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My homework

Movies I've watched, reviews I need to write.

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  • Steve Grzesiak Steve Grzesiak

    Looking forward to your views on Headhunters and Sexy Beast, Julie. Two great films in very different ways.

  • Julie Julie

    I loved them both! I also want to read some of Jo Nesbo's books - some book critic said that Nesbo is the Scandinavian crime novelist we should be reading, not Larsson, and Headhunters only makes me more curious. Sexy Beast was fantastic. I love Ray Winstone so much. If you haven't seen 44-Inch Chest (written by the same guy and also starring Ray Winstone), I highly recommend that too.

  • Steve Grzesiak Steve Grzesiak

    It's somewhere in my mass of bookmarked films to watch, I'm sure!

    I think, judging by Headhunters, that the critical comparison of Nesbo to Larsson is off because Headhunters was more like an action thriller - I said it in my review, but it reminded me of The Fugitive. It's certainly far more fun than The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

    I recently watched another film by the Headhunters director Morten Tyldum called Fallen Angels, which is one of a series of about 12 adaptations of the Gunnar Staalesen novels about Varg Veum that were done for Norwegian TV. I have to say it was very good, so Tyldum could easily be one to watch, and I'm trying to track down the other adaptations although he didn't direct any of the others. I've found some but not others, might have to hope they pop up on TV at some point!

  • Maria Maria

    Thanks for the mini-review of Samsara. I'll give it a try, for the visuals, even if the subtext is a little off.

  • Julie Julie

    I hope you like it, and I'm interested to see what you think - I'm probably just crazy and over-sensitive.

  • Antonomasia Antonomasia

    Glad to see I'm not the only person with a list like this.

  • Julie Julie

    =) I'm about to declare bankruptcy. I've also started going out of order a little... it's definitely getting to the point where it's hard to write about some of these. I try to take notes at the time on the things I want to talk about, but still!

  • Antonomasia Antonomasia

    Yes, 19 reviews is a heck of a lot to get through if you're not being paid for them.

    I'm trying to get mine done by the end of this weekend, but then I've half-written a lot of them; often it's the films I have most to say about, or which mean most to me, that I put off posting about.

  • Javier Javier

    I would like to know your thought on 'Holy Motors'...

  • Julie Julie

    I would like to know my thoughts on Holy Motors too... =) I'm feeling a lot of pressure to say I loved it and thought it was excellent, when instead I just really liked it and thought it was really good. I was hooked from the start though, and really enjoyed the ride. The thing I latched onto the most was the comment on our society and on our disconnect from our emotions and each other. In this I agree, but it was just a bit too clever and self-satisfied for me to really love; or maybe there were too many people around me who seemed to be laughing in a self-satisfied and smugly clever way. But there's a lot more to it, things I did love, and things that didn't work for me. Still working through my thoughts though...I just saw it last night, and it usually takes me a while before I can formulate anything coherent.

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