What movies are you watching today?

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Vanity Fair (2004) (Reese Witherspoon)

Get On Up (Chadwick Boseman) (2014) — a tour de force of impersonation by Boseman.

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Luis Bunuel: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972).

Hilarious. Bunuel "told a reporter at Newsweek that his favorite characters in the film were the cockroaches" (Wikipedia).

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Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds (2009). An alternative history in which Jewish-American soldiers mimic Nazis by torturing and killing them indiscriminately.

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HBO's series His Dark Materials (2018), based on Philip Pullman's novels.

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Django Unchained (2012) by Quentin Tarantino

"The D is silent."

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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzN1OPhwQSc

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Frances Ha by Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig (2012)

a beautiful film, which among many other admirable things, such as its scintillating dialogue, is a tribute to the French New Wave.

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City of God (2002). Finally saw it.

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Joker (2019). Missed it in the theaters. Streamed a short sample. Will catch it after Jan 7 when I buy the DVD. Pretty unrelenting so far. Taxi Driver without Cybill and Jodie to compensate.

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Viewed The House of Mirth (2000) 2 more times, just to absorb Wharton's riveting dialogue before reading her long book.

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Theory of Everything (2014)

Inspired me to borrow and read Hawking's Brief History of Time.

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Little Women (1994) with Winona Ryder

Age of Innocence ((1993)

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Little Women (2019)

Splendid. Loved it. Now I must read the book.

Two New Yorker reviews helped explain for me what director Greta Gerwig was up to.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-f ... -women/amp

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020 ... -women/amp

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Double Feature

Much Ado About Nothing, dir by Kenneth Branagh (1993).

Les Miserables, dir by Billie August (1998).

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1917 (2019) by Sam Mendes.

A cinematic tour de force. If I had to make the case that the movies are the great art form of our time, this would be one of the flicks I would show.

In wide release right now. Won't be available on DVD and Blu-ray till March 24.

Cinematographer Roger Deakins holding the Arri ALEXA Mini LF he used to shoot 1917

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Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

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Boy Erased (2018)

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Hearts and Minds (1974) - Classic Vietnam War Documentary supposedly better than the Ken Burns which I have not yet seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... e=emb_logo

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Rewatching 2 excellent guilty-pleasure action/adventure flicks:

Mission Impossible V: Rogue Nation
Mission Impossible VI: Fallout

Love both. The opera sequence in Rogue Nation (Turandot in Vienna) is a cinematic tour de force.

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Sense and Sensibility (1995) - deserves all the accolades it received.

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Troy (2004) with Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom, while reading the Iliad.

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The Conversation (1974) with Gene Hackman on Amazon Prime video.

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Robert Mitchum & Charlotte Rampling in Dick Richards's Farewell My Lovely (1975)