Lots to see at the multiplex - and more on the way
It may not be a banner weekend for Hollywood studio releases, but the Miami Film Festival opening-night charmer La Misma Luna (Under the Same Moon) is out in regular theaters today. Also still playing are Caramel, Funny Games and the brilliant 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, which is easily my favorite movie of the year thus far and deserves to be seen in a theater, not just on DVD.
Coming up soon are several films I'm eagerly anticipating. Opening next Friday is Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park, his third in a loose and unplanned trilogy of movies (after Gerry and Elephant) about young people, murder and really long takes.
Arriving April 4 is Shine a Light, Martin Scorsese's concert documentary on the Rolling Stones. And due on April 18th is Wong Kar Wai's My Blueberry Nights, his first film set in America and spoken in English. The movie got a lukewarm reception at last year's Cannes Film Festival, but I don't care. Even bad Wong Kar Wai is still Wong Kar Wai.
I thought Last Days completed the trilogy.
Posted by: Chris | March 21, 2008 at 10:06 PM
You're right, Chris. I forgot all about "Last Days" because I always think of it as the Kurt Cobain story, which makes it a standalone thing in my mind. But I guess "Paranoid Park" is really the last film in a quadrilogy.
Posted by: Rene Rodriguez | March 22, 2008 at 12:53 PM