Tram Town
Saturday, January 15, 2005
| Category: Pitchers My wife and the boys went to see a panto this afternoon. Our good friend Louise was playing the evil witch in The Lion, the Witch and the Abstract-item-of-furniture-used-to-move-between-England-and-Narnia-that-manifested-itself-as-a-black-curtain. I watched a couple of pictures while they were gone. Firstly, made around 2000 and portraying a story set around 1975, The Virgin Siucides (the Coppola lassie's first directorial effort). Secondly, made in 1975 and portraying a story set in 2000, Death Race 2000 (what can you say? Paul Bartel directing and Roger Corman producing). TVS: The Wonder Years without much idea of what it's all about but with lots of Kirsten Dunst to look at and that can never be a bad thing. A good film that looks magnificent but a bit overrated by the crits for my money. DR2: Fantastic period piece with some useful political insights including the observation that the French invented the word sabotage. This film is B-Sci-Fi of the best kind. Also, the David Carradine character's navigator's role (played by Simone Griffeth, WTFSI) is as big as Kirsten Dunst's role in TVS, she looks damned near as good, and she doffs togs. An enjoyable afternoon's viewing and currently available on DVD for less than $20 in total from JB. TVS: 8.0/10.0 (6.0 without the Dunst lassie) DR2: 8.0/10.0 (6.0 without the Griffeth lassie) BTW the G rating on the cover of the DR2 DVD is misleading. The disk says M and that is much more accurate as I found to my dismay when I started to watch it with the boys. |
