Paris, je t'aime Eighteen five minute films about (different kinds of) love in the city of love. Each film takes place in a different neighborhood of Paris. Among the many directors are Gurinder Chada (Bend it Like Beckham), the Coen brothers, Alfonso Cuarón (Y tu mamá también, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Wes Craven, and so on. The cast is absolutely star-studded, with Gerard Depardieu, Natalie Portman, Miranda Richardson, Juliette Binoche, Elijah Wood, and many international stars. I love this film because it's very French and I love French cinema, it's about Paris, my favorite city, and you get to see so many parts of it. One of the films that stands out to me is "Père-Lachaise" (the cemetary). This one stars Emily Mortimer and Rufus Sewell playing a British couple vacationing in Paris, looking for famous peoples' graves. The reason I like this one so much is that what happens is something I have always wished would happen whenever I visit the grave of Oscar Wilde--he appears. Only in the film, he gives romantic advice and disappears, whereas in my fantasy, we become BFFs.
Like the woman felt sitting in the park bench in the "14ème Arrondissement," this film leaves you feeling both joy and sadness--but more joy than sadness.
Deadwood Season 3 I wouldn't recommend watching this HBO drama without first watching seasons 1 and 2. Set in the gold mining camp Deadwood in the 1870s. Features a large cast including Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, and Powers Boothe, with many of the characters being actual historical figures. The third season is very intense, as gold tyrant George Hearst (Gerald McRaney) has got the whole camp, pardon the expression, by the balls. It seems that at any moment, someone is going to get killed. Be warned--this show is full of cussing, nudity, violence, etc., etc. Especially cussing.
30 Rock Season 1 Hilaaaaaarious sitcom created by Tina Fey (you know, the first female head writer for Saturday Night Live), staring Fey, Tracy Morgan, Alec Baldwin, etc. Fey plays Liz Lemon, head writer of NBC's The Girlie Show, a weekly live sketch comedy show, when she gets a new boss (Baldwin), who changes her show to TGS with Tracy Jordan, giving her a new star, the semi-lunatic Jordan (played by Morgan). The best episode: Tracy Does Conan.
