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PFF & Cinefest09- Day 7
As per PFF & Cinefest09- Day 2 Post, learning Visual Basic is ruining my life! Normally during the festival I like to average at least two films a day, but with my semester drawing to a close, I unfortunately have to balance my movie viewing and reviewing with coding and pulling out of hair! So my one movie pick for Day 7 was I Sell the Dead (USA), highly recommended by Danger After Dark festival curator, Lewis Tice. This story of 18th Century grave robbers features Dominic Monahan (Lost, Lord of the Rings) always a perfect choice for anything otherworldly. I’ve always imagined grave robbing had to do with stealing…
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The Reader
The love story between Hanna and 15 year old Michael (David Kross) is neither heart wrenching true love, nor seedy, illicit sex. There coming together seems organic and idyllic. Eagerly, he comes to her after school, excited to please her with a new novel and energetic love-making...
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Notorious
Unless you were living under a rock, you knew about the whole East Coast/ West Coast feud, but to tell you the truth, I wasn't sure if Tupac died before Biggie or after. (It's before). Again, I can't comment on whether the story told leading up to both of their deaths, seemed legitimate...
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The Wrestler
Part of this year's buzz highlights Mickey Rourke's come back performance and Marisa Tomei's hot, 40 year old, nude body.The former is worth the hubbub - Rourke is truly living this role! The latter is a bit overrated - the poor woman is emaciated in this film. No. Don't go assuming I'm a Mo' Nique that hates "Skinny Bitches"...
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Revolutionary Road
April (Kate Winslet), once an aspiring actress and Frank (Leonardo DiCaprio) once an aspiring dreamer, marry and unwittingly fall into the American Dream. We come to understand they thought they'd be able to do it better; you know the whole 2.5 kids, nice home, nice neighbors, homemaking, safe job etc... That somehow the settling down thing would look different on them...
