Mad about Movies

by Mama

I love movies… it would take me a long time to sit down and write a list of all the movies I’ve enjoyed in the last two decades. Films can at once portray a starking reflection of our own humanity and the altitude for humanity’s most incredible gift: creativity.

The more I watch films that are slightly less Hollywood, with atypical characters, imaginative settings, brilliant writing both poetic and absurd, the more enamored I am with films.

So I’d like to try something new by making Saturday a day I post about movies I have watched in the previous week, if I can even remember them all. If I have seen the movie before, but not posted about it, I will still include it in my synopsis each week, but with an * noting that it was not my first time (so you’ll know I might or might not have enjoyed its subsequent viewing, which is sometimes an entirely different experience.)

This week:

Evening- What a cast in this focus feature film I didn’t hear a thing about prior to picking it up on the shelf at the video rental store in this its dvd release week. It was a beautiful movie, with timeless wisdom about life, death, growing old, regret, motherhood, so on.

Knocked Up*- Still distastefully raunchy; Still flippin hilarious.

Black Book (or Zwartboek)- Oh man, this was an amazing movie. I loved the mystery/suspense “who dun it?” aspect, but everything about this movie was very very well done. Amazing actress! And I love the actor Sebastian Koch, who I just saw in another great film, The Lives of Others, a few weeks ago.

Drama/Mex- Try as I did, I didn’t really get much out of this movie. Kinda dark, confusing… I don’t know, can’t find the redeeming quality to its sordid characters I suppose.

I “Heart” Huckabees*- LOVE this movie, get’s better each time I see it. Nothing is meaningless, we are all connected. Ha! Gotta love it.

I welcome suggestions! More next Saturday…