Barcelona was really good! Very funny, Woody Allen-esque. Now I want to watch Metropolitan and The Last Days of Disco. What's up with this Whit Stillman guy? He made three movies in the nineties and then quit?

I read an interview with him in the Village Voice a few months back, and he's been trying to get things made, but they keep falling through. I think he did take some time off completely to travel, though.

Also, Metrolpolitan and Last Days are both worth seeing. Very similar in tone to Barcelona.

I thought Last Days was by far the most enjoyable of the three. (Actually didn't enjoy watching Metropolitan, though I give props for actually getting that sort of film made.)

I actually think Barcelona is the least of the three Stillman films. Last Days of Disco is my favourite. Such a fun cast, full of now-familiar faces. Kate Beckinsale is awesomely, hilariously bitchy throughout (this is up there with Cold Comfort Farm as the best of of KB IMO, before she got fossilized into the wooden action-heroine mode), Chloe Sevingy is fairly believable as an ingenue, and it's got the post-Dead Poet, pre-House Robert Sean Leonard, playing a douchebag (against type)! And Chris Eigeman, of course, 'cause this is a Walt Stillman movie after all. Oh! And here is Young Matt Kessler (a.k.a. The Middleman), with the Disco Will Never Be Over!! speech.

The soundtrack to the movie is FANTASTIC. Still one of my all-time fave OSTs.

See, I think Barcelona was my favorite of the three, but all three have some great lines.

"Playing strip poker with an exhibitionist somehow takes the challenge away."

"You are far weirder than someone merely into S&M. At least they have a tradition. We have some idea what S&M is about. There's movies and books about it. But so far as I know, there is nothing to explain the way you are."

"There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck."

"You are far weirder than someone merely into S&M. At least they have a tradition. We have some idea what S&M is about. There's movies and books about it. But so far as I know, there is nothing to explain the way you are."

I laughed out loud at that one. And various other things Fred said. And Ted's bit about ant politics.

Such a fun cast, full of now-familiar faces.

I know! It is in the Netflix queue, and Metropolitan is on Instant.

Also, Metropolitan and Last Days are both worth seeing. Very similar in tone to Barcelona.

I liked the tone. Sly, understated. A loose narrative without feeling plotless.

I like this poster for Let The Right One In better than the movie. I do not like the banner ad that was playing when I clicked on it. Ickorama.

That is a cool poster.

Another cool poster, for The Empire Strikes Back - Never Tell Me The Odds

Working from home today included watching The Warriors. I still love that movie.

I've been reading mediocre-at-best reviews of Takers, and I still want to see it! Maybe next weekend at a matinee.

Working from home today included watching The Warriors. I still love that movie.

I really should rewatch that film--it's been years since I've last seen it. I love Lynne Thigpen in that film.