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LEAVE NO TRACE

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Watched LEAVE NO TRACE this week.  It was at Sundance last year and was not yet titled….remember the “untitled Debra Granik” movie?  It was very good!  Quiet, beautiful, great acting.   We liked it so much we came home and streamed her first feature, WINTER’S BONE, on Amazon.  That was good too.  Ben Foster stars in LEAVE NO TRACE.  He was also in HELL OR HIGH WATER and was nominated for a bunch of awards for best supporting actor for his performance.  I’m guessing he will show up at Oscar time this year.
THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS is out now too.  We tried to see that at Sundance.  Interesting/disturbing, and worth a watch.
We streamed BRIMSTONE AND GLORY last night on Amazon.  It is about a town in Mexico, Tultepec, that manufactures fireworks and holds a couple of huge, crazy firework shows each year.  It was very interesting, in a shaking my head sort of way, about how they ignore the dangerous aspects of fireworks.  Relevant, since this week 24 people were killed and 40+ injured in a warehouse explosion there.
Saw THE KING…you can skip this one.  The documentary centers around somewhat random people in the back of Elvis’ Rolls Royce, giving their opinion (and you know what they say about opinions) about Elvis’ life and his mistakes.  Most of the people did not know Elvis, and Ethan Hawke was particularly blowhard-ish about Elvis’ mistakes, which I did not appreciate at all (he bugs me maybe most of all).  There was little mention about the bad people around Elvis (namely Col. Parker – drugs), little respect for the way millions/billions of people liked/like his music, and lots of comparisons of Elvis’ career and downfall to the downfall of American culture…kind of a stretch.  See something else.

First blog post

Trying to decide what film to see? Here is what I think about it….

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Puzzle (2018)So, this is my first blog post.  Thank you, Nancy, for setting up the awesome popcorn basket graphics for me.  I need to get my genre pages going, but that is for another time.  Since I seem to have a mental block at beginning this blog, i am going to start with a small activity instead of a master layout explanation of the site, so i can figure out how things post.

Watch this Film!  –  PUZZLE

Last night I saw a very charming movie, PUZZLE, starring Kelly McDonald, who you may have seen in NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN or BOARDWALK EMPIRE, and the guy from LIFE OF PI, Irrfan Khan.  The director, Marc Turtletaub and Kelly McDonald were there after the screening for a Q&A and were very engaging.  The movie centers around Kelly McDonald.  Her two boys are just about to leave home as young adults, and she is feeling like she has been serving them and her husband and doing little for her self.  (relevant?  um yes).  She finds that she is very good at crossword puzzles, and the rest ensues.  I won’t tell you the story, because as you know, it’s better not to know.