I just watched part of The Dancing Pirate in which Rita Hayworth dances. It's on VHS and of rather poor quality so I will finish the rest at some other time.(It was filmed in 1936) It's difficult to find on DVD in the video stores.                   

                     Luther it was about Martin Luther and what led up to the Reformation.  I was the only one in the theater, I didn't even know anything about this movie before I went, but you know, it wasn't half bad.  Joseph Fiennes played the lead, very believably, and Peter Ustinov was in it.  Really, Ustinov stole the show, and was the only thing Retro about it.                   

                     THE HOURS with Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore. Not my kind of movie, but I watched it because the scenes with Julianne Moore were filmed in my hometown of Hollywood, Florida.  Today, I drove by the house where Julianne drops her son off in the film.  Funny that my Hollywood doubles for L.A. circa 1951.  Nice to know I live in a retro town...

Marlowe                   

                     I watch Funny Face nearly every day because it is such a happy story! In fact, I have it running right now. " S-wonderful, S-marvelous..." I also think Audrey Hepburn is sooo dreamy!                   

                     Just saw ELF, the new Will Farrell movie.   Lots of fun, with a wink and a nod to the old Rudolph and Frosty tv specials.  The opening credits and music score were a delight.  Recommended.  Innocent fun during these cynical times.

Marlowe                   

                     I just watched The Green Mile for the first time. It was one of the few movies that I had never seen. I was in tears at the end (sniff*).                   

                     Singing in the Rain

I had a girlie movie night at my place this weekend.  Two of the girlies hadn't seen it before.  They loved it!                   

                     I got all dressed up to go see "The Singing Detective" in a fancy old theater Saturday night. I thought it looked kind of film-noir-ish, so I gave it a shot. I was thoroughly disappointed. It's definitely up there on my "weirdest movie ever" list  :?                   

                     At a film club screening this weekend, I saw the not-yet-released "Girl With A Pearl Earring". A *really* retro story, set in 1665!

It's the invented backstory for how Vermeer came to paint the famous painting of the same title, told from the POV of the young serving maid who was the model...

Gorgeously photographed and production-designed (it *all* looks like a Vermeer painting!) and very well acted (by "Lost In Translation" breakout star Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson, etc.), I definitely recommend it. However, having read the novel, I wish that they had kept the book's first-person narration - some important details just didn't come across in the dialog. But this is a minor complaint, it's a beautiful film that *really* gives you a window into how folks lived back then... (We're *way* better off living now!)                   

                     !!!                   

                     "Lost in Translation"  has anyone seen it?                   

                     So what do you think will happen next?