Summer Sneak Previews
The "Sneak Previews" class conducted by UCLA at the Writers Guild Auditorium in Beverly Hills, the class I had been looking forward to since I missed taking it last term, has started with a whimper yesterday. The movie screened was - In search of a midnight kiss. Yeah, I know, where is the Michael Clayton you promised me? Where is the little-indie-on-it's-way-to-monster-hit "Juno" you spoke about?



"In search..." wasn't a bad movie (It's mostly getting positive reviews in the indie/festival film circuits). It wants to be the Manhattan, without Woody Allen and Gershwin; all in black and white, with liberal doses of perverted gags that run contrary to the romanticism it wants to evoke with B&W visuals. But, the setting is LA, mostly the downtown I never go to. The city I live in, the city I love, the city many wanna-be stars pretentiously say it will change you as a person.

I hear Medicine for Melancholy is similar with San Francisco as the city behind.

Manhattan, In search of a midnight kiss.. any other similar black and white movies you could think of with the City as the main character?

Let's try this again.

Before Sunset, Before Sunrise, In search of a midnight kiss, Medicine for Melancholy.. Any other movies with two characters talking and walking through a particular city?

Sub-genres within rom-com genre.