Film

May first: lights. camera. action!

i know i’m a few days past the first here, but Hollywood simply won’t schedule their activities around my posting schedule. gaaahh. who do they think they are? anyway, you got it, guys. earlier this week, my monthly first was being an extra for a movie! mum’s the word about what or where or who until it’s showing […]

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Blogtober14: who’d play me in a movie

wow. putting this together has brought up some interesting things! i’ve always, always thought Ashley Judd would play me in the amazing movie of my life. we are soul sisters in the way that Reese Witherspoon and i would total besties IRL. but Reese is way too blonde. sorry. Ashley’s down to earth. smart. Southern. Liberal. […]

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0-14 in 4 minutes

having just celebrated Miss Girl’s fourth, birthdays and growing older are top of mind around here. watching Lotte grow up in this gorgeous time lapse video by Dutch artist and filmmaker,  Frans Hofmeester,  made me well up a little thinking about my little girl growing up. and at the fact that i’m so totally not proactive or […]

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midweek matinee: The Informers

continuing the Bret Easton Ellis theme from last time, i reached back a few years to this one. kind of like the sequel to Less Than Zero, there are a lot of similar personalities, themes and even re-appearing characters (or mentions of them), which i always love. but as the credits rolled, i honestly had […]

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midweek matinee: The Canyons

even Bret Easton Ellis called this a cold, dead movie . . . about cold, dead people. and it is so classically his work. an hour and a half of fucked up people with too much money and too few morals doing fucked up things to themselves and each other. depressing and fantastic. the story […]

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midweek matinee: The Bling Ring

love this film. so shallow and so shocking that people really live like this. like an accident i couldn’t turn away from. but in keeping with the shallow theme, none of the characters or their relationships are developed with any depth at all. i’m certain it was on purpose, but it left me longing to […]

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