Movies

Over the past ten days I have watched a few movies.

Enough Said
Lee Daniels’ The Butler
Philomena (2013)
Last Vegas (2013)

I now look forward to:

The Book Thief (2013)
The Iron Lady (2011)
The Artist (2011)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Museum Hours (2012)
Black Swan (2002)

Now which one should I watch tonight?

20 thoughts on “Movies

    1. Grannymar Post author

      My granny always warned us to keep well away from swans, particularly if they had young cygnets with them.

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  1. Three Well Beings

    I haven’t yet seen many of the books on your list. A few, but not all. I read “The Book Thief” and just loved it. I would like to see the movie. So far, of all the ones currently circulating, I just loved “Philomena.” I could see that one a second time!

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    1. Grannymar Post author

      The Book Thief was almost on a par with Philomena for me. They both struck a deep cord within me. Growing up in Ireland in the time of Philomena, with one of those homes close by, leaves a very bad taste. We were told the girls there were orphans and knew nothing of any babies.

      In 1993, the property was to be sold to a developer for public use. It was known at that time that some 133 graves existed, unmarked, in a cemetery on the convent grounds. The graves belonged to women who had worked in the service of the convent all their lives, they were buried without notification to possible family…unmarked, unremembered.

      An initial exhumation order was given for 133 bodies (and only 75 death certificates existed), and at time of exhumation, another 22 bodies were discovered. All 155 bodies were cremated and reinterred in the Glasnevin cemetery in Dublin.

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      1. Three Well Beings

        What a background to the story in the movie! It must have come as a very big shock to the public when the truth was revealed. It is a very sad circumstance to think of how these young women must have suffered their entire lives longing for their children and feeling they had life to live outside the convent. And to not have a death certificate for more than 50 lives, is a troubling fact, too! And I’m glad you really enjoyed The Book Thief. I must see it!

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        1. Grannymar Post author

          Alas, that happened all over Ireland, and many many other places across the world. I read an account recently of one survivor from New Zealand. Thankfully she has adjusted and is now living in the US.

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  2. wisewebwoman

    Love “Brother” so much and still play the soundtrack. Some I didn’t care for. Black Swan I couldn’t get what all the fuss was about. At all.

    I’ll be curious to hear your take.

    XO
    WWW
    PS Still have enter all my info in order to post ?! 😛

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    1. Grannymar Post author

      Apologies, WWW, I tried to seek advice with the commenting interrogation, but half of Ireland was off the grid yesterday. Will try to sort it tonight. I understand how annoying it is. I’ll let you know how I get on.

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