Sigh. The Holidays Are Over

My hiatus was much longer than I had planned. But I'm back on-line with lots to talk about in art and movies. This Friday I will have a review of the movie Brick.

I made out like a bandit in the DVD library this holiday. My Geek contributed the most. I was thrilled to receive Elf and Baz Luhrmann's Red Curtain Triology which are the three movies made by Baz Luhrmann.

• Strictly Ballroom This is a colorful spoof on ballroom dancing competitions, full of great music. We loved this movie so much back in 1991 that we took dance lessons.


• Romeo + Juliet I love this modern intepretation of this classic. This film charges Shakespeare's words with energy. The first impressive role I saw with DiCaprio.


• Moulin Rouge! Luhrmann's explosive energy, color and over-the-top drama peaks in this film. Great editting and music.

My Geek also received a copy of The Graduate as a graduation present from my sister. I received The Da Vinci Code from a co-worker. Very thoughtful. By default we got a copy of Serenity. This was intended to be a gift to one of our bestest friends but ValetBoy already had a copy. We kept it, already owning the Firefly series, and got him How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime.

We didn't watch a lot of movies over the holidays. I have a basic requirement of three holiday films that I must see and I only got to see one of them this year. I wonder if that's why I don't feel like the holidays are over. I missed Scrooged with Bill Murray and Alastair Sim in Scrooge. I enjoyed catching The Santa Clause and The Santa Clause 2, though. I have to make sure to own the other two movies if my holiday is going to be complete next year.