I asked and you responded. Thank you!

Here is the long list of films that you recommended I rent in the next month or so while recovering from surgery. If your suggestion isn’t listed, my apologies; I have actually seen it but haven’t noted it my database. Obviously I will not have time to watch all of them, but if I do watch your selection and it is my favorite among the other rentals, I will buy you a DVD (see details here).

1. The Bicycle Thief
2. Blue Velvet
3. Bringing up Baby
4. Dancer in the Dark
5. Diva
6. Dogfight
7. Everything is Illuminated
8. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
9. Floored by Love
10. Fright Night
11. The Frighteners
12. Hedwig & the Angry Inch
13. The Hitcher
14. Interiors
15. Kicking and Screaming
16. Klute
17. Light Sleeper
18. Little Manhattan
19. Looking for Mr. Goodbar
20. Manhattan Murder Mystery
21. The Milagro Beanfield War
22. Pan’s Labyrinth
23. Philadelphia Story
24. Places in the Heart
25. Real Women Have Curves
26. Rebecca
27. Rize
28. September
29. Shaun of the Dead
30. Shoot to Kill
31. Super Troopers
32. The Theramin
33. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
34. Vampire’s Kiss
35. Wild at Heart

I live in a suburb that is quite lacking in the DVD rental department. The closest mom & pop/independent video store is, sadly, 20 minutes away. Up until last week, we were forced to rent at evil Blockbuster, but they finally pissed me off enough to walk away forever (because they won’t offer Season 4 of Nip/Tuck even though the 3 previous seasons are available). We used to have Netflix, but stopped our subscription when we upgraded our digital cable to include almost all premium movie channels. That was a stupid decision. Long story short, we’ve rejoined Netflix and I will be getting my money’s worth in December!

Thank you for playing. I shall keep you posted.

It was inevitable that the cast of Deadwood would move on to new shows and films. I am a huge fan and they deserve the exposure. But to be perfectly honest, I have not adjusted to seeing them all so…clean.

We’ve spotted many Deadwood regulars (and memorable characters) in movies and on other TV shows, and clearly there are casting directors out there who share the love for the now-defunct HBO series and its stars:

• Silas Adams: Gone Baby Gone, Jericho, Law & Order, NCIS, Numb3rs, Shark
• Blazanov: CSI NY, Chuck
• Martha Bullock: Boston Legal
• Sheriff Seth Bullock: Catch & Release, Hitman, Live Free or Die Hard
• Johnny Burns: Cold Case, Criminal Minds, CSI
• Calamity Jane: The Good German, Law & Order SVU, Life, Lost, Numb3rs, Things We Lost in the Fire, The Unit
• Dan Dority: Numb3rs
• Ellsworth: Big Love, Criminal Minds, CSI, John From Cincinnati, Supernatural, The Unit
• EB Farnum: Life
• Alma Garret: Hollywoodland, The Wicker Man
• George Hearst: Jericho
• Hostetler: The Bill Engvall Show, Daddy Day Camp, General Hospital, How I Met Your Mother, Norbit
• Leon: Hollywoodland, The Riches, State of Mind, Two and a Half Men
• Harry Manning: In the Valley of Elah, Life, Without a Trace
• Tom Nuttall: Gridiron Gang, Saving Grace
• Con Stapleton: Desperate Housewives, Dirty Sexy Money, John From Cincinnati
• Sol Star: American Gangster, CSI, Without a Trace
• Steve: Life, The Unit
• Joanie Stubbs: Lost, Numb3rs
• Al Swearengen: Hot Rod, We Are Marshall
• Cy Tolliver: 24
• Trixie: Cold Case, Criminal Minds, ER, John From Cincinnati, Lost
• Charlie Utter: CSI, John From Cincinnati
• Frances Walcott: The 4400, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Damages, ER, John From Cincinnati, Law & Order, Life, No Country For Old Men, Numb3rs
• Wild Bill Hickok: Dexter
• Mr. Wu: Crank, John From Cincinnati, The War at Home, The Young and the Restless

So tell me, fellow Deadwood fanatics, who am I missing and where did you spot them?
  

I’ll be honest and brief.

Listening:

• Into the Wild soundtrack
• Raising Sand (Alison Krauss & Robert Plant)

Reading:

• Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (Elizabeth Gilbert)

Watching (Movies):

• An Inconvenient Truth
• Art School Confidential
• Blood Diamond
• Hard Candy
• Munich
• Volver

Watching (TV, in addition to the usual):

• Kathy Griffin: Straight to Hell
• Nip/Tuck, Season 4 (Disc 1)
• Tin Man (miniseries with Zooey Deschanel & Alan Cumming; a sci-fi update of The Wizard of Oz)

Writing (reviews):

• American Gangster
• Into the Wild

Don’t forget that my movie contest is still open! You have until this Saturday to recommend a film that I have not seen. If I watch it in December and your choice was my favorite, I will buy you a DVD. Here are the details and rules.

Have a good week, virtual friends.

It has been reported that the Writer’s Guild of America (WGA) will be meeting with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) tomorrow in an attempt to discuss and negotiate the terms of the writer’s strike. Ideally, this could lead to a quick resolution. But from what I’ve read, that won’t be easy or likely.

Do you ever make a statement that you can’t believe is coming out of your mouth? I am about to repeat something that I said after seeing Hairspray earlier this year…

Of course Enchanted will be the number one movie this weekend. And of course your children will love it. It just wasn’t my cup of tea. I am more of a Pixar girl myself, when it comes to choosing a film with youthful spirit and suspension of disbelief.

Did any of you see it?

September 24, 2004

Pretty people roaming around, disoriented. Clothes dirtied by disaster. Fear in their eyes.

So even though I have no idea what’s going on in the new trailer for your movie Cloverfield, I will be there opening night.