March movies
Notes on a Scandal and Pan's Labyrinth, got to see both in Portland while there for a library consortium meeting and a few days of downtime. Notes features excellent work by Judi Dench and one of my favorites, Cate Blanchett. It is a creepy movie, though, and the themes are disturbing.
Pan's Labyrinth is a work of art, a beautifully told story of a young girl living through the last days of the Spanish Civil War. It is haunting.
Dial M for Murder - was in the mood to revisit some Hitchcock
The Departed - I may have liked this even better on second viewing. And I just love the Dropkick Murphys' version of "Going Down to Boston."
La Dolce Vita - An interesting portrait of a shallow man
Spinal Tap - After watching the recent one, For Your Consideration, just had to see the one that started it all. This is absolutely hilarious, and holds up well. The extra scenes on the DVD are worth watching.
Amistad - hadn't seen this in years; a really good movie
Borat - Outrageous, I laughed a lot, yet felt let down.
The Tenant - boring, weird, Polanksi
The Hotel New Hampshire - hadn't seen this one in years either; pretty 80s - the more recent adaptations of the more recent Irving novels have been much better. Need to re-watch Garp, though.
The Wedding Banquet - Ang Lee's funny and bittersweet portrait of a gay Asian-American man who, in order to please his parents who don't know about his long relationship with an American man, marries one of his tenants who needs a green card.
Hollywoodland - Really enjoyed this again. Ben Affleck can act. His increasingly sad portrayal of George Reeve is some really good work. Adrien Brody is also effective as a down on his luck detective who gets involved in the case.
Merchant of Venice - the Pacino version. It's well done, but just not my favorite Shakespeare work.
Suspicion - Another Hitchcock, but not the one I thought it was.
Unbreakable - perhaps the best of M Night Shyamalan's work. Definitely the best comic book related movie ever.
Fool for Love - Robert Altman directed this adaptation of a Sam Shepherd play. Depressing.
Shadow of a Doubt - another Hitchcock, creepy and weird.
Lord of the Rings - we've been on a bit of a, um, kick with the trilogy here recently. Shawn watched it while I was away at a library consortium meeting in Kansas City, then I said I wanted to watch them, too, so we did. And then a few days later, we watched them again. So now we're going to re-read the books and then watch the extended versions that we just ordered. OK, that's probably revealing too much!
Pan's Labyrinth is a work of art, a beautifully told story of a young girl living through the last days of the Spanish Civil War. It is haunting.
Dial M for Murder - was in the mood to revisit some Hitchcock
The Departed - I may have liked this even better on second viewing. And I just love the Dropkick Murphys' version of "Going Down to Boston."
La Dolce Vita - An interesting portrait of a shallow man
Spinal Tap - After watching the recent one, For Your Consideration, just had to see the one that started it all. This is absolutely hilarious, and holds up well. The extra scenes on the DVD are worth watching.
Amistad - hadn't seen this in years; a really good movie
Borat - Outrageous, I laughed a lot, yet felt let down.
The Tenant - boring, weird, Polanksi
The Hotel New Hampshire - hadn't seen this one in years either; pretty 80s - the more recent adaptations of the more recent Irving novels have been much better. Need to re-watch Garp, though.
The Wedding Banquet - Ang Lee's funny and bittersweet portrait of a gay Asian-American man who, in order to please his parents who don't know about his long relationship with an American man, marries one of his tenants who needs a green card.
Hollywoodland - Really enjoyed this again. Ben Affleck can act. His increasingly sad portrayal of George Reeve is some really good work. Adrien Brody is also effective as a down on his luck detective who gets involved in the case.
Merchant of Venice - the Pacino version. It's well done, but just not my favorite Shakespeare work.
Suspicion - Another Hitchcock, but not the one I thought it was.
Unbreakable - perhaps the best of M Night Shyamalan's work. Definitely the best comic book related movie ever.
Fool for Love - Robert Altman directed this adaptation of a Sam Shepherd play. Depressing.
Shadow of a Doubt - another Hitchcock, creepy and weird.
Lord of the Rings - we've been on a bit of a, um, kick with the trilogy here recently. Shawn watched it while I was away at a library consortium meeting in Kansas City, then I said I wanted to watch them, too, so we did. And then a few days later, we watched them again. So now we're going to re-read the books and then watch the extended versions that we just ordered. OK, that's probably revealing too much!
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