- Synecdoche, NY
A couple reasons I need to see this:
-Directed and written by Charlie Kaufman. He also wrote Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, and Being John Malkovich. All great movies. Synecdoche is his first venture into directing, so we'll see how he does with that. If I were to judge by the previews (a dangerous game, in my experience), it looks like he did pretty well.
- Philip Seymour Hoffman. Is there anybody he can't play?
- Defiance
Daniel Craig, although it has taken him a while to move up from B-movies to Hollywood-grade fare, he really is a decent actor. Also this movie is directed by Edward Zwick, who has made two decent/good movies (The Last Samurai, Blood Diamond). Also, although it's an incredibly-overdone genre, WWII movies still hold a certain appeal for me.
I got about halfway through this movie before, and then I just couldn't take it. I need to go back with a renewed sense of resilience and watch the rest of it. It really is a horrifically heavy story, but one that I do want to finish. Plus how can I say no to a movie in which Donald Sutherland doesn't completely suck?
Although I'm usually not a huge fan of Asian cinema, I was highly impressed by Korean director Chan-wook Park's Oldboy, and so I do want to finish "the vengeance trilogy." To watch subtitled films, however, I really need a time when I can just sit and watch the movie, rather than just watching it in the background or without my complete attention.
- The Warriors and The Lost Boys
Sure, these are both old, cheesy action flicks, but they've also achieved something of a "cult classic" status, which makes them worthy of adding to my list of "have-seen"s.
I've heard a lot of great things about this movie, but just never bothered to watch it. I have it waiting for me on a DVD, I just need to get around to it.
Amazingly I still haven't seen this Wes Anderson classic. Again, waiting on a DVD.
There are of course many more but I'm tired of writing now.
