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movie review from the indie elitist
Oct. 26th, 2008 06:16 pmI like independant film, comics, and music. I would go so far as to say I sometimes feel elitist because I watch/read/listen to them more then most people, and expand my views outside of the mainstream. So, here's a little bit of my indie elitism.
I saw the docu-drama Man on Wire today. It's the story of Philippe Petit, the French tightrope walker who, in 1974, broke into the World Trade Centers, strung a cable between the towers, and walked in mid air for 45 minutes.
This movie was beautiful. It was a very clean, simple documentary, told through interviews with the original WTC team, reenactments of the planning process, and footage of Petit's other high-wire exploits. It's short, only 90 minutes long, and probably will only be found in artistic and indie theatres, but it is well worth watching. It's amazing to get to see the footage of the event, and to hear Petit's own message: that life is for rebellion. Find it somehow and watch it, it is totally worth it.
And while I'm on indie film, there were a few trailers that caught my eye today.
The first is Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, a child's-eye-view of WW2 concentration camps. But the twist is, it's not from a Jewish perspective. It's about the son of a camp commander, who accidentally finds the camp and starts a forbidden friendship with a young boy on the other side of the barbed wire fence. I think it looks beautiful and insightful, and I look forward to it.
But while I look forward to that, I am dying to see Let the Right One In, a Swedish vampire story. Now, lately, I've lost my liking for vampires, probably due to the popularity of the retarded sparkle-sue virgin vampires from Twilight. But this movie looks brilliant. The trailer revealed that it's the story of a lonely boy that meets and gets a crush on a young girl. But this girl is a vampire, and a seriously creepy on at that. I like the idea of the vampire being a child - it's something you don't see very often. Defiantly looking forward to this one.
I saw the docu-drama Man on Wire today. It's the story of Philippe Petit, the French tightrope walker who, in 1974, broke into the World Trade Centers, strung a cable between the towers, and walked in mid air for 45 minutes.
This movie was beautiful. It was a very clean, simple documentary, told through interviews with the original WTC team, reenactments of the planning process, and footage of Petit's other high-wire exploits. It's short, only 90 minutes long, and probably will only be found in artistic and indie theatres, but it is well worth watching. It's amazing to get to see the footage of the event, and to hear Petit's own message: that life is for rebellion. Find it somehow and watch it, it is totally worth it.
And while I'm on indie film, there were a few trailers that caught my eye today.
The first is Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, a child's-eye-view of WW2 concentration camps. But the twist is, it's not from a Jewish perspective. It's about the son of a camp commander, who accidentally finds the camp and starts a forbidden friendship with a young boy on the other side of the barbed wire fence. I think it looks beautiful and insightful, and I look forward to it.
But while I look forward to that, I am dying to see Let the Right One In, a Swedish vampire story. Now, lately, I've lost my liking for vampires, probably due to the popularity of the retarded sparkle-sue virgin vampires from Twilight. But this movie looks brilliant. The trailer revealed that it's the story of a lonely boy that meets and gets a crush on a young girl. But this girl is a vampire, and a seriously creepy on at that. I like the idea of the vampire being a child - it's something you don't see very often. Defiantly looking forward to this one.
