I had very low expectations going in that were exceeded, even if it was not the best movie in the whole.
My wife and I just saw a film called The Rescue, about the effort to rescue the Thai soccer team trapped in a cave. It's by the people who produced Free Solo, and it concentrates on the efforts of the British cave divers, and the Australian physician. Highly recommended!
The last film I saw in a theater was Bohemian Rhapsody in 2019. Prior to that, I saw Yellow Submarine when it made a brief appearance in 2018 for its 50th (!!) anniversary.
My next theater visit will be on Friday to see Todd Haynes’ Velvet Underground documentary. First time in two years, but I wouldn’t miss this one for anything.
Saw that in an IMAX theater, and it was totally worth it. Seen the Apollo crawler carrying the complete Apollo 11 rocket stack on a giant IMAX screen was truly awe inspiring.
Dune this week, my first since before the pandemic, I didn’t like it, but the visuals are spectacular. And funny enough it was a free industry screening at the Director’s Guild. The previous one was Once Upon A Time in Hollywood which I loved.
Oasis: Knebworth 1996 It was a one night showing a few weeks back. Not a huge fan of the band, but overall, a very good documentary/live show.
Amazing footage to see in IMAX after more than fifty years watching a little black and white tv in our den when actual Apollo 11 left the pad at Cape Canaveral!
Tonight we saw Becoming Cousteau. To be honest, the film can easily wait to be seen on television, but because of our A*List subscription... why not?
GoodFellas last week (first movie in a theater since March 2020). No Time to Die yesterday. The Last Duel today. Great to be back!
Saw this via streaming; it was utterly engrossing! Some of the footage was amazing - although I did notice in the credits that some of it was re-staged with the real participants after the fact.
I was impressed with how much pre-fame footage the filmmakers got their hands on. That alone is worth seeing this for.
Dune (2021) I thought this was great - a true visual feast. But I feel like it didn’t cover enough of the story, and left me wanting more. (Which I guess is the point with most films these days - everything has to be a franchise.) Fantastic cast: Oscar Isaac and Timotheé Chalamet were totally believable as father and son - even Javier Bardem had a small role! I recognized him by his voice at first!
I had absolutely no problem with that, given that that's the only way they had to tell the story. While it was all actually happening, the most important thing was saving lives, not getting good footage.
Aren't there like 900 plus Dune books now, between the Frank Herbert original ones and all the "inspired by" sequels?
Finally went back to the theater yesterday after 3 months. I saw The French Dispatch, which was very compelling stylistically, especially visually. I enjoyed the first two short stories, but would have enjoyed the film as a whole a lot more without the third. I don’t know if the third story was a lot weaker than the first two, or if by the the time the third story came around I’d just had enough. It was good to see Adrien Brody. Where the heck has he been in recent years?
Last Night in Soho I went in blind except knowing it was Edgar Wright whose films I always enjoy and loved it. Great soundtrack and sound too.
