Jess, that's a reasonable excuse, but nightingale dung can't be all that scarce even in a postwar economy...

There's a Sean Bean movie playing on IFC right now in which he isn't the bad guy.

Although, he is a soldier.

I was just watching that, too, Sumi! Bravo Two Zero. Sean looked great in the camis, and even looked good under torture. Since I missed the first 45 minutes, I didn't catch his character's last name until he was asked for it by his captors, and then I realized that we had the book the movie was based on at the bookstore (the history section was one of mine to stock and organize, so I remember those books more than others).

Just got back from Geisha. I enjoyed it more than i expected based on the reviews - maybe that's why. I didn't have very high hopes. It was absolutely stunningly beautiful.

The first part was better than the second part, I thought. It got a little long in the tooth by the end.

Ziyi Zhang looks really good with blue eyes, though.

I think I just saw a vapor trail in Seattle as Jilli shot to the nearest theater.

We still haven't seen Kong yet, so there's no way I can talk Pete into costume-drama silliness. But oh yes, I plan on seeing it.

I couldn't finish Bravo Two Zero. The torture scenes reminded me that I had less unpleasant things to look at...anywhere else.

Jess, that's a reasonable excuse, but

Hey I never said it was a good handwave...

It got a little long in the tooth by the end.

Yeah, the momentum kind of died after Gong Li left. And the final scene was just creepy -- it was played as a Big Romantic Scene, but all I heard was "Ever since I saw you as a ten year-old, I thought you would grow up to be really hot, and that I could buy you."

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WASHINGTON - The documentary “Hoop Dreams” and footage of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake are among the 25 movies picked this year for the National Film Registry, a compilation of significant films being preserved by the Library of Congress.

Fictional films chosen by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington range from the Buster Keaton comedy, “The Cameraman,” to the Christmas classic “Miracle on 34th Street” to the 1982 teen comedy “Fast Times at Ridgemont High.”

FTaRH is a classic! Woo hoo! And timely too, considering Vincent Schiavelli's death.

“The films we choose are not necessarily the ’best’ American films ever made or the most famous, but they are films that continue to have cultural, historical or aesthetic significance,” Billington said.

Oh.

Wasn't the Zapruder film in the first batch of Registry films?

Wasn't the Zapruder film in the first batch of Registry films?

Yep. [link]

[Edit: OK, not the first batch]