New(er) movies I have to see:
-Babel (which I'm seeing today!)
-Children of Men
-The Last King of Scotland
-Blood Diamond
-The Departed
-Casino Royale
-Venus
-Dreamgirls
-The Prestige (haha, just for Gabby's sake)
-Perfume
old(er) movies I have to see:
-Apocalypse Now
-Citizen Kane
-Reservoir Dogs
-Jackie Brown
-Shawshank Redemption
-12 Angry Men
-The Godfather
-Angels in America
-Scarface (hmm I'm noticing the Al Pacino trend, here)
-anything with Katherine Hepburn, really
-Philadelphia
-1984
-What's Eating Gilbert Grape
-The Producers (original)
-City of God
-Casablanca
-Schindler's List
-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
-All The President's Men
-The Usual Suspects
-Monsieur Verdoux
Books I have to read:
-Shalimar the Clown
-My Ishmael (lent to me by Allana. I confess, I mostly want to read it so she'll return me my Old Man and the Sea)
-Fight Club
-The Fate of Africa
-On Liberty/The Subjection of Women
-Angela's Ashes
-The Iliad (HA! That's funny.)
-War and Peace (even FUNNIER!)
-On the Road
-The English Patient
-The Favourite Game
If anyone has any other movies or books they think I MUST read, please feel free to suggest!
I'm really excited to start working on Footloose. I'm fascinated by Shaw's character, but at the same time I'm really intimidated. I think I'm still finding it hard to imagine playing someone like this. Well, how hard can it be, right? RIGHT?! I guess I'll find out...
Kinda stressed about the play. Yeah. Just a tad. Figured out the lighting problem. Now the one thing I'm worried about is the a paint. I have no money, so I might have to mooch off of my cast. Oh yeah, and we need to rehearse like CRAZY. When we presented it last Friday it was really good, but still reeeally unpolished. Which is a polite way of saying some parts sucked. So now's the time to do it.
New term is coming around. I'm actually raher nervous about it. It means the urgency to get drivers ed and get a job increases. I HAVE been proactive on both fronts, however, so eventually it should all sort itself out....I hope. But yes, enough of that.
Pan's Labyrinth was a beautiful movie. It's like a fairy tale....with FASCISM! But yeah, it's got the simplicity of a children's story, as in it's not so complicated that a child couldn't understand it -- but that is the point, I think. And that in no way makes it less poignant. What makes it more than a children's fairy tale is, you know, the minute details, shall we say; just mere technicalities, if you will. Like swearing, gore and YES, politics, and all that good stuff. It's very dark and macabre at parts, and at best it's FREAKIN' INTENSE!!! I'm really glad it's up for best foreign film. It deserves it.
Sooooo....how's everybody doin'?
5 comments:
Mwaha! I am such a random stalker. I have a suggestion for a movie you should see! The Day the Earth Stood Still. It's so cool, and not just because it's scifi. Yes. I am seeing Angels in America as a play! (yes, you needed to know.) I'll leave now and stop creeping.
dude man hi.
You should see Bringing up Baby, and also It Happened One Night. I know I've told you that before, but I just figured you needed some reminding.
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I've seen a majority of those on the internet, adn this is the best site for them.
Also, I can name about 5 million books you'd like, but you'd have to track me down elsewhere if you REALLY want to hear all 5 million of them.
why ello ello.
top of the mornin to ya
i'm seeing you in an hour.
see ya then mate.
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