Kym gets out of rehab for the weekend to be at her sisters wedding held at the family home in West Conecticut. This film seems like a bitchy upmarket version of Margot at the wedding, borrowing some of the dogme handheld camera with indoor natural lighting shots which help to make things more than a [...]
Milk
I moved to Chicago from North Jutland Denmark when I was 17 in the autumn of 1978. It felt like I had been there a couple of weeks although it was actually a couple of months when the news came of the mayor of San Francisco had been shot dead. This news was quickly overshadowed [...]
Orfeo ed Euridice live from the Met in HD
This production featured costumes by Isaac Mizrahi, choreographed by Mark Morris and conducted by James Levine. Amazing set design by Allen Moyer. Danielle de Niese as Euridice (Air-oo-ee-dee-chay not euro-dice). 90 minutes straight through, whether it was this production itself or whether it was because these are starting to catch on but for once this [...]
Frost / Nixon
Rebecca Hall who appears as David Frost’s female companion in Frost/Nixon. Do you remember where you were when Nixon left the whitehouse? This is about whether someone with the reputation of a talk show host could match minds with that of a statesmen however twisted. Well done I thought.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0870111/
The Wrestler
Marisa Tomei (pictured ) as the New Jersey stripper Cassidy (Badabing anyone?), the romantic interest of the somewhat over the hill human tragedy Randy the Ram (Mickey Rourke). This movie has Aronofsky’s all over it and was even directed by one of them. Written by former editor in chief of the Onion, Robert Siegel. Music [...]
Seven Pounds
Rosario Dawson in a slowmoving carcrash with Will Smith.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0814314/
Slumdog Millionaire
Freida Pinto (pictured). I wish more of the Bollywood genre I have seen recently was like this. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1010048/
Australia
Purportedly Nicole Kidman who stars in this extended diet coke beefcake commercial with a bit of blather about Aboriginal rights just in case you hadn’t seen Rabbit Fence. Did the Japanese bomb Darwin that extensively? Who knew? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455824/
The Reader
Jeanette Hain (pictured) in another of modern Germany’s recent attempts to interpret its past. I had this book in the original (Der Vorleser) for A level German two years ago.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0976051/
Che part one
Marisé Alvarez pictured in part one of Che, well worth seeing especially if you have read some of the material.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0892255/
