One day, three movies

March 9th, 2004 · No Comments

I’ve watched more movies in a day, but maybe not such strangely different ones. This morning began with the last hour and a half of Sirk’s 1959 makeover of “Imitation of Life,” all teary-eyed and frantic. At work, JD was screening Eisenstein’s “Ivan the Terrible (Part I)” for his “sound era” class, with that terrific Prokofiev score and scene after scene of unhappy boyars (look that one up here) skulking in shadowy corners, so I watched that on the big screen. And Aimee and I caught a screening of Starsky & Hutch on the “Screen Monster” at the Fenway 13 this evening; passable fun, after a very rough start. I’m not even going to try to find some common thread among the films, and I’m not going to start cataloging every film I watch here. And it’s not because I don’t do it; I just prefer to keep it on paper instead. Only a matter of time, I hear someone saying…

Tags: Film