Odds and ends
I just wanted to let you all know that I'll be voting against John Roberts in the upcoming election because...what? Oh--dammit. Well, I just have one thing to say about him anyway--he's not really that funny. A lot of his assholic statements like "questioning 'whether encouraging homemakers to become lawyers contributes to the common good,'" or calling a young Girl Scout selling cookies a "little huckster" have been brushed off as humorously colorful additions to the inevitable dullness of governmental inter-office memos and briefs. I'm sorry, maybe my sense of humor atrophies in the presence of cutting conservative banter, but it's not so much that I disagree with the content of these stabs at wittiness (though I do), but that there's just nothing that strikes me as being funny or even amusing, no matter the viewpoint.
The guy's a jerk--that doesn't disqualify him--so was Oliver Wendell Holmes--but let's call a spade a spade. John Roberts = assface.
Moving on, these are films that I'm disappointed that I probably will miss when I'm gone in Scotland (T minus 5 days now)--I expect you to see them for me:
G: a 'hip-hop remix of The Great Gatsby, set in the Hamptons.' Out Sept. 16
Capote: a biopic starring the man who first used the word "shart" in a sentence, Philip Seymour Hoffman. Out Sept. 30th.
Where the Truth Lies: The new Atom Egoyan film. Also, see "A History of Violence," the new Cronenberg film. Out Oct. 14th and Sept. 30th respectively.
Get Rich or Die Tryin': Just when I'm about to laugh at the fact that 50 Cent is in--no, wait, starring in--a movie, I check the director byline--Jim Sheridan, director of "My Left Foot," "In America," and "In the Name of the Father." Could this possibly end well? I really don't know. Out Nov. 9th
Walk the Line: Come on, this is going to be so awesome. Out Nov. 18th
Pride and Prejudice: Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet--this is effectively God saying to me, "Andrew, there is still hope left in the world." I say, "Thank you, God." Out Nov. 18th
Memoirs of a Geisha: Zhang Ziyi in, well anything, also falls under the class "godsend." I'm particularly hoping someone will see this for me so that if it is, like "The English Patient," both Oscar- and cringe-worthy, I won't have to actually see it myself. Out Dec. 9th
Thank God I'll be home for the new Woody Allen film.
Went to see 2046 and Saraband yesterday--back-to-back. It was intense, but well worth it.
2046 was not as good as i had hoped it would be, but not nearly as bad as I feared it would be.
And Ingmar Bergman is really old.
The guy's a jerk--that doesn't disqualify him--so was Oliver Wendell Holmes--but let's call a spade a spade. John Roberts = assface.
Moving on, these are films that I'm disappointed that I probably will miss when I'm gone in Scotland (T minus 5 days now)--I expect you to see them for me:
G: a 'hip-hop remix of The Great Gatsby, set in the Hamptons.' Out Sept. 16
Capote: a biopic starring the man who first used the word "shart" in a sentence, Philip Seymour Hoffman. Out Sept. 30th.
Where the Truth Lies: The new Atom Egoyan film. Also, see "A History of Violence," the new Cronenberg film. Out Oct. 14th and Sept. 30th respectively.
Get Rich or Die Tryin': Just when I'm about to laugh at the fact that 50 Cent is in--no, wait, starring in--a movie, I check the director byline--Jim Sheridan, director of "My Left Foot," "In America," and "In the Name of the Father." Could this possibly end well? I really don't know. Out Nov. 9th
Walk the Line: Come on, this is going to be so awesome. Out Nov. 18th
Pride and Prejudice: Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet--this is effectively God saying to me, "Andrew, there is still hope left in the world." I say, "Thank you, God." Out Nov. 18th
Memoirs of a Geisha: Zhang Ziyi in, well anything, also falls under the class "godsend." I'm particularly hoping someone will see this for me so that if it is, like "The English Patient," both Oscar- and cringe-worthy, I won't have to actually see it myself. Out Dec. 9th
Thank God I'll be home for the new Woody Allen film.
Went to see 2046 and Saraband yesterday--back-to-back. It was intense, but well worth it.
2046 was not as good as i had hoped it would be, but not nearly as bad as I feared it would be.
And Ingmar Bergman is really old.