So...

[litharriel]

I'm back from a couple days off. I tried to rent Sunset Boulevard, Cabaret and Grand Hotel, but neither of the rental places in town had them... At all. (They're trying to KILL me! Why, oh why must I live in a cultural abyss????) So, I'm going to have to buy them when I get the chance.

To console myself, I rented Lawrence of Arabia, and was quietly blown away. Wonderful film, and another that I'm going to have to buy, without question.

Today was a beautiful day. The sky was that shade of gray that just makes the green seem that much greener. We drove up to Columbus and on the way up we passed by a little pond and saw a flock of what I think were snowy egrets resting there. There were at least half a dozen...

Once we got there, we rescued Raney from the kids for a while, and went to Hobby Lobby (I would live there if I could!) to get some jewelry-making supplies, only to find that all of it was half off. I did a happy dance right in the middle of the store, then promptly grabbed up moonstone, labradorite, dichrotic glass, swarovski crystal... shiney Shiney SHINEY!!! *swoons*

Raney says all a person would have to do if they wanted me to follow them would be to dangle shiney things in front of me. I suppose, to an extent, that's true... To an extent... I can be a materialistic beast. /:-P

From there we went to Spencer's and I baught myself a new pair of horns. (They were shiney too...)

After that we went to Raney's and hung out for a while, picked on Josh, played with the kids, watched some TV. All in all, a good day. :-)

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Re: Horror films and Peter O'Toole

[aureantes.livejournal.com]

Lord Jim is a good one of Peter O'Toole's--it was made a couple of years after L of A, and considering the rather specific ways it varies from the original novel, I have suspicions that the director was trying to do some things with it that were spinoffs in a way from the previous film (which he was *not* involved in making). Namely, from the Deraa episode--one of the most controversial episodes of autobiography ever written, and by now regarded by most as a fictionalized account of something else entirely rather than a capture...anyhow, though very long it has some extremely good scenes and character development.

I have a VCR *and* a DVD player here, and The Devil's Backbone is a great flick--saw it just this past spring, I think. I own Night of the Living Dead (the original, of course >:)..), and think that An American Werewolf in London is a definite must...I'm more up on the silents and Universals than the more recent and floridly gory stuff, but Nightmare on Elm Street's fun to analyse while watching. I'll give a full rundown of my library and faves at the group, so we can have it out in earnest....>:)

Re: Horror films and Peter O'Toole

[litharriel.livejournal.com]

I'll have to look for Lord Jim... though I doubt I'll have much luck at the rental places in town... For silents, then, if you don't already have them, I could bring The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Phantom of the Opera, and Nosferatu--though thinking about it, I'll bet good money you've got those...
Looking forward to the rundown >;-)

Re: Horror films and Peter O'Toole

[aureantes.livejournal.com]

You're part-right--I haven't got Nosferatu, though I'm quite fond of it. But the Cabinet of Dr Caligari that I have seems to be a cheaply-edited copy (there are a lot of subtitle and style discrepancies in translation), so I'd like to see if yours is better. I also have The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Lon Chaney) and Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (John Barrymore)--that's the spidery one--so far as the silents go.

Full rundown coming up.....lol

Re: Horror films and Peter O'Toole

[litharriel.livejournal.com]

Happy to bring 'em, then :-) I'd be interested in seeing both Hunchback and Jekyll & Hyde. Chaney is a favorite. Have you seen He Who Gets Slapped? So far as I know it's not available on DVD yet, but once it is, I'll be snatching it up! Something about it just sticks with me...

Re: Horror films and Peter O'Toole

[aureantes.livejournal.com]

I haven't, actually, and I'd love to. I did, however, read the *play*--by Leonid Andreyev--that it is based on. There is a beautiful line in there on the madness and forgetfulness of the gods on earth....

Re: Horror films and Peter O'Toole

[litharriel.livejournal.com]

Well, I'd say keep a look out on TCM but it doesn't seem to be scheduled for this year :-/
Great movie though... Haunting and faintly disturbing--always a good combination.
I'm developing quite a list of literature I need to find! :-)