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i'll be your rock if you'll be my doris
Nov. 24th, 2003 10:44 amDown With Love, starring Ewan McGregor and Renée Zellweger, is one of my favorite movies of this year. It's an homage to the Rock Hudson-Doris Day romantic comedies of the early 60s--sort of a comedic answer to Todd Haynes's meticulously stylized period drama Far from Heaven.
When I saw it in the theatre, I wrote out an index card full of notes about what I loved, intending to expand them here. Then I procrastinated, and eventually it was gone from theaters, so there wasn't any point to urging people to go see it, but I hung onto my notes so that when it came out on video I could write them up. Now I've just watched the DVD, but I've lost my notes. Here nonetheless are ( some things I liked. )
The DVD has a bunch of extras, including a full-frame version of the closing credits performance, a bunch of mini-documentaries, and a commentary track in which director Peyton Reed (whose cheerleading movie Bring It On I also liked) repeatedly says a bunch of the same things I wrote here, but with more detail.
When I saw it in the theatre, I wrote out an index card full of notes about what I loved, intending to expand them here. Then I procrastinated, and eventually it was gone from theaters, so there wasn't any point to urging people to go see it, but I hung onto my notes so that when it came out on video I could write them up. Now I've just watched the DVD, but I've lost my notes. Here nonetheless are ( some things I liked. )
The DVD has a bunch of extras, including a full-frame version of the closing credits performance, a bunch of mini-documentaries, and a commentary track in which director Peyton Reed (whose cheerleading movie Bring It On I also liked) repeatedly says a bunch of the same things I wrote here, but with more detail.
