I'm speeding along my Favorites list! Something's wrong with me... I'm not being lazy ( Read more... )

Another year, another French cinema festival. And this year's cinema is probably one of the weirdest ever.

Weirdness No. 1: I watched an English-dubbed French movie at the opening night (Christophe Gans' La belle et la bête, starring Lea Seydoux and Vincent Cassel, whose original voices could not be heard because of the dubbing ( Read more... )

Before we move on to the main course of this year's Favorites Of The Year listing, check out the entrées: Music, Television and Books

So, all of you know what I do for a living. I'm quite sure no one will be surprised when they see that this list has a Top 20 instead of a Top 10, plus ten honorable mentions. But what you might not know is that I ( Read more... )

Wow! What a week this has been. I've been so busy that I really didn't have a chance at all to do any blogging. Even on Twitter, I've just been mostly retweeting stuff. I'm pretty sure everybody's sick by now of my constant Tweets about The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug but, at the same time, my friends must have been crazy to expect otherwise ( Read more... )

Finally, the Oscar post!

This is pretty much where I gush about Daniel Radcliffe, the Avengers cast and Argo.

By the way, you have no idea how ECSTATIC I was to hear that Argo won Best Picture. I'd be okay if Beasts Of The Southern Wild or Life Of Pi won. Both movies clearly deserved the honor and I was actually upset that Beasts didn't get to ( Read more... )

Finally we have come to the most significant list of my Favorites Of The Year. It's true that I watched more movies than I read books these days so naturally the list is even longer and bigger than the list for my favorite books. It was tough for me to decide on which movies should be put into the list and which should stay out. What with the ( Read more... )

I've concluded my participation in this year's French Cinema Festival. Despite my troubles with it, I am happy to be able to watch the film. Thanks to odayski and arancia, my French films-watching comrades who always make any movie experience wonderful.

Here are my short reviews of the films I watched...

( L'exercice de l'État )

Here comes the weekend and, with it, along comes a series of events that are going to dominate my Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

If you've been watching my LJ for a long time, you'd know that I usually write about the Festival in the spring or early summer. In the past, the Festival was held in March or April. But this year, the Festival adopted a ( Read more... )

Today was my second screening of a Europe on Screen Festival film and naturally it was the one with my favorite French-speaking actress, Cécile De France. The Kid With A Bike (or Le gamin au vélo) also stars young Thomas Doret as the boy in the lead and Jérémie Renier as his father. (This is the second time this week I saw Renier, by the way. A ( Read more... )

Oh my god. Thursdays. WHAT IS IT WITH THEM? Last week's Thursday was a fiasco. This week's a catastrophe.

( My Thursday woes )