The Wife once again left me to my own devices, so I decided to make it another five movie weekend. I started off with the Japanese gangster film Outrage at 6:30 Friday at Camera 3 in San Jose. I enjoy a good Yakuza flick now and again, severed fingers and all.
Saturday morning I drove to San Francisco for a tripleheader at the Embarcadero. Kicked it off with a noon show of The Artist. Wow. Had high expectations and it did not disappoint. The Artist will make my Best of the Year list.
Next I caught the 2:30 show of Shame. Lost count of all the sexual deviations.
I learn that the Embarcadero sells Nathan’s hot dogs with jalapenos and sauerkraut. Just what I needed.
And I topped it off with the 5:10 show of A Dangerous Method. I had just seen Michael Fassbender with a severe emotional disorder in Shame and here he’s playing Carl Jung! And who knew that Viggo Mortensen could be so funny!
Ended up at Sunday’s 12:20 showing of Young Adult at San Jose’s C12. I was very surprised that I admired it as much as I did. It’s something of a comedy game changer from Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody.
So there – five movies in 44 hours – and a fine time it was.