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Sometimes I'm glad that movies can't get to me the way they once did.

Other times, I regret the loss of the ability to totally immerse in the film reality.

But now and then one comes along and I forget they are actors, acting, that I am audience, watching...  Trying to remember the last time that happened.

The best I can do is A MIGHTY WIND, Christopher Guest's 'mockumentary' satire with a folk music theme which in fact made me laugh, and at the same time moved me deeply:  In humankind, the sublime walks hand-in-hand with the ridiculous, and Guest has a fine-tuned sense of how to remind us of that. 

 

posted by Ciel on September 13, 2010 at 7:46 AM | link to this | reply

My first movie was at a drive-in; on one of her visits my mom took us to see Tammy's in Love (Debbie Reynolds?) then The Red Sunset with John Wayne, I think..my memory is like WIley's. But your post makes me wonder if that is why I don't enjoy movies hardly at all anymore - they're all the same. Give me a thick book anytime!

posted by adnohr on September 12, 2010 at 1:46 PM | link to this | reply

PatB
Oh that was a wonderful trip down movie memory lane and the quarter movies. Actually we had 10c movies in the old school gym on a Saturday. My very first real movie I went to with my Mother and Dad. They took me to see Jerry Lewis in My Friend Irma Goes West? I think that was the name of it but you know that men's minds don't hold the memories as long as women.

posted by WileyJohn on September 12, 2010 at 9:42 AM | link to this | reply