Snowed under at work?
As snowflakes the size of killer bees batten and fatten upon the cowering metropolis, the world turns Harry Langdon white.
Snow keeps going on and off every minute. TV weather forecast will need an epilepsy warning.
So, a wee bit of snow and the Art College closes. I don’t quite get how the college is any less safe than anywhere else. The conspiracy theory connects this event to a planned union meeting that maybe management would rather didn’t happen, the non-conspiracy theory sees Scotland going the way of England, a nation of meteorological pantywaists who sink into the bluest of funks at the merest hint of fleecy precipitation.
Randomgirls.
Anyhow, the afternoon off gives me time to maybe watch PORTRAIT OF JENNIE or something.
shadowplay 
November 29, 2010 at 6:55 pm
Here’s a really great snow movie
It even has a score by “Mark Snow” (aka. Marty Fulterman)
November 29, 2010 at 9:56 pm
..where I come from nobody knows..where I’m going everone goes…”
I have Jennie sitting out here to watch again myself.
November 29, 2010 at 11:16 pm
Mario Monicelli RIP.
November 29, 2010 at 11:29 pm
Oh boy, it’s been quite a day!
November 30, 2010 at 12:09 am
Oh my.
A very important Italain filmmaking talent. I adore The Organizer
November 30, 2010 at 12:24 am
For Barabara Steel adepts he is also noed for the amazing L’Amarta Bracaleone, a kind of Italian precursor/equivalent to Monty Python and the Holy Grail starring Vittorio Gassman and featuring Catherine Spaak, Gian Maria Volante and Barbara — playing a nun — who in a memorable scene whips off her (very eleborate) habit and begins to whip Gassman, who whips her in turn.
November 30, 2010 at 1:09 am
That’s quite a film, with spectacular Pierro Gherardi costumes.
November 30, 2010 at 10:44 am
How have I possibly missed that one?!
November 30, 2010 at 1:12 pm
I’ll get you a copy. The subs are out of synch but that won’t be a problem for you.
November 30, 2010 at 2:33 pm
Monicelli defenestrated himself
November 30, 2010 at 3:06 pm
Monicelli was the last great survivor from that golden period of Italian Cinema, which is one of the greatest bursts of creativity of the 20th Century(from Rossellini to Pasolini’s death). I guess at his age, he felt that it was time to end things.
Hopefully THE ORGANIZER will get a re-release. Its primo Mastroianni and a great film of the 60s.
November 30, 2010 at 3:07 pm
What a truly horrible ending! Don’t know Monicelli’s work at all, having fallen asleep during a midnight festival screening of I COMPAGNI/THE ORGANIZER. Due to exhaustion, not to lack of interest…
Did see something called LET’S HOPE IT’S A GIRL, starring Liv Ullmann and Catherine Deneuve as two Italian sisters (?!?!) but I suspect that was not his finest hour.
November 30, 2010 at 3:11 pm
November 30, 2010 at 8:04 pm
Just saw the ARMATA BRANCALEONE images. Was Barbara Steele ever so dazzling? The costumes are a bit like Gabriella Pecucci’s for ‘TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE, only more wondrously over the top. I have to see this!