You should definitely check out some other Wong Kar Wei, especially Chungking Express.

I checked it and "In the Mood for Love" out from the library, but I don't have the attention span right now for subtitles. Maybe when I get back to England.

"And Sabrina's the virgin?" Linus says. And formerly shy Sabrina meets his eyes squarely and raises her chin and says calmly, "Sabrina's the savior."

Yes, that's really lovely. I enjoyed so much the updated touches that showed how much forty years had changed things--Maude Larrabee being in charge of the company, David's fiancee being a paediatrician, Sabrina becoming a photographer, her father having a stock portfolio and remarrying. It was just so well crafted, taking the core of the story and making it workable for a modern audience. Also I felt that Ormond-Ford was somehow less May-December than Bogart-Hepburn.

I love the end of Sense and Sensibility, when Elinor finds out that the Hugh Grant character is not married, as she'd been led to believe, and the stalwart rock of the family just falls apart, blubbering in front of him, and her mother and sisters flee outside to spy through the window.

Oh, yes! Just that wracking sob that escapes her as much as she tries to reign it in. It was all so understated and lovely, while still being totally relateable. And oh my sweet lord, I want to do bad, bad things to Alan Rickman.

Speaking of people who were hot when they were younger, Gary Oldman in R&G are Dead was just delectable. So adorable and puppy faced!

And speaking of naked, I just watched the Thomas Crown Affair. Whoo boy, there is a lot of naked in that movie. It's a very sexy film.

And now watching "Top Gun," which is both funny *and* insanely homoerotic. Haven't seen this one in years.

Speaking of people who were hot when they were younger, Gary Oldman in R&G are Dead was just delectable. So adorable and puppy faced!

Oh my god, I had to go see this movie twice in the theatre because the first time, my friends and I were laughing so hard we missed some parts. Ah, Gary Oldman, before the boozing went really bad, was very hot, then he got kind of gross. I have to say, I was always a Tim Roth girl. But where is he? I can't think of the last time I saw him in a film.

Ah, Gary Oldman, before the boozing went really bad, was very hot,

Oh, I thought he was very dashing as Sirius in OotP.

Oh, I thought he was very dashing as Sirius in OotP.

You are totally right, he's come back into his own. There was a period however, (I'm thinking Romeo is Bleeding) when he was just kind of scary.

I can count a non-raving/murdering psychopathic Gary Oldman roles I've seen in one hand. Lemme see: Sirius Black, Gordon from Batman Begins and Rosencrantz. Well, he played Beethoven in that awful biopic, but he was sorta raving in that as well, if I recall. He always manages to come across unhinged, which was why his lovely subdued turn as Gordon was such a shock to my system.

I have sort of a shameful mad love for Oldman's character in The Fifth Element. Actually, I have a shameful mad love for all of that movie. It's just so very over the top and so very clear that a sixteen year old boy who read too many comics wrote it.

I love that movie too. It's so much fun and filled with awesomeness.

Zorg. Gods, I love Zorg. The Diva's number is up on YouTube. Saves me from having to keep loading the dvd.

The digitization at the end of the Diva's number always makes me sad. Because if they had gotten a skilled opera singer, they wouldn't have needed it.

(Though I guess it might have been a conscious choice. Man, I need to see that movie again...)

I think it was a conscious choice, Ailleann. It really fit the style, as there was a clear switch from the regular opera to the sort of techno opera. I liked it.