Movie week

So this week seems to be turning into a bit of movie-fest... which is perfect for all this rubbish weather we're currently having. The Revelation Film Festival is on in town and we got tickets to see The Family Jams, a film about Devendra banhart, joanne newsom and vetiver touring round america,which was great, really funny and just nice to watch these kids playing great music and having fun. I also got my paws on 2 free tix to see Snow and Ashes, a Canadian film about a journalist/photographer working out in a war torn eastern european country. It was a film made up of flashbacks so you had to kinda work out what was going on. My feeling at the end of the film was just one of detachment and both me and R said that we were left feeling quite cold. Perhaps that was the point - something about detaching from watching the horrors of war maybe? And then i won some more free tix (entering competitions all day - isn't this what people with nothing to do do?) for a movie called 'We are the mods'. Now, perhaps i'm missing something but it was bloody awful. cringeworthy even. i wanted to walk out (but i had a small amount of hope that it would get better - it didn't) and i haven't done that since seeing Toys back in 1992. It was about two girls in california set in the present day (as far as i could make out). I thought it sounded promising but nope, just cue bad scriptwriting, a really obvious non-exciting soundtrack, wooden acting, lots of shots of scooter riding and close ups of scooters. Really bad! It felt like it was written as a school project by someone who's just discovered the mod scene. Lame-o. BUT, as i say, perhaps i'm totally missing something! Saturday we bought a DVD player and joined blockbuster. First off we watched A Single Man. I love Julianne Moore (actually, does anyone not love Julianne Moore?). Colin Firth was really good and captured the heartbreak of losing his partner amazingly well from the start. Beautifully shot (as one would expect from Tom Ford's creative eye) but at times I found it a bit 'try too hard', particularly the arty water shots. The following night we watched Anti Christ. Again, visually stunning, especially the opening scene and charlotte gainsbourg was great. There was a lot of critical reviews about this film when it came out and i'm going to do some research into it. Yeah, it was graphic and i did have to watch through my hands for some of it (but hey, that's ok, i do that for most horror films and i love horror films) and misogynistic? I don't know about that. It's certainly given me something to think about and I look forward to talking about it with any film buffs who've seen it. We've still got Funny People to watch. But, hello! 153 mins for a comedy. I'm not liking it already....