[Ghoulish Delight]

The other night we caught the bulk of Ken Burns' piece on the Brooklyn Bridge.

The man is just a master at what he does. I can understand why people might get bored as they are definitely long winded and formulaic. But I have to admit that I'm a sucker for it. I watched the entire Civil War series when it first aired, and much of the baseball one. This one was nice because it was self-contained. A single documentary rather than a long drawn out series.

In a city on the scale of modern day New York, it's easy to overlook the Brooklyn Bridge for the truly monumental marvel that it was. Burns did a magnificent job of presenting the enormity of the project, the impact on the city (and nation), and really illustrated why the bridge was such a talked about thing.

It made me really really happy that we're planning on being in New York later this year. It also made me want to see a whole lot of movies. Both informative like this documentary as well as movies featuring New York. So, to the NY folks here, give me the short list of "must see" NY movies (preferably not ALL Woody Allen).

And, for that matter, we'll need a similar list for Chicago. Anyone?

ETA: Oh yes, the documentary also had me thinking about how pathetic SoCal is. We have zero monuments. True, public works, spectacular monuments. And don't even THINK of calling the Hollywood sign a monument.