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The Movie Blog
Yikes, I should have turned off Werner Herzog's voice on the DVD when watching that. Somehow, they don't go together. Ok, so your top ten "Viggo" movies. Although, I really think you might want to reconsider and branch out. You strike me as a gal who likes to think--what about staring into someone's fascinating mind? (I did not say "brain," Dahmer fans). Truth be told, otherwise I couldn't get into this guy for more than, say, two long impersonal hours.— May 4, 2009 11:13 p.m.
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Antigeekess wrote: Wrong for at least a couple of reasons, but inevitably "interesting." (Go ahead, name a bunch of goofy-looking French dudes. I got Google.) Very funny! I guess I do like odd-looking gents. I will not say "goofy." Josh has a crush on Wallace Shawn...now that's goofy! At a certain age, one gets bored with Adonis types, though I hear that much later one might redevelop interest in them. Well, antigeekess, my memory fails me hard and often, and I need Google too. Pressed to even give a list of French films, much less hot French actors, I'd have to sit and think about it. Making lists and storing them is a great idea. Then we can sit around in our dotage and brag about what we're actually sure we've seen. Challenge to antigeekess! YOUR top ten film hotties!— May 4, 2009 9:02 p.m.
Copley Bell Rings No More: Union-Tribune Sale Closes Monday?
Thanks for the link! "Marc Cooper, who reviewed the "demise" of his old LA Weekly stamping grounds in January, compared the present cultural atmosphere to that of 1490, not long after the Gutenberg printing press had been invented."— May 4, 2009 1:51 a.m.
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Ok, the problem with The English Patient, besides Mr. Ralph "Constipated and No Longer" Fiennes's unfortunately skinny legs sticking out of baggy shorts? For me, it was his character. There was no substance for Kristen Scott Thomas's character to fall in love with--the quotidien hardcore passionate intensity of Fiennes stood in for substance--or whatever stood in for substance in the book, which I did not read. Nothing he said was clever or interesting; it was like she was playing to a cardboard cutout with the usual eye-popping Fiennes glare. Schlockenstein. I prefer Willem Dafoe as an actor--and most of all as a stage actor. Check out his body of work with the Wooster Group anytime at UCSD's film library. He still performs with them occasionally. But that's for the theatre threads--where unfortunately good theatre never gets seen or discussed, because this is San Diego theatre we are talking about. Thanks for the Bruce Dern list, Josh! He can be a scary guy, but there is always something offbeatedly attractive about him--like Dafoe. The Bruce Dern Romance: "Mrs Munck." (dir. Diane Ladd) Very dark humor, almost a horror film. Dern is at his rat-teeth baring best? I don't know. Haven't seen a lot of Dern stuff. Kelly Preston plays opposite as the young version of Diane Ladd. 1995 film that feels like 1985, in costuming, music. It's spotty, but interesting. Another novel-to-screen. Interesting to know he's a big runner, because he had to sit in a wheelchair and play a stroke victim, and drag himself across the floor naked and out of shape.— May 4, 2009 1:25 a.m.
The Last of Las Vegas
"We ate [details on meal here] in the Venetian and left completely stuffed."— May 3, 2009 5:57 p.m.
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Staying with romance: "Boys Don't Cry." (Kimberly Peirce) Yes, antigeekess, there was buggering of a sorts! And, speaking of interviews, I did informally "interview" Hilary Swank after the success of that film. Amazing series of coincidences led to meeting her and spending an evening at my favorite karaoke bar in Paris (Le Bar de New York). I had just written a paper in school on that film! She drank Stella Artois, and I cadged gin and tonics, for which her bodyguards paid. Josh, if you ever write back in, I'll send you a picture of us together to prove it. But you have to guess what love song I sang to her... She was there to film something schlocky with Jonathan Price. To be fair, I didn't actually see that film, though Price rocks. Anyone see it?— May 3, 2009 5:50 p.m.
Reader writers' favorite drinks and where they drink them
I grew up on his poetry for children. My, what degenerate results! ... cute, magics; thanks for bringing it up :) "And she reaches 'cross the table and she grabs his bony sleeves And she crumbles his body between her hands like dried and brittle leaves Flickin' out his teeth and bones like useless stems and seeds"— May 3, 2009 5:25 p.m.
Reader writers' favorite drinks and where they drink them
Yep. I wouldn't want to go on a long "trip" with him. "He had bought a large map representing the sea, Without the least vestige of land; And the crew were much pleased when they found it to be A map they could all understand."— May 3, 2009 4:50 p.m.
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Just thought of a "Bruce Dern romance," but we'll wait for Josh to cover that one.— May 3, 2009 3:36 p.m.
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On the romance list: En Coeur en Hiver (A Heart in Winter) (Claude Sautet) Daniel Auteuil and Emmanuelle Béart. Violinist and violin expert. Or: Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud (Claude Sautet) The-usually-a-comedian Michel Serrault and Emmanuelle Béart. An older man on cusp and the young woman hired to help him organize his papers. Wow! Just realized both are non-physical. Guess the actors use natural chemistry and work hard to create romantic tension without gratuitious slavering. Either that, or I have serious issues :)— May 3, 2009 3:35 p.m.