Filmage

Three films that have made me happy lately:

1.

...because she's you can literally see every thought that this character has move through her mind. And it's hilarious.

2.

My Own Private Idaho

...because Keanu and River both have strange names and beautiful faces and the film is strange and beautiful.

3.

...because the accent work is awesome, it made me sob (and I'm not a sobber) and because Viola Davis went to Julliard which is where my good friend Hannes is going in the summer and that's just inspiring because I want to go and get famous now. Like Charlize. And she's South African. So all-in-all, I'm feeling inspired.

What Movie Made You Cry?

Another Lynn Hirschberg number.

Featuring Annette Bening, James Franco, Natalie Portman, Michael Douglas, Mila Kunis, Mark Ruffalo, Helena Bonham Carter, Justin Timberlake, Dakota Fanning, Andrew Garfield, Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem, Melissa Leo, Vincent Cassel, Julianne Moore, Robert Duvall, Jesse Eisenberg, Elle Fanning and Colin Firth.


Well this nearly made me cry.


Feast your eyes (and ears):

"The year of the Gosling"

The next big thing. In my opinion. And lots of other people's opinions. Ryan Gosling:

I recently watched Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive the other night. Bare script, low budget, brilliant acting. Carey Mulligan and Ryan Gosling reignited a dimming spark in me that has always wanted to act on screen. This is how it should be done. Simple. Truthful. Beautiful.

I also watched George Clooney's latest film, The Ides of March. A sort of Hamletesque American politics film. He's brilliant in that, too. And up for a Golden Globe for it.

As my good friend Roelof Storm put it: "it is the year of the Gosling."

Dr Strangelove, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.

Best Line: You can't fight in here! This is the war room!

I watched Dr Stangelove last night for varsity and it was a good laugh. In a good way. I always enjoy spotting the terrible 'visual effects' in oldschool films like these - it makes them awfully authentic though, in my eyes anyway. Dr Strangelove himself is so bloody weird.

If you're feeling up for a lovely mockery (intended or not) of the Cold War, watch it.

Cheers x

127 Hours.

I watched this film last night and I loved it. It's like a new and improved "Into the Wild". It was great.

Boom. More on this later. (It's nearly my birthday)

Bye.

x

Sophie's Hip Hop.

Today Sophie lost all inhibitions in front of my eyes and my webcam and here is the result: