I watched LORD OF WAR last night. Though the movie came out in 2005, I never got the chance to see it. I highly recommend you do. What Andrew Niccol has accomplished is quit phenomenal. He’s made a mainstream movie that makes the watching of gun running both enjoyable and informative and leaves you with a feeling that you want to know more about the machinations that drive the gun trade in the world today. It is witty and erudite while also thought provoking. Nicholas Cage is at his most reserved best and I truly could have watched this for hours more. By utilizing the format of narrative first person reflection of films such as GOOD FELLAS and BLOW, he has crafted a film that allows the viewer to sympathize with the protagonist and environment in which the protagonist is allowed to thrive.
After that I watched THE libertine; a slice of life biopic about John Wilmot, the Second Earl of Rochester. It would seem that I completely disagree with most of the critics who panned this. I don't know if it was the wanton debauchery of the times or the character that put them off, or the fact that the visual style employed gives rise to the urine brown muck filled reality of the period. Personally I couldn't take my eyes off Depp. Think of it as a semi pornographic bodice ripper with a fatalistic ending and enjoy with a goblet of wine and a giddy perverse sense of fulfillment. Or maybe not, if you have no stomach for watching images such as a midget riding around on large a penis attached to cart wheels.
Still have SHOPGIRL to go. I have high hopes for this being that it is based on one of my favorite novellas written by Steve Martin. I do wish he'd come out with a new one.
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