Casablanca (1942) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034583/ won overwhelming #1 status as best movie of all time in a BAFTA membership vote a few years ago, according to BJ Wexler.
I see the Writers Guild of America voted the screenplay the best of all time in April 2006 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4890590.stm ... but I can't find the BAFTA award. It's not listed in IMDb.
Ah well. Casablanca has my vote for best of all time. Perhaps yours too Momma ... perhaps not ... but oh we both loved this movie ...
For me most of all perhaps because it is so much a delightful, tortured, romantic, wonderful masterpiece of your generation Momma ...
I love you Momma
I love you Jesus
I love you
I love you
I love you
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Casablanca: "One of the most cherished movies of all time"
The OETA Movie Club is showing Casablanca tonite ... and "the popcorn man", BJ Wexler, describes this wonderful classic as "one of the most cherished movies of all time" ... I couldn't agree more.
Oh Momma oh Momma oh Momma ...
How I wish you were here to watch this with me ... as we have so many times before ... oh Momma ...
Oh Momma
Oh Momma how I miss you
I miss you so so so so much
I miss you
O Lord Jesus take good care of my Good Momma
Oh what a good movie
About your generation oh Momma
The Greatest Generation
Indeed
Charles Delacroix
Oh Momma oh Momma oh Momma ...
How I wish you were here to watch this with me ... as we have so many times before ... oh Momma ...
Oh Momma
Oh Momma how I miss you
I miss you so so so so much
I miss you
O Lord Jesus take good care of my Good Momma
Oh what a good movie
About your generation oh Momma
The Greatest Generation
Indeed
Charles Delacroix
Saturday, September 13, 2008
James Fenimore Cooper and Momma
Momma, the 2nd movie on the Movie Club tonite is a film version of James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans ... oh how you loved James Fenimore Cooper.
This film version is that of 1936 with Randolph Scott as Hawkeye ... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027869/ ... which is the best version according to BJ Wexler ... "the popcorn man" ... http://www.oeta.onenet.net/local/movie.html ...
This film version is that of 1936 with Randolph Scott as Hawkeye ... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027869/ ... which is the best version according to BJ Wexler ... "the popcorn man" ... http://www.oeta.onenet.net/local/movie.html ...
Momma's Generation, & Witness for the Prosecution
Witness for the Prosecution http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051201/ grabbed my attention and has been ... in its later parts ... but oh Momma ... one of the most fascinatingly complex stories I've seen in awhile ...
And the Charles Laughton character ... full of worry, full of stress ... and with a heart condition ... reminder to me, Lord, that even in Momma's generation there were dark, horribly challenging everything ... just like here and now ... just like everytime and everyplace ... as I suppose ...
The very ending ... in which the Laughton character recovers and sets off to prepare a legal defense that was the reverse of anything he contemplated ... oh Momma that is so your generation too ... something happens, just deal with it.
I love you Momma ... and I love you Lord ...
And the Charles Laughton character ... full of worry, full of stress ... and with a heart condition ... reminder to me, Lord, that even in Momma's generation there were dark, horribly challenging everything ... just like here and now ... just like everytime and everyplace ... as I suppose ...
The very ending ... in which the Laughton character recovers and sets off to prepare a legal defense that was the reverse of anything he contemplated ... oh Momma that is so your generation too ... something happens, just deal with it.
I love you Momma ... and I love you Lord ...
Tyrone Power ... and Dad
I'm still watching Witness for the Prosecution (1957) ... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051201/ ... and oh my Tyrone Power looks so much like my father ... his hair is almost exactly the same ... amazing...
Witness for the Prosecution
I'm watching Witness for the Prosecution (1957) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051201/ on OETA's Movie Club.
And yes the men and women all look like Mom and Dad really ...
This was your generation Momma
Oh I wish you were here to watch this with me Momma. We would have talked about Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton and perhaps others you might have recognized and talked about in this wonderful movie.
Oh Momma.
I love you and miss you.
I love you Jesus
Please please please Lord Jesus take good care of my good Momma.
I love you.
Charles Delacroix
Feast of St John Chrysostom
And yes the men and women all look like Mom and Dad really ...
This was your generation Momma
Oh I wish you were here to watch this with me Momma. We would have talked about Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton and perhaps others you might have recognized and talked about in this wonderful movie.
Oh Momma.
I love you and miss you.
I love you Jesus
Please please please Lord Jesus take good care of my good Momma.
I love you.
Charles Delacroix
Feast of St John Chrysostom
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Plan Addendum: Feeling and Feeling and Feeling
I need to keep going places where we've gone, Momma, you and I, and you and I and Spooky.
Like yesterday ... I went to a movie ... then to the bookstore for that book on Grief, & got some Holy Cards - St Dismas and Nomen Mariae and Pieta - and then to Woodward Park, and the Rose Garden. I parked where we used to park, and walked where we used to walk, and sat where we used to sit ... and read and prayed and thought and felt and felt and felt ... yes, mostly felt, what it was like then, what it is like now ...
