Kind of a weak year. More on that below.

TOP TEN NEW MOVIES I SAW IN 2010:

• 10. Mother (Bong Joon-ho)
  
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I have been neglecting livejournal lately. Twitter has taken over as my outlet for quick thoughts/comments/updates (turns out limiting myself to 140 characters makes me feel less indulgent about recording what I did today). Facebook has taken over as my outlet for link-sharing and connecting with friends. And I just started a brand new blog, No ( Read more... )

Two mornings in a row I've woke up with the chanting opening to "Now We Can See" by the Thermals stuck in my head.

"Whoa ay oh, whoa,
Whoa ay oh, whoa,
Whoa ay oh, whoa oh..."Yesterday's dreams were intense and surreal, but I chose to sleep in rather than try and explain them. This morning I got up so early (by which I mean, after only five and a ( Read more... )

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Straight-up bitching follows. You were warned ( Read more... )

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I gotta get some sleep. I'm tired.

So I finished Vertigo and I'm beginning to wonder about Hitchcock. Vertigo is still easily one of my favorites, but now that I have a much more refined sense of the grammar and vocabulary of that era of filmmaking, I am starting to see Hitch as the world's worst pacer of film. He doesn't know when or how to ( Read more... )

I just watched it again for the second time and I loved more than I did the first time. Now: how the hell did The Prestige not win best adapted screenplay? I mean, I liked The Departed a whole lot, but... after rewatching this...

ETA: Wait... it didn't even get a nomination? That is bullshit.

By the way, I think The Prestige may have been totally awesome. At first I just thought it was really good, with end-of-Victorian-Era magicians warring with each other in a story where my gut instinct was, it's moving too fast. But the more I think about this film the more I keeping coming back to, "Damn, that was good. That was so cool when he ( Read more... )