Ladri di Biciclette.

directed by Vittorio De Sica and set in Rome post World War II, The Bicycle Thief is a story about desperation, perseverance, and impoverishment. it won the Golden Globe for best foreign film in 1950. the ending is heartbreaking...and the acting is excellent. i never really get the desire to buy movies, but this is one that i must add to my collection.

trailer:

Pixar is the bomb.

from my favorite blog ever (Pop Candy). i love The Incredibles, Wall-E, Toy Story, basically anything Pixar does. this is the trailer for their next film, Up.

Movies I need to see.

sadly, i've had no time to go to the theatre. the movies i want to see are not playing anywhere except for L.A., of course, and that makes it kind of impossible to see them, because of issues out of my control. :( well actually, there's one playing near me, but that's the one i could wait for.

1. Lola Montes: (Foreign) The film tells the tragical story of the life of Lola Montes who was a great adventurer and stopped being the attraction of her circus after having been the lover of various important men.

2. Happy-Go-Lucky: Poppy (Sally Hawkins) is a life-loving, irrepressibly cheerful, Pollyanna-type primary school teacher who is thirty years old, single, and infinitely optimistic and accepting. She lives with her best friend and flatmate Zoe (Alexis Zegerman) in London. She is tested by a repressed driving instructor with anger problems (Eddie Marsan), and tests him in turn. She has exciting flamenco lessons, an encounter with a homeless man, a row with her pregnant sister, and a love-affair with the social worker guiding one of her students.

3. Good Dick: A look at the relationship between a lonely introverted girl and a young video store clerk vying for her attention.

4. Rachel Getting Married: "Rachel Getting Married" is a contemporary "drama with an aggressive sense of humor" about the return of an estranged daughter to the family home for her sister's wedding. Kym's reemergence throws a wrench into the family dynamics, forcing long-simmering tensions to surface in ways both hilarious and heartbreaking. "Rachel Getting Married" paints a colorful, nuanced family portrait.

Once there was a way, to get back homeward...

i ADORE the Beatles. 'love' is too weak a word to define how i feel about this band. (thanks Prince, lol.) today there's a one-night only screening of All Together Now, a documentary about Love, the Beatles-themed Cirque De Soleil show. the DVD comes out tomorrow, but unless one has a projector screen or a giant TV, it just won't be the same.

thanks Amie, for telling me about Abbey Road, the most perfect, beautiful, and sexiest album ever. i love singing "Carry That Weight" at the top of my lungs!

to see locations and showtimes, please click here: http://www.thebiggerpicture.us/together/index.html

Boy-you're gonna carry that weight,

carry that weight a long time.

I never give you my pillow,
I only send you my invitations,

And in the middle of the celebrations
I break down.