I have a personal sentiment towards films made or set during the 20's, for it has to be my favorite era in history, culturally, muscially and artistically. Fitzgerald always touches me in a very personal way every time I read him, Loius Armstrong's trumpet always seems to tug at some joyful part of my soul, and Singin' in the Rain is on my list of ten greatest films ever made. Recently, we've had two utterly moving pictures made about the 20s', both of them biographical, and both of them ...
Pearl Harbor- Throughout the history of cinema there have been films that have been leagues ahead of there time. Take the war genre; ever seen the Japanese film Fires on the Plane? Light years ahead of its time, made in 1959 and it was the first film to ever deal with cannibalism among soldiers. How about Apocalypse Now or Come and See, whose level of intensity reached and sometimes surpassed Speilberg's Saving Private Ryan, made thirty years later. All of the above mentioned films are films that ...
Misty rainy night - futures reflected in the bright sodium lamps.
I just finished a book for school, a book written for kids around 9 years of age. I read every now and then books for teenagers like Sophie's world by Jostein Gaarder and other books by him and of course others. but this one is for younger kids, I haven't read one like that in a while and what struck me the most was how open it was about everything in the boys life. it is written from the boys, Moe, perspective and it gives another light on every subject. he hates people and he is a bit of a bully ...
I've probably said this before, but I absolutely love fall. It's such a beautiful season, with the crisp air and the fog and the leaves changing colors and falling (except for when super-hyper squirrels throw nuts at you from 20ft up). Some pics from this fall and last fall- at home and at college . ...
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