This week i saw three movies in three different commercial cinemas in three days. Don't know that i've ever done that before, certainly not for a long long time.
Tuesday was factory girl with jessica, about which i've already written. Wednesday was blood diamond, which i saw with kelly, beth and sherin. Good movie, heart in the right place, maybe didn't live up to the hype. Emotionally manipulative, fairly implausible at times (man it's lucky that our leading men are so good at dodging bullets - both of them; and those journalists sure ended up in the middle of a lot of gunfire fights), but a well told important story of a horrific and brutal situation in africa that is humanity's shame (or should be). Last night was pan's labyrinth with dawn. First rate film in some ways, but i must say it was emphatically NOT for dawn - jqln, wish you and jeffrey had been able to join: you definitely were the folks to see this flick with. Dawn is fab, but this was a graphic film with very very brutal subject matter (fascist spain in 1944) and she is more about looking at the positive side of things. The design work was bitchen, as were the fx and makeup. And del Toro paints the screen and tells the story quite well, just with many intentionally cringe-inducing moments.
Along the way i got a new hairdo, and beth and i sent a message to one of our college theater advisors in honor of her 70th:
Happy Birthday Leila!
Finished matthew pearl's the dante club today. Worthwhile read in the historical fiction/mystery vein. Will discuss it with lori's book club in a week and change; looking forward to the discussion.
Finally broke down and started sending out dayjob resumes. Well, hell. And of course several auditions - a shakespeare-heavy week, replete with interesting convos with other actors. Now that's some work i want to be back on the inside of: x your fingers that one of the shakespeare festivals hooks me up in the next season or two.
Tonight, i'm watching yet another movie, but this one on dvd solo at home (kelly rolled out this p.m. after another extended audition visit) - the unbelievable truth. This will be the first time i've watched adrienne since, well, you know...
Friday, February 09, 2007
Movie Week
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...but does it really count as a hairdo, if there's no "hair" to "do?"
ah but I love it. and so excited for my wealth of shows coming up:
- quartet tonight
- Journey's End tomorrow afternoon
- Ligeti @ Joyce tomorrow night
- A Chorus Line on Tuesday
so that covers music, dance, and Broadway, both straight and musical. and i'm not paying full price for any of them, most of them nowhere near full price. now that's success, if you ask me.
looking forward to tonight - and i will totally join you for that party.
oh and about Pan's Labyrinth - I've heard such great stuff about it, and I love visually exciting things, but when it gets into gutwrenching disgusting/gory/scary/oozy any art loses its touch on me... so i've been hesitant.
Good full plate for you - and we have to come up with something fun for v-day! There's a 'selected shorts' reading about falling in love or some such, but i'm thinking maybe we should go for something altogether non-romantic...
If you're free today, i'm about to hit the dance marathon/rally in madison square park, and then the robert moses exhibition at museum of the city of new york. Wanna go?
hey, nice 'do. and yes, i consider it a 'do because the prerequisite for having any hairstyle is to first have hair, and by altering it (by shaving it), he did something to it. if he didn't grow hair, then it wouldn't qualify as a 'do.
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