Friday
Sep212012
Open (Sick Bed) Thread
Friday, September 21, 2012 at 12:15AM My mysteriously morphing flu has been unmasked: it's actually pneumonia. Please exhibit patience whether I blog like a maniac from bed (possible) or just sleep for next few days.
What's on your cinematic mind?
update as of 8:30-9:30 am'ish friday -- in just 110 days we'll be hearing the Oscar noms read out!
Reader Comments (36)
So are u "an incubus of viral plague"?? Familiar??
Get well soon! Think Meryl in Out of Africa!
Get well! My cinematic mind can't wait for LOOPER and PITCH PERFECT.
Let yourself be spoiled, get lots of rest, and feel better soon!
After perusing the extended looks at THE HOBBIT and LES MISERABLES I'm getting really excited for the Christmas season!!
To aid a speedy recovery become the object of your infatuation. Michelle Pfeiffer of course. What does she look like when she's sick in a film? Gorgeous with wet hair worried eyes and quivering lips. Maybe that's a bit much?
I want you to feel better. Wear warm pajamas with thick socks. Wrap yourself in cover tightly into a cocoon. Whatever movies you watch in and out of consciousness make sure it's pleasant and not ugly or demanding.
The hard stuff comes into your dreams. No Jodie Foster in The Accused. Better no Jodie Foster movies at all. She has an extreme filmography for an American actress.
My cinematic mind is still on Paul, Joaquin, and The Master. It's the type of film that's made to reinforce the seriousness of the medium. It demands and deserves your respect.
Get well boo boo, we need you.
everyone in new york is sick! I had pneumonia last fall, refused to acknowledge it for a week and a half and then it took me another two weeks to fully recover, even with the help of antibiotics. (i also had some crazy hallucinations, but no one needs to hear about that). Take care of yourself and get well quickly!
get well, Nat.
We miss you!!
Pneumonia is no joke. Please take a break and get a good rest.
I just saw Anna Karenina, and I really loved it as a semi-satisfying book adaption and wholly satisfying visual extravaganza. The stylized, literally stage-bound setting was something that worked to the advantage of the film... I had to reflect back to almost one year ago when I saw Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights, which I also loved and was about polar opposite in sensibility to this film - hand-held cameras, almost all dialogue trimmed away. Now I know the classic novel tends to made into a type of film that have a certain look with predictable beats, but WH and Anna Karenina definitely prove there are still ways to be creative about it.
I guess in summary I'm saying: costume dramas, don't be afraid to try new methods! And get well soon!
i have had flu for 3 days,u have mys sympathies,remeMber what whoop said in moonlight n valentino - CHICKEN SOUP.
Pneumonia is v.serious. Please take care of yourself.
A regular cold wasn't enough? :p Get well soon!
My cinematic mind, and the non-cinematic as well, is on Ewan McGregor, who's receiving the Donostia Award in a few days.
Damn, pneumonia is pretty serious. Get well soon and enjoying some catch-up viewings. Tons of interesting things on Netflix streaming to help pass the time. House of Pleasures was recently added, if I can recommend a nice surprise that I saw earlier this year.
On my cinematic mind? Smiles of a Summer Night, which I'm watching for the first time but had to return because it was unplayable after about 30 mins into it. Grrr. Also, possibly seeing The Master (and maybe even Dredd since the reviews were pretty good) this weekend and really looking forward to that.
Please, always put health first. We miss you but we can wait. Get well soon my friend.
I know Pneumonia is serious so i'm not leaving my apartment. but i literally can't *just* sleep (my body is not very good at sleeping. never has been) so I hope to get caught blogging from bed. We'll see...
after this I am going to start taking echinacea daily and starting yoga again because my god there's no reason for me to be sick this often and i felt and looked so much better when i was doing that every day.
Must be a more sensible person!
now that i'm done feeling sorry for myself from a week of misery, I'm just so mad that i'm missing great movies daily :(
NEXT WEEK I SHALL SEE AS MANY MOVIES AS POSSIBLE ;)
Did anyone else see the Lifetime poster for Lindsay Lohan's LIZ AND DICK? :-)
I know I shouldn't be excited for this, but I'm totally watching!! lol
here's the link:
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20630930,00.html
Hope you feel better soon :)
Ryan, we're twins. I'm very excited for Looper and Pitch Perfect. Also, curious about The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Get well soon, Nat.
The Stoker teaser trailer. "Personally, I can't wait to watch life tear you apart".
i'm thinking about Anne Bancroft and how she was underutilized in her career. There are some roles she could have been brilliant in. Iris Murdoch, for example. i can't believe that playful Kate Winslet grows up to be dower Judy Dench. Bancroft would have brought some residual sex and mischief to the older iris and felt more organic.
Gell well soon, Nat!
I've been quietly obsessing for the last 24 hours with Living Out Loud and Holly Hunter. I don't love the movie all that much, but the song "Do You Love Me?" by Brownstone came up on the shuffle yesterday and I immediately am drawn back to the dance sequence at The Confessional. Love it!
Aw, feel better, Nathaniel! I so hear you about getting itchy to DO SOMETHING when sick - I cannot just stay in bed even though I feel like it. Which is why I thank God for laptops and Netflix streaming!
