happiness is
Last week I had the fortunate pleasure to catch The Darjeeling Limited at the Monica. The Monica is a fourplex that used to be a 'twin.' As a kid I saw many movies but there are only two that I can recall with certainty. Live And Let Die was one and I was obsessed with everything about that movie, which for me at the time was the movie itself. the soundtrack, one of my first record purchases, and the original wafer thin book that looked dull and had a very small picture on the cover.
I would often go to movies with my mom, and when Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy came out I was a bit too young to see that one. So she and my brother went to see that while I went to see Million Dollar Duck - a Disney, live action "golden goose" story in he vein of The Barefoot Executive or Worlds Greatest Athelete.
Now I here some of you gasp, "But wait, wait, wait. When did you stop being a hater? You used the word 'pleasure' and the name of a 'Wes Anderson' film in the same sentence." Yes I did. And not only that (wait for it....) this was the second time I saw this filme.... by myself!
I thoroughly, if not smuggly, enjoyed it the second time around as well as the first. Whatever he was working through in the last two movies he seems to have gotten through and the other side is much briter, refined and precise in it's pointed openendedness. It's great and I love the soundtrack.
As an added bonus they are now showing it with The Hotel Chevalier (loved it, reminiscent of Hal) which I did view prior to seeing Darjeeling for the first time.
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The whiring of the fan in my computer will never be benign again now that I have been exposed. I can cross one holy grail off my list and that was: To see Eraserhead in the theater. Yowza.
I'm just gonna say one paragraph about the suffering. There it is. I've been saying it for awhile like a broken record but it's the suffering that I enjoy and get sucked into.
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I have to extend my original review of No Country For Old Men. Which was:
I need a hug.
I was going to leave it at:
I liked it.
I need a hug.
But I do need to point out that at the 3/4 mark the film shifts and I found it jarring in a narrative way as opposed to a within the story dramatic way. The jury is out on how I feel about it.
I stil like it and I still need a hug.
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Looking forward to: Bob Dylan Todd Haynes thing. Sweeny Todd ( I know it could suck.), D-Day Lewis and PTA flick. I'm am falling for the sucker punch of I Am Legend because it is pulling on my Omega Man heartstrings. And finally a midnight showing of The Muppet Movie.
(ttssst)
(tssssssssttt!)
(over here)
(I've never seen it!)
(Shhhhhhhhh.)
I would often go to movies with my mom, and when Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy came out I was a bit too young to see that one. So she and my brother went to see that while I went to see Million Dollar Duck - a Disney, live action "golden goose" story in he vein of The Barefoot Executive or Worlds Greatest Athelete.
Now I here some of you gasp, "But wait, wait, wait. When did you stop being a hater? You used the word 'pleasure' and the name of a 'Wes Anderson' film in the same sentence." Yes I did. And not only that (wait for it....) this was the second time I saw this filme.... by myself!
I thoroughly, if not smuggly, enjoyed it the second time around as well as the first. Whatever he was working through in the last two movies he seems to have gotten through and the other side is much briter, refined and precise in it's pointed openendedness. It's great and I love the soundtrack.
As an added bonus they are now showing it with The Hotel Chevalier (loved it, reminiscent of Hal) which I did view prior to seeing Darjeeling for the first time.
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The whiring of the fan in my computer will never be benign again now that I have been exposed. I can cross one holy grail off my list and that was: To see Eraserhead in the theater. Yowza.
I'm just gonna say one paragraph about the suffering. There it is. I've been saying it for awhile like a broken record but it's the suffering that I enjoy and get sucked into.
****************
I have to extend my original review of No Country For Old Men. Which was:
I need a hug.
I was going to leave it at:
I liked it.
I need a hug.
But I do need to point out that at the 3/4 mark the film shifts and I found it jarring in a narrative way as opposed to a within the story dramatic way. The jury is out on how I feel about it.
I stil like it and I still need a hug.
****************
Looking forward to: Bob Dylan Todd Haynes thing. Sweeny Todd ( I know it could suck.), D-Day Lewis and PTA flick. I'm am falling for the sucker punch of I Am Legend because it is pulling on my Omega Man heartstrings. And finally a midnight showing of The Muppet Movie.
(ttssst)
(tssssssssttt!)
(over here)
(I've never seen it!)
(Shhhhhhhhh.)