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Talking about mermaids
I’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
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
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
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.
- Life of Brian
- Mad Max
- Zombie – this is awesome because I’ve seen this, and I’ve seen it again and again, thanks to Richard.
- All That Jazz
- Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro
- Love at First Bite
- Amar Akbar Anthony – kind of like…wow, I’ve actually seen this…
List #2: this actually looks like of interesting.
- Wise Blood – I read this, I did not know it had a movie–I bet it’s painful.
- 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
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.