There were no squirrels around where I was sitting, so I couldn't feed them the popcorn I brought. But maybe another day ...
I did. last evening, walk the circuit on the path on the crest of the berm around the flood control basin just NW of Memorial Drive UMC. Oh Momma. How many times we went there ... you could only sit in the car ... and I would take Spooky for a walk around the circuit ... well Spooky and I have kept going there since you've been gone .. the last time we were both there was I think 2 weeks ago tomorrow. Oh I can't say what I was feeling walking there last night ... without Spooky ...
Wrong ... everything felt wrong .... and still feels ... WRONG
That book confirmed as much and seemed to support my feelings on this and I'm sure that's one reason I got it ... the feelings of a Job, the feelings of Jesus on the Cross when he cried out, "Why hast Thou forsaken me?" Those are sacred feelings as unpleasant as they may be and I have no desire to lose such a precious precous gift.
Of horror, of disjunction, of wrongness, of alienation, of sorrow, of anger, of hurting and hurting and hurting ... and aching and aching and aching ...
because you are gone Momma .. you are gone and the void is not filled and cannot be filled ...
Yet even this is a Ikon of God
Dionysius was right ... so right ... so was St John of the Cross ... so were all on the Via Negative ... in Your Absence, there you Are, O Lord. Feeling that enormous loss, that gaping wound, that spearthrust in Your Side O Christ, and in the wounded, bleeding side of humanity, of all this world, in that Void is the Need and the Longing and the utter Desolation that cries out for You ... and which reflects You, as an Ikon, albeit a Mirror Image, of You ... like a mold crying out to be filled by You, yet in Your absence, the mold gives a true, tho reverse, image of You ... and of you Momma ... and of you Spooky ... both of you Imago Dei ...
Oh God
Oh God
Oh God
Take away not these feelings of hurt and pain and loss
These are feelings that proclaim Momma's Absence and Spooky's Absence ... and Your Absence
And therefore they proclaim Momma's Presence and Spooky's Presence and YOUR Presence.
Be Present for me O My God O how I need you
Gaping wound am I gaping need am I
Where I lack ... that is, in everything
Be my lack ... that is, my everything
Charles Delacroix
Sunday XXIII in OT
Like yesterday ... I went to a movie ... then to the bookstore for that book on Grief, & got some Holy Cards - St Dismas and Nomen Mariae and Pieta - and then to Woodward Park, and the Rose Garden. I parked where we used to park, and walked where we used to walk, and sat where we used to sit ... and read and prayed and thought and felt and felt and felt ... yes, mostly felt, what it was like then, what it is like now ...
There were no squirrels around where I was sitting, so I couldn't feed them the popcorn I brought. But maybe another day ...
I did. last evening, walk the circuit on the path on the crest of the berm around the flood control basin just NW of Memorial Drive UMC. Oh Momma. How many times we went there ... you could only sit in the car ... and I would take Spooky for a walk around the circuit ... well Spooky and I have kept going there since you've been gone .. the last time we were both there was I think 2 weeks ago tomorrow. Oh I can't say what I was feeling walking there last night ... without Spooky ...
Wrong ... everything felt wrong .... and still feels ... WRONG
That book confirmed as much and seemed to support my feelings on this and I'm sure that's one reason I got it ... the feelings of a Job, the feelings of Jesus on the Cross when he cried out, "Why hast Thou forsaken me?" Those are sacred feelings as unpleasant as they may be and I have no desire to lose such a precious precous gift.
Of horror, of disjunction, of wrongness, of alienation, of sorrow, of anger, of hurting and hurting and hurting ... and aching and aching and aching ...
because you are gone Momma .. you are gone and the void is not filled and cannot be filled ...
Yet even this is a Ikon of God
Dionysius was right ... so right ... so was St John of the Cross ... so were all on the Via Negative ... in Your Absence, there you Are, O Lord. Feeling that enormous loss, that gaping wound, that spearthrust in Your Side O Christ, and in the wounded, bleeding side of humanity, of all this world, in that Void is the Need and the Longing and the utter Desolation that cries out for You ... and which reflects You, as an Ikon, albeit a Mirror Image, of You ... like a mold crying out to be filled by You, yet in Your absence, the mold gives a true, tho reverse, image of You ... and of you Momma ... and of you Spooky ... both of you Imago Dei ...
Oh God
Oh God
Oh God
Take away not these feelings of hurt and pain and loss
These are feelings that proclaim Momma's Absence and Spooky's Absence ... and Your Absence
And therefore they proclaim Momma's Presence and Spooky's Presence and YOUR Presence.
Be Present for me O My God O how I need you
Gaping wound am I gaping need am I
Where I lack ... that is, in everything
Be my lack ... that is, my everything
Charles Delacroix
Sunday XXIII in OT
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