A Slumdog Twilight Tale (Weekly Links)

Movies I reviewed this week for the Herald. Kind of a strange moment when I find myself favoring a teenybopper vampire movie over an anointed Danny Boyle darling, and a Jean-Claude Van Damme picture is really interesting.

Twilight.

Slumdog Millionaire.

Bolt.

JCVD.

A Christmas Tale.

Days and Clouds.

Obscene.

Fuel.

And I talk to KUOW-FM’s Jeannie Yandel about Twilight and Slumdog; the movie part begins at 31:00: here.

Movie Diary 11/15/2008

A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin, 2008). I thought Desplechin’s How I Got Into an Argument… was one of the best European films of the 1990s, and so far Kings and Queen is right up there in this decade. So although this is clearly the work of the same director and has lots of stuff I like, the bar is set pretty high…. (full review 11/21)