Bad Day at Black Rock & A Little Princess

Bad Day at Black Rock is, apparently, one of the first movies to deal with the anti-Japanese racism so prevalent during WWII. And it has a great cast, with Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, and Walter Brennan. I appreciate the movie, as it's very well made. It just seems a little too easy.

A Little Princess is another one of those films I've wanted to see ever since I first saw Y Tu Mama Tambien. Cuaron is a freakin' genius. After watching this, it's abundantly clear why producers thought that he would do very well with Harry Potter. Damn shame that he wasn't able to keep working on them. Too bad about that map when Sara goes to America. Yugoslavia? A post WWII Germany? Syria? Iraq? At least make the effort to get an accurate map. There was Cincinnati on the American map, which was very appropriate, as it was a very important city for a while there. The movie is absolutely gorgeous and very green. Which is as you'd expect. And since I'm frequently a little girl, I loved the film. Eleanor Bron was excellent, and it's always fun to see Vincent Schiavelli. Yeah, the ending was kinda hokey, and really coincidental, but it doesn't detract too much from what had come before.