At the Terrill Backroom Cinema!!

Dad and I had a film from NetFlix arrive in November - and we never ended up watching it!! I finally just sent it back last week - and the film that had been number 2 on our queue was Roll Bounce - I can't remember who recommended it or why - but we watched it. And it wasn't great art, but it was entertaining. All my students knew about it - and seemed amazed that I'd seen it!

And then after the afternoon session of conference today, we just kind of stayed there on the couch and got "hooked" on One Good Man. Once again not great art, but it did have its moments. And we could relate.

The guy who played the stake president was named Kevin Westenskow - and he looks exactly like a friend of ours whose last name is Westenskow - so we're thinking they are related.

See, Mormons can always find a connection!

Splendor in the Grass

A few months ago, Dad and I happened upon a screen biography of Natalie Wood. It was quite interesting, with lots of great clips from her films.

When the ones for Splendor in the Grass came on, I commented that I'd always thought it was a really great film. Dad said he'd never seen it. I frankly thought everyone my age had seen it when it came out in 1961, but apparently I was wrong!

So we got it on NetFlix and watched it Monday night. Dad agreed with me that it was a really great movie. I had seen it 2 or 3 times over the years - though it is 48 years old, it's as "current" as ever. I consider it a well-wrought film, and of course a young Warren Beatty adds to the charm!!

The title comes from lines in Wordsworth's Ode on Intimations of Immortality, and was originally a story by William Inge - who also wrote Picnic and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs.

I'd recommend it to you!!