“The farther you go, the fewer people you find to go with.
To Rome with Love (2012)
This film follows four independent stories unfolding on the streets of Rome at the same time. They are all interesting, quirky and thought-provoking in entirely different ways. The interaction between the parallel stories is really fun. The degree of camp really worked for me. The performances are stunning. I keep recalling vignettes and then remembering that was another piece of this film. I was entirely charmed.
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The Time Traveler’s Wife (2009)
A man discovers he has the ability to skip around in time, but can only loosely control the experience. He can’t prevent his untimely death, but seeing it coming he develops some other strategies to keep connecting with the love of his life.
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Pitch Black (2000)
A criminal transportation spaceship crash lands on a planet that turns out to be inhabited by blood thirsty creatures. Who is a bigger menace – the sociopath prisoner inside or the bloodsuckers outside? The prisoner and crew forge an uneasy alliance in order to make the best of their chances to survive.
This is a really good quality, low budget, scifi flick. I thought the story hung together rather well and its characters were rather interesting.
by 12/14/13 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
11/16/13 Awakening Compassion by Pema Chodron
10/3/13 You’re Not So Smart by David McRaney
9/30/13 The Wonder of Aging by Michael Gurian
7/23/13 The Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
7/17/13 Pebble in the Sky by Isaac Asimov
7/1/13 A Delicate Truth by John le Carre
6/23/13 Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
5/12/13 Ubick by Philip K Dick
5/4/13 Prelude To Foundation by Isaac Asimov
4/15/13 Rendezvous with Rama by Isaac Asimov
4/11/13 Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
4/3/13 Shadow of the Giant by Orson Scott Card
3/30/13 Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
3/26/13 Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card
3/17/13 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
3/16/13 Teaming with Microbes by Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis
3/11/13 Through the Looking Glass by Carroll Lewis
3/10/13 Alice in Wonderland by Carroll Lewis
3/9/13 The pH Miracle by Shelley Redford Young and Robert O Young
3/9/13 A Spiritual Journey by Ram Dass
3/8/13 Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
2/26/13 Mother Night, by Kurt Vonnegut
2/24/13 Soul Mates by Thomas Moore
2/17/13 Men Are from Mars by John Gray
2/9/13 The Windup Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
1/23/13 Love Service Devotion by Ram Dass
1/9/13 A Movable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
1/3/13 The Mastery of Love by don Miguel Ruiz
1/5/13 Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card
12/29/12 Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card
12/22/13 How Can I Help by Ram Dass
12/16/12 Practical Spirituality by Marshall B Rosenberg
12/7/12 Ender’s Shadow by Orson Scott Card
11/18/12 The Song Is You by Arthur Phillips
10/24/12 Xenocide by Orson Scott Card
10/10/12 A War of Gifts by Orson Scott Card
10/6/12 Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
10/2/ 12 Earth Unaware by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston
9/26/12 Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
9/6/12 A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
9/2/12 The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips
8/14/12 The Bhagavad Gita
8/11/12 Still Here by Ram Dass
8/9/12 In the Next Fifty Years, John Brockman, editor
8/3/11 The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
7/29/12 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
7/2/12 Farmer in the Sky by Isaac Asimov
6/26/12 Dune by Frank Herbert
6/13/12 A Separate Reality by Carlos Castaneda
5/29/12 Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
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The Rum Diary (2011)
A young journalist on his first newspaper job follows his heart to expose bad guys rather than covering stories that will sell papers. It is based on a novel by Hunter S. Thompson and populated by characters taken from his experiences working in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Johnny Depp is captivating in his portrayal of the main character.
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
Criminal Robert Downey, Jr. bursts into an audition room fleeing from a crime scene nearby. To elude cops he auditions and unexpectedly wins the role. He likes his new life as an actor but his old life as a crook keeps coming back to haunt him.
This is a very clever, comic story with a lot of unexpected twists and turns.
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Stray Dog (1949)
A young cop gets his sidearm lifted while riding the trolley. Ashamed of the incident, he takes great pains to recover the firearm. His quest takes him on an unsavory tour of society’s seedier side and shows him many harsh realities he’d prefer not to know about.
This is one of Kurosawa’s earlier films. It is an interesting sketch of Japanese society and offers some candid shots of Tokyo streets shortly after the close of WWII.
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Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Award winning playwrite is set up with a grant so large that he is able to fund a theatre project that mimics real life. Reality and play roles get confused.
An interesting concept. Unsettling story. Left me considering parallels to real life for days.
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In Bruges (2008)
The boss sets up one of his hit men to be taken out by another hit man, asking them to meet in the totally touristy and prosaic town of Bruges, Belgium.
A great, quirky, comical story about underworld characters chasing each other around a famous tourist destination. The characters are enough to carry the story by themselves. But this movie is special treat for anyone who has walked the beautiful old town byways in which it was filmed.
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