This week I really got into Genealogy. My sister and I went to the new Genealogy library and got checked out on the layout and how to use the online sites with our library cards. WE are going to spend quite a bit of time getting our family on our mothers side done. They migrated and moved around quite a lot.
So, only 3 films that I sat and watched all the way through, without falling asleep. Haha.
Somewhere In Time (1980) Jane Seymore, Christopher Reeve. Two lovely people in a Valentine to us romantics. A young playwright falls for the picture of a beautiful woman on the wall at the Grand Hotel on Mackinaw Island. He researches her history, and all he can find out about time travel. He ends up in a outdated suit, in her world and they fall in love. By chance, after they have decided to leave together, he finds a penny in a future date and that returns him to the present and he wastes away trying to return to her. The end shot is of the two in a white on white world 'somewhere in time', together. Improbable and fantastic, but the two stars are so gorgeous, the score is soooo beautiful, we are just carried along.
The showing on WGN had Jane Seymore doing commentary on the breaks; the manager of the hotel giving its' history; and a bit about the fans who have continued to meet at the hotel every year, dress in period clothes, and celebrate the film. Especially moving was the dedication of the plaque on the large stone, placed under the tree at lakeside, where the two film characters meet. She says "is it you" and he says "yes."
I'm so glad Chris got to be there for the dedication with his wife; and they were so surprised and happy that the film means so much to so many. 9/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081534/
Never Cry Wolf (1983) Charles Martin Smith, Brian Dennehy. About wolves. And one man, a researcher who is sent to live for 6 months in the wilderness of Alaska to document the activity of wolves and kill one so its' stomach can be analysed to see if they feed on caribou/bison. What he discovered is that they have no need to follow the herds for food; they live mostly by eating small animals - rodents and rabbits - which are abundant where they live. Scenery beautiful; his behavior irritated me at times; but the wolves were awesome. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086005/
Rendition (2007 Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Reese Witherspoon, Meryl Streep, Alan Arkin. Torture makes us safe?? An explosion in a marketplace in the middle east set off a series of captures of Middle eastern men, some taken off planes in route to the USA, and made to disappear. For interrogation. With torture. They get the prisoners to agree to anything after so long. A very brutal story and if even 25 % true, makes me disgusted with the brains that thought up the brilliant policy. Gyllenhaal is good. Sarsgaard is even better. The story is back and forth with the present and going back to the explosion, bringing different characters forward. Confusing. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0804522/
On to solving family mysteries. And watching a few films if I can stay awake.
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