/In the Loop/ - 8.5/10
Still amazing.
A Serious Man (dir. Joel & Ethan Coen) - Jew that I am, I'm still questioning. It's a very major work of filmmaking though.
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Mayerling (1936) Anatole Litvak 7/10
Ready, Willing and Able (1937) Ray Enright 5/10
What We Do Is Secret (2008) Rodger Grossman 4/10
The Black Cat (1941) Albert S. Rogell 4/10
Manhood (2007) Raphael Fejto 4/10
Antarctica (2008) Yair Hocher 7/10
Ready, Willing and Able (1937) Ray Enright 5/10
What We Do Is Secret (2008) Rodger Grossman 4/10
The Black Cat (1941) Albert S. Rogell 4/10
Manhood (2007) Raphael Fejto 4/10
Antarctica (2008) Yair Hocher 7/10
"I want cement covering every blade of grass in this nation! Don't we taxpayers have a voice anymore?" Peggy Gravel (Mink Stole) in John Waters' Desperate Living (1977)
Heh. It was the Edmonton Film Festival, and it was from Saturday to Thursday (my viewings). I was conservative. The guy I talked to on the bus home saw thirteen films (including today's closing gala, which I skipped).Mister Tee wrote:Where the hell did you just spend your weekend, that you go to see all these?Okri wrote:An Education is a charmer. A Prophet is terrific. The White Ribbon is interesting. Broken Embraces is not. Departures needs to send its oscar to The Class immediately.
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I didn't see THE THICK OF IT but you can bet I'm going to watch every minute of it now. I can tell that Malcolm Tucker is a great character on television, but I actually found him to be a little bit of a weak link. Every so slightly. Compare with the inspired awkwardness of - again! within the context of this. film. - Chris Addison's Toby or the fax machine-stomping fury of Paul Higgins (THIS FAX MACHINE IS YOUR CAREER! IT LOOKS PRETTY FUCKED BUT LET ME CHECK AGAIN TO SEE IF IT'S - YEAH, IT'S PRETTY FUCKED!). I'm hungry for more Malcolm Tucker but by the end of the film, I found myself uproariously laughing at only one of his threats (I WILL SUMMON THE FORCES OF DARKNESS TO HOUND YOU TO AN ASSISTED SUICIDE!). David Rasche, Mimi Kennedy, Chris Addison, Anna Chlumsky, Paul Higgins, Tom Hollander, and mini-brilliance from Zach Woods' obnoxious ass-kisser Chad. These will fill up my ballot at the end of the year.
I watched it On Demand and have no qualms about recommending a body stay inside and watch it on television. It's barely a movie but it's never shy of hilarious.
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I watched it On Demand and have no qualms about recommending a body stay inside and watch it on television. It's barely a movie but it's never shy of hilarious.
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Sabin wrote:In the Loop (Iannucci) - 8.5/10
I'd be more than happy to go to 9/10 but really it's not a movie and it doesn't have an ending. Amazingly funny. Global politics Office-style. Will be watching again.
Sabin did you ever see any of The Thick of It, the comedy series of which In the Loop is a spin-off? Wonderful show, and Peter Capaldi's Malcolm Tucker is one of the great TV characters of the last few years.
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Away We Go (2009) Sam Mendes 6/10
Has its moments but I'm not really sure what to make of this. It's a slight, very slight, comedy with serious undertones about a young couple (John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph) who travel the U.S. and Canada looking for the ideal place to raise a family. Best is their visit with college friends Chris Messina and Melanie Linskey in Montreal. Scenes with better known actors, Jeff Daniels, Catherine O'Hara, Allison Janney and especially Maggie Gyllenhaal and Josh Hamilton as loopy parents in Madison, are amusing but tend to overpower the performances of the laid back leads. Good soundtrack, though.
I find where this movie decides to leave this couple very problematic. I don't want to give anything away, but what selfish, self-absorbed people.
