::Kit's Movie Reviews::

 

This Month's Kit Flick:

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Starring Michael Caine and Steve Martin

...as the con artists extraordinaire of the Mediterranean coast competing for $50 grand and the girl.

Martin, playing a con as Ruprickt the boy prince, has perhaps my favorite comic scene of them all.

And this Xmas, after a long and busy day, one of the kids put the DVD on and everyone sat back, relaxed, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Plus, the soundtrack is delightful.

The perfect antidote to holiday excesses!

I love movies.

Not all of them, of course, but the ones I love I treat the same way I treat my favorite books—I pick them up again, every year or so, and enjoy them once more. Movies have certainly influenced me. My protagonists, Margot and Max, are in the movie business. My real life daughter is an art director (as well as the cover artist for my stories). Her significant, Marc Greville, is a production director. I’ve had the thrill of being on location shoots, watching sets being created, taken inside tours of the studios, suffered with them when business is slow. And, most of all, listening, listening, to everything that is said around me. Gossip is great for the creative mind!

And movies are fascinating to watch being made. They are such complicated entities. All those people, hundreds of them, all working at their separate jobs, from writer to electrician, lighting director to editor to gaffer. Each group working toward one goal, a completed film.

When finally completed, I think there’s so much to look at while viewing a movie. I like to concentrate sometimes on just the actors, then there’s the production direction, or the music, or the editing or try not looking at the screen and just listen to the dialogue. Fascinating. A good movie is worth multiple viewings, just as a good book can be enjoyed over and over.

Each month I'll talk about some of my faves==all available on DVD. Enjoy!