We've had so much fun lately that I've forgotten to update ya'll on our movie progress. The best way I can describe the movies of the past week is to say that most have featured leading ladies in various states of craziness. The craziness, however, proved to be no impediment to their fabulous acting prowess. I sense also that, since these movies were mostly from the sixties and seventies, the worst kind of crazy had yet to come for many of them.
Notable films included Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?, featuring the always crazy but always lovely Elizabeth Taylor. Her character was so scary (Richard Burton deserves props here, too- he acted pretty crazy) that I had to put the DVD back in the mail as soon as we finished watching it to cleanse the house of the eerie feeling.
Network was a fantastic, funny satire, featuring a somewhat crazy Faye Dunaway. Loved it. Same goes for Cabaret, which we watched tonight. Liza Minnelli was really wonderful in it, and her craziness is understandable. I think being Judy Garland's daughter was rough.
So far the craziest movie was A Clockwork Orange. It was really well done artistically, and we both appreciated the film in all it's X-rated glory. But it gave me nightmares for a week- thanks a lot, Stanley Kubrick.
More on this later- tomorrow is The African Queen. Katharine Hepburn was a little crazy, wasn't she?
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