I got Dario Argento’s Suspiria waiting for me on tape as well as the first Indy flick, Raiders of the lost Ark. Unfortunately – not to mention surprisingly – BBC1 broadcast a P&S version of the latter. However, just a couple of days before it showed widescreen (original aspect ratio?) versions of both David Cronenberg’s Existenz and Charlton Heston’s (okay then, Harry Harrison’s) Soylent Green. Not very good movies, either one of them, but I was especially let down by Soylent, which I remembered kinda fondly. Must’ve been the book.

As a complete aside, I’ve been watching a whole lot of movies here, both on telly and in the cinemas. Now I’ve never though of myself as a movie geek, cos I know some people who’d really qualify , but I sure would like to be one too. So up to that end I’ve been reading on movies (Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Adventures in the Screen Trade, You’ll never eat lunch in this town again) as well as watching them.

What little I’ve learned can be summed up as John Woo likes doves (The Killer), Quentin Tarantino liked City on Fire (undercover cop infiltrating bank robbers and confessing his cophood in the end), Luc Besson was right to dump Milla Jovovich (cf. her ”acting” in Joan of Arc), Body Heat had lots of nudity, George Lucas might know something about directing but American Graffiti was still boring as hell, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid truly is an enjoyable buddy movie, Dumbo has racist undertones and so on.

I actually started writing this entry as sort of an summary of what’s happened during the last four months but apparently I got sidetracked. Such things happen when you’ve only a couple of weeks left.