Seeing Val's post yesterday about "3:10 to Yuma" made me realize Michelle and I have been a little negligent in keeping our film-viewing habit currently recorded. Between the theater, the Tivo and DVDs we watch a lot of movies, and we've seen a couple of decent things lately that we haven't blogged.
Like Val and Laurie, we saw 3:10 a couple of weeks ago and both liked it more than we expected to. I thought it fell apart just a bit at the end, but for the most part it's a tight, taught psychological drama as well as a cool old-west action pic, with terrific acting and screen presence by Russell Crowe, Christian Bale and, almost unrecognizable, Peter Fonda. Gretchen Mol, not so much. 3 gliomas.
Of course the movie's a remake of a 1957 western "classic" of the same name. We had never seen that one, with Glenn Ford and Van Heflin, so we Tivo'd and watched it a day or two later. Yeah, classic and everything, and good-looking black and white, and without the unlikely ending of the remake, but neither of us liked it as much. I was much more drawn in by Russell Crowe, especially. 2 gliomas for the original.
A week or so ago Michelle suggested we see "Chalk," a Spinal Tap-style mockumentary about several new high school teachers. Unlike "This is Spinal Tap" or the other Christopher Guest mockumentaries "Chalk" isn't loony; in fact it doesn't mock it's subject at all. It's more like a real documentary, only with actors and a script. The points it makes about the difficulties of being a new teacher, both in and out of the classroom, feel real and poignant. The characters are great. 3 gliomas.
What have you seen lately, dear readers? Freda mentioned in a comment that she had just seen and enjoyed "The Bourne Ultimatum." Us too.
What else?
Monday, September 24, 2007
M&M Film Fest
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I saw La vie en rose, it was really good, though I don't understand how they could have done a movie about Edith Piaf's life without even mentioning world war II, which was the most life impacting event ever for anyone in Europe at the time.
Ooh, good one. I saw part of it when we were in New York a couple of months ago. Michelle was working so I went by myself, but I got caught in a tremendous downpour with no coat and I was completely soaked. I made it most of the way through the movie, but finally I was too cold and wet to stand it anymore, so I went back to the hotel for a shower.
I thought it was really good too.
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