are good, and although the movie in large parts reminded of pre WW-II recruitment propaganda, it had some some kind of freshness.
Rating: TTT

1997

Tomorrow Never Dies (Palladium, 971229): The second movie with Pierce Brosnan as James Bond. Good humour and action.
Rating: TTTT
Alien: Resurrection (Biopalatset, 971215): Knowing that this Alien movie was directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, and having been told by friends that this movie was different from the others, I could actually enjoy the movie, mostly by not taking it so seriously and seeing the humour in everything. (But, as Kjell said, if it is a Volvo you want, you will be disappointed if you get a Saab.)
Rating: TTT or TTTT
Contact (Biopalatset, 971121): Dr. Eleanor Arroway (well played by Jodie Foster) is a radio astronomer searching for extra terestial intelligence. The beginning of the movie captures the atmosphere within the research community in a good way. It touches many issues relating to research and the possibility of contacting life on other planets: philosophy of science, Occam's razor, religion, politics. But it seems that these issues aren't the primary interest of the director Robert Zemeckis, since in some of these scenes, the actors just seem to be reading their lines, without really understanding them. Some other scenes, dealing with friendship, love and grief, are better. The movie also contains some excellent visual effects.
Rating: TTTT+
L.A. Confidential (Biopalatset, 971118): L.A. in the fifties. Police. Organized Crime. Who will take over? Bribes. Drugs. The Nite Owl massacre. Gang rape. Who is smart and who is not? What will happen to the beautiful Lynn Bracken (Kim Basinger)?
Rating: TTTT
Face/Off (Biopalatset, 971110): A movie with a somewhat incredible story, extremely violent, exaggerated, karate movie style action scenes, that still is very exciting and capturing. Starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage.
Rating: TTTTT-
Air Force One (Palladium, 971024): Harrison Ford spelar president och hjälte. Heja USA.
Rating: TTT+
My best friend's wedding (Viktoria, 971017): Julianne Potter (Julia Roberts) and David (?) had a romance 9 years ago and have since then been best friends. They made the promise that if they on their 28th birthday hadn't found anyone else to marry, they should marry each other. Three weeks before her 28th birthday, David calls Julianne and tells her he is about to be married to another girl. Julianne becomes desperate...
The sound track consists mostly of Burt Bacharach hits!
Rating: TTT++
Shine (Svea 971012): Based on the true story of the Australian pianist David Helfgott.
Rating: TTTT
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Palladium 971002): Directed by Steven Speilberg. Excellent special effects.
Rating: TTT
The Fifth Element (Biopalatsen 970826).: Starring Bruce Willis. Directed by Luc Besson, who also did The Big Blue and Nikita. Simple, humoristic, straight-forward "save the world" story with some good guys and some bad guys. Technically very well done. I liked the futuristic environments and the music.
Rating: TTTT
Liar Liar (Biopalatset, 970723): Heart warming comedy with Jim Carrey.
Rating: TTTT
Men in Black (aka MIB) (Biopalatset, 970722): Silly comedy with Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith as two secret agents chasing illegal aliens from outer space.
Rating: TTT
Con Air (Biopalatset, 9706??): Rating: T
The special editions of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi (April-May 1997): Rating: TTT (I have seen these movies too many times already)