I would like to recommend Kieslowski's movie "Rouge" from his Trois Couleurs trilogy. Last night I watched "Rouge," and can safely say that it was the best movie I've seen in quite some time. (Considering I've been watching things like "Blades of Glory" recently, that's not saying much. But trust me, it's good.) I won't embarrass myself by attempting an intelligent review of it here - you can read a good review of it over at Cosmoetica.
Today at the library a patron actually happened to check the movie out. I was making small talk with him (about how I had watched the movie last night, and enjoyed it, etc.) and he recommended I watch "The Double Life of Veronique," also by Kieslowski, which apparently the library has. It's always heartening to see that some people still rent movies with artistic merit and read good books. Not that I have anything against Hollywood or junk lit - I dislike snobbery just as much as willful illiteracy.
I have nothing revelatory to say. Just wanted to recommend you check out the movie.
Oh, and I should mention that this year is the 40th anniversary of Otis Redding's death. His home town is celebrating the occasion with a week full of events. Watch:
Saturday, September 15, 2007
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I also enjoyed Blue, but the whole color series is great. You are so lucky to have films like that to rent from the library. Mine is soooo tiny, all it has are Julia Roberts films. Also The Decalogue is very good. I find the foreign filmmakers so much more interesting than boring Hollywood stuff (although Blades of Glory does look kind of funny if you're in the mood for that). I don't know how many foreign films you've seen, but I just linked to a post by one of my readers named Anthony who just watched and loved La Notte by Antonioni. You should check out his entire Alienation trilogy if you've not already.
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