---this week I watched:
The Bridge Over The River Kwai (1957) Alec Guinness, William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Haykawa. Great David Lean film of the British prisoners of the Japanese in Malaysia during WWII, who are forced to build a bridge. Showing, as the doctor exclaims at the end, the "madness" of war. Marvelous casting and acting. Great location photography. 10/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050212/
Nims Island (2008) Abigail Breslin, Jody Foster, Gerard Butler. Enjoyable fable of a young girl and her father and their adventures and troubles when the father is lost in a storm and our little heroine has to cope and find help from her favorite novelist. Perfect rainy afternoon film for youngsters and anyone who likes the sea, beaches and animals. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0410377/
Rachel Getting Married (2008) Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Debra Winger. Disappointing story of a young woman on furlough from drug rehab going to her sisters wedding. Upper class fol-de-rol with various members of the extended family, and a weird group of musicians, wedding planners,. etc. Hathaway is a spoiled, bratty, self-centered woman who we are to feel something for, but I just wanted to slap her now and then. Winger as her mother is fine as a woman disconnected from her children, and their big scene together is well done, but we should have had more resolution. The reveal comes and goes so quickly, we don't know how we feel - shocked? Sorry? Understanding? It needed a bit more for me to feel anything other than glad it was all over. 5/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1084950/
Appaloosa (2008) Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen, Renee Zellweger. When is a western not a western. When there is no big fistfight. When there is no humor or old codgers talking. When a gal comes in on a train and meets up with two strangers and goes to bed with one the same day. And she's supposed to be a lady? The scenery is purty. Mortensen is too. Jeremy Irons as the rancher villain almost steals the picture from the two lawmen. 8/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800308/
Still chilly and damp and not good for working in the soil and planting gardens. Waiting for Ma Nature to put on her spring finery and settle down for a spell.
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