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In This World

I pulled a Scott this weekend and watched five movies: The Squid and the Whale, Bubble, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Island and Everything Is Illuminated. Of them all, Everything Is Illuminated was my favorite. I will also say that Michael Bay sure knows how to do a car chase.

Bubble had a similar feel to Gus Van Sant' Elephant, but wasn't satisfying. However, the commentary track from Steven Soderberg and Mark Romanek was. Romanek was a pleasant surprise. Definitely more of a technical conversation about the film making process, but cool to sit in and listen to those two talk about film for an hour or so.

During the commentary, Soderberg mentioned In This World by Michael Winterbottom. That recommendation and the 90% rating at Rotten Tomatoes definitely piqued my interest.