3 a.m. post

writing in german all day my english seems to escape me these days.

i have watched a few movies that i liked a lot but since i'm always blogging late at night these days and also talked about the films on msn a lot (-->you probably already heard me blabble about them), i will just list them here and give you two or three good reasons to watch them(if you havent yet).

Les Poupées Russe:
a) it's the sequel of L'Auberge Espangole (or Euro Pudding if you are from America) and that film is awesome.
b) Cécile De France+ gayness = me smiling // the little lesbian subplot is not exactly free of clichés, but it's hilarious.
c) the street of ideal proportions. you need to find out what that is. seriously.

Party Monster:
a) 80s costumes galore mixed with crazy amounts of drugs and gay boys. How can anyone say no to this?
b) Macaulay Culkin - that might just be a reason for me, but i think he's adorable.
c) ...the rest of the cast is pretty awesome too: Chloe Sevigny in platform shoes, Wilson Cruz (aka. Rickie out of My so called life) with leather hats and angel wings, Seth Green smoking crack for breakfast)

I did watch Out of Africa, too. It was still a pretty good movie, although I was slightly irritated by Meryl Streeps accent in the original version (I had only seen it in german before). [My mother thinks the fact that i dont understand how sexy Robert Redford is shows how gay i really am...]
..uhm if you havent seen this:
they are lions. // there is meryl streep.// --> they fight(guess who wins..)//  maybe you can enjoy robert redford more than me..//

I never finished Vampyros Lesbos - I think there is only so much camp that I can take in my own language - i had a nightmare about these first five minutes..


edit/ p.s.:

i watched this a dozen times yesterday:

no more excuses

It's been a long time. I'm almost too embarrassed about that to post again. But since someone subtly hinted that i should, here i am. And i just happen to have watched two movies this night. Actually had started to watch the third one just before writing this post.

Let's start with that one. Vampyros Lesbos. I have only seen 5 minutes of it so far. There was a ship and a mosque. And a woman making out with her own image in the mirror. That was before she turned around to make out with another woman who apparently tried to look like a mannquin doll and moved robot-like. Also in those five minutes I saw a man with the creepiest mustache ever. This movie might actually be funnier to watch than I anticipated. I haven't seen any vampires yet, though.

The other 2 movies i saw tonight were: The Constant Gardener and The Last King of Scotland. Both actually very recommendable. I especially liked the photography in the constant gardener. I didnt think it would be that good while watching the first fifteen minutes though. The main character(Ralph Fiennes as Justin Quayle) wasnt at all appealing to me. But Rachel Weisz was. Which made the film so sad. Anyways as the story develops it becomes quite an interesting movie and as i said,
the images are awesome, i think i'd watch the movie for that alone. 

The Last King of Scotland is a more classical narrative, but with an awesome Forest Whitaker in the leading role. Gillian Anderson plays some doctor's wife and looks completely like Dr. Quinn. Which was slightly irritating.

I have to watch a lot of movies about africa over the next few weeks, so this topic might come up again. What are your favourite movies set in africa(kenya and ugunda preferably)? I can't say i have seen many until now. The only one that came to mind when I thought about it was 'Out of Africa' and of course for that i have to thank my dear mother, since that used to be one of her favourite films back in the eighties/early nineties.