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Arts and Music (Cont.)

The Prater's Creek Gazette

15th Issue Fall 2007 Page #8

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THE TAO OF STEVE - (2000, Rated R) Stars Donal Logue, before his TV series Grounded for Life, as an, aging, overweight kindergarten teacher who still huffs down bong hits before work. He still can seduce the women with his “Tao of Steve” a Zen-like philosophy based on the two Steves: McQueen and McGarret.

BLOW- (2001, Rated R) Directed by Ted Demme and based on the true story of George Jung, a cocaine dealer who was there to sell the evil white powder at the beginning of the 70’s when America starting sticking straws up it’s collective nose. Johnny Depp plays Jung, and I fell in love with Penelope Cruz, who plays his wife, and had my heart broken by Emma Roberts, who plays his daughter, while watching this movie.

STORYTELLING - (2001, Rated R) Written and directed by Todd Solondz. As with all of his movies, Solondz serves an audacious skewering of society. Divided into two parts: Fiction and Nonfiction. “Once you start writing, it ALL becomes fiction”. Selma Blair and John Goodman are seen in the best roles that they’ll ever get to play.

THE ANNIVERSARY PARTY - (2001, Rated R) “Um... I lost my husband and my beeper... have you seen either one of them?” Jennifer Jason Leigh and her husband wrote and produced this funny film about the day (their anniversary) in the life of a Hollywood couple. Jason Leigh’s best friend in real life, Phoebe Cates, co-stars along with her real life husband Kevin Kline and their children, along with many of their friends playing themselves. And Parker Posey had to be really doing Ecstasy in the scenes where a few partygoers do the drug. I think Posey is a fantastic actress, better than fantastic, but not even she is good enough to “act” that high.

GHOST WORLD - (2001, Rated R)
Rebecca: This is so bad it's almost good.
Enid: This is so bad it's gone past good and back to bad again.
Rebecca: You actually like that guy?
Enid: I don't know, I kind of like him. He's the exact opposite of everything I really hate. In a way, he's such a clueless dork, he's almost kind of cool.

Two teenage girls who are best friends, and real weird and arty, go their separate ways after high school. Based on the comic book, it stars Scarlet Johanson (in her second film after The Horse Whisperer) and the great, awesome Thora Birch. This movie is so funny and sad. Grandpa, of The Drovers Old Time Medicine Show, identified with Steven Buschemi’s character, and loves Thora Birch and this movie so much he wrote a based on this movie. It was the first DVD he ever bought.

Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN - (2001, Rated R) “La vida tiene sus maneras de enseñarnos. La vida tiene sus maneras de confundirnos. La vida tiene sus maneras de cambiarnos. La vida tiene sus maneras de asombrarnos. La vida tiene sus maneras de herirnos. La vida tiene sus maneras de curarnos. La vida tiene sus maneras de inspirarnos.”

Mexican movie with English subtitles directed and co-written by Alfonso Cuaron. Two teenage boys go on a road trip with a beautiful woman they meet at a wedding.

LOST IN TRANSLATION - (2003, Rated R in U.S., PG everywhere else in the world) One of the most compelling movies of all time, written and directed by Sofia Coppola. Bill Murray stars as a washed up movie star doing television commercials in Tokyo and Scarlett Johansson plays a newlywed that is being neglected by her busy husband. They meet in the bar of the hotel where they are both staying and form an emotionally deep friendship. This movie broke my heart. What does he say to her at end of move?!

THIRTEEN - (2003, Rated R) “Tracy was playing with Barbies before she met Evie”!
Evan Rachel Wood is so good in this film, and so is Nikki Reed who co-wrote it. Wood’s character starts out in the film as a kind of nerdy thirteen-year-old and soon falls under the spell of Reed’s character, the hottest bad girl in school, and descends into a world of sex and drugs. Holly Hunter plays Wood’s mom.

A MIGHTY WIND - (2003, Rated PG-13) Directed by Christopher Guest and co-written by Guest and Eugene Levy. What Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer did to heavy metal with the “mockumentary” This Is Spinal Tap , they do to folk music in this film. Levy and Catherine O’Hara are great as an old folk duet reunited for a tribute concert, and the song they sing.

And Parker Posey plays the mandolin!

KING OF BLUEGRASS: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JIMMY MARTIN - (2004, Rated BG) Produced and directed by George Goehl. This movie grew out of an interview for the magazine Bluegrass Unlimited. Along with concert footage shot while Goehl was making the film in 2002, there are great interviews with the greatest rhythm guitar player and lead singer to ever sing with Bill Monroe. So that’d make him the best ever. Yeah, I said it, better than Lester. Martin truthfully discusses why he was never asked to join the Opry. (Psst, he could be a little cantankerous, and a LOUD DRUNK)

CLOSER - (2004, Rated R) Not exactly a great date movie. A great movie though. And Julia Roberts in her best role yet. And Natalie Portman…. She rules.

GARDEN STATE - (2004, Rated R) Written and directed by Scrubs Zach Braff it is his love letter to his home state. And Natalie Portman rules.

NAPOLEON DYNAMITE - (2004, Rated ) “Vote for Pedro” Directed by Jared Hess, and co-written by him an his brother Jerusha. Living in small town Idaho, Napoleon would score chicks if he “only had some skills”. If you have seen it, you know it has the best dance scene in the history of filmdom.

As tender a family movie as you’ll ever see.

PALINDROMES - (2004, Rated R) “People always end up the way they started out. No one ever changes. They think they do but they don't. If you're the depressed type now that's the way you'll always be. If you're the mindless happy type now, that's the way you'll be when you grow up. You might lose some weight, your face may clear up, get a body tan, breast enlargement, a sex change, it makes no difference. Essentially, from in front, from behind. Whether you're 13 or 50, you will always be the same.” Written and directed by Todd Solondz. The story follows the story of Aviva (a palindromic name, same word spelled backward) a 13 year old girl. Six different actresses (two grown women, four girls ages 12-14, one six year old girl, and one six year old boy, play the part of Aviva. Solondz brilliantly, and humorously, tackles some touchy subjects without telling us what is “right” or “wrong”. The most liberal and the most conservative viewers will be both appalled and tickled.

THE DEVIL AND DANIEL JOHNSTON - (2005, Rated R) “I have lost my mind” Documentary about the gifted, and mentally unstable singer-songwriter. I watched this movie a dozen times when I rented it. If this would have been fictional, you’d say “Very entertaining, but it could NEVER happen in real life”. Oh, but it did. And it do somewhere in the world on stage right now. Grandpa, of The Drovers Old Time Medicine Show, says he feels like Daniel Johnston, and that Beverly is his Laura.

LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE - (2006, Rated R) “We have to let Olive be Olive” This is the best movie of the last 25 years. If you don’t get a lump in your throat and smile so hard at other times that your face hurts, then you have no taste in movies.

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