film festival Thursday

Mom and Dad took off for Baldwin and the motorhome this morning, so this afternoon i took a trip to the video store to find something good to watch on my day off.

i grabbed "factory girl" with Sienna Miller as Andy Warhol's protege, Edie Sedgwick. interesting film. well done. good characterizations. i didn't know much about Edie before the movie other than she was part of the whole "factory" crowd. Guy Pearce made for a creepy Andy Warhol, and wow...was Hayden Christiansen fun to watch as the "Musician" they couldn't tell you was Bob Dylan cuz Bob didn't want anything to do with the movie.

truth be told, i rented this movie cuz i heard the sex scene betweeen Hayden and Sienna was real...so i wanted to see it for myself. it WAS really hot and sexy. it was really freaky tho, cuz Hayden looks like Brendan, and that was really weird to watch.

it was a sad movie. she was a sad person.

then, i popped in "The Last King of Scotland." Forrest Whitaker was magnificent. when Idi Amin's insanity comes bubbling to the surface, he is bloodthirsty and so incredibly frightening i could barely breathe. James McAvoy plays Nicholas Garrigan, a doctor who goes to Uganda, searching for a different life than his father's. the good doc gets that...and more. the scene in which he realizes he can't get out of the situation he finds himself in? wow. sinister, really. Gillian's in the movie, too, at the beginning, as the wife of a doctor, living out in the jungle. she looks beautiful with blond hair. Forrest deserved every ounce of that Oscar...

next up..."The Queen." i'll watch it tomorrow before i take all of them back, and get a few more movies that i want to catch up on...

one other thing...while i was at Family Video cruising the shelves for something to watch, i spied "The Long Weekend" out on dvd in the States. Chris still has my region 2 copy. now that i know it's available to watch on a "regular" dvd player, am i going to buy it? do i want it anymore? will it just be torture to watch him kiss someone, knowing he was thinking of me? maybe so, maybe so...