There’s a certain delight in seeing a movie completely cold, knowing nothing about it, except that it takes place on a train. I hadn’t heard anything about so it was pleasing to have this character-driven drama slowly unfold its story in unexpected ways. A Finnish woman Laura (Seidi Haarla) is taking a several day train …
When Anthony Bourdain died a couple years ago by suicide, I was one of the few people I knew that didn’t have a visceral reaction to the news. I knew who he was, of course, in sort of a pop culture way, but had never seen any of his travel shows nor had read his …
When a lovely young Romanian cello player chastises a shaggy-puppy American that he is only involving himself in her world because he “has a fantasy about helping a woman in a faraway land…”, she hits the nail on the head. Rather, I expect, she totally pegs the screenwriter of Charlie Countryman, one Matt Drake, whom …
I’ll admit it, I’m a bit of a Japan-o-phile. I (heart) Japan! When I heard about this film, about a couple of Americans wandering around Tokyo, I immediately thought, “Oooo… now there’s the movie that I would make if I had money/talent/actor friends!” Lucky for me, Sofia Coppola, who in my book is well-out of …