The Science of Sleep

While watching this film, I took notes:

- Crying like a baby when your crush from across the hall rejects you. BAD
- Breaking into her apartment, then pretending you're asleep to avoid embarrassment. BAD
- Drinking straight from the tap 'cause your crush is doing the sexy dance with someone else. BAD
- Turning back/pushing forward time by one second. For aesthetic purposes ONLY

After learning Michel Gondry's lesson, I know to avoid such unfortunate behavior in my own life. 

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

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

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

Ocean's 13

Okay, let's call it a trilogy and be done with it. This was the least interesting of the movies, though it did pick up near the end. I know 12 is very often decried, but I had more fun watching that one. However, this entry does have two distinct advantages over its predecessors:
1. No Julia Roberts
2. More Izzard.

Saw

The story was pretty interesting, but the whole thing looked like a Sci-Fi Original Movie. Didn't help that I watched it on the Sci-Fi Channel.

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You gotta love the IMDB plot keywords for this:

Bare Butt / Male Nudity / Female Nudity / Farce / Bikini

I bet Johnny makes sure to always put this at the top of his resumé. 

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Serenity

That someone let Joss Whedon make a movie from his failed tv series makes me happy. That it was just as unsuccessful at the b.o. makes me sad.
There aren't a whole lot of big-explosion sci-fi action movies that can play on my emotions, but Serenity is one. I saw it before the series, and yet it was still able to make me genuinely care for characters I had just met.
The flick looks fantastic, too. It actually makes me consider an investment in HD.

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Bleep you, & bleep the establishment, and bleep all of you who are trying to make me part of the unestablished establishment.

Stop or my Mom will Shoot!

It was on cable and I couldn't resist, I didn't actually see it in the 90's. I want to do a remake where it gets up to the part where Sly's mom talks the jumper down, and the rest of the film is him standing on the ledge having an existential crisis and contemplating his own suicide...but somehow he still drives a Peterbilt through a whirling airplane prop.

A dobule feature of Waitress and Paprika at DC's E Street Cinema today... I'd never been before... extremely cool theater. Both were excellent. Waitress was a wonderful light comedy/drama about a young waitress (Keri Russel), who hates her husband (Jeremy Sisto), and her life. She gets pregnant, accidentally, but feels terrible about it. She has an affair with her doctor, who is also married, in an attempt to escape from her oppressive life.... it's hard to say what was so great about this movie. Though it sounds depressing it's actually very funny, and has a quirky mood. Fans of the comedy aspects in Twin Peaks will feel at home here, and the diner that the waitress works is a lot like the RR. The movie focuses a great deal on pies, as when the protagonist is upset, she will imagine a recipe for a new pie with names that express her feelings, like "I hate my husband pie", or "Bad Baby Pie". Anyway it's wonderful, and I recommend it to anyone who gets a chance to see it. I wouldn't be surprised if it wound up as this year's "Little Miss Sunshine".

 Paprika is an entirely different beast, but no less enjoyable. First off it's an animated film from Japan, (I'm sort of an anime fan), and a sort of cross between an arty surrealist film and an techno-thriller type movie. It's about a beautiful female scientist, At-chi, who is developing an invention called the DC-Mini, which allows people to see and record other people's dreams, and even allow them to enter the dreams of others when their asleep. The scientists are trying to develop a way to let them enter the dreams of others while they're still awake, so they can have better control over themselves... a really cool and creepy idea. But early in the film the DC-Mini is stolen, and someone is using it to make other people believe they're in a dream... while they're still awake. Anyway it turns out that the dream that is spreading throughout people's minds isn't the dream of a single person, but the shared dreams of different people all of which are continuously being added on to the dream.... whew there's a lot of plot to cover, and it doesn't all make perfect sense. I haven't even mentioned At-chi's alter ego yet, Paprika, whom the movie is named after. She's the form At-Chi takes in other people's dreams, but her personality is totally different from the cold, reserved scientist... Paprika is much more upbeat and outgoing. And there's a cop who keeps having a mysterious recurring dream, and is investigating the problem spreading throughout the city... and towards the end the dreams become real... needless to say they pack a lot into 90 minutes. It's a wonderful movie, and fans of Lynch (particuarly Inland Empire) should like this for it's "am I awake or still dreaming feel?". Though it doesn't totally make sense the movie is mind bending and hallucinatory... you won't be worried about plot holes either before or after watching it. The same director also made the wonderful film, Millenium Actress, which I also highly recommend.

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

Finally watched the Criterion version of 8 1/2, which is absolutely stunning.  Textures on walls, trees on the horizon... it's amazing what they've done with it.  Must buy.

And in the inherently unfair position of a double-bill with 8 1/2 was Paul Schrader's Auto Focus (the Bob Crane movie).  Good writing, good acting, good direction, good cinematography.  I didn't know Angelo did the music when I rented it, but the scored music was excellent throughout, especially in the later parts of the film.  It reminded me very strongly of Where the Truth Lies, for a lot of reasons that I suspect will be clear to anyone who has seen both.

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

watched my 2nd favorite comedy of all time: Young Frankenstein. I think that is praise enough.

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

Come let's mix
Where Rockefellers
Walk with sticks
Or um-ber-ellers
In their mitts...

[I'll take any excuse to link to that clip.]

That's too cool, Jaime...haven't watched anything since then except the season premiere of The Closer which was pretty darn good...but I did purchase the Sergio Leone Anthology (A Fistfull of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, The G, B & U, and A Fistful of Dynamite) for a very reasonable price on E-bay...I'm not upset (since I have a great 2 disc edition of it) but why is his greatest film, Once Upon A Time in the West, not included on this anthology?
     

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

I'm not naming aaaaaaaaaany names, but doesn't it seem like a certain somebody may be running out of DVD shelf space soon???

Susan 

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

LOL....Susan, well, as a matter of fact, I might be running out of space real soon because I am looking at a 9 film box set of films by Pedro Almodovar...but I gain a tiny bit of space back when I give my special edition of G, b & U to my friend Mark...still, I filled that shelf up fairly quickly...plus, I have Inland Empire and the third season of House on preorder for next month...

no films last night...watched the first two episodes of the new season of Big Love and they were both really good...then I finally got around to season 2 of 24 and watched the first two episodes of it...

It's a Mad, Mad. MAd World was one of the comedies my Dad and I used to enjoy watching together...I love that film...    

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

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

Last night we did a double feature:

Tideland - I waited a long time to see this movie and, while it was good, it was not what I had thought it would be from watching the trailer a few years back.  The little girl is fantastic.  Her imagination is definitely a real child's, not sugar-coated Disney crap.  Jeff Daniels, on the other hand, has had more likable roles.

Kissed - Pretty fun for a movie essentially about necrophelia.  The people I watched it with and I had a long conversation afterwards about whether a corpse can consent to sex.  So not really an issue.  Molly Parker is ridiculously beautiful.  If she wasn't so disturbed in the film, I would have totally made her my new actress-wife.

-cg