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Originally Posted by Griff
I finally saw Birdman. Excellent work by Keaton, Norton, Watts, Stone even Galafinakis brought game. Norton is some powerful shit.
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I keep thinking I should watch that movie. It looks really good - I've heard people say it's Keaton's best performance.
As some of you might have picked up I've been following a Lost/Person of Interest/Michael Emerson trail and, as is often the case with these little connection trails, it's taken me to some interesting movies. Often stuff I'd just never really watch otherwise, like some tiny indie movie that never even had a release over here - or subject matter that wouldn't normally draw me in (like
Jumping off Bridges - sounded good and worthy but not that appealing - yet turned out to be a really quite profoundly affecting film).
Last night I watched
Straight Jacket , a 2004 satirical comedy set in 50s Hollywood. Wasn't quite sure what to make of it at first - they've kept a lot of the stage feel to it (it was originally a play) - but I ended up warming to it. It was laugh out loud funny in places.