Sunday, July 2, 2006
two thumbs up
Good movies can be like good books, wriggling their way into your head and heart, and sort of snuggling down for a while. You walk around with the people and images for days or even weeks. For several years, my neighbor and good friend has celebrated her birthday with an annual "film festival". I always look forward to her birthday partly because it gives me another chance to honor her, but also because of our movie day. She's seen around four hundred thousand movies (well, that might be an exaggeration) and studied film fairly seriously so watching movies with her is always great. It's also just sheer fun since we share many tastes about types of movies, storylines and actors. Every year we look forward to the movies but sometimes find ourselves disappointed by one or another. But not this year. They were all wonderful, even the ones we'd been a bit wary about. This year's screenings were Junebug, A Very Long Engagement, Being Julia, The Squid and the Whale, and Mrs Hendersen Presents. Actors were terrific, characters interesting, camera work eye-catching without being overbearing, stories intriguing and absorbing. Witness the fact that neither of us dozed off for even five minutes during any of them.
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