I’M ALWAYS RECOMMENDING MOVIES to my friend around the corner, but I know that he never watches them. Some people, for some reason, aren’t keen on cinema. Me, I’ve been going to the movies since I was old enough to ride my bike to the theatre to see ‘From Here to Eternity’ when it first came out in 1953, the year that I turned eleven. Since the onset of the pandemic, all my movie watching is limited to what I can find on TV, from Netflix to Prime Video to Turner Classic Movies. The stories are interesting, the cinematography is often exciting, and the acting can be mesmerizing. Of course, in a way, watching movies can be an escape, since as much as they try to represent real life, they don’t. “The difference between life and the movies,” said Joseph Mankiewicz, “is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn’t.” But some action films in particular do tend to stretch one’s credulity. I enjoy most the sleepers, the little known films that often touch your heart with both human drama and offbeat humor, films like, ‘Waking Ned Devine’ or ‘Quartet’ with Maggie Smith. And what better excuse can one have to nuke some microwave popcorn than a good movie?
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