Fury Road! THAT WAS SO GOOD
A couple of observations before I go back and read what everyone else said (and, I assume, nod a great deal). some of the visuals really reminded me of City of Lost Children, possibly because of all the goggles, but also something about the framing, I think. And that one scene when Max come back with the bag of ammo, so reminiscent of one of my favorite bits of Seven Samurai (with the one particularly badass samurai deciding that, yes, this would be easier if they had one of those guns) I'm just gonna go ahead and consider an homage.
I enjoyed
Trainwreck
way more than I thought I would. Also, be forewarned, I cried more than I thought I would.
Oh my god that looks like the best thing ever.
So I saw two excellent movies last night.
Ida is a black-and-white film shot in a square aspect ration, about a young Polish nun in the early 1960s, who is sent to meet with a relative she never knew, and what she finds out. It's also a road trip film. And a movie about WWII and its Soviet-controlled aftermath in Poland. Brilliant, so well acted, and just gorgeously and creatively shot. Highly recommended.
I also watched What Happened, Miss Simone?, a documentary about Nina Simone. It has a ton of archival footage, both of performances and interviews, as well as interviews with her daughter, ex-husband, band-mates, and so forth. Really well done, saddening, but with some electrifying performances that prove why she was such an important figure.
I went to Trainwreck as well and totally enjoyed it. Schumer is excellent and Bill Hader is SO dang adorable.
We watched The Great Escape over two days with the kids (thank goodness for old movies with intermissions!) and at the risk of stating the obvious, that is one damn fine film. Aeryn mostly didn't get it, but Dylan not only followed the plot, but remembered way more of the characters' names than I ever have, and I've seen this movie probably a dozen times. (Mainly because I almost never remember character names if I know the actor, it's just not something my brain ever bothers to keep ahold of.) Next up: Chicken Run and that episode of The Simpsons.
I also watched What Happened, Miss Simone?, a documentary about Nina Simone. It has a ton of archival footage, both of performances and interviews, as well as interviews with her daughter, ex-husband, band-mates, and so forth. Really well done, saddening, but with some electrifying performances that prove why she was such an important figure.
I thought it was terrific
