at the movies (well, at home)

I'm rewatching Interview With the Vampire for the first time in twenty years, and finding it a witty, moody, magnificent film. This is a relief: on first seeing it in the mid-90s, I had found it much more of a mixed bag. (To be fair, I also associated it with a friend of a friend, who had recently passed away, still in his twenties: the film was haunted for me going in.) This seems to be happening for me with quite a few films from my younger days that I revisit now: films I had found not entirely satisfying have deepened, rounded, matured for me in the intervening years. (And many old favorites have revealed highly problematic aspects in the intervening time; a saddening but entirely necessary process of re-examination.) Last night, it was Broadcast News that had benefitted from this rediscovery; today, I have a few other films from earlier years stacked up, awaiting their turn. (This makes me think that I could simply revisit earlier films for the rest of my life, every few decades: I won't, but it's a tempting thought.)

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Editing temp gig for November is confirmed, and now I'm all @_@