DCist: Popcorn & Candy: Better Dead Than...

redline

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:15:09 -0500

Unfortunately it's not playing anywhere downtown, but Transsiberian (at Landmark in Bethesda) is an absolutely masterful thriller reminiscent of Hitchcock. That and it has the lovely Emily Mortimer (of Woody Allan's Match Point)-definitely worth checking out!

monkeyrotica

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:43:16 -0500

it's an often overlooked American classic, as well as one of the final examples of the studio-sponsored auteurism of the late 60s and 70s, when major studios would willingly throw money at the grandiose, though often unmarketable visions of strong-willed filmmakers. COUGH! Heaven's Gate. COUGH! I loves to bash me some celebrity communists, but Reds is actually a gorgeous piece of revisionist agitprop. Michael Moore can learn a thing or two from this flick.

Ian Buckwalter

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:38:41 -0500

Damn, really? How do you screw up a story that good? Thanks for the heads-up, Jillian.

Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:34:50 -0500

Aw, DCist. We were super optimistic about What We Do Is Secret, and then we saw it at the Philly Film Fest. And I really, really wish we'd stayed home. The movie actually made me angry. Too bad, because it's such an interesting story. Maybe someday, somebody will be able to do it justice.