{"id":70738,"date":"2019-02-22T23:36:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T06:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=70738"},"modified":"2019-02-22T23:36:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T06:36:45","slug":"some-recent-not-so-recent-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2019\/02\/some-recent-not-so-recent-movies.html","title":{"rendered":"Some recent not-so-recent movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_70741\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70741\" style=\"width: 597px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2019\/02\/auditorium1.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-70741\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2019\/02\/auditorium1.jpg\" alt=\"HBLL Auditorium\" width=\"597\" height=\"398\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70741\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Reynolds Auditorium in BYU\u2019s Harold B. Lee Library \u00a0(from a BYU website)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of the very good things about living near a university or college is the availability of very good things \u2014 e.g., concerts, sporting events, lectures, symposia, foreign cinema, theater, superb libraries \u2014 at extremely reasonable prices (if not altogether free).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A fun thing at Brigham Young University is the free monthly classic film series that\u2019s held in the auditorium of the Harold B. Lee Library. \u00a0On 22 March, the series will screen John Ford\u2019s 1952 Academy Award winning romantic comedy <em>The Quiet Man<\/em>, set in Ireland and starring Maureen O\u2019Hara and John Wayne. \u00a0On 12 April, the series will show the 1938 Frank Capra romantic comedy <em>You Can\u2019t Take It With You<\/em>, also an Academy Award winner, starring Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, and a very young Jimmy Stewart. \u00a0(Given the title, it\u2019s apparently being shown in honor of Tax Day, 15 April.) \u00a0The first movie starring the Beatles, <em>A Hard Day\u2019s Night<\/em>, will be shown on 17 May.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, though, we met with our friends Stephen and Shirley Ricks, Ed and Eileen Snow, and Royal and Sirkku Skousen at the library to watch the 1963 film <em>Charade<\/em>, another romantic comedy, starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. \u00a0It was thoroughly enjoyable, and it still holds up really well. \u00a0It\u2019s not just a romantic comedy, though. \u00a0It\u2019s a thriller with lots of twists. \u00a0One film critic famously described it \u2014 fairly, I think \u2014 as \u201cthe best\u00a0Hitchcock\u00a0movie that\u00a0Hitchcock never made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Flying home from Virginia on Wednesday also provided me with some good movie-watching time, and I used it to see two films, demonstrating thereby my eclectic (or perhaps simply bad) taste.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>First, I watched Jennifer Garner in the oddly named 2018 film <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peppermint_(2018_film)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Peppermint<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0It didn\u2019t get very good critical reviews, but I enjoyed it \u2014 partly because it\u2019s satisfying to see really bad characters taken down, partly because flying is so boring and movies are a great way to pass the time, and partly, no doubt, because, as one or two of my critics never tire of pointing out, I\u2019m a thuggish, mean-spirited, and brutal person.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thereafter, changing pace rather dramatically, I watched the 2018 documentary <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RBG_(film)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">RBG<\/a>, about Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. \u00a0I enjoyed it very much. \u00a0I disagree very often with Justice Ginsburg on political and legal issues \u2014 though I think her\u00a0work in combating unreasonable gender discrimination through such cases as\u00a0<i><a title=\"Reed v. Reed\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reed_v._Reed\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Reed v. Reed<\/a><\/i>,\u00a0<a title=\"List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 404\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases,_volume_404\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">404<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"United States Reports\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Reports\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">U.S.<\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"external text decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/404\/71\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">71<\/a>\u00a0(1971),\u00a0<i><a title=\"Frontiero v. Richardson\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frontiero_v._Richardson\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Frontiero v. Richardson<\/a><\/i>,\u00a0<a title=\"List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 411\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases,_volume_411\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">411<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"United States Reports\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Reports\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">U.S.<\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"external text decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/411\/677\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">677<\/a>\u00a0(1973), and\u00a0<i><a title=\"Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Weinberger_v._Wiesenfeld\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld<\/a><\/i>,\u00a0<a title=\"List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 420\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases,_volume_420\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">420<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"United States Reports\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Reports\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">U.S.<\/a>\u00a0636 (1975) was justified \u2014 but I find her admirable in many regards, and a sympathetic personality. \u00a0Moreover, I simply find people really interesting, and I love biographies of persons great and obscure. \u00a0I liked <em>RBG<\/em> and recommend it. \u00a0And I was really pleased that the film showed Justice Ginsburg\u2019s strong personal friendship with the late great conservative Justice Antonin Scalia.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 One of the very good things about living near a university or college is the availability of very good things \u2014 e.g., concerts, sporting events, lectures, symposia, foreign cinema, theater, superb libraries \u2014 at extremely reasonable prices (if not altogether free). \u00a0 A fun thing at Brigham Young University is the free monthly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Some recent not-so-recent movies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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