Wadley

I originally titled this post “Three From Rotterdam”. While writing, I realized I’d filled a whole poss talking about just the first movie. So I’ll keep the other two (Men’s Group and End of the Line) for another day. Why was it those three? Simple: people ended up on my site googling these three movies. For their trouble, they got only one line about each, which doesn’t seem fair. Anyway, for now, I’ll just talk about

Wadley (Matias Meyer)

Is it bad to like a director more than the movie he made? Or, to be more precise, to respect the intention more than the final product? Wadley, to me, was a hightly frustrating film, even if it lasts only 60 minutes. Why? Well, because for once, the three sentence description in the programma booklet was not just accurate, but complete. A guy goes into the desert. He walks around. He finds peyote, eats it. He wanders about some more.

Good Intentions

Craig managed to post every day in January. To get my blog back into gear after the festival, I want to try to do the same in the coming month. I have seen 35 movies in the past two weeks alone, after all, so I should have enough material. Just to make sure I can never say to myself I don’t know what to write about, below are a few posts I intend to write. And just to make it a bit more interactive: I’ll also be taking requests.

Mind you, being a busy girl with a thesis to get back to (and even potentially an article to co-write), many reviews waiting to be written for filmtotaal and a whole new job to get into, I don’t have time to track down and watch new movies, probably not, anyway. But if you’re interested to hear my thoughts on a movie you know or suspect I’ve seen, on a certain actor, actress or director, even on something non-movie related like a TV show or music you think I might have an opinion on, suggest away in the comments!

Planned posts:

• A piece on Edward G. Robinson I’ve had half-written for over a month
• An overview of the 8 Pieces Uniques (movies from a one-time director) I’ve seen at the festival
• Post on the last Coen night
• Some more thoughts on No Country, after seeing it again, hopefully in a week and a half
• Wrap-up Coen post
• Review of Sweeney Todd, which I’ll be seeing Friday
• The lure of badly written vampires, or: why I can’t stop watching Moonlight
• An impression of the Rotterdam Film Festival
• My ambivalence about two teen girls: Juno and Marjane in Persepolis

That oughta be enough for now, dontcha think? Now of course, I have a history of not keeping resolutions. But we’ll see how this one pans out.