Movie update

THEY LIVE (1988)

Another New Cult Canon movie nicely available on Comcast On Demand. Pretty good.

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE (2009)

Now this one might be significant because I've probably followed the online buzz on this movie as long as any movie... and now it finally arrived seven years after Spike Jonze's last film Adaption. Heard lots of news that Jonze was getting this just right, and the results were pretty fantastic. When I keep getting annoyed at its limited scale, I have to remind myself that the movie was operating under the parameters of a children's book. In that sense, this was great.

I don't like the rate at which I've been watching movies. Oh well... the miserable winter will keep me indoors soon enough.

MONTHLY (!!) movie report

Yes, it was almost a month since I watched some films, but I'm making up for it I swear! Some traveling and a commitment to watch a good chunk of the third season of How I Met Your Mother on my vacation visiting New Mexico restricted my cinema time. But...

PUSHER (1996)

The first installment of the latest entry to The AV Club's New Cult Canon shows up for free in HD on Comcast On Demand! It's part of a Danish trilogy about drug dealers, with the second part released 6-7 years later, and man does the ending leave you wanting more.

JAPON (2002)

The debut film by the director Carlos Reygadas, who really intrigued me with his hypnotic and appropriately slow-paced movie about Mexican Mennonites, Silent Light. Same patient beautiful shots of nature that I liked so much, a little more abstract narrative that fits in with a large amount of difficult indie films. I'm really liking this filmmaker though.