Charlie Bartlett and August Rush

I have posted one movie... Fierce People

August Rush is about music, how music is every where. The power of music. The power of love. It stars another very talented child actor, Freddie Highmore (also Keri Russel, Robin Williams, Terrence Howard and Jonathan Rhys Meyers).

Watch this movie when you want something deep and fabulous. You will cry in that fantastic life way.

Charlie Bartlett I watch twice every time I try to watch it once. (actually this is the same with all three of the movies I've recommended)

Charlie Bartlett, which has the same main character, Anton Yelchin. Anton is undeniably talented and chooses his roles very well. Charlie Bartlett fantastic see the trailer. AND WATCH IT. The movie is fun, a teenage romance of modern day. It deals with real issues and people. (also stars Robert Downey Jr., Hope Davis and Kat Dennings.)

Middle East International Film Festival

As you know I am fascinated with Oceans and while following around yet another movie that so magnificently showcases my favorite thing on the planet (Oceans preview from Disney to be released on Earth on day so I will write about that later) I found some thing more interesting.....The Middle East International Film Festival

I vote for Sons of Babylon, --preview--- it is about a boy & his grandmother (pictured above) as they travel around Iraq in post Saddam era. The preview ignites my curiosity and excitement so much. I am excited to have a human story to give face to Iraq. I have had an irrevocable affect on Iraq, the people and the future; all without personally lifting a finger. And I do not even know what that effect really means. I am so ready for this movie.




Bombay Summer. Part of why I am so excited about his movie is Joseph Mathew, who wrote, produced and directed this movie. I think he is a bad ass: leaving India in '94 to study finance in the USA, then realising that he was a creative and joined the Associated Press to work on photojournalism and film making, and making 2 awesome documentaries and now there is Bombay Summer, his first feature movie. It follows a career woman who falls in love with an artist, the story is about kindred spirits, self discovery, rural vs. city life and when life forces you to make decisions. And it is set in India.

and maybe Hipsters, set in 1950s Soviet Union, its a musical whose heroine lives in a "kaleidoscopic world of fashion, jazz, music and swing dancing."* I cannot help but be reminded of the book The Unbearable Lightness of Being (the best book ever and AdS' favorite- even though the book is from a different time (1970s) and takes place in the satellite states, not USSR like the movie. I think I will love the crazy female character and the excitement of loving life against such outright oppression. A review from the tronto film festival best describes the movie as "a vibrant musical (that) might not be what you'd expect from contemporary Russian cinema, but Valery Toforovsky's Hipsters is an Iron Curtain version of Swing Kids meets Hairspray, bursting with razzle, dazzle and of course, rhythm."

*quotes from Variety weekly edition meiff section

Fierce People for Lisel and Caroline

This post is for Lisel and Caroline (who has somehow not seen this movie dispite the fact that,
Carter, Caroline's cousin turned me on to this movie right when it came out in 07. I immediately watched it again. Every time I watch this movie I watch it twice. That is how good it is. Fierce People 's trailer does an ok job explaining the movie... the movie has such depth of characters and incredibly compelling actors. I love it.
you can currently watch Fierce People at home, it is under the Free Movies on Demand on your tv (I will check this evening and give uber specific directions about how to get to it)