Moominpapa (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} moominpapa) wrote,@ 2004-01-03 15:20:00 |
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Cinematic goodness
Last night I watched one of the movies I bought myself with the Amazon gift certificate I got for Xmas. "The Third Man" - pure perfection, the film equivalent of a pint of Ben and Jerry's Bovinity Divinity. Part of the intense pleasure is seeing clearly that for the people who made that film there was nothing unusual about making a grown up film, for grown ups, about the grown up world. Today you are surprised when a film addresses you as an adult, because the infantilism of Hollywood (and of network television) is overwhelming.
Still to come from me to me: "Touch of Evil" and "Night of the Hunter" (long Homer drool). Give sacrifices and offerings of thanks for The Criterion Collection.
I should point out that my evening got started with a great bottle of wine and two musical presents: Bad Company's first album and the remastered "Bob Marley and the Wailers Live!" - two nuggets of 24-carat mid-Seventies gold.
Last night I watched one of the movies I bought myself with the Amazon gift certificate I got for Xmas. "The Third Man" - pure perfection, the film equivalent of a pint of Ben and Jerry's Bovinity Divinity. Part of the intense pleasure is seeing clearly that for the people who made that film there was nothing unusual about making a grown up film, for grown ups, about the grown up world. Today you are surprised when a film addresses you as an adult, because the infantilism of Hollywood (and of network television) is overwhelming.
Still to come from me to me: "Touch of Evil" and "Night of the Hunter" (long Homer drool). Give sacrifices and offerings of thanks for The Criterion Collection.
I should point out that my evening got started with a great bottle of wine and two musical presents: Bad Company's first album and the remastered "Bob Marley and the Wailers Live!" - two nuggets of 24-carat mid-Seventies gold.
