In Los Angeles. Have a place to live for October/still deciding for November. Saw Black Dynamite. Review in the works. Might see A Serious Man today. We shall see.
UPDATE ON UPDATE ACTION:
Did see A Serious Man. The lowdown: Went in expecting a slice of home (from MN, yes like the Coens), and got half a slice, at least. I could care less about the Jewishness of the film, but the bleakness, Jewish or not, is incredibly, ridiculously Minnesotan. The last scene and shot are picture-perfect (literally and figuratively speaking, oh-ho), but what bothered me about the movie is how it almost celebrated depression, as a depressed individual (myself for too many years) would in times of darkness and despair. I'm not saying the dark humor does this but rather what's embedded in the overlying messages of the picture. Either way, it's worth a look--Richard Kind is especially good, not to say the obscure lead isn't either. A little purist for my taste. Whatever happened to the Coens loosening up a little? This and their previous couple efforts seem like an extreme reaction to the over-comical missteps they made earlier in the decade. May balance be restored to the Coens? Probably not, and especially with the message A Serious Man puts forth.
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