X-Message-Number: 18215 Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 08:52:34 -0800 From: Natasha Vita-More <> Subject: "Vanilla Sky" was 1997 "Open Your Eyes" --=====================_135667205==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed "Open Your Eyes", released in 1999, was written by Alejandro Amanabar and Mateo Gil and directed by Alejandro Amandabar. It was shown at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998. "Of all the films that emerged from the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, none caused me to ponder, wonder, and puzzle more than Alejandro Amenabar's sophomore feature, Open Your Eyes. Film of this intelligence, audacity, and complexity come along so rarely that it's mandatory to cry out their arrival. Saving Private Ryan may be the best movie I saw in 1998, but Open Your Eyes was the most original. (Note: North American distribution was delayed from the originally planned October 1998 to April 1999.) It is a piece of cinema that will have viewers guessing and questioning from beginning to end." http://movie-reviews.colossus.net/movies/o/open_eyes.html While I don't pay too much professional attention to films these days, I was a stringer writer for several years for the Hollywood Reporter and I wrote about films. I do know that there is much to discuss with filmography, but let's not get carried away on conspiracy theory and angered by critique. "Vanilla Sky" is a good film, has much to say about Impressionism and, in my opinion, is not a bad view of cryonics. Best, Natasha --=====================_135667205==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=18215