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Wednesday, October 3
Lake of Fire
Abortions For Some, Miniature American Flags For Others?
Trailer
Both exhaustive and exhausting, the documentary Lake of Fire is two and a half eyeopening hours of nothing but abortion show & tell, all put on display in glorious black & white. By tell, we get a nice mixed bag of talking heads, from doctors to scholars to fundamentalists to women from all walks of life, including Ms Roe (v Wade) herself, Norma McCorvey, now a pro-life cheerleader. And by show, I mean we're gonna get the whole sick and kaboodle, including actual abortions and the fetuses that get aborted. Yeah, this is pretty much the worst date movie ever created. Tony Kaye, whom you may remember as the director who wanted his name removed from his brills American History X, started working on this in the early 90s, and with this issue far from ever being resolved, he coulda kept on filming for centuries to come. This important piece of work doesn't dare to take a side, and by the end of the film, you may find yourself in the same shoes
A-O Kaye: Kaye has directed several music videos, including Soul Asylums' 'Runaway Train'
John Grisham's Jizzum (aka Verdict): Breast In Show
LoF opens today in limited theaters
Into The Wild
Nome Alone Part II
(Part I was The Last Winter)
Trailer & Mo
Upon graduation from Emory University, Christopher McCandless turned his back on society, by shedding his possessions and dumping his family, and trekked his way on up to the last frontier of the Alaskan wilderness, where mother nature would eventually take his life. The best part of the whole story is that Chris was a real person (played with much heart by Cuthbert JOer Emile Hirsch), and that his fascinating adventure of the human spirit received the rich treatment it so rightly deserves, all at the gentle hands of Spicoli, cherry topped with vibrant tunes by Eddie Vedder. There's a lot to admire about tenderfoot McCandless' theories on life, but there's also a lot to despise on his practice of such high ideals. If you ever saw Warner Herzog's chilling doc Grizzly Man [TWS.org review] you know what I is stalkin bout. And if you didn't, basically man will always lose out to nature, regardless of how great a person you are. Into The Wild will make you run for the hills, but for once that's a good thing, since our country's hills are so effin beautiful
Book Smarts: the book In The Wild is actually an expansion of an article written by the same author Jon Krakauer, entitled Death of an Innocent for Outside Magazine [wikiPOOdia]
John Grisham's Jizzum (aka Verdict): Breast In Show
until next thyme the balcony is clothed...
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