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.
03.12.08
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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07.12.07
Posted in lists at 7:51 pm by FilmFemme
…as in “one list” not “A-list.”
I figure the “people” that are going to be “reading” my “blog” won’t want to read a movie blog by someone who doesn’t like the same movies as them. So without further ado:
25 Movies That I Really Like
Rushmore
Pulp Fiction
On the Waterfront
Shaun of the Dead
Notorious
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Igby Goes Down
Good Will Hunting
Chinatown
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Se7en
Apocalypse Now
Some Like it Hot
The Graduate
Midnight Cowboy
Five Easy Pieces
The Big Lebowski
Super Troopers
Leaving Las Vegas
Casablanca
The Exorcist
Contempt
M
Sunrise
OK, that started as a list of 10 movies and quickly ballooned to 25 when I decided the first 10 made me sound a little shallow & girly.
Hey, that was fun!
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