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osprey_archer) wrote2018-07-03 09:13 am
osprey_archer) wrote2018-07-03 09:13 am
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June Movies
A list of movies I saw in June that I haven’t already posted about:
Ocean’s 8! It was super fun in a popcorn action heist kind of way: the twists of the heist plot, the thrill of let’s-get-the-team-together, the glitz of the Met Gala, even the team’s weirdly cozy warehouse den where they hang out together. Also, Lou and Debbie were totally dating at one point, am I right? Possibly not during the movie itself, but definitely at some point in the past.
But I must admit that the thing I found most exciting about this movie-watching experience was seeing the posters for Debra Granik’s new movie Leave No Trace in the lobby. I LOVED her movie Winter’s Bone - it’s one of my all-time favorites - and this is her first feature film since then and I AM SO EXCITED.
The Incredibles 2, which Julie and I went to see on its opening Friday (“I’ve been waiting half my life for this,” Julie commented, and upon reflection I realized that this was literally true), and it was lots of fun, although fourteen years still seems like an excessively long time to make a sequel.
But it was “Bao,” the short film at the beginning, that really stole my heart. I’ve noticed this with other Pixar shorts: they have more room to be creative and experimental and delightfully weird (a dumpling who turns into a baby!) and I really enjoy that.
In the Loop. I loved Armando Ianucci’s The Death of Stalin so much that I just had to get a hold of one of his earlier movies, and this is the one I got. It’s about the lead-up to the Iraq War in 2003 - although, unlike The Death of Stalin, its ties to history seem fairly loose, possibly because otherwise Ianucci could hardly have avoided a libel suit.
It’s still funny in places, but I found it generally more painful to watch than The Death of Stalin - maybe because it’s so much closer to me, both temporally and geographically. The Anglo-American alliance may not have bumbled into war in precisely this manner, but the stubborn insistence that we had to go to war and facts be damned seems about right.
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Because of the Fourth of July, I’ve decided that my July project theme will be American History Movies. I’m planning to watch Iron Jawed Angels, Dee Rees’s Mudbound (which the tumblr I follow about women film directors, Fuck Yeah Women Film Directors, is absolutely gaga about this film. I highly recommend that tumblr if you’re interested in women film directors, btw, it showcases a wonderful range of movies), Ava Duvernay’s Selma, the 1994 Little Women... and that’s probably more than enough to be getting on with, given that I will be spending much of the first half of the month at a cabin with no way to watch movies.
Ocean’s 8! It was super fun in a popcorn action heist kind of way: the twists of the heist plot, the thrill of let’s-get-the-team-together, the glitz of the Met Gala, even the team’s weirdly cozy warehouse den where they hang out together. Also, Lou and Debbie were totally dating at one point, am I right? Possibly not during the movie itself, but definitely at some point in the past.
But I must admit that the thing I found most exciting about this movie-watching experience was seeing the posters for Debra Granik’s new movie Leave No Trace in the lobby. I LOVED her movie Winter’s Bone - it’s one of my all-time favorites - and this is her first feature film since then and I AM SO EXCITED.
The Incredibles 2, which Julie and I went to see on its opening Friday (“I’ve been waiting half my life for this,” Julie commented, and upon reflection I realized that this was literally true), and it was lots of fun, although fourteen years still seems like an excessively long time to make a sequel.
But it was “Bao,” the short film at the beginning, that really stole my heart. I’ve noticed this with other Pixar shorts: they have more room to be creative and experimental and delightfully weird (a dumpling who turns into a baby!) and I really enjoy that.
In the Loop. I loved Armando Ianucci’s The Death of Stalin so much that I just had to get a hold of one of his earlier movies, and this is the one I got. It’s about the lead-up to the Iraq War in 2003 - although, unlike The Death of Stalin, its ties to history seem fairly loose, possibly because otherwise Ianucci could hardly have avoided a libel suit.
It’s still funny in places, but I found it generally more painful to watch than The Death of Stalin - maybe because it’s so much closer to me, both temporally and geographically. The Anglo-American alliance may not have bumbled into war in precisely this manner, but the stubborn insistence that we had to go to war and facts be damned seems about right.
***
Because of the Fourth of July, I’ve decided that my July project theme will be American History Movies. I’m planning to watch Iron Jawed Angels, Dee Rees’s Mudbound (which the tumblr I follow about women film directors, Fuck Yeah Women Film Directors, is absolutely gaga about this film. I highly recommend that tumblr if you’re interested in women film directors, btw, it showcases a wonderful range of movies), Ava Duvernay’s Selma, the 1994 Little Women... and that’s probably more than enough to be getting on with, given that I will be spending much of the first half of the month at a cabin with no way to watch movies.