MOVIES you watched this week? (DVD)

[ILoveFM]

Originally Posted by FMlex

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Hmmm.

Was that good? I've heard great things about it, but tell me the truth izah g!

I watch Sleeping with the Enemy the other night! Oh my, the scene where the husband gets the call from the lady from the YMCA had me screaming. Such a good movie

[daniellaaarisen]

Originally Posted by FMlex

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

I still can't believe I've never seen this when Charlie Kaufman is potentially my favorite screenwriter/director of all time... next to Woody Allen, of course.

[iamnotafraid]

The Time Traveler's Wife
Rachel McAdams and time travel, how can you lose?
Actually, I enjoyed it very much. It will tug at your
heart, if you let it.

Now I'm off to watch the Speed Channel.
You know macho kind of stuff.

[mylittledemon]

Originally Posted by FMlex

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Hmmm.

I was surprised that I liked this film. It was quite moving.

[GODDESS6]

Originally Posted by iamnotafraid

The Time Traveler's Wife
Rachel McAdams and time travel, how can you lose?
Actually, I enjoyed it very much. It will tug at your
heart, if you let it.

Now I'm off to watch the Speed Channel.
You know macho kind of stuff.

i just bought the book of this story~ i can't wait to watch the movie either~

[ILoveFM]

Swordfish and Julie and Julia!

Both were fantastic!

[ILoveFM]

Oh, I forgot I saw Alice and Wonderland last night. I LOVED IT

[louielouie2000]

The September Issue I'll watch a documentary on anything... and this is proof! This film follows the creation of the largest magazine ever published... the September issue of Vogue. I've never, ever been into fashion (anyone here who's seen pictures of me can verify that! ), but after being handcuffed and forced to watch The Devil Wears Prada, I at least had newfound respect for it. The documentary is worth watching for Anna Wintour's (Editor of Vogue) opening dialogue alone. She says some surprisingly spot-on and sobering things just within the first 3 minutes. Between those two films, I at least finally get why fashion is important, and how it affects absolutely everybody who buys clothing, period. It's also very interesting seeing all the faces of who are responsible for fashion... actually seems to be a pretty small group of people, and a good deal don't look how I'd expected them to (for instance, there are a lot of older people in the fashion world, a lot who don't dress fashionably themselves, etc). If you are me and just like documentaries, period, you'll enjoy this one... it's done exceedingly well, is very well paced, it's revealing, educating, and fun.

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by louielouie2000

The September Issue I'll watch a documentary on anything... and this is proof! This film follows the creation of the largest magazine ever published... the September issue of Vogue. I've never, ever been into fashion (anyone here who's seen pictures of me can verify that! ), but after being handcuffed and forced to watch The Devil Wears Prada, I at least had newfound respect for it. The documentary is worth watching for Anna Wintour's (Editor of Vogue) opening dialogue alone. She says some surprisingly spot-on and sobering things just within the first 3 minutes. Between those two films, I at least finally get why fashion is important, and how it affects absolutely everybody who buys clothing, period. It's also very interesting seeing all the faces of who are responsible for fashion... actually seems to be a pretty small group of people, and a good deal don't look how I'd expected them to (for instance, there are a lot of older people in the fashion world, a lot who don't dress fashionably themselves, etc). If you are me and just like documentaries, period, you'll enjoy this one... it's done exceedingly well, is very well paced, it's revealing, educating, and fun.

B.S. You know you've been watching nothing but porn movies all week.

[ILoveFM]

I watched "Closer" last night. It had Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Clive Owens, and Natalie Portman in it. Very interesting movie.

[baboles]

The House of the Devil

Very creepy film! Released in 2008 I think, but it looks like it was made in the late 70s or early 80s! Super creepy film! Check it out!

[FMlex]

Sorry ILoveFM (Sara, haha) -- I wasn't a fan of Eternal Sunshine. I don't know, maybe I'd like it better if I watched it a second time.

I loved Julie & Julia! So cute.

[louielouie2000]

Gosford Park: I originally saw this one when it first came out about 10 years ago, and turned it off after an hour and a half of NOTHING happening other than a bunch of snooty people mumbling unintelligibly about one another. I definitely like it more now that I'm older... somehow at 19 I didn't appreciate subtleties . And it doesn't hurt I now have surround sound so I can actually hear the veiled insults which are endlessly cast back and forth. Maggie Smith is the only thing really worth watching this one for in my opinion... she was impossibly aloof, and brilliant. I still think with more development, this could have been a wholly better picture.

Brideshead Revisited: Seems I'm watching a lot of English period films lately. This one was exceptional... it finishes so far off from where it starts, ends up having a wholly different message than you'd ever guess. Beautiful film, in every sense. Very profound, and thought provoking. Definitely one of the best films I've seen in quite some time.

[iamnotafraid]

Broken Embraces
Penelope Cruz........oh baby.
The movie wasn't very good.
Did I mention...Penelope Cruz?

[Nikolaj]

'Coast To Coast'- Judy Davis and Richard Dreyfuss, both very good, I liked the movie, which originally aired on Showtime maybe 6 years ago. Good acting, good dialogue, very talky, very good. A brief documentary of the making of the movie is very brief, and notable because supporting actress Selma Blair twice misuses the word dysfunctional-- the first time she notes the 'dafunction' of the family, the second time she talks about how as an actor, it is more interesting to portray a 'dafunctional' character. I was shocked. I was born in the Czech Republic and had my share of blunders speaking, years ago, what's her excuse? She's very good as the daughter, though. Sinks her teeth right into the 'dafunction'. ( I like Judy Davis a lot, she still seems a 'tad' on her Judy Garland trip in this role, a remark also noted when she played Nancy Reagan in a movie soon after her Garland performance. Whatever, she's highly watchable and comes across as an intelligent, master-class actor).
'Without Love'- Tracy and Hepburn with a terrific Lucille Ball in a small role that should have been larger. She plays Hepburn's friend. In one scene, Kate takes a phone call, walks outside, gets into her car and drives away, leaving her good friend alone by a back kitchen door, without so much as a goodbye, a funny continuity flub. Ball shows up about 45 minutes later in the film for a couple of other small scenes, with Keenan Wynne, who is very good. I'm not familiar with his other films, but know the 'name', he had a good presence and I'd be curious to see his other work. Considered one of Tracy & Hepburn's weaker collaborations, 'Without Love' still has plenty of great dialogue and the leads are excellent, Hepburn has a speech early on about the death of her husband that is an acting wonder, lovely but romanticized, showing whimsy, joy, sadness and finally fury at Tracy's cruel remark about her hanging onto a ghost. I think even those who may not like Kate would have to find her performance in that scene simply amazing, it displays such range. Historically, she has, at times, been over-rated, but man, she had technique, great acting. Now, I finally also appreciate the artistry of Tracy, it took me a long time. 'Without Love' is from a Hepburn box set currently half-price at Amazon, the only other film I've watched from it this week was 'Undercurrent'- directed by Vincente Minnelli, who had such stylized (gorgeous) sets and attention to detail, technically, in all of his films. There's always as much to watch around and behind the actors in his films, he knew how to 'dress' a scene, a set, a film. 'Undercurrent', however, quite stinks. Hepburn's one trip into film noir, released in 1946, it can't compare to film noir classics like 'Double Indemnity' or 'The Postman Rings Twice', both of which are great. 'Undercurrent' is just pretty lame.