I finally got around to seeing “The Lives of Others” which I enjoyed. First as a kind of mystery and second as a foretelling of what life for us would be like if we continue down our current path. I’d like to think that this country of red white and blue would rally to protect us creative types. Looking for proof.
Is he terrific or what??! Whether he is acting in a film of serious social commentary, “Traffic” and “Crash” or fun stuff, the “Ocean’s” films – (11, 12 and 13), Mr. Cheadle always stands out. Whether crying with him in “Hotel Rwanda” or laughing with him in his latest film, “Talk to Me”, a story about 60’s/70’s activist, and Washington, DC, disk jockey Ralph “Petey” Greene directed by Kasi Lemmons, he just elevates it all to another level.
Also a stage actor, he appeared in Lori Parks Pulitzer Prize winning play, “Top Dog/Under Dog”, on Broadway to much acclaim.
But, Don Cheadle also has an activist streak. While filming “Hotel Rwanda”, he learned the plight of people in the Sudan and after visiting Darfur in 2005, he’s made a committed effort to bring the horrors and violence of the region to the attention of the American people. He wrote a book with John Prendergast called, “Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in
http://www.amazon.com/Not-Our-Watch-Mission-Genocide/dp/1401303358
Kate Winslet is an actor who delivers. I recently watched “Little Children” and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Ms. Winslet is very consistent, consistently excellent. The first movie I saw her in was Quills, (I am that odd person who has never seen Titanic)
Both of these Motion Pictures indirectly question our belief about who we think we are.