Juli's Cinema Spot

I promise you my husband and I have not given up on our movie watching. It's just that the new t.v. season started and we have been working really opposite schedules lately. Oh and I joined a Bible Study and Church choir. So, that also takes up two nights of our week. I appreciate all of you who have stuck with me waiting patiently for an update. Next week we go on vacation for two weeks, so there may not be many updates then either. We will get around to Citizen Kane sooner or later though, so keep checking back. You may be pleasantly suprised to find an update or two.

I started a new blog tonight. It's all about quotes I've collected from books I've read. Check it out here and let me know what you think. The next movie will be Citizen Kane just as soon as we both have a day when we are feeling up to watching such a deep and involving movie. Hopefully it won't be too long, though. Keep checking back.

See, didn't I tell you I'd be right back? Okay, the second movie we watched this past weekend was Philadelphia Story starring Katherine Hepburn and Jimmy Stewart, among other big name actors. Let me tell you, those two have great chemistry together on screen. Plus, Jimmy Stewart is one of my all-time favorite actors, so this movie was definitely a hit for me. The scene where Stewart's character visits C.K. Dexter Haven while drunk, is a classic. Best line from that scene? "I have the hiccups." Filled with blackmail, intrigue, revenge, and romance, this has all the makings of a true classic movie. I loved Dinah's character as well. The actress playing her absolutely cracked me up. Hepburn's character Tracy has some big choices to make in this movie and I was kept in suspense until the very end of the movie. I won't say anything more here, you've got to watch the movie to find out. Brian and I both gave this one a thumb's up for the fact ...

Well, some of you probably thought I'd abandoned this blog. Am I right? It hasn't been abandoned, life just got in the way of our movie watching. The next movie on our list was Grapes of Wrath and with our busy days at work, Brian and I just hadn't felt up to watching such a...dramatic, shall we say, movie. So, there sat the videotape, next to our t.v. for three weeks before we finally got around to watching it. This was the 1940's version with Henry Fonda. Now, in all fairness, I didn't pay as close attention as I should have. I was doing some net surfing while watching and so missed out on most of the movie. Here are my comments on what I did see though (and yes, I will sit down and watch the movie again some day). 1) Until they ran into the character Muley at the Joad's old home, I didn't get the sense of desperation and "dust bowl life" like I did in the opening chapters of the book. Once they met up with this character and more scenes...