Saturday Movie Post Debut
This week I'm launching something new on my blog, the Saturday Movie Post. Every Saturday I'll take some time to post about films I've seen the previous week, thoughts on film in general, etc. So without further adieu...An 80's Thriller That Didn't Suck
I saw Spoorloos a.k.a. The Vanishing recently at the reccomendation of Wil Ryland, in the comments section of a previous post where I asked, "What Are Your Favorite Scary Moives?" This late 80's Dutch/French movie starts off with a quaint lovers road trip but soon one of the main characters... vanishes (surprise). Much like the excellent Donnie Darko, The Vanishing appears to waste a lot of time with realatively mundane content for a horror/thriller movie... but like Darko the end of this movie made me think that the slower, middle part of the film was just giving me a false sense of security. This is one deliciously dark film.
The Oscars
This year I was really impressed by the crop of films nominated for Best Picture. I've seen all but Munich so far but to be fair, it just came out and I have been planning on seeing it since it has (thus keeping with my yearly "see all nominated films before they are nominated" goal). I thought that Jarhead and Syriana would have been given more consideration for the Best Picture category but 2005 was such a strong year for intelligent great filmmaking that they didn't make the cut (not a bad problem to have for those of us in the audience!). But seriously folks, I really did feel like Jarhead was my generation's Full Metal Jacket. Speaking of Donnie Darko, best pic nom. Brokeback Mountain and Jarhead... Jake Gyllenhaal is racking up quite the resume.
Labels: Film
posted by Charlie at 12:49 AM
6 Comments:
I just saw When a Stranger calls this weekend and it wasent very good. It was a classic stalker movie, were the girl does the stupidest stuff to fall in to the stalkers ways. but i would give it 2 out of 5 stars. Charlie can you email some info on 30 hour famine.
-JAKE
Yeah, When a Stranger Calls did't look like it would be worth any time. Why We Fight, a documentary about the military-industrial complex is coming out Feb 17th at the Tivoli cinema in Westport, that should be great.
It wasent It really sounds cool were is that theater.
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