OK, you can stop reading my drivel now. Just go the link below and watch me in video with my imaginary friend. I'm the guy. I think. Except I really disagree with him about Tropic Thunder and political correctness.
Bella
Beautiful (sorry, but somebody has to think it's a funny and highly intelligent way of showing that I know what Bella means) movie about love, family, regrets, atonement and kitchen management. Shot in New York using mostly Spanish-speaking actors. It's significant that the three brothers have different accents which would only be noticeable to experts in the language or in using IMDb like me. The different accents signify the different relationship each brother has within the family.
Well-done movie and worth seeing even if it does have the blessing of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops and Charles Dobson of Focus on Family Spanking. I wonder what they thought of Juno? The bishops would like us to know that there is only one slightly objectional word in English and only one slightly more objectional word spoken in an obscure Spanish dialect. We liked it so much we saw it again right afterwards but still missed the bad words.
Times and Winds
Turkish movie made in 2006 but apparently timeless or least as far back as the revelation from Muhammad. Verrrrry slow dissertation on Turkish teenager angst and the effects of cardigan sweaters on wall-building skills. Beautiful musical score by Arvo Part and great scenery. The rest is pretty depressing. Fathers who abuse their sons, mothers who abuse their daughters, fathers who are also imans and call the village to prayer right after abusing their sons.
In the Time of the Butterflies
Lots of controversy over this movie: lack of Dominican actors, shot in Mexico instead of Dominican Republic, wrong emphasis, not what really happened because what really happened would not be able to be a TV movie (probably couldn't be filmed in the first place), Jennifer Lopez' husband should have had a better part, Jennifer Lopez' husband should have had a smaller part (at least his divorce prior to J-Lo was finalized in the Dominican Republic), Salma Hayek was in it, etc, etc.
But if you don't know the story or the book then it's an incredible movie. Beautiful, devastatingly sad at the end. The book was too difficult for me to read after the seeing the movie and knowing what was going to happen. It starts off like it could be a book for teenage girls. The other incredible part is the year this took place. I never knew anything about it.
Salma Hayek produced one of my favorite movies, The Maldonado Miracle. It'll make you feel good.
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