A quick one from me. I can’t believe how many excellent films there have been this year so far. I have been a busy cinema-going bee:
Brokeback Mountain: Beautiful and sad. I cried. I love a good impossible love story. I can’t express how much I enjoyed this but I’m disappointed to find a few people that I recommended it to didn’t like it at all.
Hidden: I don’t really want to say anything about this film because I think it is far better to go and see it if you haven’t read anything about it before hand. If you like slow moving French films (I do because I am a bit slow myself) and don’t mind open ends and a few unanswered questions then I think you will like it.
Walk the Line is good entertainment. The acting is amazing (I’ve always been a Reese fan. Someone said they thought it was boring when Reese was not on screen. I sort of agree with this.)
Munich: I thought this was excellent too.
Goodnight and Good Luck: I enjoyed this. It is not an intense action filled drama but rather a beautifully crafted period piece with obvious contemporary resonance. It’s not really designed to appeal to the denser end of the left wing who require a more in-yer-face Michael Moore style. I’m well impressed with Clooney these days. There’s a man that only improves with age: did anyone else see Kirsty Wark fawning over him on NN Review?
Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room: quite amusing and interesting for a documentary (or am I just sad?), and a far more effective critique of corporate America than any of those hamburger documentaries.
Hopefully Capote before the weekend.
28-Feb-06 at 3:35 pm | Permalink
Brokeback Mountain???? A film about gay cowboys eating pudding but run out of pudding and decide to explore thier sexualitys! GREAT! Just what we needed!
Fisto
28-Feb-06 at 3:37 pm | Permalink
Sorry forgot to say check out Hostel. Its probably the best film iv seen in a while
Fisto
28-Feb-06 at 4:14 pm | Permalink
Thanks- that looks good.
>Brokeback
I wouldn’t really say it was a gay film. It’s definitely not a Gay Western. It’s really about the compromises people have to make between doing what they really want and fulfilling their obligations and society’s expectations. It reminded me of Brief Encounter.
The “sex scene” only lasts about two seconds.
28-Feb-06 at 9:11 pm | Permalink
The gay western bit got pretty tiresome I agree. Seen recently:
28-Feb-06 at 10:19 pm | Permalink
Crash > Shurrup specky. I *loved* it. Don’t listen to him, cool kids.
28-Feb-06 at 10:51 pm | Permalink
>Crash
I thought Crash was a remake of the David Cronenberg film/ reworking of Ballard until about a week ago when someone laughed at me.
(don’t worry I haven’t seen it)
01-Mar-06 at 12:36 pm | Permalink
Fisto, ever thought of being a film reviewer? You’d probably get a cult following even if the movies did involve Max : )
Brokeback Mountain = thank christ the riding bareback scene ‘does’ only last a second or two (pic found using retrievr for the first time), strangely familiar to Laura’s new VW Beetle.. Try this for the hell of it!
01-Mar-06 at 9:18 pm | Permalink
Capote is about a not very nice man. Amaaazing characters but all they do is stare at one another unhappily. Interact, dad blammit! Entertain me! Or at least put more shooting and bloodface in.
03-Mar-06 at 11:10 am | Permalink
R O S Y ! ! 1
When are you coming back? I want to lick marmite off your thighs.
03-Mar-06 at 7:00 pm | Permalink
There was enough bloodface for me like there was enough sex in Brokeback.
>Entertain me!
I was mesmerised for the whole two hours.
06-Mar-06 at 5:05 pm | Permalink
Fisto told me he cried at Brokeback too. I thought men didn’t cry at films. Awww.
06-Mar-06 at 6:45 pm | Permalink
U lie!!! I havnt even seen it!?! Plus i told u not to tell anybody! Think u mite like the sequal thats comin out tho its called Brokeback To The Future. Iv got my tissues all lined up for this one!
Fisto
07-Mar-06 at 3:30 pm | Permalink
Aw thanks, it’s so sweet of you to ask but I’m already going to see it this week with someone who doesn’t cry at cowboys.
07-Mar-06 at 7:11 pm | Permalink
Awww thats ashame. i bought tissues for us both!
Hahaha!
Fisto
08-Mar-06 at 2:26 am | Permalink
Aaaaayyy!
Fist. Where my shit be? Try not to laugh but did anyone watch the Oscars?
08-Mar-06 at 10:01 pm | Permalink
nEVR saw it