black swan

AH I loved Black Swan SO much! It was creepy and crazy but in a really good way. It was nightmarish and amazing! 

It is the movie that I want to win the Best Picture Oscar the most but I don't think that it will... 

Black Swan images that are not from the film:

Have you seen it yet? What did you think? 

Psst! Natalie Portman better win that Oscar :)

blue valentine

Just saw Blue Valentine. It was so good. It was also really tough to watch though. I recommend it but I know it isn't for everyone. Ryan Gosling was wonderful and Michelle Williams was perfect as always! This movie is all about the acting, and those two blew me away. I can't imagine filming a movie like this being easy. I have major respect for them for being able to pull off such a realistic depiction of a couple who have a pretty bad relationship but when it's good it's really good.

If you have seen it, I would like to know what you thought. I love getting different perspectives from people. Everyone watches the same movie but everyone goes away from it with something different.

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blonde on blonde

I'm bored with my hair...I'm thinking about going blonde! My ultimate blonde inspiration is Michelle Williams. She is the best! SO pretty, talented and a seemingly down-to-earth good person. She also has some pretty amazing hair. She does that messy bedhead hair perfectly as well as messy chic updos and such. I am trying to grow my hair out right now and I'm in a weird stage where I wear my hair up everyday because it grows faster in back (am I the only one?) So, I think doing something different would be good for me. Here are some great pics I'm using as inspiration. I might just be taking one into the hair salon soon!

Look, I was born a little blondie :)

On a related side note, have you ever seen this movie? It's SO cute! Here's a little video for proof:



and another cute one just for fun:




have a happy Thursday!

Jane Eyre

I know there are a million different film interpretations of this book but...there is a new one coming out that looks like it's going to be good. The lovely Marissa told me about it but I also remember reading it somewhere in the sidelines in EW. She said, there's a new Jane Eyre coming out and we have to go see it in honor of your mom (or something like that). So, that's what we're going to do! My mom was a big Jane Eyre fan. She loved the Toby Stephens version (and so do I). But this one is my favorite:

I like the versions where there is more mystery surrounding the house. I also like a good, mysterious, cranky yet handsome Mr. Rochester. You can watch the trailer here.



It certainly looks like it's going to be good.

have a lovely weekend!

Tree of Codes

I cannot wait for Jonathan Safran Foer's new book! It's called Tree of Codes. This is from the website:

Our early conversations with Jonathan Safran Foer about Tree of Codes started when Jonathan said he was curious to explore and experiment with the die-cut technique. With that as our mutual starting point, we spent many months of emails and phone calls, exploring the idea of the pages’ physical relationship to one another and how this could somehow be developed to work with a meaningful narrative. This led to Jonathan deciding to use an existing piece of text and cut a new story out of it. Having considered working with various texts, Jonathan decided to cut into and out of what he calls his “favourite book”: The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz.

As Jonathan began to carve out his story, we started doing our production homework and literally got turned down by every printer we approached – their stock line being “the book you want to make just cannot be made”. Thankfully, we found Die Keure in Belgium who relished the challenge of making a book with a different die-cut on every page.

Over a year of writing, cutting and proto-typing later, comes Tree of Codes, a haunting new story by Jonathan Safran Foer cut from Bruno Schulz’s words.

The book is as much a sculptural object as it is a work of masterful storytelling: here is an “enormous last day of life” that looks like it feels.

I love that he seems to be blurring the lines of collage art and novels. He is also using one of his favorite books to write a book himself. That is interesting!

I have read his other books and they are just so different and affecting from anything I've ever read. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is being made into a movie! It looks like it could be pretty good. Stephen Daldry is a favorite director of mine :) I'm sure that everyone has seen Everything is Illuminated by now. I love that movie!









In other news, I am going to start a new feature on this blog coming SOON! Have a happy day!

Dir. Mr. Hitchcock

I am so excited! I am taking a class devoted to Alfred Hitchcock movies. I was walking around in the bookstore buying my textbooks and saw a stack of books for a class that were all titles of Hitch's movies and a book about him. I had to get in it! If there is anything I'm super nerdy about it's Hitchcock movies! I have seen almost every one of his movies! I LOVE them! I'm obsessed! I even used to have a spreadsheet of the ones I need to see :)

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Rear Window



Psycho


Strangers on a Train (my favorite! The end of this movie is SO good!)

Rope


Dial M for Murder

Shadow of a Doubt


Vertigo


Oh my stars, I LOVE old movies! I prefer them to new movies!



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