03.19.08
Posted in best of, opinion, industry news, lists at 12:47 pm by FilmFemme
and I can’t decide how to feel about that:
(1) Elation? Michael Cera in a movie directed by Edgar Wright in which “a young slacker […]meets the woman of his dreams but finds that he can only win her heart by battling and defeating her seven evil ex-boyfriends. ” Oh yes, tell me more, Hollywood Reporter!
(2) Confusion? Anton Yelchin in the new Terminator movie opposite Christian Bale? Why put so much sexy oppposite so much mediocre? Why why why?
(3) Trepidation? Michael Cera is also slated to be in Youth in Revolt, directed by Chuck & Buck/The Good Girl’s Miguel Arteta, but written by the awfully untalented Gustin Nash who wrote the truly horrible Charlie Bartlett starring the way overhyped Anton Yelchin! Will it be good? Can Mikey save it? Why isn’t it written by Mike White so I can be truly excited about it??
This is why I don’t read the trades anymore…I’m just not cut out for these kinds of emotional rollercoasters.
Posted in drama, reviews at 12:24 pm by FilmFemme
Back in high school, I may not have been a popular kid. Or particularly cool. Or into music or art or school or computers or anything that might have taken me anywhere in life. But I did know a lot about serial killers. I have found, over the course of growing up, moving out and meeting other people that I wasn’t the only adolescent girl who a had a mildly creepy and probably disturbing to my parents obsession with guys like Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy. All of this is really neither here nor there except to say that I may have been inclined to like Zodiac whether or not it was good. Lucky for me (and you!) it was good.
The thing about this movie is that it isn’t really classifiable as a typical serial killer movie. Because it isn’t about living in fear like something like Summer of Sam. And it isn’t a hardcore procedural exercise. Instead, it’s really about a guy that, like me when I was 16, is kind of obsessed with serial killers and devotes his life, to the detriment of all relationships, his career, etc., to solving the Zodiac killings that took place in Northern California in the 1960s and 70s. Because even though they’re rare and scary and crazy and evil, they are pretty fucking interesting.
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03.16.08
Posted in drama, action, reviews at 7:20 pm by FilmFemme
What the hell is going on?
Does Daniel Craig wear contacts?
Why is that girl with the machine gun crying?
Fuck it, let’s go get drunk.
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03.14.08
Posted in drama, reviews at 1:22 pm by FilmFemme
When guys get really upset and cry in real life, do they drool? Because that seems to happen a lot in movies. Would an answer to this burning question be worth investing the time and energy it might take to make a guy cry like this? I don’t think so…I really don’t like seeing boys cry.I didn’t get all the way through Bully. I may finish watching it tonight, but maybe not. It’s really bad and made me feel like I should take a shower because it’s so gratuitous in its depictions of teen sex and skin and bodies.
I just went to IMDb so I could start linking in this paragaph and was confronted with the name of the director of Bully, one Larry Clark. Well, duh. If I had known that, I may not have watched it, despite a nostalgic and grief-ridden longing to see Brad Renfro, because I know what a total perv this guy is. Seriously, are people concerned about this? I am. I’m no prude and I like Cruel Intentions as much as the next girl, but the way that his camera devours lithe and creamy teens - especially the girls - isn’t sexy and mysterious, it’s just creepy and gross.
In Bully, Nick Stahl, looking exactly like him IMDb headshot, is a seriously depraved - uh - bully. He beats up poor, defenseless Brad Renfro, fucks his girlfriend (Rachel Miner - of formerly married to Macaulay Culkin fame), rapes this realllllllly skanky chick who let Larry Clark put her labia in the movie (Oh wait, that’s Bijou Phillips? Well, then at least I guess she got paid before she showed her labia so she’s still got a leg up on Paris Hilton in the class department. Still. Gross.) and just is an asshole (it is made apparent that he’s a repressed homosexual…) until Lisa (Miner) decides that they should kill him. I stopped watching after one failed murder attempt, so I don’t know yet if they ice him or not. I’m not sure why I just said “ice” - did it sound cool? I’m keeping it.
I like Brad Renfro and all, but this movie is really over the top. In addition to the really horribly gratuitous nudity, it’s also violent, bloody, poorly written and badly acted. I’m now struck by depressing images of Rachel Miner and Bijou Phillips desperate for careers sumbitting themselves to Clark because he made Kids and they think they’ll be the next Chloe Sevigny or something. I have some bad news for you, girls, Chloe Sevigny is interesting and talented. That’s why she got famous. Not because of this creep.
