Still life. The spot by the back door where random stuff accumulates; pockets and hands emptied as one comes in the door.

The Wednesday weekly movie list. I realized today I forgot to post a list last week as I got totally out of sync because of the July 4th holiday. Anyway, this week's were:

Protagonist (2007), documentary
Waste Land (2010), documentary
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013), Steve Carrell, Steve Buscemi

The two documentaries were really engrossing, particularly Protagonist, about 4 men, all very different, with obsessive needs for control for vastly different reasons, who all eventually became disillusioned. Interviewed are a German terrorist, a Christian evangelist, a bank robber, and a martial artist. It was completely fascinating!

Waste Land was a documentary on the photographer/artist Vik Muniz and his series Pictures of Garbage, which he created with the help of the "pickers" in one of the largest landfills in the world (now closed), outside Rio de Janiero. The documentary follows the creation of the pieces and the lives of several of the pickers. I was worried it would be condescending and grim but it wasn't.

As for The Incredible Burt Wonderstone... bad, just bad, and predictable. Steve Carrell seems to be making the same movie over and over, I didn't laugh once. Ah well.

Last week's were:

The Boss of It All (2006), Jens Albinus, Peter Gantzler
Igby Goes Down (2002), Kieran Culkin, Susan Sarandon, Jeff Goldblum...

The Boss of It All was unique, weird, funny, absurd; I laughed a lot, and cringed. The other movie was ok, had some snappy lines.