April 20, approaching nirvana for Jax anyhow

Not only are the aforementioned (please page down cuz I'm too lazy to make an extra link!) Run, Fat Boy Run and Persepolis still around or back, but we also have Snow Angels (depressing doings in a small New England town; I thought the trailer looked pretty interesting, depressing or no)

There's quirky brit/continential hit man comedy In Bruges not to mention heavily promoted Smart People, which reviewers think is either semi-fabulous or highly forgettable. Also presented for patronage or disdain is period noirish dramedy Married Life
and...men over sixty cavorting around in tiny skinny stage trousers... Rolling Stones performance film Shine a Light.

March goes out like a lamb? A lion? An extinct carnivorous marsupial?

Hard to say, but it does look as if there are a couple of interesting movie choices.

There's The Counterfeiters,  a well received Austrian movie about dark times in the mid-twentieth century.

In less grim vein, we have Run, Fat Boy, Run which is meeting with a mixed reception.

For There WIll Be Blood fans...

SNL's take on Daniel Planview and the drinking of milkshakes.

March comes in like a lion!

From the director of Eternal Sunshine, who is also auteur of The Science of Sleep, we get an auteur outing, Be Kind, Rewind.

Reviewer sentiment is v mixed on Charlie Bartlett but it looks kind of fun.

This brings us to my personal choice, Persepolis, which is loved by pretty much all critics It's only at Regency, which is kind of a neutral factor for me.

Actually, I guess I have two personal choices, seeing as how The Diving Bell and the Butterfly has finally showed up right here in River City.

Big screen choice for second weekend in Feb

Gotta be Steep, docu about extreme skiing. At Regal.

There Will Be Blood has spawned a meme, or at least

a catchphrase.

Seems as tho "I will drink your milkshake" has caught the popular imagination in a big way!

Won't try for a full post mortem on I'm Not There

except to say that since so many screenplays have been radically slicing and splicing timelines and point of view, how could they not try persona?

I thought the real show stealer was "Woody." Here's a youtube interview with the actor He's not as adobable cuz he's a full blown teen instead of being poised (gracefully!) on the cusp between childhood and adolescence as in the movie, but he's still got the charisma thing going on.