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03.12.08
Posted in drunk reviews, classic, drama at 9:59 pm by FilmFemme
So, this should probably be called “buzzed review” because I’m not really *drunk* - but that’s getting pretty technical, so whatever.
The Last Picture Show is really beautiful - not just the cinematography which is clean and expressive, but the story and the characters are really made beautiful by their flaws.
There are also lots of boobs.
Something that struck me about the people in this movie is they are all very classic looking. Even though, yes, that is Jeff Bridges, and that’s Randy Quaid and those are Cybill Shepherd’s tits, so maybe that’s why everything seems so familiar, but everyone in this movie seems to have very classic, timeless features. They could have come from any decade and still wound up in movies or sprawled on chaises for Impressionists or something like that.
Random notes I made during my viewing:
Jacy (Shepherd) = JC = Jesus Christ?
Jacy has the same hair as Claire Danes in Shopgirl. Hm.
Tall, Dark, Hottie: Are you a virgin?
Jacy: Guess I am
TDH: Too bad
Jacy: I don’t wanna be though!
TDH: I don’t blame you. Come and see me when you’re not.
Did you want to know what this movie is about? Basically a shitty town in Texas in the 1950s and there are these 2 guy friends played by Timothy Bottoms and The Dude and both of them really want to fuck Cybill Shepherd, only one of them gets to and the other one has to settle for Cloris Leachman. There is also a pool hall, a retarded kid, a hooker, a MILF, a naked swimming party, an alleged molestation and a movie theatre that (spoiler in the title!) shuts down eventually.
It’s great.
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Posted in film festivals, opinion, industry news, lists at 10:10 am by FilmFemme
Don’t get too excited, I didn’t go there. Maybe next year. But I was just reading about it in this LA Times article, with the oh-so-clever headline “Like its well-fed folks, the Austin, Texas, gathering is swelling” (aren’t there too many commas in there?).
I wanted to go to SXSW (I don’t get a lot of pleasure out of that acronym - I think because it’s purely visual. No one says “Ess Ex Ess Double U”) last year, but because of Bob Dylan, not because of the burgeoning film festival*. And now I learn that Knocked Up premiered there last year and this year Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay did.
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03.11.08
Posted in misogyny, romance, drama, reviews at 1:53 pm by FilmFemme
Sliding Doors is a movie for girls. I am a girl. I love this movie.
It’s one of those WHAT IF movies that starts with WHAT IF Gwyneth Paltrow does a British accent?
WHAT IF she is adorable and misses her train so she doesn’t find out that her boyfriend with the bad haircut is cheating on her with the uber-hot Jeanne Trippelhorn?
WHAT IF she is adorable and doesn’t miss the train, does find out about the philandering, and also does meet the not-so-cute-but-so-charming-and-funny-
even-if-he-is-kind-of-short James?
(Spoiler alert: everything turns out great either way).
And then, WHAT IF you think about this movie and its implications too hard?
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03.10.08
Posted in off topic, opinion, comedy, animated at 2:47 pm by FilmFemme
from the LA Times:
Sen. Barack Obama accused rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton today of attempting to “hoodwink” and “bamboozle” voters into thinking she was the front-runner by offering him the second slot on her ticket.
from yours truly:
Hoodwinked?
Bamboozled?
What are you trying to say? That supporting Hilary is akin to supporting bad CGI and implications of racism? Oh, actually, that makes sense.
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03.09.08
Posted in drama, reviews at 7:30 pm by FilmFemme
The title of Drugstore Cowboy always makes me think of that 311 song that goes “I know a drugstore cowboy / so afraid of getting bored…” Remember 311? Weren’t they from Omaha or something?
This Gus Van Sant movie is a lot better than that song, though. A young and sexy Bob (Matt Dillon) is a junkie who robs drugstores with his wife Dianne (Kelly Lynch), his friend Rick (James LeGros) and Rick’s girlfriend Nadine (a 19-year-old Heather Graham). At the outset, they are run out of Portland and go on the road, picking up drugs that they shipped to themselves via various bus routes. Pretty ingenious, especially for junkies. Yeah, they are a pretty resourceful lot.
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03.01.08
Posted in industry news at 10:44 pm by FilmFemme
Which was least deserved?
More importantly, who has better tits?
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