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Five Film Weekend

We haven't done a five film weekend in quite some time. These are all sorta somewhat connected, even though Kevin Bacon doesn't appear in any of them.

Die Another Day (in Lodi, Friday night), with Halle Berry, Pierce Brosnan, and John Cleese;
Monster's Ball (w/ Halle Berry and B B Thornton) on Video Saturday night;
The Man Who Wasn't There (w/ BBT) on Video Saturday night;
Frida at the renovated Del Mar, downtown Santa Cruz, on Sunday (Connected to Die Another Day via Geoffrey Rush, who worked with Pierce Brosnan in The Tailor of Panama, and more loosely via John Cleese, who worked with Jamie Lee Curtis in A Fish Called Wanda; Jamie Lee was also in The Tailor of Panama). Incestuous business, eh? I guess we really should have seen The Tailor of Panama this weekend.
Y Yo Mama Tambien (at least that's how I keep hearing it) on DVD Sunday night. These last two are connected only by language and country, both showing aspects, character, country and culture of Mexico rarely seen in the US.

By Sunday, Deb was really ready to see a movie that doesn't have dead people prominently figuring in it. She was disappointed in that. All films quite worth seeing, though. I thought Frida was by far the best of the lot, skillfully weaving Kahlo's art through the story. If they had spent any more time on the politics, or any more time on the personal infidelities and pain that figured so prominently in her life, the film would have been less.

Y Tu Mama Tambien is sexy, difficult, amusing, repulsive, fascinating, philosophical, beautiful, and frustrating.
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