http://www.garamond10pt.com/ Copyright 2007 Fri, 14 Oct 2005 03:57:48 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.11 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 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... http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000195.html http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000195.html New Releases Fri, 14 Oct 2005 03:57:48 -0500 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... http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000194.html http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000194.html New Releases Mon, 03 Oct 2005 22:59:55 -0500 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... http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000193.html http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000193.html Movies Thu, 29 Sep 2005 23:14:07 -0500 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... http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000192.html http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000192.html Movies Thu, 29 Sep 2005 22:39:08 -0500 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... http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000191.html http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000191.html Movies Wed, 28 Sep 2005 23:19:11 -0500 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... http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000190.html http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000190.html Movies Wed, 28 Sep 2005 21:05:10 -0500 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... http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000186.html http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000186.html New Releases Sun, 25 Sep 2005 23:29:22 -0500 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... http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000189.html http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000189.html Movies Sun, 25 Sep 2005 12:05:24 -0500 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... http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000188.html http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000188.html Movies Sun, 25 Sep 2005 11:38:33 -0500 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... http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000187.html http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000187.html Movies Sat, 24 Sep 2005 23:47:24 -0500 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... http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000185.html http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000185.html Movies Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:23:30 -0500 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... http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000184.html http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000184.html New Releases Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:08:34 -0500 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... http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000182.html http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000182.html New Releases Fri, 23 Sep 2005 10:43:05 -0500 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... http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000181.html http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000181.html Movies Sat, 17 Sep 2005 21:54:56 -0500 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... http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000180.html http://www.garamond10pt.com/archives/000180.html Movies Sat, 03 Sep 2005 10:50:10 -0500