In my review of the Golden Compass movie I mentioned a couple of the cool knitted garments that showed up in the movie.

The OH and I recently watched Jailhouse Rock. Elvis wears an very nice sweater in one scene. I wondered if I could find a pattern for it. A brief search turned up an adapted version (a personal pattern):
http://colorguardblog.blogs.com/knitblog/2005/01/can_i_have_the_.html
http://colorguardblog.blogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/april_presley_2.jpg

It also appears you can buy a reproduction of the sweater.

Tags: cool, knitting, movies

In which I make comments about
American Hardcore
Amelie
Ghost of the Shell 2: Innocence
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Cars by Pixar
Dark City
with a special guest appearance by Bram Stoker's Dracula

( spoilers )

Tags: movies, reviews
listening to: "Be My Yoko Ono" - Barenaked Ladies - Gordon

Kundun, a film about the 14th Dalai Lama, directed by Martin Scorsese, certainly is one-sided in its treatment of the history involved (in a way that I am inclined to agree with), and more than a tad emotionally manipulative. But it's so. fucking. beautiful. And besides, how can I resist a score with Philip Glass and the Gyuto Monks?

Tags: cool, movies, reviews

The OH loves Fred Astaire movies and I generally find them irritating in one way or another, except for the dancing. But tonight's movie, Roberta, was an exception. It had great songs, several strong women characters, and even a couple of charming, non-buffoonish fat characters. It had some great geeky dialogue. It even qualifies under the Bechdel Rule.

The leading man was played by Randolph Scott, who I gather usually played in Westerns, but he was especially cute and charming in this movie - he had an open face that most of the romantic leads of the era didn't have, and a great "gee, you're swell!" gaze.

Even the OH had never heard of the movie before (it came in his Fred & Ginger collection). There are a lot of rave reviews on IMDB. We were speculating why it never became as popular as other Fred & Ginger movies. Maybe because ( spoilers )

Tags: bechdel rule, check it out, movies

The OH and I can't remember why we put the movie Code 46 on our Netflix queue. We liked it. So if you recommended it, thanks!

If you like atmospheric love stories with more-realistic-than-usual-in-mainstream-films sex scenes set in a multiethnic-flavored future and you don't mind a few asteroid-sized plot holes as far as the science fiction is concerned, you might like it too.

It's sort of like Gattaca meets Lost in Translation. Doesn't qualify under the Bechdel Rule, but has various women characters with minds of their own.

eta: spoilers in comments

Tags: movies, reviews, sff
listening to: "Warning Sign" - Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Via surelars, below is a list of all the films nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award since 1970 (with the winning picture at the top of the list for each year, with the exception of 2006). Bold the ones you've seen.

As surelars said: Some of these I'm not sure if I've seen or not. When I doubt I left it as "not seen".

I'm thinking there are some good movies on this list, a surprising number of bad movies, and there are many good movies not on this list.

1970 (43rd)
Patton
Airport
Five Easy Pieces
Love Story
MASH
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Tags: memesheepage, movies
listening to: "Baby's breath" - Pretenders - !Viva el amor!

Here are several personal reasons why I liked the movie Whale Rider:

( some spoilers for Whale Rider )

Tags: check it out, movies, reviews

The OH and I just saw Serenity, so those of you who were carefully avoiding talking about Serenity around me for fear I would bitch about spoilers may relax now. :-)

Tags: movies

Movies, movies, movies

Courtesy of kightp, who passes on these instructions: "If you've seen over 70, you have no life. Number the ones you've seen. Post your score and feel like a loser."

I've added bold to those I actually saw in a theater.
The ones I can't remember if I've seen or not get a ?

(x) Rocky Horror Picture Show
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Tags: memesheepage, movies
listening to: "Impressed" - Natalie Imbruglia - Left Of The Middle

Saw it today with my folks.
( spoiler free but opinionated comments (ETA: but other people's comments contain spoilers) )
If you posted about HPatGoF in your journal, I'd love it if you were to comment here with a link to your post(s). I skipped them all because I'm a stickler about avoiding spoilers, and I'd like to read them now, but don't want to go dig for them. :-)

Tags: movies, reviews, sff