I'm a little late posting the link to my latest "DVD Hidden Gems" segment for CBC Radio—I spent all day Thursday working on grant applications for the publishing company I run, and then I spent Friday night at the downtown cineplex with my staff watching Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1, a movie with the magical ability to make a little more than two hours feel like three and a half. (I did perk up at the scenes set in the Forest of Dean, Dennis Potter's boyhood home and the memorable setting for much of The Singing Detective. The place looks a lot prettier in Harry Potter.) Anyhow, my DVD pick this week is a film I'm sure a lot of you are very familiar with already: Lisa Cholodenko's sharply observed family-issues comedy/drama The Kids Are All Right. But it's a film well worth revisiting, if only to marvel at Annette Bening's beautifully calibrated performance, to appreciate the superb, sensitive editing of Jeffrey M. Werner (graduating to his first high-profile editing gig), and to puzzle over what could have possibly inspired these women to name their son "Laser."
Click here to listen to the segment... and to appreciate the CBC's spiffy new website layout!
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