My May 2007 Viewings

Includes my personal ratings.
Recommended DVDs in bold.

Novocaine 05/29/07 (C-)
Boston Legal 2:3 05/25/07 (B)
Venus 05/24/07 (A-)
House, M.D. 1:2 05/21/07 (C)
Art School Confidential 05/21/07 (C+)
Little Children 05/17/07
Boston Legal 2:2 05/17/07 (B)
Domestic Disturbance 05/14/07
Boston Legal 2:1 05/14/07 (B)
Down by Law 05/10/07
Boston Legal 1:5 05/10/07 (B)
The Super 05/07/07 (C)
Boston Legal 1:4 05/07/07 (B)
Wit 05/05/07 (A-)
Other People's Money 05/01/07 (B-)
The Queen 05/01/07 (A)

Art School Confidential (2006)

Max Minghella, Sophia Myles, Matt Keeslar, John Malkovich, Jim Broadbent, Anjelica Huston, Ethan Suplee.

Directed by Terry Zwigoff

Rated R for language including sexual references, nudity and a scene of violence.

My personal rating: C+

Wit (2001)

Professor Vivian Bearing (Emma Thompson) has devoted her life to the study and teaching of the work of John Donne pretty much to the exclusion of family and friends. She finds herself alone in the office of research oncologist Dr. Kelekian (Christopher Lloyd) with the diagnosis of advanced ovarian cancer and she must pull together her reserves to try to fight this battle or resolve to let in to it.

Of course, Kelekian and his main resident, Dr. Jason Posner (Jonathan M. Woodward), want a full-on and aggressive attack on the disease process in the name of research, while the insightful and tender nurse Susie Monahan (Audra McDonald) demands respect for Vivian's thoughts and desires in the matter.

This is truly a Thompson tour-de-force with exquisite direction by the famed Mike Nichols which takes us from shock to sorrow to irony and wry humor in Vivian's monologues and to the final acceptance.

This is not an easy film to watch but it certainly is an important film, and one I am very thankful for.

Based on a play by Margaret Edson, the teleplay was written by Emma Thompson. Noted writer Harold Pinter has a small role in a flashback as Vivian's father.

Rated PG-13 for some thematic material.

y personal rating: B+