Graduation is an intricate, deeply intelligent film, and a bleak picture of a state of national depression in Romania, where the 90s generation hoped they would have a chance to start again.
It's an exciting, intelligent, satisfying picture, but it may be, like the favourite food of its leading character, caviar to the general.
This absorbing, intelligent submarine picture hopscotches from the Pentagon to the Kremlin to the North Atlantic and back again, satisfying armchair admirals and casual moviegoers alike.
The autofocus (one of the things that didn't work *quite* right on D300) is fast and intelligent, the picture controls are intuitive, and the end results are outstanding.
But Jaws and Star Wars, whatever negative effect they may have had on subsequent US moviemaking, were clever, intelligent motion pictures.
Traffic (2000, 18, Entertainment, VHS/Rental, DVD/Retail) One of the most intelligent Hollywood pictures of recent years, Steven Soderbergh's version of the Channel 4 mini-series Traffik (also released on DVD this month) is an engrossing political thriller about the international drugs trade.
But that's a minor matter in a witty, intelligent, well-acted picture that's also beautifully designed and edited.
"I hope that viewed together these four masterpieces will present an intelligent and involving picture of what it was like to live in Britain 100 years ago".
This is a handsomely made picture, intelligent and sympathetic, with something of the uninsistent manner of Jan Morris's memoir Conundrum.
