Great moments in movie history

A while ago--maybe last year--I saw Lawrence of Arabia at the Castro Theater, during a 70mm print festival. It was the first time I ever saw it, and it was just about as perfect an experience as you can get.

Anyway, for whatever reason the peak of the movie, for me, is the scene that leads into intermission--and it just so happens that someone had put precisely this scene up on YouTube:



Those Brits...

Getting old

A must-read post from Kottke. Actually it reminds me of a realization that Chris D'Anna and I once had, which is that when we are elderly and passing time in some old folk's home many years from now, the "old man" activities will include playing lots of video games. So, picture 80 year old me playing Mega Man II (and perhaps operating under the dimensia-induced delusion that I am at Raja's house circa 1990). Weird.

By the way everyone: let's all kick it at the same old folks home when we get old! That way we can all play video games with each other.

EDIT: Raja didn't have Nintendo, come to think back on it. So maybe amend "Mega Man II" to "NHLPA 94", and "circa 1990" to "circa 1994".

Surf's up on premise beach

From what I can tell from the commercial for Lakeview Terrace, the premise is that Samuel L. Jackson is a really inconsiderate neighbor, but that no one can call the cops on him because he is a cop. So it shows him, like, cutting down his neighbor's flowerbed and shining a bright light into their house at night. I find the whole idea very absurd, and exactly the sort of plotline my dad would invent at around the halfway point of his scotch.