We saw A Serious Man last night. Very interesting black comic take on the sufferings of Job and doing what's "right". I would say it's 1st class Coen brothers in terms of theme and second class in terms of execution. Still makes it better than 99% of what's out there. Anyone else see it?
Mal: That's not what I saw. You like to tell me what really happened? Book: I surely would. And maybe someday I will.
'Safe'
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Scrappy - Oct 10, 2009 1:44:11 pm PDT #4378 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
DavidS - Oct 10, 2009 1:57:59 pm PDT #4379 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Anyone else see it?
No, but it's getting some real hostile reviews.
I've already seen both "self hating jew" and "condescending and misanthropic."
Jessica - Oct 10, 2009 2:18:24 pm PDT #4380 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Polter-Cow - Oct 10, 2009 2:35:05 pm PDT #4381 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
No, but it's getting some real hostile reviews.
Really? It got a really good review in EW.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 10, 2009 6:16:35 pm PDT #4382 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
"condescending and misanthropic."
The Coen's have been getting that one their entire career. I'm not sure they'd take that as an insult. "Self-loathing" however is a new one. They are pretty much equal opportunity abusers when it comes to the ethnic/religious backgrounds, IMO.
DavidS - Oct 10, 2009 6:33:28 pm PDT #4383 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It's the same thing that Philip Roth got after Portnoy's Complaint. There's a lot of cultural enforcement about ethnic identities within a community.
Half Blood Prince has worked its way to the rep houses, and Emmett and I saw it at the Red Vic on Haight Street. It's my fourth time and it's grown on me. Jim Broadbent's performance is just so masterful - comic and tragic. If you just shift your focus slightly around, it's a very interesting and dark story about Horace Slughorn. I think you could take (the non-magical portions of) the plot and performance, translate them to Germany before and after the war and you'd have a Pulitzer Prize winning play.
erikaj - Oct 10, 2009 7:34:03 pm PDT #4384 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
I love "Portnoy" I probably read it before I should have, though. It probably gave me wrong impressions. But I think its most lasting impact on me(besides strengthening my resolve to never, ever, eat liver) is the way that it's written, in terms of finding the freaky in ordinary stuff, and the way that you can hear the people's voices. But obviously, I'm speaking as someone outside Judaism. Philip Roth probably gave me my thing for Brainy Jewish Guys, even though I mostly use what I learned from him writing Munch fanfiction more than my own stuff(I don't know how Roth himself would feel about this, but I never accept the compliments without acknowledging him as an influence.)
Polter-Cow - Oct 11, 2009 10:47:45 am PDT #4385 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Zombieland was fun. I think Shaun of the Dead was funnier, but Zombieland was a more successful blend of both drama and comedy. It was unexpectedly affecting at times. And, yes, the cameo was pretty great.
Theodosia - Oct 14, 2009 7:32:42 am PDT #4386 of 30000
'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"
Somebody took the long trailer for
2012
and cut out all the SFX, so you can concentrate on the stellar screaming acting on display:
sumi - Oct 14, 2009 8:02:21 am PDT #4387 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
Interview with Penny Chenery about Secretariat - the horse and the movie.