I saw Strictly Ballroom last night. I had been putting it off because I accidentally caught the end of it on TV once, and it looked totally weird. However, watching it from the beginning, I did like it. It was definitely quirky, stylized, slightly clunky, and a little bit dated, but I enjoyed it. Though that is possibly because any time anyone had been talking for more than three minutes, there was suddenly dancing. And I love dancing.
Good luck. Try not to kill people. Hands! Hands!
Willow ,'Storyteller'
Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned
A place to talk about movies--Old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Alibelle - Feb 03, 2005 10:19:55 am PST #8735 of 10001
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
Dana - Feb 03, 2005 10:38:40 am PST #8736 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I love that movie.
"That was unexpected!"
Kate P. - Feb 03, 2005 10:46:46 am PST #8737 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I both love and own that movie, and have been known to dance around singing "Love is In the Air" to myself at random.
Kathy A - Feb 03, 2005 11:02:04 am PST #8738 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
My favorite scene is the "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps" number on the stage behind the curtain--so wonderfully sensual, filled with hidden longing between the two.
sumi - Feb 03, 2005 11:22:00 am PST #8739 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Okay, comingsoon.net has a piece about the 21st Bond movie. They say it's going to be Casino Royale. . . uh. huh.
I mean, are they remaking the parody?
§ ita § - Feb 03, 2005 11:26:12 am PST #8740 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I mean, are they remaking the parody?
Maybe they're just making a new one from the book.
Someone in the row behind me at my last movie outing bitched at the Bewitched trailer -- doesn't Hollywood have any new ideas? Which made me think that does it matter? Supposed Bewitched is a brilliant and enjoyable movie ... doesn't that count too? If not more?
Fred Pete - Feb 03, 2005 11:27:20 am PST #8741 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Supposed Bewitched is a brilliant and enjoyable movie ... doesn't that count too? If not more?
Yes. Especially if it's good enough to spawn sequels Bothered and Bewildered.
JZ - Feb 03, 2005 11:35:51 am PST #8742 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Oh, dear God. How on earth did I not know about this Gaiman/McKean/Henson Workshop collaboration?
SO. PRETTY. It needs to be opening in San Francisco RIGHT EXACTLY NOW.
Dana - Feb 03, 2005 11:38:37 am PST #8743 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
It just premiered at Sundance. Gaiman's been blogging about it.
Atropa - Feb 03, 2005 11:41:58 am PST #8744 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Oh, dear God. How on earth did I not know about this Gaiman/McKean/Henson Workshop collaboration?
Because you don't obsessively read Mr. Gaiman's blog?
I can't wait for it to open. I've been looking forward to it for ages and ages, it seems.