the most tender place in my heart is for strangers

[timeripple]

The Shop Around the Corner. AHAHAHAHAHAHA. My professor is right; this one IS immeasurably better than its remake (You’ve Got Mail). Also James Stewart is in it. This automatically guarantees at least a few squees.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. I think the author of our textbook is guilty of negligence when it comes to describing the end. Jeff Smith’s success does not, as he claims, depend upon Jim Taylor’s succumbing to his better nature. Honestly.

Also, I love this movie.

Stagecoach. Er, what?

Citizen Kane. Er, what? I didn’t think the plot was all that interesting, to be honest, but the cinematography was stunningly cool. Especially the part in the beginning where the camera’s looking at a window from the outside, and then suddenly the window’s the same but we’re looking out from inside.

A High Wind in Jamaica. This is, like, the most pointless pirate movie ever. How one manages to make a BORING movie about a bunch of kids let loose on a pirate ship I do not know. But it is apparently possible.

Am also watching Samurai Champloo. Jin is my favorite. (No, snowqueenofhoth, not that Jin. Sorry.)

Comments

[timeripple.livejournal.com]

This is the year I finally see It's a Wonderful Life, I swear.

[olivia-cochrane.livejournal.com]

They play it on tv every year at Christmas, but rent it first; don't watch it with commercial interruptions. They totally ruin the feel and the flow. And I'd especially like to know whether the last scene makes you weepy or makes you roll your eyes :) Needless to say, to me it does the former; it's pure Capra.