This film does more with close-ups, facial expressions, and small gestures than it does with dialogue or action. It could have been slow, but this was beautiful to watch. Includes many small moments of joy.
Cost: $8.00
Where watched: Living Room Theaters
poster from: http://www.impawards.com/2016/loving.html
What Matt remembered about watching it in 1997: eh, it was fine. My review: eh, it was fine. It’s one of those action films that maximized their location budget, so there is a lot of good lookin’ international scenery.
Cost: free from library
Where watched: at home
poster from: http://www.impawards.com/1997/peacemaker.html
Stephen Dorff’s blankness combined with Elle Fanning’s kind precision was magical. On the one hand, he’s a guy who seems to shuffle from place to place as he’s told; on the other he’s a man spectacularly lacking in substance. As he floats through life, the movie things are quite meditative and pretty, and I really liked this film.
Cost: free from library. (This was one of those movies I’ve probably borrowed five times before I finally watched it. But it was good when I did.)
Where watched: at home.
poster from: http://www.impawards.com/2010/somewhere_ver2.html
I picked this version because it was the DVD cover, but with words in English.
From my cousin Ron, who is a good traveler. He visited Israel, bought me a postcard, didn’t have my address, brought it home to Ohio, visited Portland, handed it off to my aunt who handed it off to me! Good job everyone. I love this card!
Manages to pull of a miracle of movie making: Juliette Lewis as a character who doesn’t bug the crap out of me. Aside from an excellent performance by Uma Thurman as a needy woman just looking for love, this also featured a romance between older people (Gina Rowlands and Ben Gazzara, both excellent). This is one of those movies that I kept thinking about after.
Cost: free from library
Where watched: at home.
poster from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysterical_Blindness_(film)
I don’t currently have room for a pearl in an oyster shell, but perhaps you do? 
This flyer appeared at my Max stop this morning. What an unfortunate story. Martha Marie Morrison was murdered in 1974. Her siblings assumed she was reported missing, but she never was. I’m curious about the details of the story. As a 17-year-old she was already living with her boyfriend. She also suffered from psoriasis, which is something we have in common. This Wikipedia page has more information. It sounds like she had a hard life.
At my previous job, it wasn’t unusual to end up at Noodles now and again, just because it was so close. The food was always so-so. It seems that others in the area might have felt the same. I can’t say I’m too broken up.
Also, I’m amused that “not far” to them means Washington Square. By my reckoning, they are very far away.
I’m not sure when they start the timer on the “5 minutes active” portion of this recipe. Chopping the onion, garlic, carrot and celery take far longer than that. I would estimate 25 minutes of active time, and that’s with me buying bulk sausage, and not having to remove the casings.
It was a good soup though.
I’m not one of those Americans who is all gaga over India, so it wasn’t India that did it for me. Instead, the story of an arranged marriage and the family preparations for the wedding sucked me in. The colors in every frame were gorgeous, and there was so much glee throughout the film,* but what really won me over was the depth of love felt among the family members.**
Cost: free from library
Where watched: at home
*I’m thinking of the scene with the women singing and the big Bollywood-style dance sequence as well as the smaller wedding between two minor characters that took place during the big wedding.
**I rarely see such matter-of-fact, gentle love portrayed in movies.
poster from: http://www.impawards.com/2002/monsoon_wedding.html
