Making an apple crisp with fresh local apples while listening to Lovage, the new album from Timber Timbre. 🍎
Watching the 1921 silent Western film The Fox directed by Robert Thornby as part of the Giornate del Cinema Muto online. 🎥
Today the Pordenone Silent Film Festival starts and as I have for the past few years, I’m going to be watching some of the amazing silent films online. It’s a great way to see some hard to find films and enjoy seeing films from a century ago. 🎥
Watching Ira Sach’s 2023 film Passages on MUBI. 🎥
Watching the 1932 early Technicolor film Doctor X directed by Michael Curtiz in the Criterion Channel’s Pre-Code Horror collection. 🎥
Did not expect to hear funny mispronunciation of place names at the beginning of Unfaithfully Yours when Rex Harrison’s plane was delayed. First in Aroostook (Maine), then Antigonish (Nova Scotia), and possibly Apohaqui (New Brunswick).
Watching the 1948 Preston Sturges film Unfaithfully Yours on The Criterion Channel. 🎥
Wrapping Up The 43rd Atlantic International Film Festival
I had a lot of fun this year at the Atlantic International Film Festival which happened even though a hurricane and powe...Best new-to-me films seen in September 2023:
POLITE SOCIETY,
A NOUS LA LIBERTÉ,
RIOTSVILLE, U.S.A.,
MONSTER,
THE SETTLERS,
LA CHIMERA,
FALLEN LEAVES,
PERFECT DAYS,
ANATOMY OF A FALL,
DAYS OF HAPPINESS,
HUMANIST VAMPIRE SEEKS CONSENTING SUICIDAL PERSON,
THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR.
One of the things I treasure are the flowers around the house.
