I just watched
Waking Life,
which is not a movie to watch while tired. Actually, I should really stop watching movies when I'm tired and sleep-deprived. I always end up nodding off in the middle, regardless.
For those who haven't heard of it, it's a Richard Linklater movie about a guy stuck in a lucid dream. He filmed it on DV and edited it as a live-action movie...and then had animators draw all over it. The result is like watching paintings come alive.
The movie basically consists of a lot of "now, like my innocence, pie gone" talk about life and dreams and humanity and existence, and I think it might be a really interesting movie to watch with my full attention, because despite it all seeming dangerously close to pretentiousness, there was also some intriguing philosophy in there. It's very much a thinking person's movie.
And the animation really elevates it to another level. The DVD has a twelve-minute montage of scenes from the movie as they were filmed originally, and it looks like a low-budget student film. The animation makes everything look much more like the dreamworld it's supposed to be.
We did lots of musicals in high school drama. I was in the Chorus for "Brigadoon" and "Oklahoma." They were going to give me a solo, but the section required four voices able to reach the back row (late 70s, small-town high schools didn't have fancy sound systems) and I had one of the few that wasn't already in a featured part. So I got to carry the group.
I was a Nun in The Sound of Music, and in the pit band for
Trial by Jury
and
Annie Get Your Gun
and
Li'l Abner.
Love Me Tonight is wonderful, though The Love Parade is better Chevalier-MacDonald.
5:00 PM That's Entertainment! (1974)
I want to see this to see if it holds up. I saw it in the theater when it originally came out and was enchanted. But '74 was the pre-video, pre-cable days, when small-town types didn't get the chance to see the oldies very often.
Dude! I didn't know that! I'm a Savoyard as well. Did you see the G & S parody I posted in Bitches a couple months ago?
Polter-Cow "Spike's Bitches 16: We've never been intimate, 'cept that one..." Jun 27, 2004 10:49:15 am PDT
It is quarter of nine. I am going to bed. Ah, myriotous life.
Just came back from seeing "Cellular". It's short, fast-paced, has a goofy but not preposterous premise, a low-key sense of humor, and engaging characters, and it manages to be one of the most genuinely entertaining small movies I've had the pleasure to watch in this past year. Also, it has William H. Macy, who automatically makes pretty much anything he's in worth watching. It actually reminded me of nothing as much as "Speed", which ain't a bad thing.
