I'm bored and home alone again, so I'm going to try and watch some more movies tonight. I doubt I can stay up as late as I did last night (4 a.m.) since I woke up by nine this morning and didn't take a nap all day. I did go check out some movies from the library and just finished watching the first one:

The Haunting
1963. Directed by Robert Wise. ( Read more... )

I doubt I'll be able to do it, but I've decided I'm going to stay up all night tonight watching movies. I haven't done that in years, but it's shitty weather here and I have no plans all weekend long. Diana's out of town until Monday, so I'm home alone. So why not?

First up--Preston Sturges' classic Sullivan's Travels.

EDIT: 1:49 a.m. Just finished ( Read more... )

The History Boys
2006. Directed by Nicholas Hytner. Starring Stephen Campbell Moore, Richard Griffiths, Dominic Cooper, and Samuel Barnett.

I really liked this movie. I liked the tension showcased between the two styles of teaching, or maybe it's the two ways of learning, or the two uses of knowledge. I'm not sure right now, I'll have to think on ( Read more... )

The Hollywood Knights
1980. Directed by Floyd Mutrux. Starring Robert Wuhl and Tony Danza.

I'm a sucker for movies about teenagers that are set over the course of one day/night. This movie really wasn't very good. The characters were all generic, the jokes were generic too. I didn't laugh out loud once. It was pretty much a tits and ass version of ( Read more... )

Glengarry Glen Ross
1992. Directed by James Foley. Starring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alan Arkin, Kevin Spacey, Ed Harris, and Alec Baldwin.

Something about this movie rubbed me the wrong way. It was a good story and the acting was good, I guess, but it was too stage actor-ish. The dialogue was all people delivering monologues at each other, no one ( Read more... )

Dreaming in America
2005. Directed by Aaron Goldman.

I first saw Lucero around the time this film came out. My best friend in the world, Brandon, had spent the year 2004 in court-appointed rehab. He gave me a copy of Nobody's Darling, the album that is the result of the filming of this movie, when he first came out of rehab. But more than that, he ( Read more... )