Sir Ben's shadow!
Ben Kingsley seems to be everywhere this season. He was there in The Love Guru (Don't ask, I didn't see the movie), he was the f'ed up wacko in The Wackness (Watch it, if you can), and was the Russian in Trassiberian (your little indie thriller this summer, recommended for travel junkies), and now in Elegy, Philip Roth's novella - The Dying Animal - turned into a movie.
If you want a spectrum of character acting, there, you have it.
I am going to see Elegy as soon I as I finish reading the book this weekend.
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If you want to look at it from another angle, Penelope Cruz is going to be there everywhere these two weeks - This week, Elegy; next week, Vicky Christina Barcelona, the new Woody Allen film that's getting released.
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Wayne Wang introduced his new movie - A thousand years of good prayers - at the sneak preview class last week. Wayne Wang? Yes, that "Maid In Manhattan" guy, if you want to be blunt about it, or that "Joy Luck Club/Dim Sum" guy if you want to be snooty arty-farty about it.
"A thousand years of good prayers" forms a diptych with "The pricess of Nebraska," the latter being released online here in US.
I love companion films. Gives me a sense of exploring.
Yiyun Li, another book on to the stack.
After the movie, I went to Canter's as usual, as I was in Fairfax district, to have my weekly pastrami and hoping to read current New Yorker story, and was surprised to find Sarah Silverman in the diagonal booth. Other than seeing noted celebrities at movie events, this is the first time for me seeing some one at a normal restaurant.
Needless to say, I didn't finish reading that story.
If you want a spectrum of character acting, there, you have it.
I am going to see Elegy as soon I as I finish reading the book this weekend.
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If you want to look at it from another angle, Penelope Cruz is going to be there everywhere these two weeks - This week, Elegy; next week, Vicky Christina Barcelona, the new Woody Allen film that's getting released.
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Wayne Wang introduced his new movie - A thousand years of good prayers - at the sneak preview class last week. Wayne Wang? Yes, that "Maid In Manhattan" guy, if you want to be blunt about it, or that "Joy Luck Club/Dim Sum" guy if you want to be snooty arty-farty about it.
"A thousand years of good prayers" forms a diptych with "The pricess of Nebraska," the latter being released online here in US.
I love companion films. Gives me a sense of exploring.
Yiyun Li, another book on to the stack.
After the movie, I went to Canter's as usual, as I was in Fairfax district, to have my weekly pastrami and hoping to read current New Yorker story, and was surprised to find Sarah Silverman in the diagonal booth. Other than seeing noted celebrities at movie events, this is the first time for me seeing some one at a normal restaurant.
Needless to say, I didn't finish reading that story.