Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

Yeah.... It's not a feel-good movie.

Oh, Eponine!

We're seeing Les Mis on Saturday. There will be much crying from me, let me tell you that.

Giovanni Schwartz wrote:Yeah.... It's not a feel-good movie.

I'd say it's a feel-good-at-the-end movie, but yeah, there's a reason it's called "The Miserable Ones."

Is it feel good when (spoiler) everyone dies except for two people by the end?

Giovanni Schwartz wrote:Is it feel good when (spoiler) everyone dies except for two people by the end?

But they go to heaven! That counts as feel-good in my book. (I also loved Pan's Labyrinth, though, so take that for what you will.)

Giovanni Schwartz wrote:Is it feel good when (spoiler) everyone dies except for two people by the end?

Dearest Gio, please tag your spoilers with hearts and stars and moons, or something else more noticeable. Possibly the Katya krest. You'd think you wouldn't need to tag spoilers for a plot over 100 years old, but...

THAT'S WHY IT SAID SPOILER! I suppose we could do like some forums and make an actual [spoiler]Insert text here[/spoiler] tag. LJ, get on it!

Giovanni Schwartz wrote:THAT'S WHY IT SAID SPOILER! I suppose we could do like some forums and make an actual [spoiler]Insert text here[/spoiler] tag. LJ, get on it!

I could see the word SPOILER just fine in that one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... mU-Bmk4Wrk

I have a serious man crush on Nathan Fillion.

Sundance Film 1: Mother of George (3 of 4 stars)
Non-Sundance Film because the waitlist this year is insane: Anna Karenina (which I liked much more than I was expecting to. 4 of 4 stars)

Hm... wonder what's on the BBC today... --> Gamma ray burst hit Earth in the 8th century --> Wikipedia: Gamma ray burst --> Rates and potential effects on life on Earth --> I need a massive underground shelter and a 50-year supply of food NOW.

Portia wrote:Non-Sundance Film because the waitlist this year is insane: Anna Karenina (which I liked much more than I was expecting to. 4 of 4 stars)

We're going to see Anna Karenina next month and I can't wait.

Also, we saw Les Mis on Saturday. I did cry everywhere like I said. (Also I have never heard so much sobbing in a theater...) In my opinion, it was very well done and I want to go see it again.

Great Expectations (1946) Didn't even recognize Alec Guinness as Herbert Pocket. Of course this is the only time I've ever seen him not old.

Kind of obsessed with Foxygen right now.

So it turns out that Dead Souls (by Nikolai Gogol) has a brilliantly satirical wit to it. Only 25 pages in, and I've fallen in love with the style.

yayfulness wrote:So it turns out that Dead Souls (by Nikolai Gogol) has a brilliantly satirical wit to it. Only 25 pages in, and I've fallen in love with the style.

Which translation are you reading?

Violet wrote:

yayfulness wrote:So it turns out that Dead Souls (by Nikolai Gogol) has a brilliantly satirical wit to it. Only 25 pages in, and I've fallen in love with the style.

Which translation are you reading?

The one by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. It keeps getting better.

yayfulness wrote:

Violet wrote:

yayfulness wrote:So it turns out that Dead Souls (by Nikolai Gogol) has a brilliantly satirical wit to it. Only 25 pages in, and I've fallen in love with the style.

Which translation are you reading?

The one by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. It keeps getting better.

I'm grading essays on Dead Souls as we speak. Make sure you notice all of the important stuff.

yayfulness wrote:

Violet wrote:

yayfulness wrote:So it turns out that Dead Souls (by Nikolai Gogol) has a brilliantly satirical wit to it. Only 25 pages in, and I've fallen in love with the style.

Which translation are you reading?

The one by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. It keeps getting better.

Oh hey, that's the translation I'm only about 10 pages into, but it's for fun so hopefully I notice the important stuff, but I don't have to discuss it any place, so it's less concerning. Unless my friend's Russian literature club actually comes about... But so far she's been more interested in Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.

Violet wrote:Oh hey, that's the translation I'm only about 10 pages into, but it's for fun so hopefully I notice the important stuff, but I don't have to discuss it any place, so it's less concerning. Unless my friend's Russian literature club actually comes about... But so far she's been more interested in Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.

Well, it's actually the unimportant stuff that's the most fun in Gogol, so go ahead and notice it all.