It was a long holiday weekend. I have no family to spend the holiday with and the libraries are closed, so I watched several movies on DVD including Q&A, Disgrace, The Road, The Bicycle Thief and The White Ribbon. I also re-watched The Shawshank Redemption and Tombstone. Who says loneliness can't be fun?
Out of the new movies I watched this weekend, The White Ribbon was my favorite. Michael Haneke is the new master of suspense. Even better than Hitchcock. I'm not kidding.
Sidney Lumet's Q&A was gritty and compelling at first, but it dragged in the middle. Disgrace, with John Malkovich in South Africa, was my second favorite. It is a very important film. I was sadly disappointed by The Road. It was a formulaic tearjerker. Great performances by Viggo Mortensen, Robert Duvall and even Guy Pearce. The story was fine, but there was just something not quite right about the finished project. It saddens me because I had been anticipating a much better film.
The Bicycle Thief is a classic, as always. I'm glad I saw it. I just wish I didn't pop it in at 2 in the morning. I fell asleep halfway through. I wish I could have experienced the entire thing all at once.
As a bonus, I also read another hundred pages or so in War & Peace. I'm not even halfway to the end of Tolstoy's classic, but I am pleased to be able to get through it.
Hope everyone else had a good 4th of July weekend.
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Sunday, December 6, 2009
The Little Prince of Funny Faces
"Little fellow, this has nothing to do with the fox?"
"Why?"
"Because we're going to die of thirst."
The little prince didn't follow my reasoning, and answered me, "It's good to have had a friend, even if you're going to die. Myself, I'm very glad to have had a fox for a friend."
He doesn't realize the danger, I said to myself. He's never hungry or thirsty. A little sunlight is enough for him... But the little prince looked at me and answered my thought. "I'm thirsty, too...Let's find a well..."
I made an exasperated gesture. It is absurd looking for a well, at random, in the vastness of the desert. But even so, we started walking.
-Antoine De Saint Exupery: The Little Prince, Chapter 24
"Why?"
"Because we're going to die of thirst."
The little prince didn't follow my reasoning, and answered me, "It's good to have had a friend, even if you're going to die. Myself, I'm very glad to have had a fox for a friend."
He doesn't realize the danger, I said to myself. He's never hungry or thirsty. A little sunlight is enough for him... But the little prince looked at me and answered my thought. "I'm thirsty, too...Let's find a well..."
I made an exasperated gesture. It is absurd looking for a well, at random, in the vastness of the desert. But even so, we started walking.
-Antoine De Saint Exupery: The Little Prince, Chapter 24
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