Letters to Juliet…from Camelot
May 17, 2010
A while back I went to see a romantic comedy with my 13-year-old daughter Eve and we saw a preview for Letters to Juliet. It looked like a good movie, but I couldn’t help but wonder: Who was that man on a horse who rode up to see Vanessa Redgrave after 50 years apart?
So I went online when I got home and looked it up: Franco Nero!? Wasn’t he the guy who played Lancelot with Vanessa Redgrave as Guinevere in the original Camelot movie of the late 1960s with Richard… more
Comments (4)The Last Station: Better than Anna Karenina
February 10, 2010
The other night I went to see a movie all by myself. In a movie theater! As I walked by the Paris Theater in New York City on my way to work one day, I saw that The Last Station was playing there and decided, on a lark, to see it after work. I hadn’t read a review of it, didn’t even know if it had a happy ending or not. But the fact that Christopher Plummer (the Baron from The Sound of Music) and Helen Mirren were in it—and there was a picture of them, as old people, in bed with… more
Comments (4)Secret Stress-Relieving Remedy! Sunday Movies
January 8, 2010
I don’t know about you, but I have a hard time relaxing. With all the work and chores that need to be done, it feels impossible to slow down. And yet, I know I need to. Sometimes I just want to be taken away to another world, another time and place. I used to LOVE, love, love going to the movies—to see the kind of movies I like—foreign, obscure, slow, and intense. But with kids taking up my whole life, and living in a place where movies like that come around once in a blue moon—well… more
Comments (14)Life is like a Movie
December 23, 2008
I am interrupting the previously scheduled discussion about putting the eco back in economics to take a moment to write about…movies. A recent report on Rodale.com says that happiness is contagious. I agree, so much so that I RARELY go to see movies that aren’t happy ones. I can feel bummed out for days after seeing a movie that ends badly. And… more
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