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Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Dec 16, 2007

Lust, Caution

I’m glad I didn’t listen to the tepid, unfair reviews for this perfectly satisfying film by Ang Lee, because I thoroughly enjoyed it. It is a beautifully sustained story about a love affair between a radical acting student and a collaborationist minister at the time of the Japanese invasion of China in…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Dec 10, 2007

Atonement

As I read it, I thought Atonement, the novel by Ian McEwan, would make a great movie, for it is a great story; but I thought that it would be daunting, if not impossible, to translate the main gist of the novel to a film format, since it is a novel of memory and guilt and writing, with many fine, gorgeous…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Dec 4, 2007

2007: A Year of So So Movies

Hello and welcome to the time of year dreamed of and dreaded by all.
Thinking back, the movies of 2007 were not Earth-shatteringly good. I can’t think of one movie that blew my socks off. There were a lot of decent movies, but in my view, many of the super well reviewed movies…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Dec 1, 2007

The Stuffed Enchilada Awards

Every time the Film Critics Society of Tejeringo el Chico, or The Golden Chicken Awards, or the National Bores of Review or the Morons’ Choice Awards announce their nominations, I writhe in frustration because I don’t get it. With any luck, the obviously great performances that…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Dec 13, 2007

Show Me The Globe

The official celebrity handicapping season started today with the Golden Globe nominations.
There are like 7 best pictures instead of the regular 5. Many of the nominees deserve their awards and only some are slightly baffling, but the Golden Globes seem relatively decorous this year. The one…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Dec 14, 2007

Review of a Movie that I May See But That I Have Strong Reservations About

Am I the only person in the universe that finds the sight of a computer generated destroyed Brooklyn bridge obscene? Some movie critics seem to think that is it enchanting to see New York City utterly…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Dec 3, 2007

The Savages

I love Slums of Beverly Hills, Tamara Jenkins first movie. I think it is one of the most unfairly underrated American comedies, a brilliant little dark comedy of a very disfunctional family, led by Alan Arkin who plays a loser dad and his oddball kids who don’t fit in. The comedy is bittersweet (more…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Dec 4, 2007

Review of A Movie I Haven’t Seen III

The New York Times reports that Luis Mandoki’s documentary on Andrés Manuel López Obrador, “Fraude, Mexico 2006”, has been a huge box office success in Mexico and that people are screaming at the screens in frustration for what the documentary clearly, to judge…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Dec 25, 2007

Walk Hard

It was Chinese food and a double feature as the Enchilada avoided celebrating the birth of Christ today in the time honored NY Jewish fashion.
After Sweeney Todd I saw Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. I enjoyed it thoroughly.
John C. Reilly can in fact, sing. He can also act. He can also be funny and winning…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Dec 20, 2007

Classics: A Star Is Born

A story about the price of fame, “A Star is Born” (William Wellman, 1937) with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March is thoroughly enjoyable. Dorothy Parker is credited as one of the writers, and I’d like to believe that many of the really smart zingers in this film came from her pen. The…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Dec 13, 2007

I’m Not There, Either

I finally saw I’m Not There, the Todd Haynes Dylan Extravaganza. I can only report that it failed to touch my dear, old, jaded heart in every single possible respect, except for Cate Blanchett’s wonder of a performance. The only thing that kept me rooted to my seat was the music. (And Ed…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Dec 25, 2007

Sweeney Odd

Again, I wish I hadn’t read A.O. Scott’s completely exaggerated review. If I hadn’t perhaps the fountains of blood would have shocked me. As it was, I expected them. If I hadn’t perhaps I, like him, would have nightmares after watching this film. He must be a very sensitive man. With the amount of violence…

November 2007

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