Thoughts on Movies

Awesome! Now let’s see if I can get tickets in SF…I’m still waiting to find good seats there for The Odyssey. 😞

I’m finishing up my latest trip to Poland for work. Our office is next to Spodek, which is an arena in Katowice. “Spodek” means “saucer” in English, and it’s shaped like a flying saucer. I love that it plays the musical tones from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Gah, I’m traveling, and wasn’t on top of this, and now the 70mm IMAX theater in SF is sold out as far as tickets are available, into January.

Emily Wilson, who created a modern, well-received translation of The Odyssey, has an incredibly thorough review of the movie. While I liked the movie where she did not, I also enjoyed reading her take.

It almost goes without saying that The Odyssey will be up for Best Picture as well. That’s quite a feat for a retelling of a ~2,700 year old story, but Nolan pulled it off. Read my post for more of my thoughts.

Here are some thoughts on The Hollywood Reporter’s take on Supergirl, House of the Dragon’s S3 premiere, and Apple TV’s programming.

Some of the tidbits here about how the movie was being made at the same time at the same studio as Attack of the Clones were interesting, especially given that Ewan McGregor starred in both.

Ainsley and I went to see _Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair_ last night, and it was simply fantastic.

I wonder who she’ll be. Vicki Vale? Poison Ivy? 🤔 On a tangential note, I’ve been belatedly catching up on _The Penguin_, which has been fantastic so far.

I’m glad to see this kind of thing, and I hope—as the article indicates—that the other chains continue to invest in their large-format screens. In particular, I’d love to see more 70mm-capable IMAX screens. It’s one of the few things that gets me to go to the theater anymore.