http://librarinth.net/letterboxed the language of film is universal Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:40:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en * Let the Right One In. Fantastic. Seriously. Go see it. * Angel. I hated it. I went because of the director & because it was free, but I could not stand the lead character. Nor could I stand everyone else's adoration of her. See 8 Women instead. * Quantum of Solace. ... http://librarinth.net/letterboxed/2009/01/02/last-of-2008/ I saw one movie a month for a while, which didn't seem worth posting about, but now all of a sudden I have found my groove again. Let's catch up. (Which is possibly the most-typed phrase on this blog. Oh well.) * Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2. Exactly what you ... http://librarinth.net/letterboxed/2008/11/02/holy-pajamas/ As always, I'm behind posting about things here, but I rewatched The Talented Mr Ripley for the first time in a few years and had a little something I wanted to say about it. The movie itself is gorgeous through-and-through, unsurprising of course, since it's Minghella, but the real genius of ... http://librarinth.net/letterboxed/2008/09/13/better-to-be-a-fake-somebody/ As soon as I hit post on my last in-theater entry, I remembered that I had forgotten to include Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. It's the first of three Miyazaki films that the Northwest Film Forum is showing this summer. I had intended to see them all (the ... http://librarinth.net/letterboxed/2008/07/25/july-july-more-or-less/ * During the festival, a friend came up to Seattle and we went to Sex and the City. I know, I know. But I love the show, I do, and I wanted to know What Happens Next. But to me, it resembled nothing more than really bad fanfiction. Which is ... http://librarinth.net/letterboxed/2008/06/27/three-totally-unrelated-films/ * Lars and the Real Girl. I queued this mostly because Patricia Clarkson & Emily Mortimer are basically always worth watching, and I was curious what drew them to the project. I still don't know. It required suspension of disbelief that eluded me, and I am, honestly, a pretty credulous ... http://librarinth.net/letterboxed/2008/06/26/dvd-highlights-and-a-lowlight/ ...which was really just four days. * Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red [Tennis] Shoes. The thing about this documentary is that, though I enjoyed it, I still don't feel as though I know anything about Mr. Keillor. Which I'm not particularly surprised by. I had added ... http://librarinth.net/letterboxed/2008/06/18/siff-week-four/ * Man on Wire is just crazy amounts of fun. It's a documentary, with a wee bit of recreation, of Philippe Petit's tightrope walk between the Twin Towers in 1974. It's structured, appropriately enough, like a heist film, and Petite is the master teller of his own story. It's marvelous ... http://librarinth.net/letterboxed/2008/06/10/siff-week-three-2/ * Savage Grace was a late addition to my schedule, when I realized I had screwed up somewhere and needed something to fill out a 6 pack. What better than a Julianne Moore incest movie? Well. That's how my brain works, anyway. It was disturbing, but not as much as ... http://librarinth.net/letterboxed/2008/06/09/siff-week-two-2/ * The Red Awn still doesn't exist on the IMDb, apparently. It's written and directed by Cai Shangjun, the writer of Shower and Spicy Love Soup, both of which I also enjoyed, particularly Shower. This was a father-son reunion story of sorts, set among migrant harvesters in rural China, and ... http://librarinth.net/letterboxed/2008/06/02/siff-week-one/