/Y Tu Mama Tambien/ (Alfonso Cuaron) - 9/10
Speaking of selfish, self-absorbed people. I'm still annoyed at how the V.O. is one piano key even if in service of glorious imagery, but Y Tu Mama Tambien is gorgeous escapism.
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Away We Go (2009) Sam Mendes 6/10
Has its moments but I'm not really sure what to make of this. It's a slight, very slight, comedy with serious undertones about a young couple (John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph) who travel the U.S. and Canada looking for the ideal place to raise a family. Best is their visit with college friends Chris Messina and Melanie Linskey in Montreal. Scenes with better known actors, Jeff Daniels, Catherine O'Hara, Allison Janney and especially Maggie Gyllenhaal and Josh Hamilton as loopy parents in Madison, are amusing but tend to overpower the performances of the laid back leads. Good soundtrack, though.
The Vera Lynn Collection (1943-1944) Various Directors 5/10
The three films Lynn made during World War II have been packaged as a set by by Columbia British and are also available seprately as exclusives from Movie Mail.
The first, We'll Meet Again (directed by Philip Brandon) is all over the place. Lynn is supposed to be a dancer, though we never see her dance. Her friends, though, think she has a better chance at succeeding as a singer. Duh! It takes her a while but she finally does, A subplot in which she plays Cupid between the soldier she's sweet on (Charles Gray) and her best friend (Patricia Roc) is a bit of a head-scratcher. Ends with footage of Lynn entertaining the troops. The title song, her signature tune, gets short shrift, it's only sung in the film's last two minutes.
Rhythm Serenade (directed by Gordon Wellesley) is much better constructed. She plays a schoolteacher who discovers a man hiding in an old house. Is he a conscientious objector, a spy or a sailor on medical leave? Guess!
One Exciting Night (directed by Walter Forde) which is about singers and spies is the liveliest of the three.
The latest compilation of the "Forces Sweetheart"'s recordings from 1936-1952 recently reached number one on the British charts making Dame Vera Lynn at 92 the oldest living artist to reach no. 1. I have no idea who the oldest non-living artist to do so is.
Has its moments but I'm not really sure what to make of this. It's a slight, very slight, comedy with serious undertones about a young couple (John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph) who travel the U.S. and Canada looking for the ideal place to raise a family. Best is their visit with college friends Chris Messina and Melanie Linskey in Montreal. Scenes with better known actors, Jeff Daniels, Catherine O'Hara, Allison Janney and especially Maggie Gyllenhaal and Josh Hamilton as loopy parents in Madison, are amusing but tend to overpower the performances of the laid back leads. Good soundtrack, though.
The Vera Lynn Collection (1943-1944) Various Directors 5/10
The three films Lynn made during World War II have been packaged as a set by by Columbia British and are also available seprately as exclusives from Movie Mail.
The first, We'll Meet Again (directed by Philip Brandon) is all over the place. Lynn is supposed to be a dancer, though we never see her dance. Her friends, though, think she has a better chance at succeeding as a singer. Duh! It takes her a while but she finally does, A subplot in which she plays Cupid between the soldier she's sweet on (Charles Gray) and her best friend (Patricia Roc) is a bit of a head-scratcher. Ends with footage of Lynn entertaining the troops. The title song, her signature tune, gets short shrift, it's only sung in the film's last two minutes.
Rhythm Serenade (directed by Gordon Wellesley) is much better constructed. She plays a schoolteacher who discovers a man hiding in an old house. Is he a conscientious objector, a spy or a sailor on medical leave? Guess!
One Exciting Night (directed by Walter Forde) which is about singers and spies is the liveliest of the three.
The latest compilation of the "Forces Sweetheart"'s recordings from 1936-1952 recently reached number one on the British charts making Dame Vera Lynn at 92 the oldest living artist to reach no. 1. I have no idea who the oldest non-living artist to do so is.