January 30, 2006
Show me a weekend where I have a lot of work to do and I'll show you two days of putting that work off to watch movies, followed by my getting food poisoning on the the Sunday I've allotted to cram in all the vitally important things I've been putting off.
The movies were all very good, however. They were: Michael Haneke's Cache, the contemplation of which since seeing it has been a rich and satisfying experience; Tsai Ming Liang's The Wayward Cloud, which...; Hou Hsiao-hsien's Three Times, which was all the more impenetrable because we watched it on DVD, and every peripheral distraction seemed to deprive us of some valuable detail; Soderbergh's Bubble (at the theater), which is proof that a minor work can be a very good thing; and Stanley Kubrick: A Life In Pictures, which I'd actually never seen. Brad kindly sent a copy of it to me last week, and as I sat this evening swathed in blankets, trepidatiously trying to rehydrate and allocating enough wherewithal to get a bit of screenwriting done, watching it seemed like an extremely good idea.
All of these films deserve to be (and at other blogs have been) written about in much greater detail, but I'll have to hold off on a closer look at any of them until after I've finished another post I was supposed to have up by this weekend (to coincide with the release of the Soderbergh film, actually). That should be up tomorrow. Tomorrow, tomorrow...
You know, as much as I might love my classes, I've never quite outgrown the Calvinistic joys of staying home sick from school.
Posted by David Lowery at January 30, 2006 01:55 AM
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i hear you there, david....i'm skipping right now to read some stories out of ZOETROPE, have some coffee, and storyboard my next short......
sometimes you just need a break.
i'm seeing BUBBLE this week. glad to hear good things.
speaking of "minor work", it made me think of jeff daniels.....have you see THE SQUID AND THE WHALE?...i saw it in L.A. this past winter and loved it....it may even be my favorite movie of this past year.....
Posted by: frank at January 30, 2006 10:37 AM
I really loved The Squid And The Whale, but never actually finished my review of it. It's still sitting up there in draft form on the review page. As great as Heath Ledger and Phillip Seymour Hoffman were in their performances this year, I'd give Jeff Daniels the Oscar in a heartbeat.
Posted by: Ghostboy at January 30, 2006 01:46 PM
glad to hear the kubrick dvd worked ok :)
Posted by: brad at January 30, 2006 06:16 PM