While we were sitting eating this lasagna – prepared from the recipe on the Barilla no-cook lasagna noodles box – we were trying to remember what film fest movies we’d seen when. I’d written what we’d gone to in 2010 and 2009 and 2008 and even 2006, although that year, I just mentioned seeing I like killing flies in the midst of a whole bunch of other stuff.
What happened to 2007? In my calendar – but not my blog – I listed Family Law – of which I have no memory whatsoever; Fay Grim – with Parker Posey, that I think I slept in; Wristcutters, with John Hawkes and Tom Waits and the kid from Almost Famous, that I liked a LOT; and Zidane – high concept, but kind of unsatisfying.
Anyways, it made me think that I better write down what happened this year, quick before I forget. We only went to two movies. Thursday I had online student presentations in one of my classes, till 8:00, and Mark & Ethan had hockey banquet. Friday we went to Milwaukee to see Cosi Fan Tutte, another production in ’60s attire (like Merchant of Venice). Sunday we went to the REAP Spring Gala.
So, Saturday we went to My Dog Tulip, which was really fun – and a set of shorts, “Slightly unsettling shorts” in the program. And they were. “Blueberry” was the best. we also tried to rush Meek’s Cutoff – covered in this Sunday’s NYT and this week’s New Yorker, and unfathomably, shown in one of the smallest rooms at the fest. We stood in line for 40 minutes, and didn’t get in – the only consolation was that there must’ve only been about 2 rush seats – not even the people who budged line got in.
