The Ninth Gate
- Title: The Ninth Gate
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Roman Polanski at his best gave us Chinatown and at his worst gave us Pirates. The Ninth Gate is a great suspenseful mystery as Johnny Depp is thrust into the world of the occult and dark knowledge. One of Polanski’s, and Depp’s, best films.
The film opens with an older gentleman, Andrew Telfer (Willy Holt), just finishing his affairs one evening. He then gets up from his desk and very matter of fact manner hangs himself from the chandelier of his study. The camera pans to the books of his study for in this film knowledge can bring both power and death.
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The Weather Man is an intriguing little piece of cinema. It has wondrous, hysterical, moving, and thought provoking moments and yet the film is somehow less than all the great pieces put together. It’s a hard movie for me to review, because so much of it I enjoyed, and yet not all of it fits together as well as I’d like. It’s definatly worth taking a look at, and it’s one of those movies that will become highly quotable, yet I left feeling like it was just slightly unfinished.
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