Walk the Line
#10 in my movie challenge was Walk the Line, which I saw in theater, and has one of the best film posters of recent years. The movie didn’t fit exactly with its trailers–it’s more a chronicle of Cash’s general decline than it is a love story. I can understand why Roseanne Cash walked out of the screening; whether or not it’s largely “true,” it’s often painful to watch. Phoenix and Witherspoon are talented and charming as the leads. The music is great, the prison scene powerful, and this movie made me wish for a time machine. Why? To go back to a show that featured Cash, Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, and others playing together. That would’ve been a hell of a show.