The Film Reviews of Walter Metz
This is the archive of film reviews written by Walter Metz. The reviews linked to
this page are organized below according to type: special topics, Classical Hollywood Cinema,
International Art Cinema, contemporary independent American cinema, and contemporary
Hollywood cinema.
Special Topics
Classical Hollywood Cinema
International Art Cinema
- Dancer in the Dark (Lars Von Trier, 2000)
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee,
China, 2000)
- Butterfly (Jose Luis Cuerda, Spain, 2000)
- Genesis (Chieck Oumar Sissoko, Mali, 1999)
- Last Night (Don McKellar, Canada, 1999)
- The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg,
Denmark, 1998)
- Central Station (Walter Salles, Brazil,
1998)
- Get Real (Simon Shore, Great Britain, 1998)
- My Son the Fanatic (Udayan Prasad, Great
Britain, 1998)
- Guatanamera (Tomas Gutierrez Alea, Cuba,
1997)
- Three Lives and Only One Death (Raul Ruiz,
France, 1996)
- Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa, Japan, 1975)
- Hamlet (Grigori Kozintsev, Soviet Union, 1966)
Contemporary Independent American Cinema
- Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000)
- Bamboozled (Spike Lee, 2000)
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel Coel, 2000)
- The Big Kahuna (John Swanbeck, 2000)
- Dead Dogs (Clay Eide, 1999)
- Limbo (John Sayles, 1999)
- The Straight Story (David Lynch, 1999)
- Titus (Julie Taymor, 1999)
- Sweet and Lowdown (Woody Allen, 1999)
- Tumbleweeds (Gavin O'Connor, 1999)
Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
- The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter
Jackson, 2001)
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's
Stone (Chris Columbus, 2001)
- From Hell (The Hughes Brothers,
2001)
- Moulin Rouge (Baz Luhrmann, 2001)
- The Perfect Storm (Wolfgang Petersen, 2000)
- What Women Want (Nancy Myers, 2000)
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Ron Howard, 2000)
- Gladiator (Ridley Scott, 2000)
- Shaft (John Singleton, 2000)
- What Lies Beneath (Robert Zemeckis, 2000)
- The Cider House Rules (Lasse Hallstrom,
1999)
- Wild, Wild West (Barry Sonnenfeld, 1999)
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Walter Metz, Department of Media and Theatre Arts, Montana
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