Recommended by Masson in The Face on Your Plate

Recommended by Masson in The Face on Your Plate.

Recommended at greenasathistle.com. Looked interesting.

Recommended by Alice Waters and “The Future of Food”.

Recommended by Masson in The Face on Your Plate.

Wow! I had no idea this movie was going to go to the depths it did. Supposedly, it is required viewing in alcoholic rehab centers so I suppose it’s a realistic portrayal of the descent into alcoholism. A little preachy, perhaps. But fantastic acting and very scary stuff!

Very interesting reinterpretation of Washington Irving’s “Legend of Sleepy Hollow”. The schoolmaster, Ichabod Crane, becomes Constable Crane and rather than the telling of a legend, we are given a very interesting, twisted, detective story.

This was Woody Allen’s first movie to direct on his own. (He also wrote it and starred in it.)

My husband and I were laughing hysterically at his attempts to play the cello in a marching band, the side effect of temporarily becoming a rabbi, and his get away attempt with the chain gang!

The film is presented as a mockumentary. Allen said that he had always wanted to try the format because any little silly thing you do is funny set against the seriousness of the pseudo-documentary format.

I love The Milagro Beanfield War!

Milagro is a small, fictitious town in New Mexico where things haven’t changed for 300 years. But developers, with the aid of the New Mexico government, are planning to make big changes.

Thanks to one man who decides to do something so seemingly trivial as plant a bean field, the dusty city wakes up.

This film is considered by many to be the first to portray magic realism. Old man Cordova, his guardian angel, and his Saint rituals are fantastic!

The Coen brothers directed, produced and wrote this film.

Definitely quirky with an incredible ensemble cast of actors, most of whom the Coen brothers had in mind when they wrote the screenplay.

George Clooney and Brad Pitt play “dueling idiots”, John Malkovich is a hilarious ex-CIA man and Tilda Swinton plays his extremely cold,insensitive wife who is having an affair with George Clooney. Francis McDorman plays a woman who works in a fitness center dead set on getting plastic surgery and willing to do anything to get it. She works with Brad Pitt who plays the most idiotic character I have ever seen him play. The Coen brothers wrote the role with him in mind and Pitt said he wasn’t sure whether to be flattered or insulted. He’s great in the part, however. :)