Cathryn said:
I didn't realise they all come out tomorrow. Looks like i've picked a good weekend to go!! Thanks!
Oh sorry, only There Will be Blood comes out tomorrow, Savages came out a fortnight ago, Diving Bell didn't have a release date per se as European Films tend to appear in cinemas at widely diverging times, and No Country has been out for a few weeks.
I recommend Savages highly, it's an American indie film without the whimsy that seems to dog the genre. Juno was a very well-worked example of the 'Whimsy Film' (I've just made up the term), it uses obscure Indie music, an animated scene and a very strange script (can anyone be that witty) to develop an asthetic that people like Wes Anderson cultivate: it's all a bit of a box-ticking enterprise, following on from films such as Garden State, Napoleon Dynamite, I Heart Huckabees. It's one of the better examples of this field, and I enjoyed it so much that I saw it twice, but I'm shocked that they genuinely nominated it for an Oscar for Best Film. Savages avoids that, preferring to have at least a modicum of social realism, but still with that wit which is unavoidable. Over recent years Philip Seymour Hoffman has seemed to grab a very high reputation as one of Hollywood's leading character actors, and he follows it with fine effect here. Can a man make a film? I don't know, but PSH tries valiantly every time. If you liked Juno, then see this, a film which is like an older sister to it. It avoids the youthful folly that shows Juno to be an immature film, and has a far more world-weary quality.