Category: Movies

We may try the Petaluma Film Festival for this Saturday’s festivities.  Here’s the event’s home page. Dinner somewhere interesting in Petaluma and then catch the 7:30 program of shorts. Briefly considered alternative: The Beaches of Agnes at the Sonoma Film Institute. It’s a French thing (as you’ll quickly notice), but for a moment there I… Continue reading Weekend plans

A nice little movie. Nothing really heavy here, or particularly hilarious, either. If watching people make stupid choices in their lives bothers you, this might be a tough movie to endure.  But in the end, father and daughter each manage to stop doing something stupid in their lives. I couldn’t help but note the different… Continue reading Sunshine Cleaning

This movie so Wes Anderson.  It has a lot of the same feel as The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.  There’s even the cameo appearances of Bill Murray at the beginning and end.  Very similar color tones – bright, contrasting with the very understated emotional tones, long takes with lots of lateral camera movement through… Continue reading Darjeeling Limited

(more catching up) I like watching John C. Reilly. This movie is correctly categorized in the Netflix library as a parody of the rock star biopic. The other instantly recognizable actor in it is Tim Meadows, of SNL-fame. (“you don’t want no part of this shit”) It can be a bit much on the parody.… Continue reading Walk Hard

This is the only version of this I’ve seen.  I’ve not seen a live theatre production. I’ve not seen other films of this. Nor any “adaptations” of this story, either. It’s a weirder story than the impression I was getting from others who’ve seen it and talked about it.  Unlike Beauty and the Beast, in… Continue reading Phantom of the Opera – the 2004 movie

Went into town to the IMAX theater and watched Avatar in 3-D. It’s a cool movie.  Visually stunning. But I suspect that in a few years (not too long, really) people will see it again and wonder what all the fuss was about. Banal story. Trite dialog. Noble natives bearing spears and bows and arrows… Continue reading Avatar – speaking of movies

A week or so ago, I watched the movie Serendipity. It’s a total romantic comedy. Nothing particularly special about it.  In the throes of the flu, it was about as much movie as I could watch. But there’s this great line in it that sorta echoes my sentiments about all the crap-ware that’s foisted off… Continue reading Serendipity – a great tirade