Sundance!

Attention film lovers:

Sundance film festival (the best thing to happen in any January ever) is right around the corner. You can be sure that I will be attending. I think you should all look over the catalog and let me know if there are any films you would like to see. I will purchase tickets sometime between Jan 8 and Jan 11, so you've got some time. The festival runs Jan 17-27. I will most likely attend Jan 19-23, since those are my days off, but, of course, you are welcome and encouraged to go whenever you can. More information, including the film catalog and schedule, can be found at www.sundance.org/festival. I can promise you that if you're interested in innovative, awe-inspiring film, great people-watching and/or super cold weather, Sundance delivers.

Dec. 4 - Edward Scissorhands

Genre: Fantasy
Rating: PG-13
Run Time: 105 minutes
Language: English
Once upon a time in a castle high on a hill lived and inventor whose greatest creation was named Edward. Although Edward had an irresistible charm, he wasn't quite perfect. The inventor's sudden death left him unfinished, with sharp shears of metal for hands. Edward live alone in the darkness until one day a kind Avon lady took him home to live with her fanily . So began Edward's fantastical adventures in a pastel paradise known as Suburbia.
From Tim Burton comes the unforgettable fairy tale starring Johnny Dep, Winona Ryder, Dianne West and Vincent Price as the inventor.

Jan. 8 - How to Draw a Bunny

Genre: Documentary
Rating: Unrated
Run Time: 90 Minutes
Language: English
How to Draw a Bunny explores the fascinating, often hilarious, and always enigmatic world of artist and underground icon Ray Johnson. A "Pop Art mystery movie," the film is framed by Johnson's mysterious death on Friday, January 13, 1995, the puzzling circumstances of which left both his intimate admirers and the general public wondering if this was a final "performance." Little has been written about him, yet the man who many have dubbed "the most famous unknown artist" was considered a genius whose career spanned nearly fifty years. Winner of the 2002 Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

Nov. 6 - The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

The 1972 surrealist film written and directed by Luis Buñuel, received an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film is described on Wikipedia as "a complex, shifting, virtually plotless web of dreams within dreams within dreams", and is about a group of upper middle-class people attempting — despite continual interruptions — to eat together.
It's in French, with subtitles. It's also unrated. Items of concern to sensitive viewers include several scenes of couples trying to have sex (and failing. No nudity), several scenes with ghosts and a subplot that involves drug dealing.