The Fox Film Noir and Studio Classics lines are incredible. They're not only incredibly cheap, they've all got audio commentaries from film scholars.
As you already know, Before Sunset is one of my absolute favorite recent movies. It's also one of the very best films about aging, adulthood, and idealism--its real subject--ever made. I haven't see The Squid and the Whale yet, but I'm not totally sold on Noah Baumbach. He's clearly extremely talented when it comes to creating memorable characters and writing great dialogue to put in their mouths, and I've certainly enjoyed the movies of his that I've seen, but they always seem to come up just short in the end.
I could not agree more. Every time I watch it (which has been wel more than a handful the past 6 months, I appreciate it even more. I thought Squid and the whale was alright. But, honestly, I think Kicking and Screaming is far far better. K&S seems far more organic to me, less forced. I will also say that the last 5 minutes at the airport and subsequent flashback brings me to tears nearly every time.
It's been years since I've seen it. I should give it another viewing. We watched Mr. Jealousy a few weeks ago. Although it ultimately doesn't amount to much in the end, it's also damn entertaining at various points.
I feel the same way about Mr. Jealousy. I laughed my ass of at points but in the end it seemed empty. Not that it needed deep meaning, or anything it just all didn't "work."
...for the 275th time.....this week.... (note to self: tell 2 yr old daughter that the TV is "broken")
Does every team in MLS do the same promos? Because one of her little hench people did the 'first kick' at the Revs' game on Sunday, and I can just imagine how someone in your unfortunate position would have cringed at that.
for the first time and saw Little Miss Sunshine over the wkend. LMS is a very different kind of humor from Talladega Nights, but it's not too high brow to catch yourself laughing aloud.
There's no reason not to blind buy all of them- with deepdiscount dvd's semi-annual sale, you can get them for under $8 each. Although with the latest batch of noirs Fox just released (Shock, Vickie, 14 Hours), they finally appear to be scraping the bottom of the barrell.
While Hollywood directors like Howard Hawks have received their due, William Wyler remains strangely underappreciated by many. That's too bad. He was a true craftsman of cinematic art. While this film isn't as towering an achievement as The Best Years of Our Lives or Dodsworth, it remains a beautiful film that can stand alongside the likes of Wuthering Heights and Counsellor at Law (which sadly remains Wyler's most neglected film). Oh, and I think the humor of the poster is pretty self-explanatory.
Yeah, little did they know... Actually, Perkins was a great actor, and I think he was better than Dean (his performance in Psycho alone would warrant that). It's unfortunate that he was typecast for much of the rest of his career after his turn as Norman Bates.
I remember the first time watching it, thinking how confusing and discordant it was, and then the post card scene scene makes sene of everything. Godard was viciously attacked by the critics when this first came out.
Colin McCabe spent a bit of time on this film in his bio of Godard, which I read before I saw this so I had an idea of what to expect. That postcard scene is ridiculous and great. Much like the bedroom scene in Breathless, or the apartment scene in Contempt (maybe my favorite 30 minutes of any film) there is a moment where I thought to myself, "this is going on forever..." But, by the time it ended I thought to myself, 'so, that was pretty great."
This is a movie that I never, ever intended to see it, but I am glab that I saw it and actually enjoyed(did not want to use this word) it. When I looked at the credits in the end, I am surprised that many people -- flight controllers, etc -- played themselves. I am going to re-read some 911 materials. I dont know... I get this feeling that the movie maker wanted to say President Bush did not do a damn thing during the entire ordeal. They were looking for him to make a decision and Bush never did anything in the movie. I did not like the way that a German guy went nuts in the movie. I do not think we knew what went on during the flight. Why does a foreigner go crazy while Americans became hero? I think he was the only one that appeared notable to be non-American on that flight.