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Let me see if I can even keep track.
I watched The Drowning Pool with Paul Newman as Harper again, Joanne Woodward as ex-girlfriend Iris, Tony Franciosa as a local policeman, and an 18 year old Melanie Griffith as a very young femme fatale in one of her earliest movie roles. Enjoyable follow up to Harper--nine years later.
Key Largo with Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Edward G. Robinson (as the monstrous Johnny Rocco!), and Lionel Barrymore. I can't believe this is the first time I've ever seen the movie. Post WWII film: War widow Bacall lives with her late husband's father and helps run a hotel/restaurant/bar on Key Largo. Bogart drops by (he served with the late husband) and finds that an exiled gangster is in town trying to make a deal that will get him back into the US from Havana, where he's been holed up. Hurricane, henchmen, poor former moll emotionally abused. Monster Edward G. Cool movie but not very deep. Surprisingly little heat between Bogie and Bacall.
Inception--loved it. I don't need it torn apart thank you--I just found it very enjoyable and had no problem whatsoever following the plot (who did? I can't imagine any sf reader could have trouble with it). Adore Joseph Gordon-Levitt and am bereft that he's under 30--I can't even fantasize--wayyy too young. Oh well. Love the use of Piaf's signature song (sung of course, by Marion Cotillard in the movie Piaf throughout. Very nice little inside joke.
The Japanese movie Cure--interesting movie about a detective trying to solve a series of murders by ordinary -seeming citizens who don't remember why they killed those close to them but always carve an X into the bodies when they're done. I had BIG problems with this one. Not the lack of motive by the killer but other bits and pieces we're shown about him that just don't add up (to me). I found myself increasingly annoyed rather than creeped out.
Cairo Time, a new movie with the marvelous Patricia Clarkson. Diplomat's wife (and editor of a woman's magazine in the US) is to meet her husband in Cairo for a vacation but he's tied up in Gaza dealing with a crisis there. She is an alien in a strange land and with her blond hair and her western clothes, she sticks out rather dramatically. Her husband's retired colleague offers to show her around.
Romantic, bittersweet. Not a big emotional movie but satisfying in its own way.
I watched The Drowning Pool with Paul Newman as Harper again, Joanne Woodward as ex-girlfriend Iris, Tony Franciosa as a local policeman, and an 18 year old Melanie Griffith as a very young femme fatale in one of her earliest movie roles. Enjoyable follow up to Harper--nine years later.
Key Largo with Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Edward G. Robinson (as the monstrous Johnny Rocco!), and Lionel Barrymore. I can't believe this is the first time I've ever seen the movie. Post WWII film: War widow Bacall lives with her late husband's father and helps run a hotel/restaurant/bar on Key Largo. Bogart drops by (he served with the late husband) and finds that an exiled gangster is in town trying to make a deal that will get him back into the US from Havana, where he's been holed up. Hurricane, henchmen, poor former moll emotionally abused. Monster Edward G. Cool movie but not very deep. Surprisingly little heat between Bogie and Bacall.
Inception--loved it. I don't need it torn apart thank you--I just found it very enjoyable and had no problem whatsoever following the plot (who did? I can't imagine any sf reader could have trouble with it). Adore Joseph Gordon-Levitt and am bereft that he's under 30--I can't even fantasize--wayyy too young. Oh well. Love the use of Piaf's signature song (sung of course, by Marion Cotillard in the movie Piaf throughout. Very nice little inside joke.
The Japanese movie Cure--interesting movie about a detective trying to solve a series of murders by ordinary -seeming citizens who don't remember why they killed those close to them but always carve an X into the bodies when they're done. I had BIG problems with this one. Not the lack of motive by the killer but other bits and pieces we're shown about him that just don't add up (to me). I found myself increasingly annoyed rather than creeped out.
Cairo Time, a new movie with the marvelous Patricia Clarkson. Diplomat's wife (and editor of a woman's magazine in the US) is to meet her husband in Cairo for a vacation but he's tied up in Gaza dealing with a crisis there. She is an alien in a strange land and with her blond hair and her western clothes, she sticks out rather dramatically. Her husband's retired colleague offers to show her around.
Romantic, bittersweet. Not a big emotional movie but satisfying in its own way.
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