It felt like I watched a lot this week, primarily because I spent a lot of time exploring not only the movies, but special features on three Criterion Blu-rays. I already posted my reviews for Roman Polanski‘s Macbeth (read my review here) and Federico Fellini‘s La Dolce Vita (read my review here) and just last night I watched Shohei Imamura‘s Vengeance is Mine as well as the 1999 interview with Imamura. As I’m sure you all know, exploring the features on a Criterion release can take some time, almost always more time than watching the movie itself. I’ll have my review of Vengeance is Mine this coming week.
The only other movie I watched this last week, and another movie I’ll have a review of this coming week, is Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu‘s Birdman, which did gangbusters this weekend in limited release and I’m really interested in reading some of the reactions to the movie from those that took particular offense to Inarritu’s comments lately, seeing how the comments not only play into the theme of the film, but the “cultural genocide” quote is actually muttered by one of the characters in the film.
Otherwise, it was a week of sports for me (as always with the football season upon us), I checked out the Seattle Auto Show and I took my first two yoga classes and let me tell you, that yoga is no joke. 90 minutes in a room at 105-degrees holding your body in positions you’ve never put your body in before… It’s great stuff and if you’ve never tried it, give it a shot if you’re looking for a new and interesting way to workout.
