January Film Journal
Psycho* (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson, 1970)
My Night at Maud's* (Eric Rohmer, 1969)
We Don't Live Here Anymore (John Curran, 2004)
Sherrybaby (Laurie Collyer, 2006)
The Green Ray* (Eric Rohmer, 1986)
Crazy Love (Dan Klores and Fisher Stevens, 2007)
Cat People* (Jacques Tourneur, 1942)
Isle of the Dead* (Mark Robson, 1945)
The Member of the Wedding (Fred Zinnemann, 1952)
Curse of the Cat People* (Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise, 1944)
I Walked with a Zombie* (Jacques Tourneur, 1943)
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
Mystic River (Clint Eastwood, 2003)
Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, 1959)
*rewatch
theater
Labels: film journal (2008)
posted by Diane @ 8:45 AM
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4 Comments:
Which are the good 'uns? Which are the stinkers? The Green Ray is one of my favorite movies.
February Film Journal needs to include Psychomania. "Large people are easy to kill," says the biker chick before she plows her bike into the baby carriage.
Or are you waiting for the Criterion release? Cause they just gotta get it.
The quick answer, Aaron, is that the only ones here I really didn't like are We Don't Live Here Anymore, Sherrybaby, and The Member of the Wedding. The first amounts to a bunch of dramatic scenes without establishing any sense of sympathy or understanding for most of the characters. At the end, I just thought, "So what?" The second felt like overly familiar territory. And in the third, I just couldn't buy 27-year-old Julie Harris playing a 12-year-old.
Jason, I'd prefer to wait until the upcoming film discussion blog-a-thon, which probably will not take place until after the Criterion release. It's just more fun when that many people are co-watching, you know?
Diane, I caught Sherrybaby a few months ago and felt exactly that way - more of the same, very typical "indie" film with a typical "indie" heroine in a typical "indie" story ... in other words, not so indie.
Something about Maggie Gyllenhaal, too ... she has yet to convince me she can play a role other than the smarter-than-thou, hipper-than-thou, trashier-than-thou, smirkier-than-thou, indie-film chick that she plays here (and in the past in stuff like Happy Endings, Stranger than Fiction, and even her animated alter ego in Monster House!).
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