Frost/Nixon dir. by Ron Howard.
Some people over the net bitched about how fussy all the attention this film has been getting, about how a film that is centered on a one interview can ever be awards-bait and all. I think it has the elements though. Based on a true incident, the sensational interview between Martin Frost and Richard Nixon after the Watergate has the stuff people get excited to, the subject matter at least I think, does too. It has a powerful cast with the two leads: Frank Langhella, who last year everyone hoped would finally get his due for a fine performance in Starting Out in the Evening and Martin Sheen, who I absolutely liked as a searing Tony Blair in The Queen, and who I think was also robbed of a nomination then.
Revolutionary Road dir. by Sam Mendes.
This has got to be the most anticipated movie of the season, and I guess everybody knows why. Sam Mendes, directs his wife Kate and Kate’s erstwhile on-screen lover Leo in an adaptation of Richard Yates 1960 novel about a crumbling marriage. American families in distress have been fodder of recent years in some movies and it’s perhaps because of the equally increasing distress in American history for the past decades. Of course, there was Mendes’ American Beauty and of two year’s ago, Todd Field’s Little Children, which I thought was one of that year’s best. But they say that the subject matter is more relevant during those times which make this sort of a prelude to the previous films with the same subject. And that’s why I’m looking forward to this, and to reading the book, not just because of Leo and Kate, but perhaps because of them too.
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i like the premise of revolutionary road - about a couple who each has their individual dreams but has to keep that on hold (for good?) because of other responsibilities (getting married, raising a family). parang buhay din natin - we have our own dreams, lalo na when we were younger and idealistic, but as years pass we find ourselves stuck in an ordinary life that we never planned.
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