Mississippi Mermaid by Francois Truffaut and Hester Street and Love Actually

[Madelon Umlauf]

Connie,

Its movies movies movies around here. Last night we saw Hester Street. Black
& white
set in Lower East Side in 1896. Little tiny story but fairly well made
(where it wasnt
kind of lame). I'd have given it 2 1/2 or at most 3 stars. But the video
guide books give
it 4 and 3.5 stars. Go figure!

My mother was born on Hester Street in 1898 or so she said. So what? you
ask.
I asked myself the same question.

I'll look for Love Actually at the video store. I dont think it is in yet.

I do NOT like DVDs. Much prefer VHS format. Cant back up
a tiny bit and catch a missed line of dialogue in DVD. This really sucks.

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Connie Clark
To: austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 7:56 AM
Subject: *****SPAM***** Re: Mississippi Mermaid by Francois Truffaut


Mike,
A movie out on video that you may not have considered checking out, is 'Love
Actually'.  It is British and has big-time actors like Hugh Grant, Laura
Linney and Emma Thompson, but is a small movie, not working the star power,
just the story, or stories.  Hugh Grant plays the British Prime Minister and
at some point in the movie has a press conference in which he denies the
American President the diplomatic and other cooperation that he expects. I
guess it must be a secret wish of the Brits to see such a scene, which is
not a big part of the movie.
Some scenes you may consider a little too corny or Hollywood driven, but
other parts I thought were offbeat and original.
Maybe you've already seen it.

Always looking for another really neat movie.
Connie


Michael Eisenstadt <michaele at hotpop.com> wrote:
Lesser flick by Francois Truffaut starring clothes
horses Catherine Deneuve et Jean-Paul Belmondo.

The McGuffin is their separate dooms or fatalities
which combine in the end as they walk in the snow to
their death in the mountains. She brought up in an
orphanage, he the feckless owner of a cigarette factory
on the island of Reunion.

Unsatisfying film in the seeing of it redeemed the
next day by talking about it.




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