Friday, January 2, 2009

(Some More of) The Best of 2008—Movies/DVDs

The Darjeeling Limited: For people (like me) who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they like.

Lars and the Real Girl: Really, really good. Well written and beautifully directed. And Emily Mortimer and Patricia Clarkson are amazing.

Midnight, The Talk of the Town: Pair the first one with The Palm Beach Story and the second with Holiday for maximum enjoyment of these classics.

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Greenfingers, Penelope (woohoo! Burn Gorman!), and Tristram Shandy: Hello, British people! How do you make everything better? Because you do. (Usually, anyway. See below.)

Northanger Abbey and Sense and Sensibility: Both Masterpiece Theatre productions were actually pretty good, in stark contrast to the similarly new versions of Persuasion and Mansfield Park, which were terrible, terrible, terrible, ow my brain, awful.

Show Business: The Road to Broadway and Company: Fwoop. That's the sound of me collapsing in dedication to the splendor of Raul Esparza.

Shut Up and Sing and Young @ Heart: Freaking documentaries convinced me to buy music I normally wouldn’t.

State of Play: Enjoy it now before Hollywood ruins it. Yes, ruins it.

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