One weekend every month I host a movie marathon for myself featuring anything I want old and new. This particular event involved a strict diet of melba toast, light laughing cow cheese and red wine plus some comfy but chic sweats and my partner in crime, my little dog rocco. I saw High Fidelity on an airplane some years ago and fell asleep, read the book this summer, loved it and wanted to revisit the film, which was mildly entertaining, save it for a rainy weekend. Me Without You features Michelle Williams pre-Brokeback Mountain stylist makeover and it's wonderful, highly recommend it. I also LOVED a Slipping-Down Life with Lili Taylor so much; it's a really simple movie but for some reason it moved me and there was this great chemistry that seemed believable between Guy Pierce and Lili.....
The Notorious Bettie Page was also really cool, I'm surprised it didn't get a bit more attention than it did, I'm thinking of buying that one on DVD and possibly dressing as her for Halloween...........The BreakUp was dissappointing, not at all what I expected although based on the other 3 post Brad breakup movies that Jen Aniston did, I didn't have high hopes, but geeez, it was pretty bad..........and by far my favorite choice was Down in the Valley with Evan Rachel Wood and Edward Norton....it was heavy and sad and beautiful and their chemistry was so real, I was completely moved by both of them and the story.....