Category: movies
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Godzilla
When a pair of giant cockroaches invade your city (and when I said giant, I mean taller than the tallest buildings), dig a hole that’s as wide as five city blocks and lay their eggs in it, who you gonna call? Godzilla, right? There was a scene, just before the final battle between the mighty kaiju… Read.
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The Big Country
If I had to recommend a classic Western to someone who’d never seen one before, I think I’d tell them to rent a copy of Billy Wilder’s The Big Country. From the opening sequence of a stage coach coming to town, Wilder framed every scene so his subject would look tiny and lost in the panoramic… Read.
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The Grand Budapest Hotel
We went to see The Grand Budapest Hotel last Friday and I liked it so much that now I’m going to have to watch every Wes Anderson movie every made, dammit. The story takes place in and around The Grand Budapest Hotel, a hotel that never existed but looks, in its original incarnation, like every… Read.
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mascara
Bill Murray. Just because. I could be wrong, but I think that’s a mascara brush he’s got clamped in his teeth like a cigarette holder. Read.
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le week-end
Just last night we saw a trailer for le week-end, one of the movies we watched at the film festival. The trailer made it look like a feel-good rom-com about a couple on an impulsive weekend in Paris where they reignite the flame of passion for their long marriage. I have rarely seen a more misleading… Read.
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Mother, I Love You
Mother, I Love You was our wildcard pick of the film festival offerings. It could have been bad, it could have been good, we had no idea. It was from Latvia. What does anybody, besides Latvians, know about Latvia? Definitely European, kind of Soviet, maybe bleak, maybe not. We went in not knowing what we… Read.
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Psycho
This may be hard to believe, but I’d never seen Psycho from beginning to end until just last night. I’d seen all the most significant scenes, of course, same as everyone else who’s watched television from time to time. I must’ve watched the shower scene dozens of times by now. But until last night I’d… Read.
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Macaroni And Cheese
We walked out of just one film at the film festival, and it was called Macaroni And Cheese, although we would’ve walked out of The Congress if we’d stopped saying to ourselves, “It can’t get any worse, it can’t get any worse…” Macaroni And Cheese was three young women reminiscing about the time they went… Read.
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The Obvious Child
The Obvious Child is a Rom-com, but it is not what you’re thinking of right now, if in fact you’re thinking of the Hollywood template for a rom-com with its whacky characters, meet-cute situations, misunderstandings and happy resolutions. This movie has all that, but it does all those things on its own terms, unconventionally, true to… Read.
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A Room In Town
It’s official: Singing every word of dialogue is stupid. The characters in the Jacques Demy film A Room In Town sing all their lines, and it just doesn’t work for me. They’re not singing songs, they’re just singing ordinary conversation. It’s distracting and it seems inane to hear people sing lines like “Give me a… Read.
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