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Joe Versus the Volcano (1990)
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"A number of our blogging friends have picked up the Alphabetical Favorites meme. The idea is that you list 26 favorite movies, one for each letter of the alphabet. Some people are adding comments, but I think it’s more interesting to just toss the titles out there, to see how they fit together within a single list and how they match up to other lists. Also, it’s been a hell of a week and I’m exhausted. I will say this: after not being able to think of a single movie beginning with the letter “J” that I enjoy more than Joe Versus the Volcano, I noticed that several commenters at the House Next Door had slotted the same film in the same face. So much for Todd McCarthy’s contention in his Doubt review that John Patrick Shanley’s first directorial effort was “misguided.” So! My list is after the jump. < "
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"A number of our blogging friends have picked up the Alphabetical Favorites meme. The idea is that you list 26 favorite movies, one for each letter of the alphabet. Some people are adding comments, but I think it’s more interesting to just toss the titles out there, to see how they fit together within a single list and how they match up to other lists. Also, it’s been a hell of a week and I’m exhausted. I will say this: after not being able to think of a single movie beginning with the letter “J” that I enjoy more than Joe Versus the Volcano, I noticed that several commenters at the House Next Door had slotted the same film in the same face. So much for Todd McCarthy’s contention in his Doubt review that John Patrick Shanley’s first directorial effort was “misguided.” So! My list is after the jump. < "
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"For the last twenty years, Jodie Foster has had a lot in common with Tom Hanks. They both were nominated for Oscars in 1989, and again in 1995 (she won the first time; he won the second time), a year in which they each were recognized for playing kind of retarded. Each now has two Academy Awards and each is considered a dark, dark horse for this year’s Oscar race (neither will be nominated). Both actors continue to remain at the top of America’s favorites, even when or after they star in critically scorned blockbusters. And now, Foster is apparently trying to add one more thing she has in common with Hanks: she’s gone and made her own Joe vs. the Volcano. In the trailer for Nim’s Island, we see that Foster’s character, like Hanks’ “Joe”, is a closeted, unwell human being who ends up on a mission to a little island, of which she has been deemed the savior. And like Joe, Foster meets an annoying little blond — tho "
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An Allegorical Fairy Tale
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"This film is not about a guy who jumps into a volcano. It's about everyman (and everywoman - or at least three women, each played by Meg Ryan) and the "crooked road" to self realization and action from the crippling inaction of life's daily grind. Everything is a symbol from the haircuts to the sets to the land, air and sea journey... I'm not smart enough to point them out, but the film begs for repeated viewing to decipher the meaning of the images, like, "Why are there Great Danes outside the NYC store? Why are there three Meg Ryans? Why does Joe's boss have prosthetic testicles on his desk?" Maybe it suffered by the timing of its release, coming off of the flashy "me" 80's or maybe it suffered the high expectations of being Speilberg produced and a follow up to a screenwriting Oscar by writer/director John Patrick Shanley. It seems to be a small film in a big film's clothing. But it's ideas are big. Not the least is ... "
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