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Cheeseblabbery: Going in style
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Thoughts on movies, mostly. No dedicated follower of fashion is nonagenarian Iris Apfel. Nor is she some snobby, judgmental leader of fashion. No, if someone who is neither fashionable nor stylish may make the distinction, what Iris is has nothing to do with fashion and everything to do with style. And though she works hard to find things that speak to her style, the style itself is effortless, is simply who she is. Who died in May (and with whom Iris chats and flirts throughout). Les marques du fromage.
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Cheeseblabbery: November 2014
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Thoughts on movies, mostly. OK, don't worry about my state of mind (or don't worry about it any more than usual), but after 3 movies that I enjoyed, I decided I'd rather head home and watch the Illini game only a couple of hours after it occurred than hang around for the 3D Godard film. Especially since I realized that I'd thrown away my chance of using MoviePass, since 3D flicks aren't covered. Why hadn't I already used MP on one of the 2 earlier films I'd seen at IFC, you ask? All right, I'm convinced:...
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Cheeseblabbery: Redemption songs
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Thoughts on movies, mostly. Oh, my, what a load of hackneyed, manipulative, sentimental, changing-my-life glop, with Al Pacino. As the titular superannuated rock and roll whore and Bobby Cannavale. As the adult child Danny had never even bothered to meet. But damned if those two, with the always unerring help of Christopher Plummer. As Danny's manager and best friend and Annette Bening. I'll See You in My Dreams. The wonderfuls Blythe Danner. In a grown-up romcom. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Cheeseblabbery: All that you can be
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Thoughts on movies, mostly. All that you can be. Well, no, I couldn't really fit. Into the Halloween theme, but I did find something with significant participation by the military. Watched the DVD's alternate ending for the first time since using it for workout fodder years ago. Bleak. Maybe truer, but not as satisfying; they made the right choice. I seem not to be able to post on this without the phrase "my favorite zombie film of all time"; so: there. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Too true to tell.
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Cheeseblabbery: April 2015
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Thoughts on movies, mostly. Tale of the snake. Clouds of Sils Maria. Stuff I didn't suspect going in:. That the terminal s in Sils is vocalized. How shocking the word "fuck" can still be when Juliette Binoche. Says it. I think it could have been a sharper slap in the face only if one of my grandchildren had said it. How deeply I would love this flick. How much this flick would make me laugh. Directorial debut for the novelist and screenwriter Alex Garland. To his neverland estate to judge a modified Turi...
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Cheeseblabbery: May 2015
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Thoughts on movies, mostly. La French (The connection). A familiar story told from a perspective both unfamiliar (from Marseilles rather than New York) and familiar (an obsessed hero and good old-fashioned police procedure). Wish I had time to watch The French Connection. The red and the blecchh. L'homme qu'on aimait trop (In the name of my daughter). Until late in this film, I found it an annoyingly tedious account of unpleasant people behaving stupidly, with one lead- Adèle Haenel. Mad Max: Fury Road.
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Cheeseblabbery: Speed dating
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Thoughts on movies, mostly. Two weeks of nothing opening downtown that I want to see, then 5 openings this week. Since I'm going to a Mets game tomorrow, that means that even with one yesterday and three today, I'm still deferring Mad Max: Fury Road. Well, that was disappointing: about a half-dozen smart lines, one funny running sexual confusion joke, and a lot of labored writing and clumsy plotting leading up to zero surprise. Wait, did I say zero surprise? The estranged secular son of a recently dead f...
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Cheeseblabbery: Confidence boy
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Thoughts on movies, mostly. Never trust anyone [insert vertically directional preposition] [insert age]. In the new film by Noah Baumbach. 45), ambitious documentary filmmaker Jamie ( Adam Driver. 31, but playing mid-20s) and his artisanal-ice cream-making wife ( Amanda Seyfried. 29, ditto) adopt dithering documentary filmmaker Josh ( Ben Stiller. 49) and his producer wife Cornelia ( Naomi Watts. 46) in order (spoiler alert) to get access to her legendary documentary filmmaker father ( Charles Grodin.
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Cheeseblabbery: Where I Go and How I Get There
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Thoughts on movies, mostly. Where I Go and How I Get There. Seems like I must have discussed my carlessness on an earlier post, but if. Can't be bothered to track it down, then why should. And good luck finding a place to avoid getting towed on the snow route! Plus it installs me on about the highest moral ground imaginable among my kneejerk liberal treehugging friends (oh, you got a new Prius? That's terrific- that's what I'd buy if I were ever to get a car again, though of course I won't). But most of ...
