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Comment by wiffledust on October 26, 2011 at 12:38am

here it is...trailer for "margin call". i've heard this is one of the best ways to understand the banking mess...

Comment by wiffledust on October 26, 2011 at 12:37am

i really want to see "margin call" with kevin spacey. is it out yet? has anyone seen it?  i'm going to get some info

Comment by wiffledust on October 23, 2011 at 11:56am

i saw a movie that i hadn't seen in decades. and i just loved it. "Yanks" with Lisa Eichorn, Richard Gere, William Devane, and Vanessa Redgrave. keep in mind, i am a hopeless romantic, so put some well-developed characters in the english countryside in WWII, and i'm pretty much gone already. the acting is very good. what i like about this simple story is that it's adult, mature, simple, but not silly. so many romances now are about adults who act like 14 year olds. this is a simple love story about an american soldier and an english young woman showing the complexities and human emotions that come out of the everyday world of a very dramatic time. there's no suspense. there's nothing radical about the movie. but it's very human and tender, and it just does your heart good.

Comment by wiffledust on October 16, 2011 at 3:16pm

i just watched the dvd of carrie fisher's one woman show "wishful drinking". i have always enjoyed carrie's writing, and i wanted to see what she did with this as a show. it was very entertaining. it reminded me more of her writing than a comic performance, but it was fun nonetheless. we all know what a wild ride her life has been, but it was pretty fascinating to hear it told all at once like this. carrie has lived through the glam of hollywood, the highs and lows of iconic parents, the fame of star wars, her drug and alcohol addictions, the intensity of a big love and marriage with paul simon, her writing and acting career, and a case of bipolar disorder that has given her an amazingly difficult challenge in life. i found this piece to be more of an incredible tribute to the human spirit than a piece of comedy, although it's very witty. humans can not only live through just about anything, but they can survive and be amazingly creative after it all. there is a special segment with debbie reynolds after the show in the special features. debbie is one of my favorite actresses from her time period. this is quite a glimpse into what it is to be such a creative and free thinking mother of a gifted and troubled daughter. a look into debbie that we don't see that often. there's aot of love there. i recommend this as a reminder of what we're all capable of. :-)

Comment by wiffledust on October 9, 2011 at 5:30pm

i just saw "public speaking" which was martin scorcese putting a camera on fran lebowitz in several settings where she simply speaks.  it was excellent. fran mumbles a little, but other than that, i highly recommend it to anyone on this site, because she makes such excellent statements about writing, culture, intellectualism, new york, the arts....she is a creative and independent thinker. i haven't seen anything this fresh in ages. "when i was a child it was called talking back, now it's called public speaking" she says. watch it!

Comment by wiffledust on October 7, 2011 at 1:45pm

cool, katie. i haven't even heard of it. great to konw! i love nanny mcphee. ...this isn't a movie, but i finally saw "curb your enthusiasm", something everyone else knows but me. very funny creative stuff from larry david. seinfeld silliness but i kinda liked it better than seinfeld, because he's the butt of his own jokes. i saw it on dvd, so i figured it kind of counted! :-)

Comment by katie o on October 2, 2011 at 3:12pm

Happy Potter!!! LOL (and the P and the R aren't even close to each other on the keyboard!)

Comment by katie o on October 2, 2011 at 3:07pm

I watched "Taking Woodstock" last night. It was just what I needed. The comedian Dmitri Martin stars in this as a kid who feels obligated to his parents and his town. He manages to get Woodstock to come to his town and as you can imagine it made him a hero to some and a villain to others. It's really pretty sweet and there are many touching moments in it. The mom is Imelda Staunton who was in Happy Potter, Vera Drake and Nanny McPhee and she is amazing in her role. I was too young to go to Woodstock but thanks to movies like this one we can imagine what the vibe was like. It's pretty impressive. As I hear about kids who are now taking over Seattle's Westlake Center, 22 slept there overnight last night, it reminded me that there are *things* that are much more comforting than *things*. Humanity, art, music, and love are far more important than the stuff I find myself stressing out about these days.

Comment by wiffledust on October 2, 2011 at 2:59pm

katie, i focused on how true it is. it's also well-acted, a good story, and with alot of endearing moments. mainly i think it's trying to show the inside of a world people don't see. i honestly would have thought it was way blown out of proportion if i didn't know it for a fact to be true right down to the letter.

Comment by katie o on October 2, 2011 at 2:58pm

I have been wanting to watch The Nanny Diaries" and now I definitely will!

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