Recently:

  • Brazil – It seems that we’re increasingly living in this movie, doesn’t it?
  • The Frighteners – I saw this at a matinee showing when it came out. There were two other people in the theater, which I believe pretty accurately described how the movie did financially. I never could quite figure out why, because at the time, I thought it was a pretty awesome little movie, and a recent re-viewing has led to me to conclude that it really has stood up extremely well. If you haven’t seen this movie before, put it on your to-see list. It’s very good fun.
  • The Toledo Show – A pretty amazing show, from the smoke cloud surround Toledo, to the great improvisational interludes. A bunch of us had dinner at Tangier (w/ special guest Jish)

  • Zelig – a “mid” Woody Allen movie (1983) that I’ve never seen before, but is a pretty clever whimsical documentary-style retelling of the story of a human chameleon (played by Allen, of course). It’s very well done and pretty sharp. It’s actually similar in a lot of ways to the recent Sweet and Lowdown. I think that the way these two stories turn out is sort of revealing… or perhaps I’m reading too much into things.