Musings of an Idiot

Officious seeing eye bitch

Just got back from watching a sneak preview of 'Everything is Illuminated' and it is an awesome movie. It is really tender, emotional, funny, heart felt and entertaining. The image above probably sums up the quirkiness of the movie. The acting is on the spot - from Elijah Wood, from Eugene Hutz, from Boris Leskin and from Mikki (who plays Sammy Davis Jr. Jr. a.k.a Officious seeing eye bitch), the music is fitting for the movie. The rhythm and the pacing of the movie spot on, with no flab whatsoever. And it was a confident directorial debut - it was a story very well told. The more I think about it the more I love it - I will definitely watch it again once it opens in a month's time at the cinemas. It is highly recommended if you want to feel moved by simplicity.

I caught up with Angelique and went to the movie with her. After the movie bumped into Luke - he was same year as me at the film school {he was also one of the 1st AD's on 'Memories'} and also bumped into John Davies - the NZ distributor of 'Memories'. So it was an evening of crossing paths.

Watched 'Dragonfly' at home with Tim and Maddy. It was a tad frustrating because they now watch any DVD's with english subtitles, so that Maddy can read what is going on (it is irritating when it is an english movie). The movie itself isn't that bad - some pacing problems and story structure problems but it is better than i thought it would be.

I still feel caught in a time warp where things make sense but they don't. It is hard to shake off the feeling. What am I doing?

Amit

posted by Amit @ 10:33 PM