Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Things I Want to See at IC

Here's a list of the movies I really want to see at IC - at least so far. Sometimes I add things after I see the preview. Feel free to tag along.
  • The Lives of Others - Done and done. Excellent. (German)
  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - going tonight. It's about the editor of Elle, who becomes paralyzed except for his left eye, and he blinks out his memoirs. (French)
  • Under the Same Moon - hopefully sometime this week - about a little boy from Mexico whose mom is working in the states. Whoever is taking care of him dies and he goes looking for his mom. (Spanish/English)
  • Our Brand is Crisis- a documentary about designing campaigns - engineering democracy in other countries. It looks interesting. (Spanish/English)
  • After Life - something about sifting through memories at the way station between earth and heaven, trying to find a memory that will take you to heaven. (Japanese)
  • The Chorus - An idealistic teacher turns a group of delinquent students into a choir. (French)
  • Whisky - a lonely middle aged man asks his friend to pretend to be his wife when his more successful brother comes to visit, and they seem like a real married couple, even without much interaction.
  • The Willow Tree - I'm tired of writing synopses. (Farsi)
  • 3 Iron - (Korean)
  • Turtles Can Fly - this one has come up every year for like 3 years, so I should probably go and see it. (Kurdish)
  • Khadak - (Mongolian)
  • The Legend of the Black Scorpian - an adaptation of Hamlet, apparently. (Mandarin)
  • After the Wedding - (Danish, Swedish, Hindi, English)
  • The Painted Veil - (Mandarin, English, French)
  • Kundun - directed by Scorsese, about the Dali Llama - cool. I wonder if Brad Pitt will be in it. (English, Tibetan, Mandarin)
  • Bella - I remember seeing this one in the paper when it was at the Broadway, but I didn't see it. (English, Spanish)
  • The Orphanage - Okay, all I can say is that when I saw this was playing at IC I went, "Really?" But it's playing during the week of Halloween, a time when I do like to be scared. So there you go. (Spanish)
  • Bamako - (French, Bambara)
  • Infernal Affairs - the original movie of what became The Departed. (Cantonese, English)
  • L'enfant - (French)
  • Goodbye Lenin! - This sounds great to me. A lady goes into a coma, and while she's out, the Berlin wall goes down. Her son keeps up the illusion that the DDR is still alive and well. (German)
  • Buena Vista Social Club - I've had this soundtrack FOREVER, but I've never seen the movie. I think it's time. (Spanish, English)
  • The Golden Door - (Italian, English)
  • The Visitor - another I wanted to see at the Broadway and didn't. (English)
  • Persepolis - French, English, German, Persian
  • The Joy Luck Club - Miri? You want in on this one? (English, Mandarin, Cantonese)
I'm so excited.

6 comments:

Katherine said...

Man, I miss the IC.

Janssen said...

I loved After Life.

I wish I'd gone to more IC films. I'm a loser.

Lin said...

i think i might try to get my hands on a few of these in the name of the finer things club, maryland chapter. i think the country of maryland needs to be exposed to more foreign films.

also - i've seen goodbye lenin and i liked it a lot. there's another german one that i can't remember at the moment that is also good - Der Krieger und die Kaiserin with Franka Potente, but i'd have to watch it again to be certain of content.

Makayla Steiner said...

I enjoyed "Under the Same Moon." I think you'll like it.

Miri said...

Yes ma'am, and also probably The Orphanage. I haven't heard anything about it except what you wrote in this post, but that's enough for me. :)

Drew said...

Can you believe I've seen two of these already? Diving Bell was really interesting, and The Visitor was quite boring and slow-moving. You may like it though.