Archive for July 14th, 2010
By Johnny Rollerfeet's Echo Chamber - Last updated: Wednesday, July 14, 2010
These are my DVD and Blu-Ray picks that are getting released this week.
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Terribly Happy
– This Danish movie is commonly and understandably compared to Blood Simple, and it is truly just as disturbingly well-crafted. I bet I buy it again someday on Blu-Ray, hopefully from Criterion.
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Insomnia – It’s embarrassing that I haven’t seen this, but I’m intrigued that they changed the packaging to feature Al Pacino instead of Robin Williams. Added to queue.
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Greenberg – Will the cover — specially designed to counter the downer-buzz of the theatrical release — with the EXTREMELY LARGE font saying “EXTREMELY ENTERTAINING” cause people to forget this is a Baumbach movie? (I’m not being fair. I haven’t seen it because I’m not ready for another soul-crushing Baumbach movie.)
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Chloe – This weekly post is turning into “here are the movies I missed”. Some people loved this movie, most hated it, but a naked Amanda Seyfried is all I need to know to buy it.
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Greatest – I have no memory of this movie ever coming out, but I have such a crush on Carey Mulligan’s talent that I will have to see this.
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In Bruges – A great movie, but I don’t know why it needed the upgrade to HD.
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Assault on Precinct 13 – This is the 2005 version (with Ethan Hawke and Laurence Fishburne) which got 60% on Rotten Tomatoes. I liked it ok, but I hear it’s not as good as the original 1976 version directed by John Carpenter, which has a 75% on RT.
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America the Beautiful
– I’ve been in a lot of conversations about body image and the media lately — mainly because of feministfrequency’s latest video, with which I take some issue — so I’m intrigued by this “acclaimed” documentary.
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Artois the Goat
– Nerd/internet fan favorite Stephen Fry co-stars in this comedy which had a lot of good festival buzz, so I’ll add it to my queue.
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Don’t You Forget About Me
– (No, really, I should call this post “so many movies I never got around to seeing.”) Is it a recent fad of documentaries to turn from a popular subject — John Hughes, in this case — to the obsessive fans of the implied title? Queue, added.
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The Girl By the Lake
– The Amazon description says “… swept Italy’s Academy Awards, won the Venice Film Festival s top acting prize…” so I’m intrigued.
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The Scarf
– Should I feel bad making light of what I see as overt ridicule-attracting Christianity? (Particularly when I consider myself to be a Christian?) Check out this synopsis: Produced in 2009, this new feature length film is a Faith [note their capitalization of the word] based sci-fi drama is about two high school friends Daniella and Krista who are assigned to a science project on UFO’s. While working together on research, their minds and imagination are stretched farther than their teacher could have ever foreseen. With an over-obsessive drive to gain attention and a good grade, Daniella starts to believe she is connected with a UFO and the spirited powers of her aunt. This project soon threatens to tear apart her friendships, family and even her own life. But in the end it is the power of prayer and the lesson that God never leaves you that saves her from the unknown. Wha?!?
