today i watched:

at home:
days of heaven, terence malick's second film. of course, it's amazing. he manages to make amazingly passionate and beautiful movies that lack any melodrama. his cinematography and scripts and editing are all so fucking good. i love him so much.

in the theatre:
the illusionist. was okay. i definitely knew the "twist ( Read more... )

i'm back. and only to tell you that i went to see 'hollywoodland' because i'd heard how great ben affleck is in it. that just doesn't make any sense to me. ben affleck is worse than bad. he is, like... NEGATIVE good. he and naomi watts. "bad actor" just doesn't cut it. it's almost like they are trying to give out shitty performances. i don't get it ( Read more... )

tuesday feb 7, munich.

as much as i gripe about spielberg, he's good at entertaining audiences. war of the worlds was actually a solid romp. catch me if you can was cute and light. jurassic park is one of those few perfect action movies. and i think that munich manages to cash in on the good things of these movies, but unfortunately there are a ( Read more... )

match pointthis is one of those movies that's pretty damn great but drops the ball in enough places to really bring it down a notch. overall, the script and the direction are just fantastic and tight. it's got clearly defined themes that are explicitly but cleverly addressed in both action and speech. there are tons of scenes that are just ( Read more... )

holy fuck, the new worldabsolutely gorgeous, both in visuals and in feel. the peformances are fantastic, and the lead actress is entrancing. the dialog is sparse but effective. the story is simple and much more focused than i had expected. the score is sweeping and beautiful, with some mozart and wagner and original compositions by horner that ( Read more... )

frankly, brokeback mountain was just okay. although i like ang lee's early movies, i've never been impressed with the movies he's made in america. in fact, i haven't liked his directing style in a while, i find it overly sentimental and heavy handed. brokeback fits in with this pattern, and perhaps that's why i felt relatively uninterested in the ( Read more... )

last night i saw a series of interwoven vignettes about different women in southern california, nine lives. this movie was... what is the right word... trite. i'm generally wary of movies 'about women,' and usually with good reason. this is one such movie.

i feel like i should rent an almodovar movie to wash the bad taste out of my mouth.

last friday i saw the new neil jordan movie, breakfast on pluto, starring the unbelievably adorable cillian murphy. it's a coming of age story about a cross dressing irish boy who moves to london in search of his mother. although i'm sure murphy's performance will be annoying to many, i found hiim absolutely and endlessly chrarming. even shots of ( Read more... )

what: the woodsman
with: sylvester sleeping on the couch.

ouch. this movie gave me a stomach ache.

what: chronicles of narnia: the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe ( Read more... )