Here is the big list of all the movies we saw.
You will notice I ranked them on a scale of one through five where five is best and one is worst.
1. In Bruges 4
2. Reversion 2
3. The Linguists 3
4. The Wave 5
5. Transsiberia 4
6. The Broken 4
7. Blind Date 5
8. Good Dick 4
9. The Last Word 2
10. The Wackness 5
11. Sunshine Cleaning 3
12. Mysteries of Pittsburgh 2
13. Pretty Bird 2
14. Strangers 5
15. Downloading Nancy 4
16. Henry Poole Is Here 1
17. Be Like Others 3
18. Smart People 5
19. Choke 4
20. I.O.U.S.A. 3
21. Bigger, Stronger, Faster 5
22. August 1
23. Baghead 4
24. The Escapist3
25. Death In Love3
26. An American Soldier - The Recruit4
27. Assassination of a High School President 2
28. The Visitor 5
29. North Starr 1
30. The Wind and the Water 3
31. The Year of Getting to Know Us 2
32. Nerakhoon (The Betrayal) 5
33. Sugar 4
34. In Prison My Whole Life 4
35. Secrecy 2
36. Savage Grace 4
37. Quid Pro Quo 4
38. Flow - For the Love Of Water 4
39. Hamlet 2 5
40. Young @ Heart 5
41. Birds of America 4
42. Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden 2
43. Funny Games 3
44. Man on Wire 4
45. Trouble the Water 3
46. Fields of Fuel 5
47. I Always Wanted to be a Gangster 4
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Monday, January 28, 2008
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Behind
My phone is still broken so I haven't been able to update from Blackberry, grr!
We saw six movies again yesterday = DEATH! TIRED!! Most of them were good, though!!
Most fucked up film of of the festival = Savage Grave (but good!)
Most "OMG the world is in big trouble" movie of the festival = FLOW - For Love Of Water (need to show this movie to my mom - it will so wean her off her Dasani addiction!
Most unique plot = Quid Pro Quo (it was also good)
Today we're seeing five, and tomorrow three. AND THEN HOME!
The weather is nice today. Yay!
The award ceremony is tonight so we'll find out the winners.
We saw six movies again yesterday = DEATH! TIRED!! Most of them were good, though!!
Most fucked up film of of the festival = Savage Grave (but good!)
Most "OMG the world is in big trouble" movie of the festival = FLOW - For Love Of Water (need to show this movie to my mom - it will so wean her off her Dasani addiction!
Most unique plot = Quid Pro Quo (it was also good)
Today we're seeing five, and tomorrow three. AND THEN HOME!
The weather is nice today. Yay!
The award ceremony is tonight so we'll find out the winners.
Friday, January 25, 2008
Technology sucks
My Blackberry has been brought to his knees again, but crappy towers here in Park City. It's not sending my emails, so my mobile blog updating has bee nreduced to nothing.
I will summarize the day for you.
1) Dor attempts to sleep in but instead is brought into a dispute between landlord and subletter (nightmare)
2) Dor and Shiri go to see VERY BAD MOVIE called North Starr - embarrassingly poorly acted, ridiculous story, production values a blind man could have bettered, etc
3) Dor and Shiri run out of time to go see Secrecy so they dash up to the Egyptian for The Wind and the Water, from Panama. It was a sweet movie but it's not going to change my life.
4) Dor and Shiri try to see American Son but get screwed because there's mad traffic on Kearns, so they go see The Year Of Getting To Know Us instead which is NOT a great movie but features a hilarious performance by Sharon Stone
5) Shiri goes to see Towelhead (which Dor has already seen in Toronto when it was called Nothing Is Private)
6) Dor goes to see Nerakhoon (The Betrayal) a story of one Laotian man's family as they emigrated to the US after the Vietnam war - GREAT GREAT MOVIE - MAYBE MY FAVORITE DOC SO FAR!!!
Two more full days left of the festival!!
I will summarize the day for you.
1) Dor attempts to sleep in but instead is brought into a dispute between landlord and subletter (nightmare)
2) Dor and Shiri go to see VERY BAD MOVIE called North Starr - embarrassingly poorly acted, ridiculous story, production values a blind man could have bettered, etc
3) Dor and Shiri run out of time to go see Secrecy so they dash up to the Egyptian for The Wind and the Water, from Panama. It was a sweet movie but it's not going to change my life.
4) Dor and Shiri try to see American Son but get screwed because there's mad traffic on Kearns, so they go see The Year Of Getting To Know Us instead which is NOT a great movie but features a hilarious performance by Sharon Stone
5) Shiri goes to see Towelhead (which Dor has already seen in Toronto when it was called Nothing Is Private)
6) Dor goes to see Nerakhoon (The Betrayal) a story of one Laotian man's family as they emigrated to the US after the Vietnam war - GREAT GREAT MOVIE - MAYBE MY FAVORITE DOC SO FAR!!!
Two more full days left of the festival!!
Thursday, January 24, 2008
We've seen it!
The best film of the festival is Tom McCarthy's The Visitor.
It's his follow up to The Station Agent and honestly I think it's even better. It is similar in tone - strong characters, isolated people finding each other and coming alive. But that's where the similarities end.
