spotlight / anomalisa

movie marathon day -

1/ spotlight

- actors, actors, actors. it was a wet dream of a movie for these actors, each one so fabulous, just incredibly effective, intense, everything.

i thought why couldn't mark ruffalo be in every movie? what world would it be if mark ruffalo disappeared from movies?

liev schreiber! in his hairy, bespectacled, quiet, serious and sexy glory!

michael keaton! rachel mcadams! that other guy whose name i don't know! billy crudup! stan tucci!

- the subject matter. kills.

- journalism - reporting - papers printed on paper; a bygone era. something awe inspiring about such works of investigative journalism

2/ anomalisa 

- charlie kaufman, still a genius? i share his sense and sensibility that's for sure. just the right tone, the right kind of weird and bizarre, the right sense of humour.

- i'm no fan of animation - i will watch it, but never at a cinema, until today - and the sheer visuals of it were rough (as intended) and infantile but there was some freshness to seeing them fleshy and ugly in their humanness, their nakedness, in their complete imperfections.

- the voices. jennifer jason leigh who knew? - heard her voice so distinctively on the hateful eight and here too? 

- i do love it when a film makes you smile broadly, continuously, for many minutes, because you love the delightful scene, even if it is just one scene, just those few minutes, you forget it all, you forget every other thing, you are just immersed in that moment of utter joy and delight - and this film had that moment. even if after it all falls apart, just like in real life, no fantasy lasts forever, it's all dreary downhill to another downhill don't we know it all - but just those few minutes, ah how special they are. 

i'd recommend both.

pick a day, a rainy day maybe like it was for me this day.