Movies to Rent -quick before you are snowed in again.
Here are a few classics I watched from a classics DVD library I highly recommend.
The Philadelphia Story- now I know why my nickname in Law School was 'Red.'
Love the leading man's leading in that one. Remember when men took the lead and made things happen? Audrey Hepburn as headstrong critical diva bred on the Main Line lap of luxury discovers something true when her code is cracked. Lessons on cracking Diva codes.
Hope for everyone.ANGELA's ASHES.
Irish. to it's core.
All the rotten and blessed things about it.
True story based on a Pulizer Prize winning memoire. This came out a few years ago but is worth renting again and its on Netflix.
Classic church scenes, where the deeply Catholic and quite unsaintly grandmother (who can't stop cursing the Prods) sends her grandson, the protagonist back to confession, literally the same day he got first confirmed, because he threw up her confirmation party food-and she didn't know what she should do if the body of Jesus were thrown up on her porch. The timid child goes to confession and the Priest gives him the sage advice to tell his grandmother to go mop up the porch for crying out loud. The grandchild reports it to the grandmother who sends the child back again to inquire in the confessional "with holy water or regular water."
The protagonist is named Francis after the great saint-who after a mess of a bit of downward spirol of anger and resentment spinning into a bit of bad behavior goes to the church but is unable to tell of all his sins to the Priest. The Priestly character in that scene is the best portrayal of a good priest next to the one in Boy's Town, and the scene is the most moving example of the value of confession. The priest then says- sit before the statue of Saint Francis and talk to him and the priest pulls up a chair not too near and listens to the young man talk to Saint Francis-
and absolves him with very special words that say it all really. It is a must see.
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