watch more movies

I’m switching goals. Watching movies is worth it though.

Phfft with Jack Lemmon. Picnic with William Holden. Pittsburgh with Marlene Dietrich. Possessed with Joan Crawford, though I didn’t finish it. Sometimes I come back and watch a title over again. I watched Picnic at Hanging Rock about 3 times before I made it to the end. Customers kept renting it out from under me.

Lords of Flatbush (Stallone’s first movie ever), Light of Day starring a young Joan Jett and Michael J Fox as rock’n’roll siblings with a kid (I have to admit, I wasn’t really paying attention and confusingly thought they were a couple throughout the movie), and Little Girl Who Lived Down the Lane starring a young Jodie Foster as a psycho 13-yr-old.

I was watching The Fountainhead for over an hour before I realized the female lead (Patricia Neal) was so familliar because she was in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Her distinctive voice was also sampled for the Dimitri in Paris song “Very Stylish Fille”.

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I also saw Flushed Away and most of Samurai Jack: Season 1, which is unusual since I don’t watch much animation.

Eragon, Rocky Balboa, and Tideland

Of those, Eragon was the most entertaining. Tideland was pretty, but failed to “shock” me as Gilliam’s intro threatened—It would have been significantly better sans intro. It def. got better towards the middle/end.

but a few are: Unknown, 300, the Holiday, and Science of Sleep

Of those, Unknown was the best.

yesterday: I saw Angel Face with Robert Mitchum and the collected music videos of Michel Gondry at work.

I went to see Black Snake Moan in the theater, which was much less exploitative than I imagined from the ad, but totally awesome. Highly recommended.

At work I watched Untamed Antarctic, a multi-part doc on various antarctic species including the tick, and Sparkle, an uninspired pre-dreamgirls girl-becomes-a-girl-group-star tale (bleh). I do know more about ticks than ever before.

today I saw:
Robot Monster (1953)—again; it is one of my favorites. IMDB keywords: Romance / Mass Murder / Woman / Apocalypse / Action Hero. How can you go wrong. It also has my favorite soliloquy ever: “I cannot – yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do “must” and “cannot” meet? Yet I must – but I cannot!” Word.
Mighty Joe Young—the old one from ‘49 that has lots of stop-action.
Rivers & Tides (2001)—the Andy Goldsworthy doc. I just recently flipped through some of his books in the National Gallery gift shop.
Where the Heart Roams—‘87 doc about romance writers and fans. I didn’t catch that much, but what I heard convinced me that there could be a glorious future for me in romance novel-writing.

edit: I should state that I really meant this goal to be for more deliberate movie-watching. You know, the kind where you turn down the lights and give the screen your full attention. I do want to document somewhere all of the stuff I see at work. I think that if I manage to keep up a list, I might actually remember the titles I’ve seen.