Hollywoodland

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I'm writing a real review for AC, but I saw Hollywoodland at the SAG screening tonight.

It's about the death of childhood. It's very well made. It contains several AMAZING performances (Ben Affleck, who I normally loathe, absolutely BLEW ME AWAY. Unfortunately, he also reminded me of my ex, which was kinda disturbing). Ultimately it's two and a half hours of sitting in a movie theater so you can say the following three things:

1. It's about the death of childhood
2. Woah, Ben Affleck
3. So it's a period mystery set in California -- did they have to try to imitate the Chinatown score?

Skip it. That siad, SAG film society is the greatest thing ever. The upcoming movies are really of interest and they are adding a lot more off-schedule bonus scrrenings than I suspected.


Aproppo to nothing, Kali and I are working on some Descensus sstuff you won't get to see for ages yet, but it's so fun, and involves an OC who I just love love love.

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The death of childhood. Interesting. I saw it more as a movie about the fear of growing old. I found it interesting that they didn't focus more on the fact that George Reeves didn't have a lot of call to be depressed. He'd just signed a deal to do two more seasons of Superman (this time with more creative control and directing some of the episode), he'd recently curtailed his drinking, and he'd recently signed a 5 picture deal with Paramount. But then, those don't really fit with the view of the movie as being about the death of childhood.