Comments on This Weekend at the Movies

Am I missing notification of the two PETER GREENAWAY films at Northwest Film Forum?

This is coincidental because in an earlier comment this week I mentioned how much I liked his stuff. It's always good to revisit old tastes and see if they match up to the present. I expect these to hold up, unlike Slacker which blew my mind when it came out, and then seeing it ten years later, it seemed a bit trite.

You can always go see some Keifer Sutherland movie as well, and then make fun of it later.

Lastly, I'm still waiting to hear back from Jonah if whether we're filming tomorrow at the Food Bank. Maybe my voicemail got erased?

I'd go for the Chaplin.

That or the two Italian movies that Cinema Seattle is showing at the SIFF Theater next to the Festa Italia this weekend.

Speaking of slackers, I quite enjoyed Reaper - the only good show on CW now (man, it's a desert on that channel ...)

sticking up for paris: this isn't really common at all. it's the display window of a shop called Noir Kennedy, in the Marais, a place that sells Cheap Mondays. so there.

I only look at pictures on slog...and I have to say: rats ewww! hehe. just kidding. I look at words sometimes, but still rats ewww!

Kiley really gets it wrong about Penn & "Into The Wild." The recent revised addition to the Krakauer book, and a Men's Journal piece indicate new material on the specifics of Chris' death, still I think the director makes clear the costs of going it alone.

I grew up in Canada, and lived in the Canadian Rockies, where reading lit alone will give you an education in survival. I believe the film offered a clear contrast between what it is to quest with the help of others vs. alone without skills or supplies.

For my money, Into the Wild is one of the best movies of 2007 (and I've seen almost 300 so far this year). I can understand that it wasn't to Brendan Kiley's liking--to each his own, and all that--but I'm sorry he didn't get more out of it. I found it incredibly moving. Then again, I grew up in Alaska, and that may have colored my perceptions. Limbo and Grizzy Man aside, I can't say I've seen many films that have captured the state in all its terrible beauty quite so vividly.