Recently watched the 6 episodes Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant's new series Extras. Hilarity. Not quite as crippling as The Office but a damn fine piece of work. Stephen Merchant's part as Ricky's agent is brilliant. The show is infinitely better than anything that came out on American TV this season. Well, I guess they're showing it on HBO... But you know what I mean.
This is pretty sad... Right now as I write this Takashi Miike's Izo is playing practically down the street from me. Only I just found this out 10 minutes ago. Curses! Also, that trailer's dissapeared... But all that is practically meaningless anyway as it seems this one's come out on dvd at some point over the past couple weeks anyway. That certainly snuck up on me.
What's also sad is that the theater it's playing at, The Brattle, is finding it hard to make ends meet these days and may go under. Nasty bit of news, that is. It's a great place to find movies that don't find a distribution deal in the US. As well as new prints of onld movies and well, everything in between. They used to, still do?, have a yearly thing of showing Brazil and Blade Runner as a double feature. For a better ode to the Brattle check this article for a practical eulogy. I can't help but think how at this moment there's people across the nation looking for donations to help rebuild their towns and cities, schools and libraries, and a independant movie theater must seem like the last thing worthy of their spare cash right now. But it certainly would be a shame to see it go.
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