Movies in 3 lines
If you stop watching TV, you can watch at least one movie a day. Then you can summarize them in haiku form. What I’ve been watching:
Risorgimento.
Tancredi married off to
Rich social climber.
Pluck out the feathers.
Beneath it, skin. Take it off.
Beneath is the soul.
Tess tried to tell him
She was an unwed mother.
Angel split. Asshole.
Eccentric teacher
Loves art, music, and fascists.
Gets her student killed.
Wife leaves Cary Grant.
Realizes huge mistake.
Everyone is drunk.
Football player dies.
Returns as rich man. Gets killed.
Wins the Superbowl.
Couple adopts child.
Child dies. Couple unhappy.
Adopts another.
Shrink meets charming con.
Shrink is uncharmingly conned.
Don’t mess with a shrink
Rich toff hires valet,
Valet brings sexy “sisterâ€,
They both go bonkers.
Boy spots movie star
Dives in poop for autograph
Wins TV game show
Girl weds rich old man
Falls for clever younger man
Diana in wigs
Glib talk show host nails
Ex-president. Sounds boring
But it’s compelling
Woman dumps husband
Meets jillionaire on a train
But husband appears
Traffic, accidents,
Revolutions, abductions,
And then cannibals.
Nympho loves brother’s
Best bud Rock Hudson. Hon, he’s
So not into you.
The movies: The Leopard – Luchino Visconti, My Life To Live – Jean-Luc Godard, Tess – Roman Polanski, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – starring Maggie Smith, The Awful Truth – starring Cary Grant, Heaven Can Wait – Warren Beatty, Penny Serenade – starring Cary Grant, I watch everything Cary Grant is in, House of Games – David Mamet, The Servant – Joseph Losey, Slumdog Millionaire – Danny Boyle, The Duchess – starring Keira Knightley, bo-ring, Frost/Nixon – Ron Howard, The Palm Beach Story – Preston Sturges, Weekend – Godard, Written on the Wind – Douglas Sirk.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
March 27th, 2009 at 00:43
5, 7, 5. amazing.
March 27th, 2009 at 02:30
You said that you would
Watch that boy-dive-poop movie
Only in theater.
March 27th, 2009 at 07:16
Bravo! Galing naman.
March 27th, 2009 at 10:20
i love the haiku on Tess
March 28th, 2009 at 08:21
I must watch more Cary Grant movies. I can’t get enough of his screwball comedies especially The Awful Truth, His Girl Friday, and Bringing Up Baby.
I felt empty after watching The Leopard. Three hours of nothing much happening… But I can’t help but love Luchino Visconti’s earlier films.
May I know where you get hold of great movies (especially foreign and classic films) in the Philippines? I couldn’t find a decent video store with movies worth watching when I went back to the Philippines last year, or I guess I was looking at the wrong places.
This is my lame attempt at making haikus about the movies that I’ve recently watched.
Her psycho fan dies.
She goes bonkers for no cause.
Boring agony.
Rookie loses gun.
Gun used by others for crime.
Rookie blames himself.
Gay love in prison.
Dance, smoke, caress one’s body.
Jean Genet’s only film.
Irksome guy takes case.
Finds evil box with weird content.
Pretentious film noir.
Boys go to see Lola.
Old hypocrite falls for her.
He becomes sad. Hah!
Dog kills his owner.
Witches cause more gruesome deaths.
Grand Technicolor.
Father cheats on wife.
Son follows father’s footsteps.
Wilder’s doing bad.
Street children with guns.
Corrupt cops, drugs, muggings.
Not on DVD :(.
Friends plot a murder.
Strong friendship turns to madness.
What were they thinking?
Couple on the run.
Bonnie and Clyde’s a rip-off.
Farley Granger’s hot.
Hepburn’s off to Venice.
A romantic fantasy.
Brief Encounter-esque.
Opening Night, Stray Dog, Un Chant D’amour, Kiss Me Deadly, The Blue Angel, Suspiria, Avanti!, Pixote, Heavenly Creatures, They Live By Night, Summertime.
March 31st, 2009 at 11:13
one man wears weird mask
another man gives cancer
where is that darn squid?