Listen to me on the radio tonight at 7 (103.3 FM or streaming at www.wolt-fm.com). I'll be discussing three recently released films on a local radio show called THE INTERSECTION. Here's a preview of what I'll say:I saw Alejandro Montrverde’s BELLA, Kirsten Sheridan’s AUGUST RUSH, and Kevin Lima’s ENCHANTED.
I wish I could tell you that I like BELLA best and ENCHANTED worst. That AUGUST RUSH fit somewhere in the middle...a pleasant surprise. I wish I could whine about big corporate movies...the blandness of Disney studio pics...how cool American-trained, Mexican-born film school directors are. I want to say “Robin Williams is back!” I want to lament the loss of the coolest independent film chick since Parker Posey (Amy Adams, ENCHANTED) to the big Hollywood machine. I can’t say any of that.
What I can tell you is this: AUGUST RUSH is an absolute mess of a movie, full of “magical thinking,” overwrought sentimentality, and really, really bad music. BELLA is like a movie made by your nephew. A really great effort worth overlooking the glaring flaws because, well...he’s your nephew. You love what he’s trying to do. And ENCHANTED may be my best film of 2007. It’s a shoe-in Best Picture nominee and rightfully so. Amy Adams is a breakout star in this, and the story...the film itself, is about really smart, beautiful, lovely things. True things, I think.
Did you see any of these films? What did you think?
2 comments:
I haven't seen any of the movies yet, but I can't wait to see you play a hamster...
That's depressing, I was looking forward to August Rush.
But, as you well know, Enchanted is my new favorite movie of all time, seriously, one of the best of 2008. I thought it would be sort of a spoof and not very well written, but, oh man, It's amazing, and everyone should see it.
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