We've been hearing so much about The New World, Terrence Malick's retelling of the fourth verse of Peggy Lee's "Fever", but all we could think when we'd watch the trailer is "BORING!" Well, our disinterest has been validated yet again by our nemesis Mick LaSalle, who terms it "a masterpiece". Yeah, that tears it -- we won't be seeing that.
Fortunately, there's lots of other cool movie stuff going on this weekend. For example, Joseph F. Lovett's great documentary Gay Sex in the 70s plays at the Castro tonight to January 26. Detailing the near unprecedented era of homosexual freedom between Stonewall and the AIDS epidemic, this film is not for anyone disgusted by unfortunate facial hair. (Which, come to think of it, is probably true of The New World, as well. Not a good weekend for the pogonophobic.)
Image from Deadline at Dawn, playing this Sunday at 1p.m. as part of the Noir City festival
Did you enter to win tickets to Coachella? Even if you didn't win, you should still go see this documentary on "the most critically acclaimed music festival in the US." at the Roxie this weekend.
And don't forget that Noir City, San Francisco's own film noir festival, continues its run at the Palace of Fine Arts, with more movies at the Balboa from Monday through Thursday of next week. Our own SFist Jake will be out there taking in the darkness, so keep an eye out for his coverage right here on SFist.
How about you? What are you all hot and bothered about seeing this weekend? Let us know in the comments!
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I always THINK I'll be bored by Malick's films, but I always end up completely enraptured by them, as flawed as they often are.
The LaSalle rave is troubling, however.
Terrence Malick's retelling of the fourth verse of Peggy Lee's "Fever"
I almost fell off my chair (which is actually an exercise ball, so it does happen) when I read that. Quel great metaphor. Y'all are like the SuperFriends of witticisms, neutralizing your nemeses with bons mots. Dang.
It's like magic that Mick LaSalle phenom. What reassurance it is to know that his opinion leads Opposite World and I can walk the other direction.
There was, however, some hope in my heart that this one film on the miserable Virginia Colony might satisfy my curiosity, and my hunger for an epic of the encounter btwn my Anglo-invader forebears and the Tidewater locals.
I thought the New World was pretty amazing, but then I'm a Malick partisan. If you liked the Thin Red Line in part because of the subplot of Jim Cazaviel's encounters with the islanders, rather than in spite of that subplot, you're almost guaranteed to like the New World.
Don't know what to make of LaSalle's rave, other than that he's reviewing a different (longer) cut of the film than the one playing in theatres. So maybe the Opposite World principle still applies.