Modern film is a hell of referential reboots

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13. When they re-made Mildred Pierce

I pretty much figured they had run out of other ideas.

That's why I love foreign films and indie films.

Saw a good Polish movie a couple of nights ago (Seattle Polish Film Festival), called Grain of Truth. Starts out as a standard crime flick, but made unusual use of an old, discredited myth (blood liable) as a plot device in the film and made further effort to dispel the myth. And the audience didn't know who the real killer was until the last few minutes of the film.

Saw another good film this weekend, 99 Homes, about the crash of the real estate market and resulting foreclosures. Directed by Ramin Bahrani.

Innovative movies are still being made, but they are just a little harder to find because not much is spent on advertising, not like the comic-book, vampire, ghost, monster movies.