Its Friday afternoon. My boss is playing with some kid that the lawyer brought to work with him today. I think the time is ripe for my movie list:
1. Spellbound: I actually remember watching the Spelling Bee. I love watching the Spelling Bee on ESPN almost as much as I love watching cheerleading on ESPN b/c it gives me a taste of things I never was in Jr. High: motivated and coordinated.
2. Lost In Translation: Perfectly timed with my return from the land of the rising sun, I had a whole new perspective on this film having recently experienced first-had the utter isolation of being a stranger in a strange land. The most heartening thing about this movie is its so nice to see Sophia Coppola really experimenting to try and find a personal style and voice within her films. No kidding she’s a promising filmmaker, but it just makes me really excited to see someone who’s growing as an artist. Someday she will make something earth shaking.
3. Bubba Ho-Tep: With a premise like "Elvis and JFK in a nursing home fighting a resurrected mummy" there was no way I wouldn’t like this. More please.
4. Hebrew Hammer: So freaking funny. That’s basically it. Oh and check out the popcrazy review: http://www.popcrazy.com/features/hammer.php
5. Big Fish: "Tim Burton you bastard, why are you making me cry like this? Who do you think you are, Steven Speilberg???" The best part of watching this movie was watching the crusty punker guy in front of me trying to inconspicuously wipe tears from his eyes. Punks love their dads too.
6. Triplets of Belleville: It was cute. There was no talking. I liked the dog the best.
7. Finding Nemo: Pixar is totally my fave. I loved Monsters Inc, and Finding Nemo was almost as good. I really liked Ellen DeGeneres as the fish with no short-term memory b/c I can relate.
8. Cremaster 3: My nod to the art-for-the-sake-of-art-film. Plus I sat through all three grueling hours without a single bathroom break so I had to include it on my list. I’m not really sure if all of Matthew Barney’s money comes from Bjork, but I’m glad he invested it in important things like covering the Guggenheim with Vaseline while a hardcore band plays, and giants and the Chrysler Building.
9. Capturing The Friedmans: After we went to this movie my friends and I tried to go out and have drinks but we ended up just staring solemnly at each other and then realizing we needed to be alone. Points for the emotional reaction, Andrew Jarecki, points off for so flagrantly ripping-off Errol Morris’s stylo.
10. Cowboy Be-bop: I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I’m a sucker for anime. This is one of the all-time best series but unfortunately what was missing from this movie is what makes the series so great: the scifi fight scenes to a super-cool free-jazz soundtrack that makes you wanna be all "go man, go!" I love J-pop as much as then next anime-lovin’ girl, but it has a time and a place, and that place is not in my Cowboy Be-bop.
2003
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