The first time i saw that was as an in-flight movie coming back from Canada one time.
The "trying to crash the car into the tree" scene was the only time in 35-odd years of flying I've ever heard everyone on board a plane laugh out loud at the same time...
I guess now is not the time to mention I've just finished all 10 hours of Krystof Kieslowski's Dekalog? Superb film-making and moving story telling (and much, much better than Three Colours...).
If there are any grumbles, it's that "One" is the best of the lot (9.3), which sets the bar and the...
The Filth and the Fury
The perfect antidote to anything. Lots of swearing, loud punk music, and Sid Vicious behaving like a total cock.
Marvellous
8.8
Almost as good as Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten (8.9)
Plan 9 From Outer Space
I'm always a bit nervous of films that are "so bad they're actually quite good", but this one lived perfectly up to expectations.
Yes, the cardboard cemetery headstones wobble every time sometime kicks one. You can see the shadows of the scenery on the studio wall...
The Darjeeling Express
Enjoyable tale of three estranged brothers finding themselves on a trip through India. Probably conveys the spirit of what India is really like better than any other western-made movie I've ever seen (you can keep your Gandhis and Passages to India).
It's filmed with...
You've read all the reports on these above, so I'll just say:
Juno 8.2
No Country for Old Men 8.4
The Lives of Others 8.5
All in all a very satisfying weekend of movies.
www.oscar.com/nominees/index?pn=index# :
Cate Blanchett for Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie for Away From Her
Marion Cotillard for La Vie en Rose
Laura Linney for The Savages
Ellen Page for Juno
I'd like to see Marion Cotillard win it, but they'll never give it to her becasue she's a...
La Vie en Rose
Tremendous and very moving biopic of Edith Piaf containing something for everyone: sex, drugs, wife-beating, murder, teenage pregnacy, plane crashes, terminal diseases... oh, and a few songs too. You name it...
And it's all true.
Marian Cotillaud is a tour de force and very...