July 2011 Screening Log

1 Tried to watch Biutiful
2 ANYTHING GOES on Broadway (my thoughts). Sutton Foster was bliss but she's so often that way... i.e. ALL THE TIME... that I'm starting to think of her as the Meryl Streep of Broadway... i.e. you are guaranteed a good time.
3 Tried to watch Biutiful
4 Had a Fourth of July party in which we mostly just drank, ate, talked but at one point Beyoncé was on the television warbling out her new single and doing a really incongruous "you go girl" jutting elbow / hand on hip action... incongruous because of the awards show ball gown she was wearing whilst doing it.
5-7 It's like I lost this time. What was going on? I have no idea. Another nervous breakdown maybe.

8 The penultimate episode of Friday Night Lights. I am already crying awaiting the series finale next week. Easily the best show on television that isn't named Mad Men. And even then... 
9 More "Wonderfalls" -- nearing the end of the series.
10 How's this for a double feature: TRANSFORMERS DARK OF THE MOON chased by FAR FROM HEAVEN (for umpteenth time). The boyfriend is now watching The Lady Eve which is pure bliss but I really must get some work done.

I've never seen Frank so soused!

Damnit. It sucked me in THE LADY EVE too. Then the latest episode of True Blood (write up)
11-14 Hmmmm Oh I did see a play in here somewhere, "Oscar Wilde's Salome". And ALIENS for the Hit Me series
15 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part Two [Review] and Friday Night Lights "Always" which means two "it all ends" happened on this Friday. In addition to those the pilot for My So Called Life (my god the memories) and Vera Farmiga's directorial debut HIGHER GROUND. She's marvelous in it. 
16-18 TV mostly including new eppys of True Blood (write up), Drag U (I'm still madly in love with Raven, hunty) and Teen Wolf which is so very uneven but easy to sit through. Summer is so boring on TV and at the movies. Can't wait for fall.
19 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER. I enjoyed. Best superhero movie of the year ferssure. Not that it's a high bar. 
20-end oh christ. i suck at screening logs. i do still have eyeballs and they have still watched things. I was in Michigan with friends so no real movie activity though there was much TV watching: Torchwood, Spaced, Flight of the Conchords, Bernie Mac. I did see parts of a hideous Bill Murray about an elephant (what the hell?) and watched EMPEROR'S NEW GROOVE for the first time. I was mildly amused but I am so allergic to David Spade that even hearing his voice was problematic.

May 2011 Screening Log

01 Tonight we're going to The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures by Tony Kushner (Angels in America) off broadway. Two nights ago we were all wishing Kushner had just called it Intelligent Homosexuals just for the odd conversational fragments  it would prompt

'what are you doing tonight?'
'Oh, we're going to see Intelligent Homosexuals!'

02-16 OOPSIE. FORGOT ABOUT THIS. AND DIDN'T NOTICE ANYONE READING THE SCREENING LOGS. Uh, I saw some things. Like... Thor, Pirates of the Caribbean: The One With The Mermaids, Bridesmaids and a few DVD offerings like Matador.

17 A couple of episodes of True Blood. I'm almost caught up for Season 4. Nobody on this show ever goes to the gym. They are constantly drinking beer and eating things like burgers and fries. The only exercize they get is sex. How do they stay so fit with zero body fat and rippling abs? Even the women have six packs.

Also saw ISHTAR at 92nd Street Y and Elaine May was interviewed afterwards. So funny. Both the woman and the movie; it's rep as a disaster is entirely unearned.
18-27 Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, 1932's Tarzan the Ape Man, Norman Jewison's adaptation of the musical Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) and the Broadway production of The Normal Heart. (I liked the revival a few years ago starring Raul Esparza better.)
28 Norman Jewison's MOONSTRUCK (1987) which so should have won Best Picture at the Oscars. It holds up so so well, extremely funny and warm.
29-31 a nostalgia filled weekend with Adventures in Babysitting, The Rescuers and MOULIN ROUGE! And also The Other Woman. Blech. more on each soon.