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Watching some movies of yesteryear
Jan. 15th, 2025 10:21 pmMs H & I borrowed some films to watch from the library, from little list of ones we'd heard were good or interesting but hadn't seen.
* Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961. Rom-com in jet age Manhattan. Above average, but I was expecting better. Badly dated in parts, including crigey performance by Mickey Rooney as a Japanese supporting character in "yellowface" and fake buck-teeth (!). Fortunately most of it wasn't so bad, and many fun scenes.
I realized in retrospect that a gal I'd dated more than 30 years ago seems to have based part of her persona on Holly Golightly. Quelle Surprise!
* Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil, 1997. Murder trial making the most of Savannah Georgia setting with eccentric characters. Excellent enjoyable film.
That film also has a personal early '90s callback for me, as my only visit to Savannah was in 1992 during Hurricane evacuation. Arriving in the evening, a couple hours in Savannah looked very interesting and I booked the hotel for 2 more nights. However by a day later I felt I'd already seen the highlights as a casual visitor.
* Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961. Rom-com in jet age Manhattan. Above average, but I was expecting better. Badly dated in parts, including crigey performance by Mickey Rooney as a Japanese supporting character in "yellowface" and fake buck-teeth (!). Fortunately most of it wasn't so bad, and many fun scenes.
I realized in retrospect that a gal I'd dated more than 30 years ago seems to have based part of her persona on Holly Golightly. Quelle Surprise!
* Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil, 1997. Murder trial making the most of Savannah Georgia setting with eccentric characters. Excellent enjoyable film.
That film also has a personal early '90s callback for me, as my only visit to Savannah was in 1992 during Hurricane evacuation. Arriving in the evening, a couple hours in Savannah looked very interesting and I booked the hotel for 2 more nights. However by a day later I felt I'd already seen the highlights as a casual visitor.
