I don't know what to say…..i worry...

Tennessee Williams — Sometimes—there's God—so quickly!

F. Scott Fitzgerald:

Most of the big shore places were closed now and there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of a ferryboat across the Sound. And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes—a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby’s house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an æsthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.

…..

It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning——

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

There is so much beauty in the world yet so so so much sadness. Yesterday's Royal Wedding brought joy to so so many. Princess Diana in her time did her best to make the world just that little bit of a better of a place. Every 'Royal' is different. Every celebrity. Every....It is not 'one size fits all' criticism.

No-one is a saint.

Asia Argento's impassioned speech last night at the Cannes Film Festival. Amazing.
But Ms. Argento: if you do that, you do have to put all your private/sexual history on the line! That may not be fair nor even 'just'.  Yet in someone else's eyes they may well prove both. (btw- Your father made amazing movies that were/are/will be the inspiration of horror genre cineastes.)

But I worry.

I was surrounded by the British film critics that Monday morning (I think..) after Lars von Trier's controversial press conference way back when. I did write of this at the time (and still mean no ill will to all those I enjoyed watching movies with over the years) but none of them had watched the press conference in full and in context. There is a difference in meaning...

I worry.

I worry about Arthur Miller's The Crucible effect. I worry about the British tabloids with always so much power that basically forced David Beckham and his family to flee the U.K. he loved so much. I worry about American 'hear-say' being accepted as undisputed truth.

I worry that Bill Cosby might indeed be innocent even though a court of law has decided otherwise.





some sad sad movies…haunting me on a Sunday:

The Wrong Man

This Property is Condemned

A Place in the Sun



                                                    Once upon a time...



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