I saw Ratatouille on Saturday nite and it was freaking wonderful. One of Pixar's best.

I'm looking forward to it. Even my roomie (who is not at all interested in animation) wants to see it, I'm treating her as part of her birthday present (the other part is a Canon SD 900 digital camera, like mine, for her trip to Mexico).

I've been catching, sporadically, part of the series of films TCM is running for the "Screened Out" Gay Images in Film series. Last night's fare was, The Uninvited (spooky movie about a ghost with Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey - a great name for an actor if ever there was one, Ruth Hussey) and The Picture of Dorian Gray (Hurt Hatfield as a remote Dorian and a very young and beautiful Angela Lansbury as Sybil Vane and the always wonderful George Saunders). An old old favorite film, well done, moody and a nice use of technicolor when showing the painting, before and after.

I'm currently passing Catch & Release around the building....

surprising little film. Who'dve thunk I'd ever find Kevin Smith amusing, let alone funny?

yeah, I enjoyed that one immensely. didnt expect to in the least.
plesantly surprised.

I enjoyed Catch and Release as well. I love Timothy Oliphant. He's delicioso!

For me Aquatic had some of his finest directing. The animation and music were astounding. I loved, loved, loved Willem Defoe. But I thought Bill Murray's character was a bit tired, I HATED Cate Blanchett (something I didn't think possible) and I thought

It does have one of the best action sequences ever filmed. Best and funniest! Angelica Huston seemed wasted. But then we were given Seu Jorge, who I think is wonderful, wonderful. His voice!

The Royal Tenenbaums really is my favorite. I think that and Rushmore really are perfect movies. Sadly, I'm in a small camp of Anderson fans who didn't get Bottle Rocket. Some parts of it I liked. "Cawcaw," being one. But something about the romance really, really, really irritated me, I think.

That's how I felt about Tennebaum's, not enough of Angelica, and what was there was minor compared to what she could give. I simply adore her. That said, I loved The Royal Tennenbaums

Rushmore is my favorite of the bunch. I loved Bottle Rocket, too. I think it was the first time we got to experience Owen Wilson doing his shtick. I liked him in that. In fact, I like a lot of his films.
:)

The only one I didn't like was Tennenbaums. I just did not get it all all. Blech.


Perhaps I should give it a second chance.








But I'm not going to.

I saw "La Vie en Rose" tonight.

If the AFI is going to make a list of the best musical bio pics, this one should be on it. Marion Cotillard is wonderful as Edith Piaf. A beautiful and touching film that really filled in the blanks for me, as a casual fan.

At one point in the film, Edith has a chance encounter with Marlene Dietrich when they are both living in New York. Dietrich effuses that Piaf was simply the soul of Paris, and made her feel as if she were there - though thousands of miles away.

That's how the film made me feel at times. And Edith Piaf is the soul and the sound of Paree.

A salut, Not Afraid and €uroMeinke ... and mon amour, monsieur izak.