Once, if it's still playing in your area. [x-post]
Come on. You drop by for a cup of coffee, and the world's not ending? Please.
Connor ,'Not Fade Away'
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Tom Scola - Oct 15, 2007 6:46:11 am PDT #1698 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Jars - Oct 15, 2007 6:46:56 am PDT #1699 of 10000
It's got big indie cred, and from what I hear, some really great music.
And Dublin! The Bestest Place on earth!
Kathy A - Oct 15, 2007 6:48:28 am PDT #1700 of 10000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Glen Hansard has really gotten all sexy as he's matured--I remember him in his only other film role, as Outspan Foster in The Commitments, and he was just a cute ginger-haired geeky guitar player there, but in Once, he's smoking hot with that beard and those sad eyes.
Vonnie K - Oct 15, 2007 6:48:30 am PDT #1701 of 10000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
HA! Great minds, etc., Tom.
I've heard that Hansard and the girl who played the love interest are dating in real life.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 15, 2007 7:47:52 am PDT #1702 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
If Death at a Funeral is still on in your area it might be a good overlap movie, flea. The Jane Austen Book Club is also good,but might fall too far on the chick-flick side of things.
Sue - Oct 15, 2007 8:13:11 am PDT #1703 of 10000
hip deep in pie
I'd vouch for Once. I thought it was a great movie. Funny and touching. And it was made guerilla style on the streets of Dublin for only a few hundred grand, so it's go the indie cred.
I was waiting for Death at a Funeral to come out on DVD, since I thought it missed us, but it seems it's being release in Canada in November. It's strange because generally they release things in Canada at the same time as the US. (Except for Canadian movies.)
I've heard that Hansard and the girl who played the love interest are dating in real life.
They are. They claim they only started dating while doing publicity, but I wonder if they just waited until she was legal. (She was 17 when they made the film.)
Vonnie K - Oct 15, 2007 8:16:29 am PDT #1704 of 10000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
And as Beatrice, a woman whose name I forget, but who was the female lead in "Blackpool"
Sarah Parrish. Who is awesome.
Lewis is hilarious in the role. He never struck me as a comedic actor, so that was an eye-opener. Although my favourite in the series is the updated version of "Taming of the Shrew" with Shirley Henderson and Rufus Sewell, because Henderson is so tiny and full of RAGE, and the skanky gender issue is mollified the fact that Katarina is a member of the British Cabinet and Sewell's Petruchio shows up in his wedding in a dress.
The Jane Austen Book Club is also good, but might fall too far on the chick-flick side of things.
Yeah, it's definitely chick-flicky. But it's not quite as the nauseatingly saccharine as some of the other chick flicks I've seen. Still, it's more of an "outing with a girlfriend" type of movie than one with DH.
Sue - Oct 15, 2007 8:20:35 am PDT #1705 of 10000
hip deep in pie
Are these BBC Shakespeare on DVD? Region 1 DVD?
Theodosia - Oct 15, 2007 8:24:45 am PDT #1706 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
If it weren't for the Depressing aspect, I'd suspect that Into the Wild would fit your requirements nicely.
Kathy A - Oct 15, 2007 8:32:56 am PDT #1707 of 10000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Looks like Amazon has them available.