On a compeltely separate note, I have literally NO CLUE what to see this weekend. There is simply too much good stuff out there! Although I literally cannot wait any longer for Perks of Being a Wallflower. I have been waiting for that movie since I read the book when it first came out. It really meant a lot to me as a high schooler. The trailers and advance word have me positively salivating with anticipation.
Eric, the great Anne's birthday was Monday. I just had a viewing of The Pumpkin Eater and The Miracle Worker. My God, she was a rare flower. I adored her. She was robbed of an Oscar for The Graduate, an iconic role she deserves full credit for. ITA, she did not make very many movies. Of her later supporting work, she easily deserved noms for How to Make an American Quilt and for a very brief yet stunning turn in Malice. One of my favorites...I could write about her all day long. Thanks for the great post!
Feel better, Nat! I used to have problems sleeping, too. One quick thing? Don't blog in bed! In fact, get that computer out of your bedroom completely. I know, easier said than done, but there is a reason behind it. I won't get bogged down in details here. Email me if you want to chat about it - I've had to take about 4 or 5 steps to getting better sleep but they've worked really well.
On my cinematic mind - getting to see The Master and The Perks of Being a Wallflower ASAP.
Nathan, if you want a Jodie viewing to brighten your day, I suggest Freaky Friday, which is still a cinematic bonbon and also has the incomparable Barbara Harris. Still can't believe Jodie made this movie the same year she did Taxi Driver! Talk about your creative spectrum. And I thought Diane Keaton filming Annie Hall and Looking For Mr. Goodbar one after the other was rough! Please feel better soon.
Get better!!! (Which sounds angry to me when people say it, as if it's a threat)
Anyways, I have no interest in the totally mediocre looking 'End of Watch,' yet its getting some decent reviews. Would much prefer to spend the weekend catching up with movies I've never seen that are supposed to be great (I've got Red Desert by Atonioni at home), but feel a need to always see what's out now. Hmmmmm.
Dying for you to do a Yes, No, Maybe So for the Lifetime Liz & Dick trailer with Lohan.
I'm just thinking about "Hitchcock" and its Oscar chances... I'm very excited about Helen Mirren as Alma Reville (while most people who seem to be "stuck" on Anthony Hopkins) and I'm specially curios about seeing Johansson playing Janet Leigh.
Hope you get well soon :)
Dear Mr. R.,
get well soon, take care of yourself.
Brazil has chosen O Palhaço / The Clown, a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful film that reminds us of Fellini's great films.
The director is a Brazilian actor that works since he was very, very young in this country.
It deverses the nomination. Against it: maybe a little bit slow paced for general viewers. But, I dare say that if it gets nominated the film can actually win.
I watched Intouchables the other day, it will probably make it, the film is ok, but the abundance of cliches annoys a little bit.
Again, get well soon.
Marcelo - Brazil.
Take care of yourself. I think the festival gods must have something major in store for you like a trip to Berlin or Cannes, making you miss Toronto and New York this fall.
On my cinematic mind is that I think I'm actually going to get to see The Master tonight after being prevented twice this week in seeing it. Boyfriend and I are debating between 70mm on a small screen or 35mm (I assume) on a big Ziegfeld screen. I think we're gonna go with the Ziegfeld.
Nathaniel, I had that virus going around in July and was out for a week, so rest and feel better. Perhaps a list of our favorite Sick Days Feel Better with This Movie List!
Sleep, perchance to Dream.
I saw 'The Master' today in Boston. A wonderful, big, ambitious film. The acting is over-the-top superb. I thought PSH was the standout. The sets and costumes are fabulous. A must see.
I'm late on this thread, but I just saw Hal Holbrook speak at my school. It makes me want to check out more of his filmography, and also revisit Into the Wild (which I can remember loving).
I saw 'House at the End of the Street' tonight. Jlaw and Elizabeth Shue are the only good things about that movie. It's funny, both Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence both have stinker movies out - he has 'The Words' and she's got 'House at the end of the Street.' In a month or two, when 'The Silver Linings Playbook' is released, they'll bask in the glow only oscar nominees get.
BTW, I wonder if Lawrence has "mommy issues" - in HATES, she plays yet another independent teenager whose mother was absent and/or neglectful. This makes it the third time she's revisted this theme in her work. First there was 'Winter's Bone', then 'Hunger Games', and now 'House at the end of the Street.'
On my cinematic mind is (as usual) Judy Davis and I'm wondering whether any of those who were disappointed by the under-utilization of her talents in To Rome With Love will be checking out her performance in The Eye Of The Storm? As a Davis connoisseur, I am thrilled to report that it is her best work/role in years. The film itself is rather flawed, but nevertheless extremely watchable and it is a veritable feast of actressing (Geoffrey Rush acquits himself marvelously, but this is the Judy & Charlotte Show). It's currently playing in US theaters and I believe it's also streaming on comcast and available on itunes.
Maybe one to enjoy from the sick-bed, Nathaniel? Get well soon.
I saw "End of Watch" which was exciting and intense- Pena and Gyllenhaal have great bromantic chemistry but this is not "Brokeback Adam 12"