Film roundup 2K6

Now venturing into territory that treads on the usual critical folks, so I will try to be somewhat innovative in my observations:

Movies I Really Liked

• Little Miss Sunshine
  This movie was shown on the plane yesterday! I've never heard a plane laugh so much. I really loved watching this film in the theater. The movie after it on the plane featured Aaron Eckhart, William Hurt, Ian McKellen, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange and, yes, Brittany Murphy. I didn't have the earphones in, but it looked liked a start-studded piece of shit.


• Borat
  Sure it was mean. But so is America.


• Stranger Than Fiction
  Entertainment Weekly looked down on this movie as "Charlie Kaufman Lite." Since when does Kaufman get sole dibs on Cinematic post-modernism?! Beautiful performances abounded and a sneaker ending that had me in tears. I think the problem was that the film was marketed as a comedy. I don't think it was.


• Little Children
  A special shout out goes to the narrator from Frontline who adds even more bizarre to this gem of a film. Among the most enjoyable voiceover narrators because it actually became a character

Movies I Should Have Seen But Haven't

• The Last King Of Scotland


• United 93


• A Scanner Darkly


• The Queen


• Half Nelson


• Casino Royale


• An Inconvenient Truth


• Volver (in English)
  I saw it in Spanish in March. I would love to understand the other 75% of it.

What the Hell Was This Movie and Why did they Name it That?

• Failure to Launch

Why I saw less movies in 2006

• Boyfriend with alternative work schedule who sees many movies without me


• I saw a lot of plays this year (somewhat embarssingly, watching my own play took up a lot of early summer)


• TV is tending to be better