With award season in full swing , Hollywood is pumping out the big shots, Brad Pitt, Meryl Streep, Will Smith, Jim Carey, Jennifer Aniston, Keanu Reeves...
So I can't wait to see all these movies: 7 Pounnds, The Curiouse Case of Benjimen Button, Yes Man, etc...
Yana and I took the train this past Thursday into the city to Angelica movie theater. Which seems to be the only theater in the area that is actually screening "Doubt".
Synopsis:
A nun confronts a priest after suspecting him of abusing a black student.
It's 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A vibrant, charismatic priest, Father Flynn (Academy Award® winner Philip Seymour Hoffman), is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Academy Award® winner Meryl Streep), the iron-gloved Principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. The winds of political change are sweeping through the community, and indeed, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James (Academy Award® nominee Amy Adams), a hopeful innocent, shares with Sister Aloysius her guilt-inducing suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much personal attention to Donald, Sister Aloysius sets off on a personal crusade to unearth the truth and to expunge Flynn from the school. Now, without a shard of proof besides her moral certainty, Sister Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn which threatens to tear apart the community with irrevocable consequence.
For tickets : http://angelikafilmcenter.com/
It was one of the only times , since I started dating Alex, that I actually went to the city in the middle of the week with a girlfriend simply to watch a movie in Angelica. It used to be a regular activity of mine, a movie, a gallery, some freaky unique quirky amazing show on off off Broadway. A few Long Island's (or back then mostly Cosmo's and Sex on the Beach) and some girl-talk. No boundries. No politness. No limitations. Just youth and the city. Every time I come out of the train station and emerge above-ground on the Manahttan side-walk, I feel whole. Like I have come homoe - here no one is foriegn, everyone is family. Yes, it sounds odd and coo-coo for coco puffs thatI think that everyone walking on Houston is my family. But you kow what I mean. It feels comfortable. Like I don't need to pretend to like or dislike anything. I can be me. Just me.
Yana and I walked on Broadway towards Angelica, suddenly realizing that, unlike in Brooklyn, my feather head band and her wool sun-hat were not the center of attention. We were not noticed and not looked upon as differant. While Yana smoked her Ultra Light I walked in a n bought the tickets. We had an hour to spare to we had some so-so Mexican food at Dos Caminos and a few drinks. I stumbled out of the restraunt noting that everyone around me seemed to be speaking to fast - to which I responded " Life is too short they should slow down". Yana couldn't control her laughter for a block and a half. We laughed our way back to Angelica. I was thinking in the back of my mind how much I missed nights liek these and wondering if we would both ruin the movie by laughing right through Meryl Streeps accusations.
We made it into our seats , popcorn and Dibs in hand, just in time for the opening scene.
The acting was superb. Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman, delivered some of thier best work. The intensity that Streep brought to the story , the raw idiological strength of a woman. Philip Seymour Hoffman played a fantastic second to her and played off her intensity just right. The auidience giggled throughout the movie while the feeling throughout was that of seriousness and , not to over-use the word, intensity. The way Streeps face and body language , almost out shine her tone of voice and the actually lines in the script just puts me at awe. Hoffman , although played the role fantastically, I couldnt take him too seriously. I always get flashbacks of him in Bircage and find it difficult to accept his performance in such a seriouse dramatical role.
My overall rating:
Acting = 5 out of 5
Directing= 4.5 out of 5
Cinemotography= 4 out of 5
Script= 4 out of 5
Score= 3 out 5
Overall biased opinion = 4.5 out of 5
AVERAGE = 4
SHOULD YOU GO WATCH IT IN THE MOVIES OR WAIT FOR THE DVD?
Take the trip and go to Angelica (I included a link above for showtimes) It is a truly superb experience.
So I can't wait to see all these movies: 7 Pounnds, The Curiouse Case of Benjimen Button, Yes Man, etc...
Yana and I took the train this past Thursday into the city to Angelica movie theater. Which seems to be the only theater in the area that is actually screening "Doubt".
Synopsis:
A nun confronts a priest after suspecting him of abusing a black student.
It's 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A vibrant, charismatic priest, Father Flynn (Academy Award® winner Philip Seymour Hoffman), is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Academy Award® winner Meryl Streep), the iron-gloved Principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. The winds of political change are sweeping through the community, and indeed, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James (Academy Award® nominee Amy Adams), a hopeful innocent, shares with Sister Aloysius her guilt-inducing suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much personal attention to Donald, Sister Aloysius sets off on a personal crusade to unearth the truth and to expunge Flynn from the school. Now, without a shard of proof besides her moral certainty, Sister Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn which threatens to tear apart the community with irrevocable consequence.
For tickets : http://angelikafilmcenter.com/
It was one of the only times , since I started dating Alex, that I actually went to the city in the middle of the week with a girlfriend simply to watch a movie in Angelica. It used to be a regular activity of mine, a movie, a gallery, some freaky unique quirky amazing show on off off Broadway. A few Long Island's (or back then mostly Cosmo's and Sex on the Beach) and some girl-talk. No boundries. No politness. No limitations. Just youth and the city. Every time I come out of the train station and emerge above-ground on the Manahttan side-walk, I feel whole. Like I have come homoe - here no one is foriegn, everyone is family. Yes, it sounds odd and coo-coo for coco puffs thatI think that everyone walking on Houston is my family. But you kow what I mean. It feels comfortable. Like I don't need to pretend to like or dislike anything. I can be me. Just me.
Yana and I walked on Broadway towards Angelica, suddenly realizing that, unlike in Brooklyn, my feather head band and her wool sun-hat were not the center of attention. We were not noticed and not looked upon as differant. While Yana smoked her Ultra Light I walked in a n bought the tickets. We had an hour to spare to we had some so-so Mexican food at Dos Caminos and a few drinks. I stumbled out of the restraunt noting that everyone around me seemed to be speaking to fast - to which I responded " Life is too short they should slow down". Yana couldn't control her laughter for a block and a half. We laughed our way back to Angelica. I was thinking in the back of my mind how much I missed nights liek these and wondering if we would both ruin the movie by laughing right through Meryl Streeps accusations.
We made it into our seats , popcorn and Dibs in hand, just in time for the opening scene.
The acting was superb. Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman, delivered some of thier best work. The intensity that Streep brought to the story , the raw idiological strength of a woman. Philip Seymour Hoffman played a fantastic second to her and played off her intensity just right. The auidience giggled throughout the movie while the feeling throughout was that of seriousness and , not to over-use the word, intensity. The way Streeps face and body language , almost out shine her tone of voice and the actually lines in the script just puts me at awe. Hoffman , although played the role fantastically, I couldnt take him too seriously. I always get flashbacks of him in Bircage and find it difficult to accept his performance in such a seriouse dramatical role.
My overall rating:
Acting = 5 out of 5
Directing= 4.5 out of 5
Cinemotography= 4 out of 5
Script= 4 out of 5
Score= 3 out 5
Overall biased opinion = 4.5 out of 5
AVERAGE = 4
SHOULD YOU GO WATCH IT IN THE MOVIES OR WAIT FOR THE DVD?
Take the trip and go to Angelica (I included a link above for showtimes) It is a truly superb experience.
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