Prima Ballerinas

Yesterday I watched two movies. The Red Shoes and Black Swan. Both of them tells you the story about a ballet company rehearsing and playing a famous ballet, and both of them ends like their respective ballets does.

The Red Shoes was released 1948 but has survived the test of time, and is now considered one of the best pictures ever made, and rightfully so. It's a fantastic achievement for cinema with lush cinematography, beautiful music and great sequences.

But what about Black Swan?
Well according to me it's a future classic. Such a visually lush movie with great storytelling and performances. What more could you ask for? Natalie Portman gives a once-in-a-lifetime performance as Nina Sawyers, the doomed ballerina whoms search for perfection ultimately destroys her. Natalie conveys all of her characters emotion, both as the "good" Nina and the "bad" Nina. Also we must applaud Portman for the preparing of her role.

Mila Kunis is also great, and certainly is a rising star. Barbara Hershey gives also a great performance as the role of an overprotective mother (you can see the comparision with her role and Rapunzels fake mother in Tangled).

This will be the film I will root for to win Best Picture and Best Actress during the Academy Awards!

So for the rates.
The Red Shoes - A+
Black Swan - A/A+

I'm Curious....

... will Xtina star a career in movies like Cher (good response), like Madonna (mixed response), Like Mariah Carey (bad beginning) or Britney Spears (bad response)? Hopefully it will be like Chers

YEESSS!!

Keira got the role in "My Fair Lady"... and Joe Wright is going to be the DIRECTOR!!!

I'm SO HAPPY!!

Five Anticipated Movies:

Avatar
Who doesn't have this in their anticipated movies list. It's the first movie Cameron has done since "Titanic", that's say all!

The Last Station
This is the period movie we all count down since all the letdowns this year.

Nine
The Cast JUST LOOK AT THE CAST!

Shutter Island
Scorsese is always great with thrilles + a great cast.

The Tree of Life
Terrence Malick's new film, YIPPIE!

Casting My Fair Lady

Still no new words about the movie. The three contenders for Eliza Doolittle is my favourite Keira Knightley, the limited actress Anne Hathaway* and the underrated Scarlett Johansson**
I really want Knightley to get this role, she would be amazing as Doolittle. Hathaway could very possibly be charming in this but nothing more. Johansson would be greatly miscast.

For the role of Henry Higgins I would want Daniel Day-Lewis. And why not Julie Andrews as Mrs. Higgins, that's smelling Oscar Nomination

*I Just don't think she's good enough to become both the next Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep.
** We must think back to before 2006. and after 2006 she stills have gived us good performance in Vicky Cristina Barcelona and The Other Boleyn Girl, but she was a little stiff in The Prestige.