Interview (2007) Sienna Miller, Steve Buscemi, Michael Buscemi.
Buscemi portrays a washed-out political journalist who is assigned by his editor to interview a celebrity actress (Miller) who is more well-known for her horror flicks, her steamy love-life, and her soap opera character than her acting.
This movie is a remake of the original in [...]
Entries from January 2008
January 31, 2008
Rita does not recommend…Interview
January 22, 2008
Rita recommends….Breaking Away (1979)
Rita takes umbrage with a reviewer who called Breaking Away, “a silly little cycling movie.” P-shaw! This is one of my favorite movies from the 1970s….For all those cyclists out there, this little flick will warm your heart and justify those shaved legs….
How could you not be rooting for working-class hero Dave? (Dennis Christopher) He [...]
January 20, 2008
Rita recommends…Infamous
Infamous(2006) Directed by Douglas McGrath. Starring Toby Jones, Sandra Bullock, Daniel Craig, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sigourney Weaver.
The other Truman Capote movie, Infamous, follows the Oscar winning Capote almost a year later. Rita was advised to see Infamous to compare it with Capote and some had hinted they liked Infamous better. Well, I have to say I [...]
January 8, 2008
Rita recommends….Six Feet Under (2001-2005)
Created by Alan Ball (American Beauty), this dark drama series starred, Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose, Mathew St. Patrick, Freddy Rodríguez, Rachel Griffiths with occasional guest stars, Lili Taylor, Patricia Clarkson, Kathy Bates and Richard Jenkins.
I can not rave about this HBO series enough. I am still working my way through [...]
January 4, 2008
Rita recommends…Top Ten Lavendar Films!
In no particular order, this is Rita’s recommendations for the top 10 lesbian films to rent for a crash-course on girl-on-girl action!
High Art (1998): Directed by Lisa Cholodenko, this is a moody, ultra-hip flick shot on location in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Gamine Syd (Radha Mitchell) is an ambitious editorial assistant at a snooty photo mag [...]
January 3, 2008
Rita recommends…Capote
Capote (2005), aka the writer, Truman Capote, covers a very short time in the writer’s life, a span of six years, when he decides to do research into the 1959 murders of the Cultler family. He reads about the brutal murders in the
New York Times and is hooked. He calls his editor at The New [...]
January 2, 2008
Rita recommends….Clue
Based on the Parker Brothers board game of the same name, Clue, the comedic whodunit, was released in theaters in 1985 with a huge ensemble cast. When it originally opened in theaters, it received mixed reviews and was considered a flop at the box office. It was then released on DVD in 2000 and has [...]
January 2, 2008
Rita recommends….A Place in the Sun (1951)
The radiant Elizabeth Taylor and handsome Montgomery Clift star in this social drama about the haves and the have-nots. George Eastman (Montgomery Clift) is the working class protagonist with aspirations to work for his rich Uncle, Charles Eastman (Herbert Heyes) in his bathing suit factory. He hitchhikes his way from Chicago to his Uncle’s factory. [...]
