Finally, I made it to Friday. The best part is, they are actually giving me tomorrow off. So, there will be no post tomorrow, as I will be at the beach, pretending I get an actual vacation. But in the meantime....I kind of ripped this idea about movies from Jo Beaufoix. She has a great blog, and her stories are awesome, and if you haven't gone and read her yet, you are missing out. So, hopefully she'll see this as imitation being the sincerest form of flattery. Right, Jo?
Five Movies I Love that are More Than 20 Years Old.
It's the best Billy Wilder film ever made, and if you've never seen it, you need to rent/download it NOW. It stars Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe. It also has the best ending line in a movie, too: "Well, nobody's perfect."
This is a Marx Brothers classic. Someone once said there are two types of people in the world: Three Stooges Fans and Marx Brothers Fans. I admit to being in the latter camp. The movie has it's typically thin Marx Bros. plot, but most of their films were like that. It was their act that made their films soar, and I love this one. It was also the first Marx Bros. film without Zeppo. Which was just fine with me.
Does this really need any explanation? Oh, all right. It was watching this movie for the umpteenth time (but this time, as an adult), that I finally understood why millions of women and Lauren Bacall swooned for Humphrey Bogart. It's got a great last line, too, but my earlier assertion about Some Like it Hot still stands.
Okay, this one is a squeaker as far as age, but it's a fabulous movie, and the book was fun, too. I fell in love with Mandy Patinkin here, and learned about all his other great talents (besides fencing). This movie is a bit like taking The Pirates of Penzance and having it staged by the Marx Brothers. And Christopher Guest plays the best villain. I saw the movie twice before I realized it was the same guy from Spinal Tap.
The original, silent masterpiece. Sometimes called the original horror film, it is beautifully filmed. My husband and I saw this on Turner Classic Movies a couple of months ago. They do a silent feature once a week, and this film reminded me of why I love silent movies when they are well done. The actors act, but don't emote. Lon Chaney is largely forgotten now, but he was a king back then, and he designed most of his own make-up. The other cool thing about this film is the bits of colourisation throughout, like making the Phantoms clothes appear scarlet in the rooftop scene.Okay, those are my five...enjoy your weekend, y'all, I'm surely going to enjoy mine!
