Take a Gamble

One of my most favorite cinematographers is Christopher Doyle. I just realized that I haven’t seen either of the two films he shot last year, so I’m picking one of them for our next movie. In 2003 he shot a film for Pen-Ek-Ratanaruang that is known in English as “Last Life in the Universe”. This is a very cool film and reminds me in some ways of the movies that Doyle has made with Wong Kar-Wai (one of most favorite filmmakers). One of Doyle’s 2006 films is another one with Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, so I thought that this should be the pick. However, my local store with a strong collection of art and asian film didn’t have it, so I thought maybe it will be too hard for people to track down.

So, Doyle’s other 2006 movie is one he did for M. Night Shyamalan called “Lady in the Water”. Although Shyamalan has been making movies for fifteen years, I haven’t seen any of them yet. I didn’t even see the highly popular “Sixth Sense” from 1999. So, thus far, I don’t have much idea if I will like Shyamalan, but this one at least has Paul Giamatti which sounds like a promising start.

There you have it then, my basically blind pick: “Lady in the Water”.