who's for the movies?

[winterbadger]

I missed a *lot* of films that I wanted to see in the theatre in the last couple of years through in attention. I'd like to try and fix that. Some of the movies in release right now I'd like to catch include the following. Who's up for a show?

Definitely
The Painted Veil
Venus
The Good Shepherd
Letters From Iwo Jima
Blood Diamond
The Last King of Scotland (yes, I do know it's not about Scotland :-)

Maybe
Children of Men
Volver
Casino Royale (again)
The Pursuit of Happyness
The Queen (again)

on video
Flushed Away
Flags of Our Fathers (since I missed it in theatrical release)

Comments

[carolinab.livejournal.com]

Go see The Painted Veil. Go. Go today. Although I don't know your taste in movies so maybe it's not your style but it's worth seeing just for the starring role that China's landscape plays in it.

And Volver was also very good but I'm a sucker for Almodovar and the gorgeousness that is Penelope Cruz.

[winterbadger]

Well, you can get some sense of my taste in movies by what I chose to include (and exclude), and if you do Netflix you can get even more of a sense.

But I do want to see China's landscape, and the people are pretty good people, so I do plan on seeing it. (Less likely is my friend Nick who, though not lowbrow at all, remarked with disgust at how "the Emperor and the Assassin" seemed to be full of low, slow pans of countryside or scenes of stiff dialogue, but not much actual *action* (I guess the battles and sacking of cities wasn't actiony enough ;-)

I did like Penelope Cruz in 'All the Pretty Horses' and 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin'. She's quite beautiful despite (or somehow because of) having such a large nose!

[redactrice.livejournal.com]

I'm up for The Painted Veil, Venus (!!), The Last King of Scotland, and The Queen (if shy_kat wants to see it).

[winterbadger]

Yep, I added The Queen in specifically because I knew she was thinking she might like to see it.

[winterbadger]

What does your schedule look like, o work-encumbered one?