Posts Tagged ‘dating’
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2006)
“Like Curb Your Enthusiasm, which Garlin has directed on occasion, I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With has a conversational tone. Unlike too many movies made and populated by comedians, it has no striving for effect, no anxiety that we won’t get the joke. It is a movie made by friends about friends, and we get to feel curiously as if they are our friends.”
- Roger Ebert, Chicago-Sun Times
“Laid back and affectionate, Cheese is the movie version of a dear friend you could spend all day with.”
- Matt Zoller Seitz, The New York Times
“For those of you who don’t think food is an important factor in a relationship, just know that the leading cause of many divorces isn’t irreconcilable differences but lactose intolerance.”
- Mark Jordan Legan, National Public Radio
Adam (2009)
A story about two strangers. One a little stranger than the other…
After his fixation on detail and repetitive behaviors cost him his job at a toy manufacturing company, a legal battle over his deceased parents’ assets leave Adam with an uncertain future as he struggles to meet each day with a positive outlook. When Beth moves into his apartment, a mutual attraction creates a hopeful future for both until Adam’s Asperger syndrome is revealed. With Beth’s determination to stay by Adam’s side and understand his inability to interpret emotions, both set course for rough waters in an attempt to truly connect with each other, if such thing is possible. Directed by Max Mayer.
Featured music:
Coconut Records. “Wires”. Davy. Young Baby Records, 2009.
Fruit Bats. “When U Love Somebody”. Mouthfuls. Sub Pop, 2003.
Shopgirl (2005)
Not all relationships fit like a glove.
Mirabelle, a quiet and orderly saleswoman at a high-end department store, finds her world suddenly filled with life when two very different men seek her affection: Ray, an affluent logician with cool, sincere charm, and Jeremy, a penniless graphic designer with a few steps to go in his career and social etiquette. As Mirabelle moves toward Ray, she discovers differences in their paths which prove too great a hurdle, unbeknownst to her Ray is creating them to guard his own fears of rejection. Anand Tucker directs this adaptation of Steve Martin’s 2000 novella.
Flannel Pajamas (2006)
“Flannel Pajamas is one of the wisest films I can remember about love and human intimacy. I will not forget it.”
-Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Featured music:
Asobi Seksu. “Thursday”. Citrus. Friendly Fire Recordings, 2006.
(500) Days of Summer (2009)
Featured music:
The Smiths. “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out”. The Queen is Dead. WEA, 1992.
Spektor, Regina. “Us”. Soviet Kitsch. Sire Records, 2004.
The Tiger and the Snow (2005)
Featured music:
Waits, Tom. “You Can Never Hold Back Spring”. Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards. ANTI-label, 2006.
