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lost boys

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lostboyI was watching a version of Peter Pan when I drew this.  It might have even been the Disney animation.  But I realized that I have seen many many versions of the story…

I do not yet have many many versions of the story as I do for Alice and Wonderland.  And some versions of Peter Pan are just annoying.

Speaking of many many versions, I have yet to do my Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles marathon wherein I watch all the different versions of the Hound of the Baskervilles story, but it is on my list.

Shelf Life (2005) – IMDb

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 Shelf Life (2005) arrived in our mailbox a while ago.  I had added it to our queue ages agon and had since forgotten exactly what it was about.  In the meantime, both Richard and I developed the idea that the film was foreign and subtitled.  I specifically developed the idea that the film was Korean.

These aren’t the reasons why we avoided putting the disc in the player and instead chose movie after movie, including plenty of subtitled Korean movies, to watch instead.  Eventually, we decided to get it over with and just watch the thing.

I remember that I wanted to see this in the same way I am interested in all movies and TV shows about libraries and librarians.  It’s a weird introspective, self mocking, others mocking type of enjoyment I get from depictions of these people and places.  AND BOY DOES THIS MOVIE DELIVER!  Sorry I had to shout.  Shelf Life is not Korean, nor is it subtitled.  It is a stark, yet funny, slow starting, acerbic look at small library hierarchy and personalities.  It reminds me of The Librarians.  It is less big laughs than small furtive, guilty chuckles (at least for me), and it is utterly impossible to stop watching.

It starts like a quite school assignment production with the characters awkwardly exchanging dialog and then it grabs your attention with a fishhook to your face (not literally).  Suddenly you are wrapped up in the mystery of an unfolding story of miscommunication, misconception, quick judgements and terribly questionable human behavior.  This is love, ladies and gentlemen.  Though, I have to admit, not the marrying kind of love. I probably will not want to watch this movie over and over again.  No, this is a summer camp romance kind of love.  The kind that you deny ever happened when you catch each other’s eye in the hallway on your way to class, but secretly you review over and over again in your diary at night.

URBANCE

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Dystopian future animated movie: URBANCE looks fabulous.  Go look!  Go look!

Talking about mermaids

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mermaid017I’ve been looking through a lot of my Spectrum books (and I have a lot of Spectrum books) so I have been drawing a lot of mermaids (they are chock full).  And then, I happened upon a movie in Netflix instant that sounded kind of cool.  Mad About Men is a strange and quirky British comedy follow up to Miranda (also a comedy).  Both movies star Glynis Johns as a mermaid.  I watched them out of order, but it didn’t effect my enjoyment of them.

The strangest, and most delightful, in my opinion, part of the Miranda movies is that the mermaid doesn’t magically sprout legs on land and blend into the human scenery.  Quite the opposite, not only must she soak her tail every night, but she travels around during the day in a wheel chair and gowns long enough to cover everything.  Her lack of mobility doesn’t affect her simultaneous seductions of multiple men, however.

And, true to so many movies I’ve seen from the 40s and 50s, no outrageous betrayal will keep all of the characters from living happily ever after together…wait–what?  (see Miss Annie Rooney)

Cinema Somnambulist: Vampire Cheese

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Cinema Somnambulist: Vampire Cheese

 

That wife that Richard of DM is talking about is me.  Yes, I am that LeEtta, and I wrote an article for doomedmoviethon, that Richard just talked about on the Cinema Somnambulist, and it is: Vampire Cheese Board.

 

Doomed Moviethon Girl

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Hey!  Didja know the Doomed Moviethon girl is mine too?  Or, er, mine and Richard’s.  Only that I don’t draw her near as much as he would like me too.  Yes, that is her with my cat, Sparkles.

If you didn’t know about Doomed Moviethon you should head over there and check it out.  It is replete with fabulous reviews of sometimes horrible horror movies.  Sometimes good ones too.  All fabulous reviews, though.

Movies of 1979

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Richard of DoomedMoviethon has inspired me to look up, research, and obsess over movies from my birth year.  That there link up there will take you to his posts on his own birth-year adventure.  I’m not quite as intrepid as Richard;  I don’t plan on seeking out and watching too many that I haven’t already seen.  But I have made a couple of best of lists (in no real order):

List #1:  the Hey that’s awesome!  I didn’t know that came out in my birth year, list.

  1. Life of Brian
  2. Mad Max
  3. Zombie – this is awesome because I’ve seen this, and I’ve seen it again and again, thanks to Richard.
  4. All That Jazz
  5. Lupin the Third:  The Castle of Cagliostro
  6. Love at First Bite
  7. Amar Akbar Anthony  – kind of like…wow, I’ve actually seen this…

List #2:  this actually looks like of interesting.

  1. Wise Blood – I read this, I did not know it had a movie–I bet it’s painful.
  2. The Return of Superman – check this tag line:  “Born out of a Christmas ornaments-filled heaven, Turkish Superman fights the mob in order to save the day!”

And finally, the best of the worst movie posters.

 

I know it looks horribly paltry and all, but I scrolled through lists and lists of French, German, and Japanese pictures, lists and lists of sisters sexually discovering everything, lists and lists and lists and lists.  And no, Aliens and Apocalypse Now don’t make my lists, because I’ve never really enjoyed them.  There you have it:  the 1979 of cinema according to the infant LeEtta.

Russian Ark

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It all started with a preview on a Netflix rental.  I was intrigued by the idea that a movie could be filmed through in one shot and all in the Russian gallery.  I figured the uniqueness of this alone would make it worth a rental, so I added  Russian Ark to the Netflix list.   Then it came, and because I figured that it’s only good attributes were the fluid camera work and the Russian gallery, I left it on the shelf for nearly a month because I couldn’t work up the wherewithal to sit down and take in an artsy movie.

I was horribly wrong.  The limitations of the single shot filming didn’t make any part of this movie tedious, as I feared it would.  Watching it was like dreaming, where you can only see where the dream is taking you.  The dialog and action were all completely engrossing and completely unexpected.   So, go watch it.

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