Dec 20, 2006 00:15
I rented "Little Miss Sunshine" today.
So wonderful. Steve Carell runs like a madman.
It's funny; he jogs in his spare time- and it's still just as hilarious to see him actually running in real life.
I loved that movie so much; the scenes of the family trying to get their VW bus moving were fuckin' magnifique. And, I loved when the grandfather told Olive why she was the most beautiful girl in the world.
It was so true. That was perhaps one of the best movie lines ever.
I also rented a movie called "Look Both Ways"; it's an Australian (or perhaps British?) film about a painter who is really pessimistic/paranoid and sees death coming for her or other people in almost every situation (there are bursts of watercolor painted scenes of shark attacks and train wrecks imagined by her spliced into the movie).
For example, while she's having sex, a watercolor scene of her lying pregnant in an AIDS clinic pops up, or images of her pushing three sick babies in strollers.
She meets a man after a real train accident who is a photographer who's snapped pictures of all sorts of disasters and accidents. He finds out that he has testicular cancer, and he begins to see images of dying and death all around.
The two meet and fall in love.
The whole movie is the experiences of people who meet and interact because of the train crash- the train driver with the wife of the man who was hit by the train, the painter and the photographer, the reporter and the affect the crash has on his relationship with his girlfriend...
At first, it's a pretty depressing and slow-moving movie, but by the end, it comes together nicely and ends being a cool little package.
I also rented some indie film with Adrian Grenier (the boyfriend in "The Devil Wears Prada") playing the lead role.