I’m a little behind on seeing the most recent movie openings because, as usual, I’ve been so consumed by San Jose’s Cinequest film festival. You can find my comments on 20 Cinequest films at my CINEQUEST 2014 page. Remember that Encore Day – in which Cinequest reprises its most popular films – is this Sunday.
Anyway, the promising newer films that I HAVEN’T yet seen are The Grand Budapest Hotel and Tim’s Vermeer. Still in theaters are:
- the gloriously entertaining American Hustle;
- superb filmmaking and a great Sandra Bullock performance in Gravity;
- the Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave, a good film that I do NOT recommend; and
- the Chilean drama Gloria about an especially resilient 58-year-old woman.
My DVD of the week is Nebraska, which made my Best Movies of 2013. Nebraska is available on DVD from Netflix and Redbox and streaming from Amazon Instant, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube, Google Play and XBOX Video.
On Monday, Turner Classic Movies is showing the 1970’s nugget The Outfit, which I’ll be profiling tomorrow. On the 21st, TCM will show perhaps Paul Newman’s most charismatic performance in Cool Hand Luke.