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?
Love the swan, Grannymar, though was once attacked by one (age five). Oh, to be a duckling … with a future.
U
My granny always warned us to keep well away from swans, particularly if they had young cygnets with them.
12 years a slave is excellent
We saw it in a 48 seat cinema in Arrowtown, just down the road 🙂
Welcome to your new abode 🙂
PS saw Enough Said on the plane. Shame James Gandalfini is no longer with us 🙁
Easy watching for a plane journey. I saw it last week with Elly.
I think that one is on my off line list.
Movies are a great way to wile away the winter. 😀
great for this dreary weather.
Nice header! Your new blog address is now part of my favorites list and blog roll. As for movies, I am interested in The Book Thief.
Thank you Gigi. I am looking forward to The Book Thief, this afternoon.
Have fun. I am having much of it.
Some of the films are very moving, but well worth the watch!
“O Brother, Where Art Thou?” is still one of my favorites. The cast is wonderful, I loved the music, and it made me laugh.
I am looking forward to that one. There are some good movies out there at the moment.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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 ?! 😛
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.