It starts with a lonely professor in Connecticut going down to NYC where he must begrudgingly present a paper at a conference at NYU. He returns to his New York City apartment which he has kept vacant for many years and is shocked to find a young couple living there. What follows I will allow you to experience for yourselves when the film is released in April in LA/NY. But I will say it was a perfect blend of subtle politics and personal awakenings that will leave you hoping Tom McCarthy doesn't wait another five years or so to make his next film!
It's his follow up to The Station Agent and honestly I think it's even better. It is similar in tone - strong characters, isolated people finding each other and coming alive. But that's where the similarities end.
It starts with a lonely professor in Connecticut going down to NYC where he must begrudgingly present a paper at a conference at NYU. He returns to his New York City apartment which he has kept vacant for many years and is shocked to find a young couple living there. What follows I will allow you to experience for yourselves when the film is released in April in LA/NY. But I will say it was a perfect blend of subtle politics and personal awakenings that will leave you hoping Tom McCarthy doesn't wait another five years or so to make his next film!
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
August
August was a boring movie about two brothers (one hot-headed CEO and another the brains/creative element) who own a tech startup. It takes place in August 01 just before the tech bubble burst. I could not have cared LESS about the movie or characters.
And some dumb ass in the Q & A had the nerve to ask Josh Hartnett to comment on Heath Ledger being found dead. The whole audience booed the question. Wtf is wrong with people? Josh made an eloquent but brief comment and tried to be graceful.
Bigger, Stronger, Faster
Just saw a great doc called Bigger, Stronger, Faster, one man's personal story of steroid use in his family. He takes his own experiences and plays them out against the backdrop of rthe current scandalsthat have plagued baseball and the Olympics.
The film was extremely honest and good-hearted. It was informative and interesting and most of all it examined all sides of the debate through interviews with everyone from athletes, politicians, models, body-builders and trainers to his own parents and brothers.
I hope when it is released it is edited down by about fifteen minutes but other than that it was great.
Choke
Choke was great!
I have not read the book so I don't know how faithful it was, but I enjoyed it a lot.
It was just a funny, good story. I could find no flaws with it. Sam Rockwell was perfect as a sex-addict under-achiever whose mother's physical and mental decline prompts him to revisit his upbringing and find out who is father is.
Clark Gregg directed it. I know him as an actor from State and Main. It was clear duing the Q&A that he had passion for the project and he did a great job.
At Maria's Request
A list of all the films we have seen so far.
In Bruges
Reversion
The Linguists
The Wave
Transsiberia
The Broken
Blind Date
Good Dick
The Last Word
The Wackness
Sunshine Cleaning
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Pretty Bird
Strangers
Downloading Nancy
Henry Poole Is Here
Be Like Others
Smart People
Choke
Nineteen so far.
One eye in the mirror
Thank god this theater is playing great music. It's hard enough waking up at 7:30 and dashing off to a movie that begins before nine.
I have already drunk half a Mountain Dew. Exhausted!!
Yesterday
We saw four movies yesterday. Three of them were good and one was a freakin' crime against humanity it was so bad.
Today we have six movies planned. YESSSSSSSSS WE CAN DO ITTTTTTT
Monday, January 21, 2008
Monday
We survived opening weekend! The crowds and insanity should die down a bit now.
We are seeing Downloading Nancy right now. We plan to see five movies today, the first four showing at the Racquet Club. We packed lunch.
More later!
Success!
Today ruled, and here's why:
I am 80% better in terms of the illness that plagued me yesterday.
We got into five movies today! A few of them sucked, but that's just how it goes.
Tomorrow we are aiming for another five. We will not see a 9 am movie because we are total pussies and also because I want to keep this sickness at bay.
Thanks for reading, y'all. And thanks for the comments!
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Pretty Bird
We just caught Pretty Bird at the Racquet Club. A lovely woman handed us a pair of tickets for free. Score.
The Q n A was delightful - witty responses, heartwarming stories.
The movie sucked though! the characters were incredibly unlikeable and I could not be bothered to care what happened to them.
Hope we can get into one more movie today and its a good one!
Good Dick
Yesterday we saw a great movie called Good Dick, the story of a boy who works in a video store and falls hopelessly, obsessively, inaproppriately in love with one of his customers who just happens to come in every day and rent porn.
I have seen a million coming of age dramas and a million love stories where one or both parties is suuuper fucked up, and I can tell you this one is in a league of its own.
I loved it.
Usually if someone wrote, directed and starred in a movie, you can be sure it's either total self-indulgent trash or freaking awesome. You'll all see when this comes out how much this one counts as the latter.
The Last Word
Yesterday we saw The Last Word, a dark comedy with Wes Bentley,
Winona Ryder and Ray Romano. It was about a lonely guy in LA who makes his living writing peope's suicide notes for them. He falls for the sister of one of his clients whom he meets at his funeral.
The movie was not great. It wasn't terrible but I wouldn't call it "good" either. There was zero chemistry between the two lead characters. I didn't believe their relationship for one minute.
Oh well, you win some, you lose some!
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