Tag: Midnight in Paris

• Favorite Films of 2011

  I saw a number of fine films in 2011. Here, I talk about the great ones and what I thank them for. Beginners, for Christopher Plummer’s exuberance as a recently-out elderly gay man; for Ewan McGregor’s hopeful melancholia as his perpetual bachelor son, and for this exchange between them: “HAL: Well, let’s say that since…

  Jan 8, 2012

  # Attack the Block, Beginners, best of, film, lists, Marcy May Martha Marlene, Meek’s Cutoff, Midnight in Paris, movies, review, The Artist, The Muppets, The Tree of Life, Win Win, X:Men: First Class

• Love and Illusion in ‘Midnight In Paris’ and ‘Me And Orson Welles’

  Is this the real life? / Is this just fantasy? / Caught in a landslide / No escape from reality / Open your eyes / Look up to the skies / And see.—“Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen A few summers ago I was in Guatemala with my sister, staying with an older married couple near the…

  Jun 26, 2011

  # film, Me and Orson Welles, Midnight in Paris, movies, Owen Wilson, Paris, Rachel McAdams, review, Richard Linklater, theater, Woody Allen, Zac Efron