Three day weekend home alone with family all out of town.

Movies watched:

Rashomon
The Set-Up
The Leopard Man
Le Samourai
Killer's Kiss
Stagecoach

With the exception of the first and last, nothing my wife and daughters would want to see. All well worthwhile but The Set-Up was the biggest revelation.

The first time for all of them. Yes, I had never seen Rashomon or Stagecoach before. Sue me. I understand that John Woo was supposed to remake Le Samourai but the deal fell through. It would have been a good property for him. The only Melville I'd seen was Bob Le Flambeur, which the old Dupont Circle Theater showed in the wrong aspect ratio many years ago. Bob looked like Milton the Monster with the top of his head cut off.

It's not hard to see 6 movies in a weekend when half of them are less than 70 minutes long, 2 more are less than 90 minutes and the other one is 1:45.

Is it really true that Rashomon was the first movie to shoot directly into the sun? Didn't they shoot the sun in Greed, at least?



Restaurants eaten at:

Saravana Palace (Indian vegetarian)
China Star (serious scorching Szechuan)
Soo Rah (Korean)
Viet Bistro (three guesses)

First time for all but China Star, and all places that the family wouldn't go for en masse, though I might could get one or two daughters interested in Saravana Palace and they would go to Viet Bistro, but perhaps without enthusiasm.

Usually when they go away I have big plans and then fart my time away. This time I did what I set out to do and the farting came later.