More weekend, more movies

So this was just a weekend for movies, I guess... Another couple of days, another couple of pictures. This was boosted by a trip to the library - holy cow, they have a lot more DVDs than I remember! They must be adding them all the time! Anyway, since I'm really into older films right now, it's perfect. I got a collection of Buster Keaton shorts that I can't wait to watch. Anyway...

Last night, my mom and I finished Agatha Christi's Death On The Nile, which was just plain fantastic. Not sure how much I got into this last night, but it has an amazing cast, and was such a classic old-movie murder mystery flick. Hercule Poirot (with his great mustache) is hilarious, and I hope to watch Mystery on the Orient Express next weekend. Anyway, it was great to finally find out WHO DID IT and wrap it up.

I was literally sitting through a lot of the movie just thinking "this is great, this is great." It had that combination of suave British/30s charm (though it was made in the 70s) and with such a great cast and melodramatic acting and filming... it was a real treat. I really recommend it!

Next up was To Catch a Thief, today... as something we happened to see on the shelf (Grace Kelly and Cary Grant! -- and Hitchcock!) and decided to use as a reward for me finishing homework and a last bit of fun to end the weekend.

So it was basically GREAT Grace Kelly. Wow, between her white and blue dresses, there was a bit of fashion-related drooling in this picture. Cary Grant was... very much as I know him to be. Very tan, very smooth (he would be a good James Bond!), and a very good reformed jewel thief. It had some great moments, though it wasn't one of Hitchock's most suspenseful films. It did inspire me to set a little goal, though not quite sure how likely this is to happen... It'd be really cool to see all of Hitchcock's movies either before the end of the school year or before next school year starts. They seem like films I should see (even though I don't particularly want to see Psycho or The Birds).

And then there's tonight... right now.. It's Disney Movie Night again in my dorm, something I found out about last weekend and attended for the first time last week (Hercules). In a different sense of older-movie traditions, MAN old Disney is great! I don't think I'll ever grow out of these movies and hope I can raise my own kids on them some day. The current Pixar or Shrek-type films just don't even hold a candle to the music and magic of Lion King, Aladdin, and ALL the rest!

But anyway, here I am with a group of people who know the words to Lion King by heart and have been singing along the whole time and... well, life is good.

I'm particularly excited about this week, though it's really the same as every other, with long Tuesdays and Thursdays, homework, general business... Anyway, there's something that makes it special: MORE MOVIES.

Yeah, I'm really looking forward to the movies we're watching in my film classes this week, PARTICULARLY Singing in the Rain, but also Fatal Attraction (which I just feel like I should see), and Fight Club (which I KNOW I need to see, even though I haven't). Anyway, on top of that, I have the Ian McKellen production of King Lear to supplement my reading for my British Literature class, and Shakespeare in Love because I saw it on the shelf and though I'd see if I have time to see it again.

Right, so there's another post that's very simple and probably not gramatically correct or fully spell-checked, but I really do want to start blogging more often. It's a good journaling experience. Cheers! :)