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District 9
I watched this movie last night because I'm going to be nominating Hugo awards and this seemed like a likely candidate for a nomination. It's a surprisingly good science fiction movie. I found it very unpleasant to watch because of all the violence, so I only gave it two stars at netflix, but really, Hollywood [...]
Coco before Chanel
The big disappointment in this movie was that I didn't really enjoy looking at the clothes. This defect is inherent in one of the good qualities of the movie -- it's about the period in Coco Chanel's life when she's looking at all the clothes around her and hating them and thinking she could do [...]
Bright Star
This is one of the best movies I've ever seen about a poet. The people who make movies in general do better with composers -- you're going to need background music anyway. You can actually have background poetry in some cases, as the reading of Ode to a Nightingale over the closing credits of this [...]
Sent a movie back unwatched
I don't usually do that, and it's not that it's a terrible movie. It's called Hands over the City.It's about urban development politics, which I expected to be interested in, but in this case I just wasn't. I tried twice, and I just couldn't get interested in any of the characters enough to even recognize [...]
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
I read Tom Stoppard's play in college, and had never had a chance to see it, so I put this movie on my Netflix Watch Now queue when I noticed it. It's directed by Stoppard himself, and has a cast with some notable stars in it. It was one of the high points of that [...]
Lohengrin at Bayreuth
I enjoyed this DVD quite a lot, although it's probably a bit long to be a good introduction to Wagner if you don't already know you want to watch him. With my memory refreshed on my previous viewing of the opera by my post last Monday, I could see that the Bayreuth organization and Werner [...]
Kolya
This movie is set in Prague in 1988 at the end of the communist regime. It’s a heart-warming look at the effect of politics on personal relationships. It’s the European kind of good movie, with subways that look like subways and apartments of starving musicians that don’t look like Hollywood sets. I particularly enjoyed the [...]
Julie and Julia (the movie)
The movie was more fun than the book. Or to be more precise, the movie is based on two books, and probably the one about Julia Child was more fun than the one about Julie Powell. My favorite scene was the one where Julia has just started at the Cordon Bleu cooking school and she's [...]
Disclosure
Last October, there was a ruling from the FTC that proposed hefty fines for bloggers who fail to disclose "compensation" for their reviews. It's described in indignant detail on the Teleread blog. I've been ignoring that ruling. It certainly doesn't apply directly to me. I'm not organized enough to ask for free copies of the [...]
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