http://www.garamond10pt.com/ 2005-10-14T03:57:48-05:00 http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000195.html Capote (2005), some dude who directed The Cruise: So yeah, this was pretty good. Very good on the biopic and "Oscar-worthy" scale, though not really something I'd particularly care to see again. I did enjoy it, despite "watching Philip Seymour... New Releases bing 2005-10-14T03:57:48-05:00 http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000194.html Memory of a Killer (2003), Erik Van Looy: Memory of a Killer is an intellegent Belgian (I know, whe knew?) thriller about a hit man on his proverbial last hit. As things inevitably go wrong, he gets embroiled in scandal... New Releases bing 2005-10-03T22:59:55-05:00 http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000193.html Hotel Rwanda (2004), Terry George: Like I said in my The Battle of Algiers post, I don't dislike movies that educate me about bad things happening in the world, but there's a line between making you think about something and... Movies bing 2005-09-29T23:14:07-05:00 http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000192.html Barry Lyndon (1975), Stanley Kubrick: This is the last of the major Kubricks I had yet to see. I was never a Kubrick fanboy and am still convinced anyone who thinks 2001 was anything but an artistic exercise either knows... Movies bing 2005-09-29T22:39:08-05:00 http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000191.html Repo Man (1984), Alex Cox: Ah, the punk movie. It's not about punks per se (well, it is), but it's made by and made for them, embodying the punk lifestyle, kinda like Gregg Araki for the "metal movie". Rough and... Movies bing 2005-09-28T23:19:11-05:00 http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000190.html Jules et Jim (1962), Francois Trauffaut: Still doing my French New Wave education, and I still just can't get into Trauffaut. There's something so deeply despairing in this and The 400 Blows that's presented so earnestly that it's disarming. It... Movies bing 2005-09-28T21:05:10-05:00 http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000186.html A History of Violence (2005), David Cronenberg: There's been a little bit of buzz about this, but mostly I've just been really excited about it on my own, I'm not sure exactly why. I guess like Watchmen and Astro City... New Releases bing 2005-09-25T23:29:22-05:00 http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000189.html Jeremiah Johnson (1972), Sydney Pollack: Another Western as reaction to Vietnam. It's much, much more nuanced than that kneejerk Josey Wales and gives plenty to chew on. I wonder what happened to Sydney Pollack; this and They Shoot Horses, Don't... Movies bing 2005-09-25T12:05:24-05:00 http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000188.html Sweet Smell of Success (1957), Alexander Mackendrick: I have no idea why, but I had always thought this movie was a screen adaptation of a broadway musical/comedy. Yeah, so it's a pleasant surprise when it turns out to be a... Movies bing 2005-09-25T11:38:33-05:00 http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000187.html O (2001), Tim Blake Nelson: In college, I was actually going to see it but took a wrong turn on the way to the theater and missed the showing, so we ended up getting ice cream instead. I did not... Movies bing 2005-09-24T23:47:24-05:00 http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000185.html The Battle of Algiers (1965), Gillo Pontecorvo: Concerning our present situation, this is a perfect companion piece to Gunner Palace, both are opposite and surprisingly unemotional and unbiased views of a foreign occupation. It's not perfect, since Iraq is much... Movies bing 2005-09-23T11:23:30-05:00 http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000184.html Grizzly Man (2005), Werner Herzog: Herzog retells the tragic story of Timothy Treadwell, the man who decided that life with the grizzlies was better than that with mankind. What's for debate is whether the tragedy is that he died or... New Releases bing 2005-09-23T11:08:34-05:00 http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000182.html The Constant Gardner (2005), Fernando Meirelles: So I admit, it's a pretty dumb title. Whatever happened to the "The [cool sounding name] [random noun]" convention for international thrillers? So then the buzz started coming out. I mean, as soon as... New Releases bing 2005-09-23T10:43:05-05:00 http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000181.html Advise & Consent (1962), Otto Preminger: I've been behind on both my movie watching and blog updating. I had actually started this movie about a month ago before finally watching it now. What's funny is the part where I had... Movies bing 2005-09-17T21:54:56-05:00 http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000180.html Lovely & Amazing (2001), Nicole Holofcener: So the moral is I should stop watching movies just because they're on tv. Like Crash, L&A adds another to the pantheon of guilt-porn, making you feel terrible about being an upper-middle class white... Movies bing 2005-09-03T10:50:10-05:00