Christmas usually sneaks up on us from what appears to be a comfortable distance. This year was no exception… Hallowe’en, Thanksgiving… then boom! Hanukkah! Christmas! But still, we managed to get a tree, and trim it just in time for MovieNight.
Once again, Billy Wilder’s The Apartment made us laugh and cry (just a bit) while putting romance, comedy, drama, the Holidays, and our beloved city center stage. Just lovely.
Looking forward to seeing you all next year!
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OK… this was hysterically funny, and a great MovieNight!
As I look at this image, I’m reminded of some people I used to to know… indeed, I was related to one by marriage… something about the woman with the lesser mustache looks familiar.
Woah! That’s really TMI, but doesn’t that come with the territory of writing a blog that one doesn’t suspect is ever read by anyone? Bring it, peeps! Comment. Love me. Hate me. Do something!
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I did say that this was the sixth MovieNight showing of John Huston’s Night of the Iguana, but to be honest, I’m not sure! It might have only been the fifth time. In any case, it was really gratifying to be able to screen my favorite movie one more time to a house full of appreciative viewers. It feels a bit like evangelizing!
For those of you who’d like to read it, here (once again, again) is “Nonno’s” beautiful, final poem:
How calmly does the olive branch
Observe the sky begin to blanch
Without a cry, without a prayer
With no betrayal of despair
Some time while light obscures the tree
The zenith of its life will be
Gone past forever
And from thence
A second history will commence
A chronicle no longer gold
A bargaining with mist and mold
And finally the broken stem
The plummeting to earth, and then
An intercourse not well designed
For beings of a golden kind
Whose native green must arch above
The earth’s obscene corrupting love
And still the ripe fruit and the branch
Observe the sky begin to blanch
Without a cry, without a prayer
With no betrayal of despair
Oh courage! Could you not as well
Select a second place to dwell
Not only in that golden tree
But in the frightened heart of me
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Once more… thank you Bob, for a wonderful recommendation! While not exactly uplifting (Vincent Canby’s original New York Times review summed it up beautifully… “life is having a cigarette and no match and then finding a match and getting slightly ill on the first puff.”) Fat City was an eye-opening MovieNight experience, and a somewhat obtuse start to our mini-season celebrating the life and work of John Huston. Where will it take us next week? Somewhere good. That’s a given.
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Our MovieNight Hallowe’en special brought in a surprisingly large crowd… great to see some faces that had been missing for ages! The Blu-ray disc of Frankenstein was shiny and crisp, but there seem to have been a few alterations to the original. I don’t know it well enough, but Norris seemed to thing that was the case. Speaking of Norris (and speaking to Norris), thank you for suggesting the entire program this week! I was unfamiliar with the erotic, sometimes plotless work of director Jean Rollin, but The Nude Vampire was compelling viewing for the surprise part II of our double feature! The backup plan involved fading down the sound and fading up a spooky musical playlist, but folks stayed put, with their eyes on the screen. And, oh yeah… I wonder if Kubrick watched La vampire nue. Duh! Eyes Wide Shut!
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Awesome movie. Awesome guests. Awesome MovieNight.
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