Thanks for the movie review, but this would probably get more interest
on a movie review group. Have you seen the "Prairie Home Companion"?
Yes, I once saw Tommy Lee Jones at a sidewalk cafe in San Antonio. We
listen to Garrison Keillor on NPR radio every weekend. We also enjoy
listening to "River Walk Jazz" with the Jim Cullum band. We recently saw
him and his band perform at The Landing where we had dinner. Do they
have NPR over there, or are you stuck with the BBC? We also enjoy Austin
City Limits on TV. Do they have any live entertainment in Leiden? Go figure.
"A Prairie Home Companion"
Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones
Amazon reviews:
http://tinyurl.com/k48bdf3
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On 7/17/2014 8:54 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
Earlier, I saw and reported on a couple of films that didn't really
knock my socks off -- "The Congress" and "The Zero Theorem." They were
both great in their way, but I didn't really find that they "stuck
with me" after watching them. I had watched them primarily because
someone was willing to pay me to review them. I did, but I wasn't all
that enthusiastic.
Anyway, to get the taste of these two movies out of my eyes, I decided
to watch one I'd missed when it first came out, Stephen Soderberg's
"Side Effects." I *like* Soderberg, so I remember wanting to see this
flick, but it somehow fell off my radar until a couple of days ago.
And it was great -- *exactly* the thing I needed to shake off the
less-than-satisfied feeling the earlier two movies had left me with.
"Side Effects" is well written, well acted, and has a real PLOT -- and
a plot that I hadn't seen before in movies or on TV. Tremendous acting
by Jude Law, Rooney Mara, and Catherine Zeta-Jones, and a completely
original take on the Prozac Nation meme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFEou3MBLi4
I thought it was a taut, well-made film. But I'd also heard that it
was Soderberg's "last film," because he was retiring from movies.
Given the quality of "Side Effects," that made me wonder WHY one would
be at the top of one's skills and want to get out of movies. So I
looked, and found this interview with Soderberg himself, who answers
exactly that question. GREAT fuckin' interview, if you're interested
in movies, TV, or just what it's like to be creative:
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/steven-soderbergh-interview
