Which is a pity, given your name.

Oops...I meant "Going to Dirty Dancing with my dad was mildly comfortable." For though I have Daddy Issues in profusion, they aren't of The Kiss variety. Honest.

From a Rupert Grint site:

June 28, 2009, 09:41pm – HBO will premiere a First Look Behind The Scenes of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, starring Rupert Grint, Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson. The first show will air next Friday, July 3rd at 9:45 PM. HBO mentions a 13 minutes running time and describes it as “An Inside Look At This Sixth Installment” of the Harry Potter Saga. Hopefully we will have new footage and interviews. Check out the full list of schedules over here.

I just watched The 400 Blows. SO INCREDIBLY BORING. Clearly I am not sophisticated enough to appreciate the French New Wave. I want that 100 minutes of my life back.

P-C, that's exactly how I felt about every Michelangelo Antonioni film I ever saw (which is not to say I am mixing him up with Truffaut).

Didn't he do Blow-Up ? Because that actually sounds interesting, and I've wanted to see it. Maybe I'll just see The Conversation instead, which is like the audio version. Or, wait, didn't Brian DePalma remake it? That could work.

The 400 Blows didn't even have 400 goddamn blows. I counted 3.

The Conversation is one of my favorite films of all time. Blow-Up has the same emphasis on style and form that the other Michelangelo Antonioni films have, and it just bores me to tears. Too long and drawn out with not much happening. Very interesting premise, though.

I saw it in a double-feature (in 1988)with L'avventura at the New Beverly theatre in Los Angeles. At least I got to eat popcorn with real butter and frozen Snickers.

Oh, the De Palma film is Blow Out, and it's basically the same premise as The Conversation.

Blow-Up has the same emphasis on style and form that the other Michelangelo Antonioni films have, and it just bores me to tears. Too long and drawn out with not much happening. Very interesting premise, though.

Dammit! That does not seem like my kind of movie.

Hey you might like it. It's well-regarded, obviously. I'm just past the age where I'll watch or read stuff just because it's classic or well-regarded. I happily acknowledge that just because something is revered, I don't have to like it.

Also, I love the films of the 20's-60's (even though I barely "talk movies" anymore) but the 70's (or very late 60's)is my favorite decade for film. At any given moment, 6 or 7 of my favorite movies will be from that decade. I love the mix of tight, well developed stories crossed with a new-found grit and realism.

Oh! And speaking of Italian directors, if you have never seen The Bicycle Thief, please do. It's always somewhere in my top ten, and it's a gem.

Like Matt TBF, I also watched The Piano with my mother, at about age 16.

Unlike Matt's mother, I am willing to bet, my mother leaned over to me during the scene where Harvey Keitel was nakedly caressing the piano and said, "He's so sexy, isn't he?"