Very Close to, if not actually in, the CD player:
seen/heard ° stream album ° buy
seen/heard ° stream album ° buy
seen/heard ° stream album ° buy
seen/heard ° listen ° preorder
seen/heard ° listen ° preorder
I Won’t Let You Quit Me
It’s already mid-afternoon, and I’m not going to have that Prince write-up done until this evening, at best.
But y’all should take this out into the weekend with you: Today’s the start of the official run for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, which was one of the best movies – and the better western – of last year. Directed by and starring Tommy Lee Jones, it has its rough spots – Barry Pepper and January Jones are two of them – but is an incredible movie about friendship, honor, and forgiveness. Jones moseys between Peckinpah and peyote without ever going too over the El Topo, and he’s smart enough to stay out of the way of the script...which comes from Guillermo Arriaga, the writer of Amores Perros and 21 Grams.
It’s at the Landmark Sunshine in downtown Manhattan, and hopefully at a theater near you.
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UPDATE: Ooo! Ooo! The Ziegfeld is suddenly a revival theater. Which, as Out of Focus notes, can't be good for business. But it's good for moviegoers. Chinatown. And the two good Godfathers. At the Ziegfeld, at a "discount rate" of $7.50. Schedule here, and yes, it sucks that two weeks are being devoted to LoTR and Indiana Jones.
Wong Kar-Wai day at the Z, anyone?
If you stay for all three LOTR movies, they should reward you with a
refund.