################################## [film] Food Inc. Friday evening maegwynn and I went to the Colony to meet base10 and f_4_t to see Food Inc. . The film is apparently strongly adapted from Fast Food Nation and The Omnivore's Dilemma and the authors of both books so if you've read both there won't be much new information but the 90minute video condensation is...
...!. Never personally got around to getting a personalized plate, but I collect photos of ones I think are cool. Busy lately: saw _MOON_ a second time with andyhat Monday at the Colony, yesterday nice webcast yesterday from O'Reilly on security monitoring (probably archived already there) and another on using the Palm Mjo SDK for unit testing, then took maegwynn to see...
maegwynn and I went to the Colony to see Easy Virtue . Not bad, with the caveat the trailer is slightly skewed and is accurate but incomplete: the film is less of a screwball comedy of manners than the trailer makes it look, there's more heartbreak and pain than we expected. Decent period piece, slightly reminiscent of _Bright Young Things_. (Will confess that I have not read the Noel...
Saw Every Little Step at the Colony with maegwynn . The film chronicles the over a year long casting call and audition process with unprecedented access by the camera crew for the 2006 revival of _A Chorus Line_ on Broadway, and with several of the original crew and cast involved in the revival the film also documents the creation of the original in the 70s. Recommended for the creative...
Went to the ColonyTuesday night to see Lymelife . Young teens, young love and difficulty, stresses in both families, very _Juno_ for quirky and _American Beauty_ for suburban angst. Good performance by Alec Baldwin. Timothy Hutton has a supporting role he apparently squeezed in between seasons of _Leverage_, and nice to see Cynthia Nixon working. Autobiographical for the writers, loosely adapted...
Monday night I met andyhat at the Colony to see TOKYO! , a film anthology of three different stories by three different directors set in Tokyo. The first, directed by Michael Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), starts as a completely normal real-world story then shifts into magical realism or possibly slipstream . The second, MERDE, focused on a man crawling out of the Tokyo...
Tuesday nightI met andyhat at the Colony to see The Great Buck Howard . Colin Hanks plays the lead role, a law school student who hates his life, drops out, and goes to LA. Ends up getting a job as assistant to a has-been of a magician whose career is in decline: the Great Buck Howard (played by John Malkovich) plays small towns all over America, has serious ego problems, is impossibly...
Went to the ColonySunday night [1] to see Defiance . Set in 1941, Jewish brothers in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe escape into the BelaRussianforests, where they join Russian resistance fighters and endeavor to build a village in order to protect themselves and about 1,000 Jewish non-combatants. (IMDB) Decent but not brilliant film, not terribly complicated and you know where every scene is...
...main tank and three in the smaller tank. *unhappy* Cheered self up with the DVD of _Reefer Madness: The Musical_ loaned me by neurochemistry , silly and fun. Wednesday nightI went to the Colony for the some-people-refuse-to-belive-it's-the-TWENTY-FIFTH anniversary screening of Repo Man which was a lot of fun. Afterward at home I flipped channels into the 1975 film adaptation of Raymond...
Went to the Colony with andyhat (his idea, I'd not noticed it was running only for a week) to see Waltz With Bashir ( wikipedia ). Extremely well-done documentary both storywise, directed, and animated (using a unique technique that looks like non-shaky rotoscoping), quite good but extremely depressing. Not the most depressing film I've ever seen, even this year, but solid. Warning...
