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Cinequest Update for Thursday!
First of all, my friend Leslie tells me her cousin is the director of Full Grown Men and that we all should go see it. Full Grown Men was already on my calendar for Saturday at 3:45 - and there's a Star next to it so I know it's one I REALLY want to see. How could I not? It stars Alan Cumming! And Amy Sedaris! And Debbie Harry! ...So you should all go see it too! Next - I saw CatieCake at Cinequest! and Hubby-Andy! We watched the Shorts Program #2. I can't say I was overjoyed at the films... half were really good, but half were bad, and the last French movie was REALLY REALLY BAD. Like PLEASE GOUGE MY EYES OUT AND STAB ME IN THE NECK TO PUT ME OUT OF MY MISERY bad. My apologies to the filmmaker, but... No. It was torture. But we did get to see a movie about a couple who are a perfect fit as he sniffs the chair she sits on and she punches him. Rewind and Repeat. Over and over. Yes, you had to be there. Plus, after the movie about the alcoholic mother, and the one with the old guy in the laundromat who dreamed about war while staring at a young mother, and the kid who fell out of the sky when he was four and then lived in a crackhouse where everyone lived unhappily after... The chair sniffing couple was GREAT. I also saw Shorts Program #8, the Mexican Shorts. This was also a 50/50 category. There was a boring scary movie, a boring cartoon, a pretty good movie about a snail regarding cancer and AIDs and how people are connected and consequences and so forth, another boring, boring, boring... Okay, then finally we get to La Leche y el Agua, a touching fairytale. Mexico does great fairytale movies, that's for sure. Then there was a great funny one called Vecinos. And finally Volver, Volver. This one was okay, then got a little boring... but had a great payoff at the end. So the program was not a total loss, but besides those 3-4 that I liked the others were just okay. At least I can say there was no tortuous French movie here (obviously). Back to that French movie that I'm just not going to get over for a while... The entire thing was shot out of focus! So... bore us to tears with some drawn out nonsensical too politically deep story line that I never followed at any moment in the film, and then make sure to never quite hit that focus switch too. Death to French ferris wheels, that's what I have to say. I just re-read this post and it obviously makes no sense at all if you haven't seen these movies. That's okay, "It's my blog and I'll blog if I want to." I just didn't have a lot to say about these shorts. Tomorrow on the schedule: Mas Que Nada en el Mundo and All the Days Before Tomorrow. Both look really really good, and if you click on the link for All the Days you can see a trailer, which also looks really good. Starring Alexandra Holden, who I kind of like a lot. We shall see! And now to bed so I can get to work nice and early. And watch movies later. And Catie should be able to verify that I was actually being a good girl and reading Medea when we found each other. I am being a good student! Posted by Pischina at March 1, 2007 10:24 PMComments
That French short was so bad. The out of focus thing was not artsy or even interesting, it was just bad filmmaking. Because I slept through most of it, I have no idea what it was about. I am pleased to say that even in my sleep I understood a lot of the French words. So that's something. We're suddenly free on Saturday, so we're going to be there a lot. Or at least as much as I can stand it. Yippee! Posted by: Catie at March 2, 2007 7:44 AMPost a comment
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