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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Heh. We recently watched Donnie Darko as well, as neither of us had seen it before.
After it was over, Steph asked me, "Did you like it?" and I responded, "...I.... think so?" and I then asked her if she liked it, and she responded in kind.
The day AFTER that, though, when we'd given it some thought, we kinda liked it less, simply because a) time travel stories never hold up (logically) upon inspection and b) there was too much left to interpretation, if that makes sense.
I don't know. I might want to resee it in a year or two and see if I liked it better. It did hold my interest, and it certainly was a unique film, but I don't know that I can call it a favorite of mine.
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