Short of the Week:
This week's selection is Eliot Rausch's Last Minutes With Oden. The short recently won Best Video, Best Documentary, and Community Choice at the 2010 Vimeo Awards. Eliot Rausch's short doc tells the story of Jason Wood's dog, Oden, and the two's final minutes together. Last Minutes With Oden is a touching and well produced film. The story, although hard to grasp at first, is a tearjerker. It can be hard for me to take such sentimental things seriously, depending on the context and production values, but Last Minutes With Oden is a strong exception. Intimate, focus-lapsing shots and smart editing allow the plot to prevail. It's no wonder the video won the awards it did. Check out the short below, and get some tissues ready if you've ever owned a dog.
The Weekly Taste:
127 Hours
Directed by Danny Boyle
Plot: Aron Rolston (James Franco), a young and reckless hiker, gets caught between a rock and a hard place- literally. In a battle to survive, Rolston must go to extremes in order to overcome his situation.
Full of dazzling colors, unique imagery, and fine directing, 127 Hours is one of 2010's best films. James Franco delivers an incredible performance, and the result is a gripping, intense, and physically exhausting piece. If you haven't seen this movie yet, do so soon- it's received far less attention than it deserves.
Midnight Showing...and a Few Hours Later
A perfect movie or close to it. Get off this blog and see this movie immediately.
The Roommate
Directed by Christian E. Christiansen
Plot: A girl moves in with a creepy roommate who begins to obsess with her.
If it weren't for the obnoxious talking scenes, The Roommate would have been the best unintentional comedy in years. Full of hilarious "scares", incoherent editing, cliches and stereotypes galore, and muted colors, redundantly named Christian E. Christiansen's The Roommate started of February on a brown note. This movie sucks. Hard.
Find Something Else To Do
Really, really bad. Sometimes too bad to even laugh at.
I Love You Phillip Morris
Directed by Glenn Ficarra
Plot: Steven Jay Russell is gay, gay, gay, gay, gay. However, he soon learns that being gay requires lots of money- so he becomes a con man.
It's too bad I Love You Phillip Morris ended up as it did. Even with Jim Carrey in the lead, and a couple of good jokes here and there, the comedy ends up being little more than a typical con man movie with a homosexual main character. The somewhat dry script and mostly average directing pull from what could be a truly funny and touching trip to the movies. If only much of I Love You Phillip Morris wasn't mediocre.
Rent it
Flawed, but there's enough entertainment available to warrant a viewing.
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