September 26th Will Be a Tough Day for Me

Welcome to the second official day of fall! The weather insists on squeezing out a few more 80 degree days, but the leaves are starting to peek through with red and yellow and pumpkin-flavored everything is around (yesssssss!).

Fall also means Oscar consideration time and every single movie that is coming out in the next few months looks totally amazing. So I can count on a certain amount of anguish every Friday for awhile.

This week is especially tough because there THREE new releases that I am dying to see as soon as possible and I really do not have enough money.

First is Spike Lee's new film, Miracle at St. Anna. Miracle is Spike Lee's WWII epic and is based on the novel by James McBride. I'm generally burnt out on that particular sub-genre, but I'm very excited to see what will surely be Lee's reinvention. You can view the trailer here.

Next is Fernando Meirelles' Blindness, based on the novel by Jose Saramago. I read the book a few years ago and really loved it since it explores the possibilities of how society would break down after some freak occurrence. In this case, a weird form of blindness is highly contagious and causes the afflicted to only see bright whiteness. The only person not afflicted is Julianne Moore's character, who oddly enough is an opthamologist's wife. Trailer is here.

And finally, there's Choke, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk. Funnily enough, I read this book around the same time that I read Blindness, so if I'm any indicator, you can expect to see the film adaptation of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao in theatres in about five years. Anyway, the official synopsis for Choke is pretty fantastic:

Victor Mancini has got some problems -- when he's not haunting sexual-addiction meetings to bed women, he masquerades as a choking victim in restaurants to gather money from unsuspecting strangers for his ailing mother. But what happens when this messed up Colonial-era theme-park attendant finds Mrs. Right in the guise of his mother's doctor -- and how is he to tell her that he fears he is the next coming of Jesus Christ?

Palahniuk's words coming out of Sam Rockwell's mouth...I may have died and gone to nihilist heaven. Trailer is here.

Ugh, what will I see? It's going to be all Sophie's Kdiddy's Choice at the multiplex for me.

Comments

[Heather B.]

Dude, I have a spreadsheet. Don't forget Milk, W, Doubt, Fost/Nixon. It makes me weep at all of those weekends during the last few weeks of August when there was nothing. Now my head hurts.

[Heidi]

Last year AMC showed all 5 of the Best Picture nominees in one day. The tickets were pricey, but less than you would pay to go see them all individually and included free artery clogging, I mean, popcorn. I wanted desperately to go to that, but I was 8 months pregnant with a two-year-old at home so... it didn't happen. But this year! I'm already looking forward to it.

Also, thanks for noting that these movies are adapted from books. Now I know what to check out next from the library!