Archives for November 2009

Ambivalence and possession. This film is about attraction and repulsion between two female students, Emma (Isild Le Besco) and Marie (Judith Davis). Romance between girls can turn well and become real love as it was shown in the very light comedy “Imagine me and you”. But it can also present real pain and end up in drama as in “Lost and Delirious”. “Je te mangerais” belongs to this second category.

Passion. Ambition. Butter. Do You Have What It Takes? Julia Child’s story of her start in the cooking profession is intertwined with blogger Julie Powell’s 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child’s first book.

Before she was France’s famous mademoiselle. The story of Coco Chanel’s rise from obscure beginnings to the heights of the fashion world. Beautifully made.

Drifting along the current of Jarmusch’s mind. For every way in, there is another way out. The story of a mysterious loner, a stranger in the process of completing a criminal job.

A newly separated father has to learn how to date again with help from his teenage son who himself dreams of conquering one girl’s heart. I love it.

Beautiful, Astonishing and breath taking. A romantic drama about a Chicago librarian with a gene that causes him to involuntarily time travel, and the complications it creates for his marriage.

Susan Murphy (a.k.a. Ginormica) and the Monsters are now working with the US government as special ops. The US goverment has hired Susan and the Monseters as special agents to investigate a case about alien presence in California. The aliens looks innocent until Halloween arrives.

Like You’ve Never Seen Him Before. A compilation of interviews, rehearsals and backstage footage of Michael Jackson as he prepared for his series of sold-out shows in London.

This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite. The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and flooded the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor. Black Dynamite was the one hero willing to fight The Man all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House

Don’t See It Alone. After moving into a suburban home, a couple becomes increasingly disturbed by a nightly demonic presence. “Paranormal” is extra-ordinary!