Viewing Habit: Fish Tank = Highly Recommended
Fish Tank = highly recommended
Of the many, many films I saw during the days (Weeks? Months?) of extreme snow here in D.C., Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank was most striking. I went into the film not knowing much about where the film would take me. It turns out this is exactly the situation Arnold threw her actors into: no pages of the script beyond the currently-filming scene were made available. The resulting meandering film about sixteen-year-old Mia’s life in an English housing project with her non-parenting mother has been aptly compared to The 400 Blows.
- The White Ribbon is also about poverty and parenting. German pre-WWI feudal poverty and deeply conservative parenting. Highly recommended.
- The Cove is going to win this year’s Oscar for best documentary since it is an informative, engaging, advocacy doc about cute animals in danger. Nonetheless, I consider it recommended
- Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 = Fine
- Inglorious Bastards = Recommended
- Niloofar = Recommended (finally caught part of the Iranian film series at the Freer-Sackler).
- The Hurt Locker = Highly recommended. I feared this would just be a series of classic MacGuyver bomb-defusing scenes. Instead it paints a fairly nuanced portrait of the modern soldier technologically (and otherwise) insulated from war.
Categories: the cinematical
