Picnic at Hanging Rock and Dead Poets Society were directed by the same dude, Peter Weir, who also did such fantastic films as Fearless, The Truman Show, Witness and the forgettable Master and Commander.

I haven't watched much since my last trip to the movies, but I have been wanting to watch Lasse Hallstrom's Casanova a second time, but the Oklahoma St/Kansas b-ball game looks pretty good too. 

"Every day holds a new beginning and every hour holds the promise of an Invitation to Love." 

 I wanted to highlight this, the name of the young actor appearing in his cinematographic debut in François Truffaut's The 400 Blows is not Antoine Doinel but Jean-Pierre Léaud. Antoine's the name of the character he plays.

Léaud became a handsome star of French cinema and has appeared in a bunch of other Truffaut films and french/ international other director's works, the most remarkable ones Pierrot le fou (a small part), Alphaville, Masculin-Feminin, Made in U.S.A., The Chinese, Week End, Joy of Knowledge, Last Tango in Paris, Two English Girls and the Continent, La Nuite Americaine (Day For Night), La Vie de Boheme, I Hired a Contract Killer, Irma Vep, A Matter of Taste and the latest What Time is it there? by Tsai Min-Liang

Right now he ages 63

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

"Dexter": Episode 2

This episode shows the series pushing back the book's plot (the "ice truck killer") to bring forward its own, original storylines. Naturally, some of the other cop stuff isn't as interesting, but I like that it feels more like a episodic series and less like a faithful miniseries adaptation.

This is the last episode available for free, so now I'm screwed.

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Yeah, and like Butthead told Beavis that time, when the REM video had words flashing across the screen, "If I wanted to read a book, I'd go to school."

Susan 

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

Breakfast at Tiffany's

The title always left me confused...I knew that there was nowhere to eat at Tiffany's.  Now I understand.  Anyhow, Audrey Hepburn is beautiful.

Naked Lunch can be hard to get through, but it's worth it.   I try to watch it about once every other year (Julian Sands as a cannibal bird creature in a giant cage? Enough said.)

I just saw Perfume: Story of a Murderer.  Another great film version of a great novel.  It was ethereal, feral, horrible and gorgeous and worth every cent.   

Kenny.  Probably the best Aussie comedy since The Castle.  It doesn't knock The Castle off it's mantle, but does offer plenty of genuine laughs, and is a concept right out of left field.

Breakfast At Tiffany's wasn't a bad book by Truman Capote either,

Casanova- 2nd time watching it and like the first time, funny, entertaining, well-written, great cast, love Lasse Hallstrom

Scarface - The DePalma version. Not the biggest fan of his work, but this movie is fun to watch if just for the laughs. Several of my friends here say that it is their favorite movie and they shrug when I say it doesn't even crack my top 50         

"Every day holds a new beginning and every hour holds the promise of an Invitation to Love." 

I always thought of Scarface (not the Jimmy Cagney version) as the gangster version of Showgirls. Someone took it seriously?

When it was in theaters, they used to play this radio ad constantly.  It was Al Pacino screaming (when doesn't he scream?) in his faux-Cuban accent "If I evah... I mean if I EVAH see you here again, you die!"  It was just a crack-up! The line became as commonplace in our household as "let's put a stop to that rumor right now..." 

Susan 

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

Well, the original 1932 Scarface is quite impressive.

I watched Seabiscuit this afternoon with my boyfriend. It was nice and Tobey McGuire did a good job as the young star of the film. I think a lot of people thinks this movie is just a silly family flick. I found it quite true and dramatic instead. There were some really good shots and some remarkable lightings. A scene that gave me the creeps was the one where Seabiscuit seems to suddenly fall on its broken foot, but it actually reinforces and then starts riding again. IMpressive!

Comparisons with Cinderella Man are inevitable (the same period, same economical and personal crisis, same sport genre movie with rise and fall and then the ultimate rise!). I never got bored though, so the film was effective and, don't be mad at me, but I LOVE HORSES !

Only flaw of the film was the monocromatical Jeff Bridges. I like him more in roles like Lebowski or Jack in Fisher King, while Chris Cooper was amazing (this is the first film ever in which I see him in a more consistent role).

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

The Serpent and the Rainbow

An frightening meditation on zombie-fication with some wonderful surrealist sequences leads to a pointless, visual effects-laden showdown that may or may not have all been a dream. Even back when Wes Craven had all his creative juices flowing, he still had trouble creating a satisfying climax.

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That god damn trailer's more popular than Uncle's Day in a whorehouse!

Apocalypto 

Gibson is a genius.  This is an epic like Braveheart or Dances with Wolves that offers majestic scenery, interesting characters, and a completely different culture that you're invited in to experience.  Combined with a simple, but interesting script that Gibson co-wrote, this one should pick up gongs at the Oscars.  He sends a few broader messages through that to me were a little too obvious, but that will ensure everyone gets them I guess.  I usually prefer subtlety.

A great movie though, that had me thinking about it for days afterwards...and one of the very rare ones that I will certainly watch again.

This reminds me of a conversation I was having the other day, where I was trying to explain to a friend how Spielberg is only interested is making movies about aliens if they're Nazis, but he didn't seem to see what I was getting at. Now that I think about it, I'm not sure how we got on the topic of space Nazis in the first place, considering we were in a Wal-Mart. Anyway...

Talledega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

The kind of movie where they can use the money from product placement to pay for all the licensed songs.
Not as consistent as Anchorman (or is it the fact that it's more consistent that makes it less interesting?), but it still has a couple of funny/irrelevant pieces, like the discussion about crepes when Cohen's character is threatening to break Ferrell's arm.
And unlike Anchorman, this actually feels like a movie, rather than a series of interconnected bits. Again, maybe that's why I was less interested. Also, being from North Carolina doesn't necessarily mean a love of NASCAR. (But it sure helps.)

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 I don't remember any shot of a woman holding a baby in WOTW. I don't object that it's possible Spielberg put that thing in the movie, but I don't remember a similar point in the movie.

Can a single shot ruin the whole mood of a movie like that? I don't think so....

I found WOTW a good psychological noir sci-fi movie, far superior to The Lost World, A.I. and even Minority Report.

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

Cruise and co. are trying to get to the ferry and encounter quite a few people that want to get into their car. Cruise speeds up and the crowd scatters, and then, there she is, frozen in a "MY BABY!" pose, and Cruise swerves and crashes into a pole.

And it by itself didn't ruin the movie, but it was the beginning of disinterest.