… While watching Woody Allen’s latest film, Midnight in Paris, you may feel as though you’re getting a forbidden peek at your college English professor’s dreams. Would-be writer Gil (Owen Wilson, inexplicably—but quite effectively—serving as the stand-in for Allen) travels to Paris with his insufferable fiancée (Rachel McAdams) and winds up, owing to some unexplained [...]
All posts for the month June, 2011
Midnight in Paris
Posted by Kathleen on June 30, 2011
http://diaryofafuturegoldengirl.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/midnight-in-paris/
Goldengrove
Margaret, are you grieving / Over Goldengrove unleaving? Nico, the thoughtful narrator of Francine Prose’s novel Goldengrove, is 13 when her beautiful, talented 17-year-old sister, Margaret, drowns in the lake behind their parents’ home. Still chubby, worshipful, and unsure of herself when Margaret takes what turns out to be her final plunge into that peaceful lake, Nico [...]
Posted by Kathleen on June 27, 2011
http://diaryofafuturegoldengirl.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/goldengrove/
Stuff Moms Like: The Killing
… My mom and I both watch “The Killing”—and last night we made a point of watching the finale together—but I think that, at this juncture, we both have very different feelings about it. It’s the kind of show that started out great: it had a compelling marketing campaign, and it began airing just when [...]
Posted by Kathleen on June 20, 2011
http://diaryofafuturegoldengirl.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/stuff-moms-like-the-killing/
Super 8
… Super 8 is, as the title suggests, a movie about moviemaking. It is a coming-of-age story and monster movie all wrapped into one, with tender moments and extreme explosions in equal measure. It is a paean to the youthful enthusiasm for Super 8 cameras that, clearly, defined the developmental years of both writer/director J.J. [...]
Posted by Kathleen on June 15, 2011
http://diaryofafuturegoldengirl.wordpress.com/2011/06/15/super-8/
