… 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 [...]
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Midnight in Paris
Posted by Kathleen on June 30, 2011
http://diaryofafuturegoldengirl.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/midnight-in-paris/
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/
Exit Through the Gift Shop
… Exit Through the Gift Shop is, ostensibly, a documentary about the rising phenomenon of street art—and, in particular, the street art of the mysterious Banksy. At least, that’s how the film begins; where it ends is, in fact, in a much different place. Rather than the story of the notoriously secretive Banksy, we instead get [...]
Posted by Kathleen on May 19, 2011
http://diaryofafuturegoldengirl.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/exit-through-the-gift-shop/
Jane Eyre
Depending on how you look at it, I am either the worst or the best possible reviewer for a film adaption of Jane Eyre. Consider the facts: It’s my favorite book of all time. I’ve read it over and over again, sometimes in an academic context. I’m irrationally defensive of it, and in fact take it [...]
Posted by Kathleen on April 19, 2011
http://diaryofafuturegoldengirl.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/jane-eyre/
Temple Grandin
This week I finally got to watch Temple Grandin, the HBO biopic starring Claire Danes. It was, if I may resort to using an unimaginative pun, simply grand-in. I highly recommend it to anyone who classifies him- or herself as a human. The story is touching, amazing, and presented in a very sensitive way. [...]
Posted by Kathleen on March 31, 2011
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