Sa 12/26/20

 Sa 12/26/20

Up 810am: Bright, calm, and sunny with temps to 40.

Then I watched 'AN IMPERFECT MURDER' (A.K.A.- 'THE PRIVATE LIFE OF A MODERN WOMAN': Hoopla). A very ambitious film that I found captivating, but I suspect most would despise. In dream-like sequences a woman shoots her abusive boyfriend and puts his body in a trunk and later drops it in a lake. A highpoint of the film is when she is joined by her mother and grandfather for dinner later that evening. Grandfather is suffering from dementia and parts of their interactions are maddening and heartfelt. There is also an inquisitive narcotics cop and one of the planet's richest corporate raiders, Carl Icahn (played by himself) who stop by the heroine's fashionably stylish loft apartment. The film is about seventy minutes, but still packs a punch and features 'THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS'- Hieronymus Bosch; with Sienna Miller, Alec Baldwin, Charles Grodin (He was fantastic as 'grandfather'), and Carl Icahn.

Then watched 'THE DEVIL'S ARITHMETIC' (Amazon Prime). A made for TV film that seems like it was written for young adults who are questioning their Jewish faith. It begins in contemporary time at a family Passover celebration and Hannah is asked to 'open the door' as part of the ritual, and she is whisked back to 1941. In her new reality, she must learn to survive a Nazi death camp and somehow forget that she is actually from the future. Some of the scenes look a little threadbare, but the acting is first rate; with Kirsten Dunst, Brittany Murphy, Mimi Rogers, and Louise Fletcher.

245pm: Parkview, Northside of Wash. Pk., Walnut/Park south to Outer Park to Wiggins and back thru the park, Parkview, Fairway, and up to 949...TWO HOURS... Mp3... 'Taking Tiger Mountain' ..' /'Here Come The Come The Warm Jets', BOB MOULD.

READ on the couch and then in the tub with more RUSSO and listening to GARLAND JEFFREY'S, RAY DAVIES-'Americana'. 

Watched 'AMERICAN GIGOLO' (Amazon Prime- leaving in a couple of days). A male escort who specializes in rich, older married women is framed for a murder. A time capsule from 1980; Giorgio Moroder does the music; with Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, and Bill Duke...Another Paul Schrader film (LIGHT SLEEPER)...Lonely men are threatened and must fight for their existence- or something. 

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