Diary

Diary (2010) from Tim Hetherington on Vimeo.


Diary.  Short, mostly just imagery, shot by Tim Hetherington, a reporter killed in Libya.  Sad.

Love my Life

Love my Life  is a movie based on a manga about two lesbians.  It probably makes a cool comic, but the episodic nature of the story meant that the film didn't have any real focus or conflict.  There were a lot of scenes of happy lovers...not a good movie to watch when you're lonely :'(

The soundtrack by noodles is really great.

The movie ends in an epic lesbian makeout scene.

Mi Vida Loca

SAD GIRL

What the hell can you even say about Mi Vida Loca?

Not much really.  The movie is about gangs in Echo Park in Los Angeles....that place is pretty gentrified now, though.

Peep game.  Today on Deal Pulp there is a deal for MoviePosterShop.com: $10 for $20 + free shipping.  They have a pretty huge selection.  If only I had some extra funds....

What a coincidence.  Right after I watched Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, it was featured on Design*Sponge.  Peep the cool post.

huh.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is gonna play a beat cop in the upcoming Batman?!

Wait and see, I guess?!

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

Caught Cat on a Hot Tin Roof today.  SRY 2 SAY that I....didn't like it?  It was basically a bunch of people screaming at each other and talking their (uninteresting) problems out.  Maybe the play is better.
Also: Paul newman had a scary face dear god.

A Zed and Two Noughts

A friend told me to watch A Zed and Two Noughts a long time ago and I finally watched it.  I really enjoyed it because it reminded me of Seijun Suzuki's (my favorite director) surrealism (albeit with a more fleshed out story).  The twins' obsession with decay and rot was really interesting and made me wonder about director Peter Greenway's personal neuroses.  Oh, and I thought the music really made the movie work.

Interestingly enough, there is a dead cat decomposing near my block, I pass it daily when I go on walks...

Wendy and Lucy

Wendy and Lucy is one of those slow, deliberately filmed movies.  Michelle Williams looks pretty with this hairdo.  It was kind of interesting to me because I went on a long, ambling 5 month road trip so the "drifter" thing is familiar, but at the same time I wonder if I'd like this more if I understood the bond between people and their dogs...?

Father of the Bride (1950)

The original Father of the Bride is a touching father/daughter (a dynamic not often explored) movie.  I haven't seen the Steve Martin remake, so I can't really comment.  The film holds up pretty well in contemporary times, though...but man, that wedding dress sure doesn't.  How awful wedding dresses used to be, eh?  There was a cool nightmare sequence that was interesting.

The Stanford Theatre  showed this film as part of an Elizabeth Taylor retrospective (rest her soul).  She was so beautiful!  I'm gonna catch Cat on a Hot Tin Roof next week, too.

Adventureland

Adventureland covers what happens after the "teen movie" time period in one's life...the quarterlife crisis (popular topic on the blogosphere).  Since I'm in this sort of post-college crisis myself, Adventureland was relatable.  The characters were really sitcomesque, though.  Am I weird for thinking both Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart are cute?

The Perfect Score

lol @ ScarJo being in The Perfect Score.  She had cool hair, though.  I guess this movie isn't as bad as you'd think.  The plot revolves around a group of teens who conspire to steal the answers to the SAT.   A lot of the rhetoric about how standardized testing is bad really rings true, but the feel good Hollywood ending was kinda whack.    I also think it was kind of refreshing to see the Asian guy not play a model minority role.

READY TO WATCH SOME MOVIEZ.  Tickets from a deal from buywithme.com arrived in the mail.

movie posters

An interesting link on Thrillist today.  Cool movie posters from a one Viktor Hertz.  Check out the one for Point Break, haha.

#swag

rockin' my Hausu tee

trailers

Some interesting trailers that were shown before Jane Eyre.

Super corny voiceover, but this trailer is cut really well and it kinda looks interesting...I'll see how the reviews are.  I actually saw the trailer for Tree of Life somewhere before, forget when...

This looks like it could be somewhat boring, but I studied history in college & am still pretty interested in stories like The Conspirator.  I'm debating whether to see this in the theater or on DVD.

Jane Eyre (2011)

 Social engagements, a bad SVU  watching habit and a self-mandated "read every day" rule have made it so I  am watching fewer movies than usual :'(  I did make it out to see Jane Eyre today, though.  I really need to read the novel.  I enjoyed the film a lot...I felt there was a femininity in how it was filmed that I really liked...the camera gaze would shift to blooming flowers in the trees, to something else, to the couple.  It was pretty.  It may have just been me, or the theater I was in, but some of the scenes filmed in the dark were really grainy?

the poster is cool