I love my Apple teevee because

Right now I am rolling through Netflix's massive collection of streaming French romcoms of the aughts, watching one just about every other night.

They are not always great, or even good sometimes, but they hit me in a sweet spot like dessert. These films are truffles, rich luxurious barely naughty indulgences.  And I am always left wiping the chocolate from my mouth after they are done.

But, on my journeys through Romcommedia Francaise (my passport was stamped with a kiss, mais oui!) I have discovered one film that it is not available streaming, 8 Femmes, from 2002, starring:  Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Ledoyen, Ludivine Sagnier, Fanny Ardant (what a great name), and Emmanuelle Beart.  Oh, dear.  How have I missed this? So, I will track down this film and watch it as soon as possible.  It is a period chateau murder mystery with an all female cast and singing and dancing, too!

This is my type of dessert.

Watch this space for more news and pictures of my journeys.  There will be lots of postcards, I promise.











Mwah, ... 

Two very quick notes:

I have a friend at work who has never seen any of the six Star Wars movies.  She said, She has seen Spaceballs and figures she has got the gist of the series, already.  She also says that whenever Star Wars has been playing in a family setting she usually plays Solitaire.  Apparently she likes to play Solitaire during movies.

So brilliant!

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I love my Apple TV!  I just started watching Sports Night in its entirety last night.  I am halfway through Season One and it is so good.  I love Aaron Sorkin.  

What is Peter Krause doing these days? I hope it is not "theater", as The Wife and I like to say.

Of course, there are numerous fabulous quotables but my fave from last night was, "He became a writer for the same reason a man does anything, to impress women."

Give it another look if you have not seen it, or seen it in a while.  It is streaming on NetFlix.

Ciao!

The documentary Senna does not

Play like a documentary, at all.  It plays like an extremely well written scripted drama.  Many of the clues dropped in the "script", as it were, are really red herrings, trips in to a chicane on the course of the drama as it unfolds.  Plus, there is nary a talking head to be seen.  All the interviews are part of the soundtrack, with each witness meticulously noted in one of the bottom corners of the screen.  The entire film consists of racing footage; "backstage" footage of Ayrton Senna, other drivers, FIA officials, etc, ... ; and numerous clips of interviews with Senna himself.  The footage from Senna's perspective driving on the great Grand Prix of the world is breathtaking.  It appears as if he is always driving in a completely straight line throughout the race.  And I do not know poop about cars but even I was amazed that Senna won a race in his native Brazil with a broken gear box for the last dozen laps or so, finishing the race while only being able to drive in sixth gear.  Plus the music on the soundtrack, most of it by fellow Brazilian, Antonio Pinto, is absolutely stellar, too.

It is a particularly gripping little drama and one of the best films I have seen this year, very highly recommended.

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There is one major flaw in The Extra Man that v nearly undermines the entire film but I will not speak of it here because it might spoil the picture for those who have not seen it yet.

Despite that, I liked the film a good deal.  Paul Dano is the real star here.  He gives a fabulous, tactfully stagey, comedic performance here that, quite frankly, I never even suspected he had in him.  I obv have underestimated him.  And I greatly look forward to seeing more fun work from him.

Not as highly recommended as Senna, but The Extra Man is still a good watch.



Kisses, Happy New Year,
I loooove my new Apple TV!

Ardent