Recent Movies

Some movies that I have seen in the past couple of weeks are:

Hitchhicker's Guide to the Galaxy was a little funny and a little fun. I have never read the books, but I did still enjoy it. Sam Rockwell was outright hysterical at times.

Unleashed was also a good time. It isn't quite as much fun as Kiss of the Dragon, but it has some really good fight scenes, and Morgan Freeman is refreshingly light and upbeat.

Gloomy Sunday - Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod - was very good. This film was actually released about five years ago in Germany and the rest of Europe, but finally worked its way to the U.S. through a little film company called Menemsha Films. It has had super long runs at theatres in New York, L.A. and Boston. It didn't fare so well here, but that is more than likely the cause of a complete lack of advertising on the part of Marcus. The Jewish Film Festival was able to sell out their shows of it in November? when we had it at North Shore, but the crowds when we had it for a run were just small and steady. Anyway, the movie centers around a woman (Erika Marozsán, the two men she is in love with (Joachim Król, Stefano Dionisi) and a Nazi officer who will do almost anything to be with her (Ben Becker). This movie, like the song it is named after (known in Europe as the Suicide song because of all the people who killed themselves while listening to it) has many tragic and emotionally involving moments throughout. The movie, while being a German film production, has just about everything Hollywood movies have forgotten they need in order to be a well rounded movie experience. I suggest that anyone who has the chance to see this movie should do so as soon as possible. It isn't life altering in any way, but it is a really good film.

The Dreamers. Now, there's not a whole lot I can say about this movie. I liked it, its very weird, somewhat sickening/disturbing and through all of that, just a little redeeming (in a very, very weird and sick way). The story revolves around a college age American male (Michael Pitt) who moves to Paris to study French during the Vietnam War, but ends up spending all of his time in the local Cinema. There he meets a brother and sister (Eva Green, Louis Garrel) who take him into their lives. However, their lives do not end up being as wholesome as they originally seemed to be and the rest of the movie is a constant test of the viewers sense of morality and their ability to distinguish between real life and a fictitious film. One really great thing about this movie is that throughout it, the three 'Friends' imitate old movies, which is very cool and well done (selling Newspapers on the Champs Elysees ala Breathless).