Hey again, folks. 
Today's Tuesday in my part of the world, and yesterday school started again. Not so bad, although science is giving me fits at the moment. Chemistry! Yipes!
MOVIE REVIEWS: (and a dang lot of them!)
Miss Potter: starring Renee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor. This movie is a biography of the life and times of Beatrix Potter (Zellweger) as she writes such famous children's stories as Peter Rabbit and The Tale of Benjamin Bunny. This is also about her editor, Norman Warne (McGregor) who she falls in love with as she works with him. I won't tell the ending, but it's awfully sad and a very very beautiful movie.
King Kong: (1933) starrring Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong. Fay Wray plays a young, out of work girl who's picked up by a movie director (Armstrong) and whisked away to a distant pacific island with a dark secret. When they get there, however, the come upon a native tribe who about offer a girl up as 'the bride of Kong.' The chief notices them, and says that Ann-the girl-would make a much better bride for Kong anyway. 'No way,' says the director, and they run back to the ship. But late that night Ann gets kidnapped by the natives and offered to Kong. Now, when Kong comes out, I must admit that he looks like a stuffed animal, but this movie was top of it's class and first of it's kind at the time, and I think it's worth watching.
Modern Times: starring Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard. This movie was also produced and directed by Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin plays a worker in a steel mill who gets thrown out of work and is forced to find another job during the Depression. Goddard plays a young girl whose father is killed in an unemployment riot, and escapes from the juvenile officers who were trying to take her away. Chaplin and Goddard meet and have a series of adventures together. This movie seamlessly mixes physical comedy and social commentary, and although it is a silent film, it is amazingly expressive and very worth watching.
We also watched 'It Happened One Night' again. That is SUCH a good movie! Did I already talk about this? I think I did.
Well, as they say in France, au revoir.
"QUIT BAWLING! QUIT BAWLING!" -It Happened One Night
-tpk
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Jan. 7, 2009 - Untitled Comment
Posted by hotlipsbarton
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Jan. 7, 2009 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Princessleia12
I love Miss.Potter! cute movie
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Jan. 10, 2009 - <em>Untitled Comment</em>
Posted by Lucy
Hey I love Cary Grant too. What is your fave Grant movie? There's no way I could choose. I love Charade, Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, ect.
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Lucy
Edited by Lucy on Jan. 10, 2009 at 9:25 AM