I only managed seven films last month, nearly all DVDs of recent or last-year releases. I’m not convinced November will prove much better, but here’s what I’m aiming for, a potpourri of intriguing movies:
- Mao’s Last Dancer – the trailers fill me with dread but the book was so evocative, I have no choice
- Cold Souls
- A Serious Man
- In the same vein as the previous two askew films, I’ll catch up on Synecdoche New York
- Australian film The Boys Are Back, starring the wonderful Clive Owen
- Speaking of Clive Owen, I’ll catch up on one of his I missed, the comedic thriller Duplicity
- Hunger – the Bobby Sands story (DVD)
- Elegy with reliable Ben Kingsley (DVD)
- Academy Award winner Departures
- Another soccer film, The Damned United, based on the novel by the brilliant David Peace