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I'm a big fan of Greenaway's works and I jumped at the chance to check out this early work by the director on video.

I can't add to what others have said here except to say that it's an excrutiating experience that doesn't have enough humor to keep your interest for the full running time.

At its best, "The Falls" is an interesting and sometimes funny curiosity that points to themes Greenaway would return to again and again in his later work; at its worst, "The Falls" is a tedious experiment.

"This is Elvis" is one of the oddest "documentaries" I've ever seen. Using extensive archival footage, mixed with recreations shot to look like archival footage, the film looks at the rise of fall of Elvis.

The problem is that the recreation footage comes off as bad TV movie of the week, standing in stark contrast to the original, compelling material presented in the piece.

The success of "This is Elvis" was the impetus behind the current style of historical documentaries that attempt to recreate drama where no original footage exists to illustrate it. In that sense, "This is Elvis" looks a bit embarrassing at times, since it doesn't have the slickness of more contemporary "docu-drama-documentaries" in the genre.

What I'm waiting for is an Elvis documentary done with the taste and skillfullness of the "Beatles: Anthology" mini-series aired on ABC.

I've seen many reviewers here and elsewhere wax poetically about the greatness of "Fight Club". Indeed, the film is one of the most fascinating visual and aural trips of recent years. Taking his dark, gritty style seen in "Seven", Fincher shows true vision in showing us a different world. Some sequences -- the IKEA catalogue come to life, Tyler inserting porn snippets into a family film, the plane crash -- are brillant little pieces of filmmaking that take editing, sound design, and image to another level in Hollywood film.

However, it's one of the most emotionally empty films I've seen in quite some time. One can compare "Fight Club" to Oliver Stone's "Natural Born Killers" -- both are commentaries on aspects of contemporary society, both are violent, and relentless with the viewer. But, where "Fight Club" fails is in the humanity of its characters. The skill shown in "NBK" is making caricatures very real people; the failing of "Fight Club" is making anyone in the film approachable at all.

There's only one little glimmer of emotion in the piece, where Pitt and Norton first duke it out outside a little bar near the beginning of the film. If that theme -- guys who can, like big kids, fight and tumble just for the fun of it -- had been extended a bit further through the formation of the fight clubs, then showed how the clubs (and Norton's paranoid fantasy) went in a different direction, the film could have worked a bit better.

In all, "Fight Club" is an unfortunate example of the new breed of Hollywood directors who have a remarkable sense of visual style, with all the emotional range and storytelling ability of ... a bar of soap. I came away from "Fight Club" feeling as though I had seen the most brilliant and shallow film of all time. The film is a two-hour television commercial for teenage angst in developmentally immature twenty-somethings, Pitt and Norton transformed into ad spokesman screaming "My Life is So Empty". It will certainly dazzle you, but doesn't have much of a point and is, in the end, a waste of time. All I can say to the GenX'ers who liked this film: grow up. To the Hollywood execs that financed and distributed this mess: stop assuming that your audience has the intellectually capacity of a flea.