Film – Caché

I watch a lot of movies – a few more and the whole last page of posts will be filled with film reviews.

Caché is a good sort of movie in a way that it combines thriller elements with analysis of personal responsibility within flawed social fabric. You never quite figure out who dun it but there is a clear sense of why.

Film – Tristram Shandy

This movie is really funny. I was flapping my arms and legs around in state of high hilarity for at least half of it. Then again, I will laugh at anything with Dylan Moran in it. One day he will sober up (or perish form alcohol related ailments) and I shall laugh no more. At least not at movies with him in it. Life is so fickle.

Film – Transamerica

I don’t have a pithy comment or obscure memoir entry for this one. I guess that leaves me with actually having to write about the movie. It is a really sweet movie. Incredulously sweet at time. I loved the acting in it. Felicity Huffman was terrific – I would have given her the Oscar for it*. Kevin Zegers’ performance reminded me of Gael García Bernal in Y tu mamá también.

* Not that Reese Witherspoon, Keira Knightley or Judi Dench weren’t excellent, but I can’t think of a movie where they didn’t play bubbly righteous belle, snotface or snobby spirited noblewoman respectively. It seems like credit really goes to the casting crew.

Film – Walk the Line

I love covers. For example, I really like covers of Bob Dylan songs – but never the originals. This brings me to Johnny Cash’s cover of “Hurt’ – It’s amazing! I had the original on one of my alternative tapes back in high school and I never actually paid any attention to it. If anyone had asked me what I thought of NIN I would have said that I’ve never heard anything by them (my tape that I listened continuously for at least a year had a DJ saying ‘this was NIN with “Hurt”) and I never cared until I heard Cash’s version and went crazy (also wondering why the song is so familiar). Neat eh?