Waiting For The Wrestler, Or Someone Like Him

I'm still eagerly anticipating the release of the new Aronofsky/Rourke joint The Wrestler. To quell my Aronofsky jones, I reviewed one of my favorite movies of this decade, The Fountain, on No Ripcord. As I have blogged before, The Wrestler is currently my favorite movie of all time, at least until I actually see it and can assess it more realistically. But come on, how can this not be awesome?*:



*could even be wicked awesome

At the Naro...

Well, it is late December and you know what that means...time to catch up to independent movies. Before the Naro inexplicably closes in the middle of the week, I'm going to make sure to take a look at Let the Right One In. I think somebody in that movie is a vampire. And they don't speak English. Scary, huh? Coming up after the theater re-opens is Gus Van Sant's return to sorta mainstream film-making with Sean Penn as Milk. Mmm...Oscar bait. Still waiting for The Wrestler (incidentally, "Waiting for the Wrestler" was an early draft title for Samuel Beckett's first play).