DH's interview wtih Guillermo del Toro is up! It's a really good interview, too -- he got to sit down one-on-one in person (as opposed to the usual press junket round-table situation), and Guillermo del Toro is made of so much awesome you just can't believe it. I want to live inside his head.
My favorite quote:
"People tend to think of genre as a lower form [of filmmaking] and I really don't. I believe genre movies are pure cinema, even the bad ones. In the history of film, George Méliès is more important than the Lumière Brothers and Thomas Edison to me. They made moving pictures, Méliès made films. Let me put it this way: Take all the motherfuckers that don't like genre movies, tie them to a chair for eternity and tell them, 'Do you want to watch the fucking train arriving at the station for the rest of your life or do you want to watch A Trip to the Moon?' I bet you'd find that they would pick Méliès."
What I particularly love about
Beautiful Girls
is that none of the actors in it were Big! Stars! at the time, although some have gone on to some level of Big! Stardom! since then (and then drifted back out). It's just such a nice little self-contained movie.
And I agree that it's still probably Natalie Portman's best performance to date.
What I particularly love about Beautiful Girls is that none of the actors in it were Big! Stars! at the time, although some have gone on to some level of Big! Stardom! since then (and then drifted back out). It's just such a nice little self-contained movie.
And Rosie's monologue/rant is a thing of beauty.
What I particularly love about Beautiful Girls is that none of the actors in it were Big! Stars! at the time, although some have gone on to some level of Big! Stardom! since then (and then drifted back out).
Or they had been pretty big stars, but were no longer on the A-list (I'm thinking Timothy Hutton and Matt Dillon here)
It's just such a nice little self-contained movie.
I love it because it reminds me a bit of where I grew up (though Brunswick was a bigger town), and I knew/know people like those characters.
One of the other good ones on the list is THE PARALLAX VIEW, which is great 70's conpiracy thriller. Definitely good at inducing paranoia.
Sheryl Lee's performance ought to be legendary.
nods vigoroursly in agreement
So has anybody seen
A New Leaf?
Theo - you'd love it, I think. Scrappy too. It's about a bumbling nerd girl who falls for a playboy cad who's only in it for her money.
So has anybody seen A New Leaf?
Yes.
To expand, Matthau had a real gift for a certain kind of comedy. Unfortunately, A New Leaf didn't exploit it nearly as well as a lot of other movies (starting with, to state the obvious, The Odd Couple).
To expand, Matthau had a real gift for a certain kind of comedy.
I like it because it's a throwback to the leading man roles he used to get earlier in this career before he was confined to comic curmudgeondom.
I love that he wound up marryiing the real-life inspiration for Holly Golightly.
I'm curious about
Let's Scare Jessica To Death.
Anyone seen it? Good? Bad?
The Onion AV Club had a feature on it a couple of weeks back.
