I watched 'Raging Bull' tonight on HDMV... Such wonderful power, I love that movie.

We watched Bee Season last night. So good. I recommend it.

My reviews run tomorrow:

The Guardian - Very mediocre but in an entertaining way. If you like the solid, middle-of-the-pack John Wayne movies and things like that you have a shot of enjoying this one.

Renaissance - A French motion-capture animated movie (kind of like City City, but more so) that was picked up by Miramax. Impressively dull. Seriously, I think I yawned more in that 90 minutes than in the previous month.

'Adam & Steve' = Hysterical, loved it. I laughed out loud for reals during it. I recommend it to the mo's and the straights. Funny sh!t.
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The Science of Sleep. Not a flawless movie, but very, very lovely. The performances were excellent and the stop animation was inventively integrated into the live action. Considered it as an intimate look at someone who confuses reality and dreams (at times willingly, and at other times beyond his control), in a way that may have been more heartbreaking than sweet and dreamy.

We saw both Junebug and Brick over the weekend. I thought Brick worked really well. Classic style in a different setting, great story, good characters, I really enjoyed it and wonder why it didn't get more buzz/press.

Junebug I liked- but less than I thought I would. Maybe it's because I was expecting to like it and that's always a bad thing. I thought Amy Adams was great, as was all of the cast. My favorite charater, however, was the next door neighbor. The entire movie, it bothered be where I had seen the wife/actresss before. I find it so distracting when I recognize the actress but can't place her. A trip to IMDB after revealed Bridgette Jones' Diary to be the thing on the tip of my tongue.

Bother are in the mail and next on the list are Brokeback Mtn (about time, eh?) and The Libertine. I need a more exciting queue.

Ooh, those two will be at the extremes of entertaining filmmaking.

Here's my current Netflix list. Some of these films I don't event want to see any longer - they were only a passing fancy. Considering how many films I DON'T see, I would think I'd have a better list.

8 1/2 Women
A Beautiful Mind
Akira
Antonia's Line
Auntie Mame
Boys Don't Cry
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Brokeback Mountain
Bubba Ho-Tep
Children of Paradise: Disc 1
Children of Paradise: Disc 2
City of God
Dead Man Walking
Devdas
Dogma
Farinelli
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Hard Eight
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
High and Low
House of Sand and Fog
Igby Goes Down
Iggy & The Stooges: Live in Detroit
In America
Kiss Me Kate
Lantana
Lumiere and Company
Malena
Memories
Metropolis
Mystic River
Open Your Eyes
Phone Booth
Pollock
Pride and Prejudice: Vol. 1
Pride and Prejudice: Vol. 2
Sense and Sensibility
Shadow of a Doubt
Snatch
Steamboy
Strangers with Candy: Season 2: Disc 1
Strangers with Candy: Season 2: Disc 2
Swept Away
The Bicycle Thief
The Big Heat
The Cooler
The Day of the Locust
The Filth and the Fury: A Sex Pistols Film
The Libertine
The Red Violin
The Third Man
The Women
Thirteen
Tony Takitani
Trigun: Vol. 1: The $60,000,000,000 Man
Trigun: Vol. 2: Lost Past
Trigun: Vol. 3: Wolfwood
Trigun: Vol. 4: Gung-Ho-Guns
Trigun: Vol. 5: Angel Arms
Trigun: Vol. 6: Project Seeds
Trigun: Vol. 7: Puppet Master
Trigun: Vol. 8: High Noon
Two Women
Vanilla Sky
Vatel
What's the Matter with Helen?
Wilde

Junebug was good, but really made me feel uncomfortable. I loved the opening with the outsider artist as it reminded me of an excursion we once made to visit James Martin at the Donald Duck Ranch. He was delightfully excentric. In Junebug though the artist seemed to turn much darker.

The Characters were good, but totally creeped me out in their disfuntionalness - they all needed years of therapy and even then, I wouldn't want to hang with them. I think it did a great job of capturing the telling silences and cutting passive agressiveness of families - but sheesh, this one depressed me. Glad I saw it, but happy we rented and didn't buy.

Brick was a delight. I loved the classic Noir tale, rolled out in the context of a High School - the showgirl being the Drama class diva, the stoners a sort of outer circle of a darker force. There were moments when the dialogue just didn't seem right coming out of a high school student, but then as a metaphore for the melodramatics of that time in one's life, it seemed to work just fine.

I meant to say I also watched Lon Chaney's "Laugh, Clown, Laugh".

One of the greatest, saddest films I've ever seen, and I'm now completely convinced that Chaney is one of the greatest actors to ever be captures on film. My God, he's amazing.