Kirk (nkl) wrote, @ 2009-03-31 23:29:00

Too Fast, Too Netflix: March
Only two movies, March kind of flew by.

The Times of Harvey Milk
Documentary made in 1984. It was good. All the archival T.V. footage was from stations I watched growing up. I kept saying things like, "Isn't that Barbara Rodgers? Wow, look at Dennis Richmond's afro." Having seen the movie Milk (which is excellent), I can say say that Josh Brolin looks exactly like the real Dan White in that, disturbingly so. Anyway, this is an incisive time capsule of the Bay Area in the late '70s.

Donny Darko
Cult movie that neither of us had seen. Though it doesn't completely hold together, it's overall quite good. Very early David Lynch-ian. You know how there are kinds of movies, not referring to genre like comedies or westerns, but to a certain filmic viewpoint? Within a few minutes, I recognized this was the kind of movie I generally find pretentious and annoying. But I didn't, in this instance. It impressively maintains a somber, forboding tone throughout, even with sporadic appearances by a giant rabbit named Frank. Also, President Roslin is in it. As ever, she's very good.

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