'Never Leave Me'
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I'm pretty lucky in that my nearest first-run theater is a 21-plex, complete with an IMAX screen, so we get a lot of the smaller indie films here and I don't have to schlep downtown to the River East on Michigan Ave.
It's going to be a hard film to find, I think, although it is nice to see the director out there doing the promotion tour (she was on Colbert Report last night). It's been getting terrific per-screen averages, but the 3:35 show we went to only had about 12 of us in the theater.
REALLY want to see Hurt Locker.
Is it my imagination, or is Kathryn Bigelow really tall? She seemed to tower over Colbert.
She is pretty tall. I think she's about six feet tall.
Saw (500) Days of Summer which hit me in my sappy spots. Joseph Gordon Levitt sure has grown up charming.
nebbermind.
Anybody ever see the spy movie A Dandy in Aspic? Late sixties, starring Laurence Harvey. Last movie directed by Anthony Mann.
Reviews indicate that it doesn't quite succeed but it does have a fantastic premise that seems rich with dramatic tension.
Harvey plays a British agent who is assigned to track down and kill a Russian agent who's been killing off British spies. Problem is: he's a double agent for the Russians and he's been the one killing off the British spies. In essence he's been assigned to kill himself. The man he's assigned to kill is his own handler for the Russians who's been mistakenly identified as the assassin.
Sometimes you just hear a plot outline and think, "Cool...."
I have The Dive from Clausen's Pier playing on Lifetime in the background as I putter around this morning, and I believe the Michelle Tractenberg/Sean Maher sex scene is the squickiest I've watched since The Accused.
First there's the Mutant Enemy actor cognitive dissonance, then the fact that my mental image of Michelle is still 14 (even though I know intellectually that she was 20 when she made this movie), and finally Sean continues to fail in convincing me that any character he plays is heterosexual—including Brian Piccolo.
Did I fail to see the point of Tsotsi? I appreciated being able to "visit" Johannesburg through the eyes of the camera lens but as a story I didn't feel like the film had much to say. Especially compared to Joyeux Noel and Paradise Now, two movies it beat out for the Academy Award. What am I missing?
Just saw Moon and really enjoyed it. I'm wondering what the Buffista theories were for what the deal was about the woman Sam sees near the beginning. Was he simply beginning to go crazy? Or was it a bug (or a feature!) in his "programming"?