movies
No Reservations with Catherine Zeta-Jones, Aaron Eckhart,and Abigail Breslin is (mostly) comedy about a brilliant but overly controlled chef in a french restaurant who is challenged by an unexpected addition to her life and by the pushiness and exuberance of the new sous-chef. Despite the lack of chemistry between Zeta-Jones and Eckhart, it's very enjoyable. And moving.
City Island stars Andy Garcia as a dissatisfied prison card who longs to be an actor, Julianna Margulies is his wife who thinks he's cheating on her. They and their two kids are totally dysfunctional as a family and when Garcia brings home a young convict to help him fix up the back shed, they dysfunction grows into operatic complications. It all takes place on City Island, the strange little beach town in the middle of the Bronx. Definitely worth seeing. Garcia and Margulies are both good.
And today I saw the Academy award nominated short animated movies (and two "commended highly" films). The best of the shorts were The Gruffalo by Jakob Schuh and Max Lang and The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann. I predict The Gruffalo will win although I would love the Tan to win as I love his animated art. The longest movie is 27 minutes, the shortest 6 and most are at least fun, and some are very clever. There was only one really bad one. URS from Germany. I had already seen Bill Plympton's "commended Highly" movie The Cow Who wanted to be a Hamburger at a private screening he held several months ago at Hill Country restaurant. (and I might have mentioned it back then). Clever, funny, and scary. I think the music is different from it was in the earlier screening. I didn't care for the new score.
City Island stars Andy Garcia as a dissatisfied prison card who longs to be an actor, Julianna Margulies is his wife who thinks he's cheating on her. They and their two kids are totally dysfunctional as a family and when Garcia brings home a young convict to help him fix up the back shed, they dysfunction grows into operatic complications. It all takes place on City Island, the strange little beach town in the middle of the Bronx. Definitely worth seeing. Garcia and Margulies are both good.
And today I saw the Academy award nominated short animated movies (and two "commended highly" films). The best of the shorts were The Gruffalo by Jakob Schuh and Max Lang and The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann. I predict The Gruffalo will win although I would love the Tan to win as I love his animated art. The longest movie is 27 minutes, the shortest 6 and most are at least fun, and some are very clever. There was only one really bad one. URS from Germany. I had already seen Bill Plympton's "commended Highly" movie The Cow Who wanted to be a Hamburger at a private screening he held several months ago at Hill Country restaurant. (and I might have mentioned it back then). Clever, funny, and scary. I think the music is different from it was in the earlier screening. I didn't care for the new score.