Sunday, July 25, 2010

secret reunion (2010)

Song Kang Ho might be the best movie star working.

yatterman (miike, 2009)

Miike turns a PowerRangersy 70s Japanese kids show into a movie. The villainess's bathroom scene is wonderfully art decorated. Check out the nail polish.

valkyrie (2008)

Thomas Kretschmann!

macgruber (2010)

OK

breathless (godard, 1960)

So much more amazing than I had remembered.

Loved the glowing escalator that Jean Seberg takes up to her meeting with the editor in the café. Also, Belmondo's intercostals.

bring him to the greek (2010)

Russell Brand is again fantastic as Aldous Snow. Everything he says feels interesting.

micmacs (jeunet, 2009)

So excited to come across a poster of this. Jeunet and Pinon again! Danny Boon is really good.

metropolis (lang, 1927)

Thought I'd give Metropolis another try, since lots more footage has been restored. The first garden scene is gorgeous black and white. But I lost interest again and walked out twenty minutes in.

interkosmos (finn)

A trippy mockumentary about an East German space program. Wished it was good.

greenberg (baumbach, 2010)

I especially like Greta Gerwig's character and performance as the assistant to Ben Stiller's brother's family.

I sympathize with Ben Stiller's questions to the young partygoers regarding the nature of their generation. I want to know how they're different, too, but I have this nagging feeling that I'm wasting my time with these questions and they're actually just pretty much the same.

two in the wave (2009)

Documentary about Godard and Truffault, with nice footage of Léaud.

Saturday, July 17, 2010

the clock (1945)

I'd been hoping someday to see more of Strangers on a Train's Robert Walker. In this love story with Judy Garland, he's aw shucks instead of scary. But still ecstatically goofy.

he's just not that into you (2009)

Walked into the living room and Ray was watching this on TV. Not bad. I think I like Scarlett Johansson in everything she does. Ginnifer Goodwin gives a lot to the movie.