I’m watching Notting Hill even though she is a right grade A bitch in the whole flick. . .
I’m a daft cow
Posted on March 7, 2008 @ 1:27 am
I want to be Helen Mirren When I Grow Up
Posted on February 25, 2008 @ 8:10 pm
I know I’m nuts
Posted on February 24, 2008 @ 8:02 pm
So the plan is I go to bed in the next ten minutes. I wake up at one, I watch the oscars, go back to bed round five, get up at eight, leave the house at nine, get to the office by nine thirty-ish.It’s possible.
My Oscar Picks
Posted on February 23, 2008 @ 9:35 pm
We have cable this year which means I can watch it if I want. . . Haven’t decided yet if I am going to do that to myself yet. I am DVRing it so I could watch it the next day, but that takes some of the fun out of it.
Actor Leading: Daniel Day-Lewis
Actor Supporting: Javier Bardem
Actress Leading: Julie Christie
Actress Supporting: Amy Ryan
Animated Feature: Ratatouille
Art Direction: Sweeney Todd
Cinematography: There Will Be Blood
Costume Design: Sweeney Todd
Directing: No Country For Old Men
Documentary Feature: No End In Sight
Documentary Short:Freeheld
Film Editing: The Bourne Ultimatum
Foreign Lang Film:The Counterfeiters
Makeup: La Vie En Rose
Original Score: Atonement
Original Song: Falling Slowly- Once
Best Picture: No Country For Old Men
Short Film Animated: I Met The Walrus
Short Film - Live Action: The Tonto Woman
Sound Editing: Transformers
Sound Mixing: Transformers
Visual Effects: Transformers
Adapted Screenplay:No Country for Old Men
Original Screenplay: Juno
No Country For Old Men
Posted on February 4, 2008 @ 8:26 am
It must be on the record that I love the Coen Brothers. Even the films that don’t quite work I can see something to appreciate in them.
This film works like gangbusters. Not sure if it due to it being an adaptation but there are none of those moments where you can feel them giggling to themselves about being clever- which you can sometimes feel with their stuff.
It’s shot beautifully. Not many films capture how beautiful and big the American desert is. They even get the wind, which must have driven their sound guys nuts. But never mind the pretty scenery. You’ll be on the edge of your seat for the entire film.
Fantastic acting. How nice to see Josh Brolin have a lead (and he is fantastic), Javier Bardem is seriously creepy (If you don’t know him, rent The Dancer Upstairs and The Sea Inside) and Tommy Lee Jones shines as the aging Sheriff.
Don’t want to say more.
Just go see it. It’s my Best Picture pick.
The Savages
Posted on January 27, 2008 @ 9:30 am
There aren’t many films that I see that I think, “Damn. I wish I had written that.” The Savages is one of them.
Great acting, great script, simply shot. Gold.
This years Oscar for original screenplay is going to be anyones guess as they are all fantastic. (Juno, Lars and the Real Girl, Michael Clayton, Ratatouille, and The Savages.)
There is something going on with movies right now. Is it just me or does it feel like there is more good ones than usual? Is the ratio of good to soul destroying shit changing?
It feels sort of like the 70’s. Except. You know different.
Heath Ledger
Posted on January 24, 2008 @ 11:27 am
Want to share a really lovely article written by A. O. Scott in the NY Times about Heath Ledger and his work.
I hope he was having a laugh. . .
Posted on January 6, 2008 @ 12:45 pm
It’s A Wonderful Life is one of my favorite all time films. I bought it in the US because I haven’t seen it for a couple of years and I thought it would be a nice thing for us to watch at my parent’s house on Christmas Day.
Was slightly worried because Stuart can be so fickle about films that he likes and hates. I simply would not abide his slagging off this film. It would be grounds for Unreasonable Behaviour.
Jen told me that she loved the movie and that she teared up at the end. I didn’t ask Stuart. I didn’t want to know but when we were at the airport in the middle of our travel drama he brought it up.
“I really liked that movie.”
“You did!” I’m so glad!”
“Yeah. I even got a bit teary at the end.”
“You did? What was your favourite part?”
“My favourite character was the old bloke.”
“Old. . . the angel? Clarence?”
“No. Err- Mr. . .”
“Mr. Potter???”
“Yeah. Mr. Potter.”
“You teared up at the end and your favourite character was MR. POTTER?”
“Yeah. I felt bad for him.”
“You felt BAD for MR. POTTER?!”
“Poor old guy was never going to see the town be called Pottersville. I thought when he fleeced them out of the nine grand that was a suave move.”
Educating Rita
Posted on November 20, 2007 @ 10:17 pm
I am such a sap.
Just finished watching one of my favorite movies Educating Rita. It came out in 1983 and I’m guessing that I saw it for the first time on cable or Beta (yes. we had a beta. if you don’t know what beta was, go fuck yourself) in 1984, 85.
It’s a Pygmalion story of a 30ish working class woman (played by an adorably feisty Julie Walters (Mrs. Weasley in the HP flicks) who decides to go back to school and is tutored in English Literature by a bored alcoholic failure in the 1st degree professor played by Michael Caine.
They have a teacher/student relationship, but they love each other. It isn’t sexual. . . or is it? He asks her to go to Australia with him toward the end and she says deftly avoids it.
Why am I a sap? Because I always cry at the last scene. She is waiting for him at the airport gate (pre pre pre pre 9/11 days) and he shows up late because he wanted to see her test results that he has picked up and brought with him. She’s passed. With distinction. They hug. No kissing. And then he gets on the plane and she walks away. . . even though they love and respect each other.
I tear up every time. Even with the terrible 80’s synthesizer soundtrack.
OH MY DARLIN’
Posted on July 26, 2007 @ 10:58 pm
Ali was at my desk chatting.
“Saw Eternal Sunshine last night.”
‘Ah, I love that movie.”
“You remind me of her.”
“Really?”
“You know? Free-spirited American.”
“I don’t think of myself like that. . . thank you. Course I never dyed my hair blue. But I did have a jet-black phase in Uni.”
Pause.
“I do have the whole crazy, alcoholic thing down.”
Ali nodded, “Yeah.”
