I'd decided my life was lacking in cute Anthony Perkins comedies, so after a great deal of trouble I tracked down The Matchmaker. It was fun (turns out Hello Dolly! is just The Matchmaker with some songs added, no really, the scripts are identical, the jokes are word-by-word the same) and Anthony Perkins was adorable (I was amazed at seeing him in ( Read more... )

I went to the movies and saw Les Misérables with my mum ( Read more... )

Found a new home, thank God. That last place may have had nice cupboards, but I've hated just about everything else about it. I refer to it as "that hole". Could hardly even get cell phone reception in there, and the landlord and lady were driving me up the wall ( Read more... )

I was pining for the great selection of pre-Code films at the library in Bergen, when I decided it was time to make the best of the situation: Namely, start exploring the many Indian films in stock at the Lørenskog library (they weren't there when I was growing up here ( Read more... )

I've heard that all copies of the 1959 Porgy and Bess filmatization were destroyed long ago, but considering I've just seen it I've got an inkling that's not entirely true (though it's true that it's not available for commercial release - but gee, isn't the internet a wonderful thing ( Read more... )

The Nostalgia Chick did a video on Les Miserables the musical this week, and that's how I learned that there was a 25th anniversary concert made a couple of years ago ( Read more... )

Watched that 1983 Pirates of Penzance studio movie. As much as I love Gilbert and Sullivan I've somehow never seen Pirates before. ...You know, I think Gilbert and Sullivan is pretty unknown in Norway? I've never ever heard of a Norwegian production of a G&S opera. Then again a lot of it is pretty untranslatable - in the case of Pirates I was ( Read more... )

A list of all movies I've seen this year!

Well not all; I didn't list rewatches, and I have a sneaking suspicion I must have forgotten a handful of movies, but still! Yaaay many movies ( Read more... )

Again back from the film club, and after watching The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) I've come to realize a couple of things:

You know that creepy guy who was the Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? That was Robert Helpmann, a celebrated Australian ballet dancer! Also he was kinda hot. And Wikipedia tells me his obituary in The Times described him ( Read more... )

[Movie starts - on the big screen at the film club]

Haha, this is going to be so weird! I've only ever seen Marlon Brando in The Godfather, I'll never be able to unsee that, I just know it!

[Fifteen minutes in]

Oh God he's doing that trademark mumbling too! Hahaha! This just feels so wrong, Marlon Brando in a cheesy Goldwyn musical, this is ( Read more... )