The young monk/crazy girl sex in the book is one of the most deliciously lusty passages I've ever read. It's not quite as yummy in the film, but it'll do.

This weekend I watched Babette's Feast.

Perfect. Movie.

I LOVE that film! Love love love it!

'Babette's Feast' is another one of those movies that people have been telling me to see and I never saw it. I'm putting it in my queue.
:)

Oh yeah - I rounded out my vacation last week by watching Bride and Prejudice. I wish I had time to watch it again, because it took me a bit to figure out who was who. Probably because I was trying to match them up to their Austin counterparts.

It was a little bittersweet for me. On the one hand, I did enjoy the movie. I'm a sucker for Austin adaptations, and I did like this one - even if there was sort of a "I've brought along my random white boy friend" aspect to it. And did Darcy ever give a reason for recommending against buying the hotel? But still, I liked it. I liked the musical numbers. I wish there were more musicals like this. On the other hand, though, like the other two movies I watched last week, the effect on me was that I wish I was someone else. If my head didn't hurt, I'd take a moment to analyze how sanitized movie land makes a white girl which she was brown and how I might view the movie differently if I actually were brown.

Just picked up a cheap copy of this one - loved it when it came out, perhaps it's time to pop it into the DVD.

Babbette's Feast would make a great double feature with Tampopo.

Today was:
'Citizen Kane'
'The Magnificent Ambersons'
and
'The Inside Man'

'The Inside Man' was amazing. Loved it. Great acting, great editing, great script, great directing. Loved everything about it. Except one shot. One shot.

Spoiler ahead:

I know this isn't a movie, but we Netflixed it, and it's not interesting enough for it's own thread, but:

We finished the TV series the Prisoner, and man, that show should have quit while it was ahead. The last two episodes were so painful....so absolutely pointless and horrible and full of themselves it was sickening. I can't believe the show got THAT bad.

Eventually I'll be able to watch the early episodes again but it'll be a while.

Well, if anything on DVD counts: I've been watching classic Trek. The Enterprise has been near certain doom in 8 out of 8 episodes so far. Sheesh! They sure get into a lot of trouble.