All Shall Love Me and Despair

The Hampstead Theatre finally put up details about their Everything is Illuminated play.

Dang - not the best schedule for me. ( Cut for rambling about holiday plans )

Right, bedtime NOW!!! Sweet dreams everyone!

EII is showing at the 4th ANNUAL PHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST FILM SERIES on May 14. Details here. (Whoever wrote that entry should be smacked - it's Liev SCHREIBER, not Schriever!)

Here's my little log of my cinema day in Zurich. Slight spoilers for both Brokeback Mountain and Everything is Illuminated.

( 2006-02-18 Zurich cinema day )


And that's it. :)

Well I only just got up something like 10 minutes ago, have yet to eat anything - and rats I need to go get some breaed but I don't want to, even if the shop is only 2 minutes from here - but I wanted to post this already. Still knackered as I had some weird dreams last night, something X-Files like and I was Scully and pregnant and there was that woman that was after me which we had captured but we let her go because she could give us more clues, and then two other dreams at least which kept me going in and out of sleep. *yawns* Will now go see what I can whip together for a small meal, then tackle my flist. And I really really need to do some studying.

Laters!

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Thanks to kissing_athelas for posting pics from two of the deleted scenes that will be on the EII DVD... I can NOT wait to get my hands on the DVD so I can see Lij "in action" in that first scene!!!! *giggles uncontrollably* Can't you just imagine Lij having a total ball shooting this?!



On another note - have to add the Walk the Line DVD to my Amazon Wishlist. Seriously good movie, and Joaquin is phenomenal - Reese is great too, oh and the two of them singing - nothing short of amazing! Are there some songs on the soundtrack with them doing the vocals? That was the one thing that I was disappointed about with the Doors soundtrack - that they only had the original versions (and hey, I LOVE Jim's voice), not even a single song with Val doing the vocals, and I thought he did a good job.

They're already showing Everything is Illuminated in Lausanne and Geneva! And Brokeback Mountain in Lausanne! And the German part of Switzerland has to wait for both until February 16th!!! Four more weeks!!!

*pouts*

Spent most of today in bed - every time I thought to get up I dozed off again. I did get up around noon to eat a bite and download my e-mail. Will have some tea now and try to come up with the energy to make dinner. Maybe I'll stick to yoghurt and stuff like that.

Just checked the Swiss cinema release date listing and omg Everything is Illuminated is listed for 14 February - same day as Brokeback Mountain! Guess I'll have to find a cinema in Zurich that plays them on the same day and preferrably in the afternoon! And imagine how surprised I was to see that On a Clear Day is listed for release on 22 December?! I doubt I'll get to see it though, as I probably won't get to Zurich before the new year. Rats.

Speaking of films, I saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on the flight to LA, which was good - I like the dark humour. On the way to Auckland the plane didn't have individiual screens and I decided to forego Dukes of Hazzard... *shudder* On the flight from Auckland to LA foxykc and I watched The World's Fastest Indian, and then The Island, which was better than expected - but then as KC said, how can you go wrong with a film that has both Ewan McGregor and Sean Bean in it? ;) On the flight from LA to Zurich, I watched a documentary about George Michael - seems to be a very recent one as it chronicles events up to 2004, and it was quite interesting.

ETA: Good grief, how could I forget to mention: In NZ we also saw Narnia which was good but certainly nowhere near the same league as LOTR, and King Kong. Which IMNSHO is a 3-hour "OH.MY.GOD." moment! Seriously, GO SEE IT! PJ certainly has outdone himself. It's amazing, and what a ride! There are a few scenes where some people may have to shut their eyes but omg the film is very much worth sitting through them! GO SEE IT!!! The 8th wonder of the world indeed...

Well, I better go make my tea...

I shouldn't read any EII reviews anymore. Especially not ones like this. They remind me how I want to see it so badly, but they just won't let me!!! *sob*


ETA: PLEASE let this be a good omen!!!!

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050913/FILMFESTIVALS03/509130301

They took a chance. So did Liev Schreiber when he directed “Everything is Illuminated,” starring Elijah Wood as a solemn young man who goes to the Ukraine to thank the woman who saved his grandfather’s life, and meets two half-crazy guides who specialize in “tours of dead Jews.” There is the old grandfather (Boris Leskin) and his grandson (Eugene Hutz), an actor who sings with a gypsy punk band and is in his first movie. The film begins as a screwball comedy and finds a trajectory straight to the beating heart of truth, and how Schreiber controls that tonal shift in his directorial debut is hard to say, but he does. I went to see the film a second time because I felt I had been paying the wrong kind of attention when I saw a screening a month ago, and I was right about being wrong. Yes, I gave it thumbs up on TV, but I wasn’t focused on its greatness. I think it helps to see it twice, to understand the journey it takes.

Someone mentioned he'd be reviewing EII on this coming Sunday's show - I hope someone can tape and upload it, would love to see/hear what he has to say on the show!

It's good but somehow I get the impression the reviewer didn't read the book, despite mentioning it at the beginning...


Sep. 07, 2005

Everything Is Illuminated
By Michael Rechtshaffen

( Bottom line: Leave it to Liev: Schreiber capably adds writer-director to his impressive resume with this winning take on the Jonathan Safran Foer novel. )

Pictures are up at Wireimage and Getty.

serenitysangel if you go here you'll find several galleries featuring Orlando - if you haven't seen them already. :)