Ok, I wasn't there. And the Thriller video isn't even a personal touchstone for me. But still totally cracks me up, and makes me proud of my Austin buds. Go Alamo Drafthouse.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
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Some Movies I love 2008
- Milk - Gus Van Sant ***
- Hunger - Steve McQueen
- Happy-Go-Lucky - Mike Leigh
- The Wrestler - Darren Aronofsky
- Still Walking - Kore Eda
- Synecdochde, NY - Charlie Kaufman ***
- Goodbye Solo - Ramin Bahrani
- Waltz with Bashir
- Zack and Miri Make a Porno - Kevin Smith
- Three Blind Mice - Matthew Newton
- Me and Orson Welles - Linklater
- Tropic Thunder - Ben Stiller
- Blood Trail - Richard Parry
- Tell No One - Canet
- Encounters at the End of the World - Herzog
- Please Vote For Me
- Trinidad
- Baghead - Duplass Brothers
- Inning by Inning - Richard Linklater
- Reprise - Joachim Trier
- Mister Lonely - Harmony Korine
- Of All The Things - Jody Lambert
- Throw Down Your Heart
- The Wrecking Crew
- Flying on One Engine - Josh Weinstein
- Humboldt County
- Nights and Weekends -Joe Swanberg & Greta Gerwig
- Wild Horse Redemption
- The Toe Tactic - Emily Hubley
- The Order of Myths - Margaret Brown
- The Greening of Southie
- My Winnipeg
- Stranded
- The Wire - Season 5
- U23D
Some Movies I love 2007
- The Wire (ok, not technically a movie but incredible.)
- I'm Not There
- The Diving Bell
- There Will be Blood
- Persepolis
- Gone Baby Gone
- Juno
- No Country For Old Men
- Savages
- Enchanted
- Into the Wild
- Michael Clayton
- White Light/Black Rain
- Rescue Dawn
- 4 Months, 3 weeks, 2 days
- Two Days in Paris
- Paris, je t'aime
- Chalk
- Once
- Waitress - Adrienne Shelley
- Away From Her - Sarah Polley
- The Conversation (1974)
- Superbad
- Mafioso
- The Namesake - Mira Nair
- Zodiac - David Fincher
- No End in Sight
- Autism The Musical
- Nick Drake A Skin Too Few
- Kurt Cobain About a Son
- The Lives of Others
- In the Shadow of the Moon
- Manufactured Landscapes
- Knocked Up - Judd Apatow
- Smiley Face - Greg Araki
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- Passing Strange - Stew
- The Way I See It - Raphael Saddiq
- White Denim - Explosion
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- Yo La Tengo - I am not afraid...
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- American Rust
- The Night of the Gun - David Carr *****
- Don't Go Where I Can't Follow - By Anders Nilsen (with Cheryl Weaver)
- The Braindead Megaphone - George Saunders
- The Abstinence Teacher - Tom Perrotta
- Tales from the Teacher's Lounge - Robert Wilder
- Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
- The Wisdom of Menopause - Christine Northrup
- Eat Pray Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
- Waiting for Daisy - Peggy Orenstein
- On the Blind Side - Michael Lewis
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- Strangers to Ourselves - Timothy D. Wilson
- The New Kings of Non Fiction
- Nobody's Girl - Antonya Nelson
- Daddy Needs A Drink - Rob Wilder
- You Shall Know Our Velocity - Eggers
- The Tender Bar - J.R. Moehringer
- The Places in Between - Rory Stewart
- Gilead - Marilyn Robinson
- What is the What - Dave Eggers
- Please Kill Me - Legs McNeill & Gillian McCain
- Snobs - Julian Fellowes
- The Friend Who Got Away - edited collection
- Oh The Glory of It All - Sean Wilsey
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- I've worked in and around the independent film world for decades, yet this blog isn't really about that. It's personal. Of course my interests and involvements inform these posts - but you won't be reading about box office grosses here.
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