Monday, October 11, 2004
Movie-nette
A cool thing about being sick: you can watch all the movies you want, guilt-free. So this weekend, between fits of hacking and moaning, I saw 3 and a half movies:
1. Collateral, the Tom-Cruise-plays-a-gray-haired-bad-guy flick. Obviously this was an I-feel-like-going-to-the-movies-but-have-nothing-particulier-in-mind-that-I-want-to-see-so-I-let-Stephane-choose moment, but I have to say that I enjoyed it. Although I fear I may be slightly narcoleptic because at the films action climax, when Tom Cruise is taking out an entire club, I passed out for about 10 minutes. But, as in most action movies (excluding Mission Impossible), when I woke up, I had no trouble figuring out what had happened and where we were.
2. Before Sunset, the sequel to mid-nineties indy classic Before Sunrise, which I have not seen (how classic can it be then???) Anyway, I feel like this film spoke to me maybe even more not having seen the first one because it left the past to my imagination. Story: a writer (Ethan Hawke) is giving a reading in Paris and a woman shows up, the same woman he had met 9 years earlier on a train to Vienna and had a wild one night affair with. This one really touched a nerve and I highly recommend. It is 80 minutes of one continuous dialogue (shot while they are walking around Paris), but the dialogue is wonderful, exactly how I'd be (have been?) if put in that situation. One thing that sucks: they stole my idea to make a feature length film that involves a character walking down the Coulee Verte (a walkway built on an old viaduc that connects Saint-Mande--where I used to live--with the Bastille).
3. BaadAssss!: Don't know how many a's and s's are really in this title, but it don't matter. A mockumentary by Mario van Peeble's about the making of his father's landmark movie, Melvin van Peeble's Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song, the first black power, blaxploitation film. This was another Stephane choice, but I found it highly enjoyable. Sometimes I feel so lame having been born into a white protestant family, perhaps the most boring culture that ever existed.
Now I just have to see Before Sunrise and Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song.
1. Collateral, the Tom-Cruise-plays-a-gray-haired-bad-guy flick. Obviously this was an I-feel-like-going-to-the-movies-but-have-nothing-particulier-in-mind-that-I-want-to-see-so-I-let-Stephane-choose moment, but I have to say that I enjoyed it. Although I fear I may be slightly narcoleptic because at the films action climax, when Tom Cruise is taking out an entire club, I passed out for about 10 minutes. But, as in most action movies (excluding Mission Impossible), when I woke up, I had no trouble figuring out what had happened and where we were.
2. Before Sunset, the sequel to mid-nineties indy classic Before Sunrise, which I have not seen (how classic can it be then???) Anyway, I feel like this film spoke to me maybe even more not having seen the first one because it left the past to my imagination. Story: a writer (Ethan Hawke) is giving a reading in Paris and a woman shows up, the same woman he had met 9 years earlier on a train to Vienna and had a wild one night affair with. This one really touched a nerve and I highly recommend. It is 80 minutes of one continuous dialogue (shot while they are walking around Paris), but the dialogue is wonderful, exactly how I'd be (have been?) if put in that situation. One thing that sucks: they stole my idea to make a feature length film that involves a character walking down the Coulee Verte (a walkway built on an old viaduc that connects Saint-Mande--where I used to live--with the Bastille).
3. BaadAssss!: Don't know how many a's and s's are really in this title, but it don't matter. A mockumentary by Mario van Peeble's about the making of his father's landmark movie, Melvin van Peeble's Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song, the first black power, blaxploitation film. This was another Stephane choice, but I found it highly enjoyable. Sometimes I feel so lame having been born into a white protestant family, perhaps the most boring culture that ever existed.
Now I just have to see Before Sunrise and Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song.
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