Not very swanky, but I watched 'Babe' with Ralphie tonight. He hadn't seen it before and I just love this silly little film. :)

Swanky would be "To Catch a Thief" which was on TCM last night. I think that Grace Kelly was one of the most beautiful actresses in film history. :)

I also watched a Spanish film called "Bulgarian Lovers". It sounds like porn, but it's not. It was actually a good film. It's more spy stuff than gay love story.

Thanks to "Kid Notorius", I just couldn't bring myself to watch "The Kid Stays in the Picture" without a Cosmopolitan (well, a feauxmopolitan as I had cran-grape juice, no lemon infused vodka, and no cointreaux, so I faked it with lemon juice and dried orange zest...quite tasty) in hand. I was rather disappointed that there wasn't a single Cosmo in the whole film.

The very unswanky Friday, again. And I laughed my ass off, again. I had many many vanilla vodka's and cranberry with a splash of oj's too :)

I just saw Road Trip the unrated version. I don't know why everyone thought this was so great. I thought it was just ok. Nothing too great. Couple bursts of laughter. eh?

This was a busy weekend for us. Kid Stays in the Picture last night, the rest of the Sealab DVD yesterday and today...and we watched 2 more movies today.

First was Spirited Away. Absolutely beautiful film. So immaginiative and so well animated. Loved it loved it loved it. Clearly Alice in Wonderlandesque, but told in a very entertaining and unique way. I'm a sucker for good Anime anyway.

Then we went out, stuffed ourselves silly at an excellent BBQ place in Orange (where I unknowingly ordered a beer that came in a 1 quart jug!) and saw Sideways. Question 1, why is it called Sideways? Question 2, did I enjoy it? I gave it a resounding "meh". I didn't dislike it, but I really don't see what the big deal about it was. It had it's moments, but mostly it felt to me like it lurched along. I don't know if it was trying to be a funny film with poignant moments or a poignant film with funny moments. What I got instead was a film that went, "Now it's funny, now it's poignant, now it's funny, now it's poignant, now it's funny, now it's poignant..." The laughs weren't quite good or consistent enough, and the emmotions weren't quite deep enough. Don't get me wrong, I kind of enjoyed it, but I was far from blown away by it. I do applaud them for the little bit of a twist at the end, not doing the obvious and expected.

...just finished watching the extras on the Bambi DVD. With the exception of the plugs for Bambi II: Electric Boogaloo (I mean, Bambi and the Great Prince of the Forest), it's one of my favorite Disney discs. Not only does the film look better that I've ever seen it, but I actually learned some things that I never knew before...

GD - I'm toying with the idea of ordering a Japanese DVD called "Thank you, Mr Lasseter" about the long friendship between John Lasseter and Miyazaki. I'll let you know if I get it. Have you seen the other Ghibli movies? We love Kiki's Delivery Service here at Casa de MousePod.

I've got Spirited Away absolutely committed to memory. I can't remember the last time I loved an animated feature so much, on so many levels, and I never tire of it.

I liked Sideways. I thought Giamatti's performance was awesome. I think the silliness was a good foil for the deep issues at hand. It did get a bit too silly but I still think it worked rather well. I definitely enjoyed it.

Spirited Away was just great. I love that stuff. :) Fairy tale elements filled with dark, raw power, real blood and dirt and fear and wonderment. :snap:

I want to see Sideways- I saw Paul G. in "American Splendor' and thought he was great, especially since the last film I'd seen him in was 'Big Fat Liar', a Tori movie..... I understand the show's producer and director actually turned away some big names that were interested in the script and went with Thomas Hayden Church instead.

I'd love to see that one- the friendship between Miyazaki and Lasseter is so apparent in the foreward to the 'Castle in the Sky' and 'Spirited Away' dvd's.