Midnight in Paris
Happened to catch the movie on Netflix and having watched and enjoyed it before a few times, decided to watch a bit of it again, and -- given how relaxing it was, just what I needed -- ended up watchi…
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Fantastic Fungi
I saw a poster for Fantastic Fungi somewhere (can't remember where now) last year, and since I'd just seen The Hidden Life of Trees, I was immediately curious. I found https://fantasticfungi.…
(Through) A Scanner Darkly
I had written previously about how 2006 was a year with a lot of great movies. Yet, since I was going by what came to mind then, there was one important omission: “A Scanner Darkly” If you didn’t kn…
Watching the Hobbit
I recently finished (over a few months) reading through the illustrated version of The Hobbit with my daughter. This week the whole family watched the 1977 animated version of the Hobbit, and we love…
Watching Adam Curtis
The first time I watched an Adam Curtis documentary was “Century of the self” about a decade ago. After that, I have, on-and-off, tried to watch everything by him that I could get my hand on. Not all…
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Trials
Came upon this scene recently — well, no, I didn’t just come upon it, that would be creepy even by Youtube’s standards1 — I was suddenly reminded of the movie at night, and then (as often happens? ins…
My favorite year in movies- 2006
There are a bunch of movies I’ve liked, over the years, in different genres, from different times. But there is an unusually large cluster of them around a single year, 2006 (about fourteen years ago…
Road to awe
Something I first came across about a decade ago, and then again every few years: this re-arrangement of scenes from The Fountain, set to (and titled after) one of the tracks from its soundtrack. htt…
So much beauty in the world
https://youtu.be/Qssvnjj5Moo Realized it’s been two decades since I first saw this scene.…
My daughter’s first horror movie :-|
We recently finished all three seasons of the “new” 2002-2006 Scooby Doo series1, and while browsing Netflix, we came across a full-length Scooby Doo movie. Great. In the spirit of watching a “family…
Three movies for 2015
Spectre I like the new turn Bond movies have taken with Skyfall, and I hope this doesn't return to the pre-Casino Royale days. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ashLaclKCik&w=600] Bl…