'Soul Purpose'
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.
I read the novel of The Virgin Suicides and came away with the very strong feeling that I had no idea what the point was. I could tell someone was trying to make a point, but, I was totally mystified.
Which doesn't speak well of the novel, overall, and I can't think how a novel that was written in the 3rd person plural could translate into a movie.
I feel much the same way about the novel. The movie has some of that too, but it's so very pretty that I can really relax into the sheer atmosphere of it.
I think I identified overmuch with the girls in Virgin Suicides. The completely unnecessary misery and loss of them, their poor misguided parents, and the older one's boyfriend who abandoned her at exactly the wrong moment and never could understand why he'd done it... it was a tragedy, and whether or not it was well done, it hit me hard in soft places.
We watched Clean last night. It starred Maggie Cheung as a Courtney-Love-like woman whose husband ODs. It was not very good, unfortunately, and we were really looking forward to seeing it. Next up is Brick.
I posted my review of The Descent on LJ. Hie thee there forthwith, y'all, read and tell me what you think.
Edited for bad tagging, oops.
Ha! I just got back from that! I'll go read.
Excellent review, Zenkitty! Here's mine. I linked to yours.
Thanks, P-C!
Woohoo! White Nights is coming out on DVD at the end of the month. Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines dance, and Isabella Rossellini looks pretty!!
I just saw Inside Man. I remember there was a lot of love for the movie in this thread. It was good stuff. I'm a Spike Lee fan.
My relatives, however, have no blinking clue who he is. We were all baffled by his use of a popular Bollywood song at the beginning and end (I still don't understand why the hell he used it).
"It must be an Indian director," my aunt said.
"It's SPIKE LEE!" I cried.
"Famous action director," my uncle said.
"He's not an ACTION DIRECTOR!" I said. "Do the Right Thing?"
"Famous Asian director," my cousin said, and I threw a pillow at him. "What, his name is LEE!"
Le sigh.