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I'm having a very movie-centric week, only somewhat unexpectedly: three movies in as many days, although one of them was watched at home—still a new release with a limited Oscar-qualifying release, so I wrote a review, thus meaning, quite unusually, I am writing and posting three movie reviews in a row. I'll be doing the third one tonight. For that one, I'll be returning to SIFF Cinema—specifically The Egyptian, by far the closest theater to where I live—for the first time since they finally re-opened post-pandemic! I'm very excited about that, and I plan to get popcorn there because they are the only local chain that uses real butter for their popcorn. It's actually a movie part of an Italian film series they're doing, so tonight is the only time it plays, but it's also directed by Paolo Sorrentino whose hyper stylized filmmaking I tend to dig (even if it's often too obscure otherwise for my taste).
Anyway. Tuesday I had taken myself to see
Last Night in Soho at Pacific Place, which was all right. Last night, though, I watched
Passing, a stunning and provocative directorial debut by Rebecca Hall that will easily vie for at least the #2 slot in my top ten movies of the year. (At the moment
Spencer remains my #1, it just so much more effectively spoke directly to my personal sensibilities.) I really can't overstate how much I loved
Passing, though. It had so many layers of food for thought, in a way very few movies ever do. If I find the time I may even watch it again, although when it comes to re-watches my top priority right now is
Dune, which I only have until November 22 before it leaves HBO Max. That movie is definitely better viewed on the big screen (as I have already done), but I want a re-watch of that one where I can read closed captions.
My review of
Passing was unusually long, it's so ripe for discussion and analysis, something I love about movies that well done—not super-excessively long, but still, exceeding 1000 words. (I aim for 600 words at minimum and probably average around 750 to 800.) By the time I was finally done, it was past 9 p.m. and Ivan had already left for work. I hardly had any time after that before I needed to start getting ready for bed.
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Shobhit actually picked me up at work before that. He wanted to go to PetCo to get cat treats as we were nearly out at home. We found some, and I got a bag of kitty litter even though I discovered when I got home that I was far from low, but, whatever: it can't hurt to have extra on hand.
Shobhit made an orzo pasta salad for dinner, to which he added kale from his p-patch garden plot at our condo complex. We stopped there for him to harvest on our way up from the car. I also made chai, having some Biscoff cookies with it before even eating dinner, that itself after a day of far too much snacking at work. Riding to success there, trying to get my weight lowered again. I mean, whatever. I seem to be hovering around 160 lbs no matter what and have been now for a few years. I vacillate between just accepting that, and making the effort needed to lose a few pounds again. I do hate filling out some of my favorite shirts in a way slightly too excessive for my taste, which counters any notion of just accepting that, you know, I am 45 years old.
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I just finished the second-Thursday lunch with Karen over FaceTime. I had to be reminded of it, yet again, when she texted me to confirm—even though I had actually remembered to bring my iPad this time! Although we had some comedy of errors trying to connect iPad to iPad, as it would refuse to connect and then we kept trying to call each other back. Then I finally tried it on my phone and it worked, right after which I tried on the iPad again, while connected on the phone, and that worked! Only after an accidental disconnect for other reasons maybe forty minutes later did my calling her back again finally work on her iPhone too.
She showed me photos of her "LEGO White House," the kit for which apparently Anita gave her for Christmas last year and she only recently got around to putting together. It was very cool though. I wondered why the White House, and why LEGO, but she explained that she already has a LEGO Space Needle she put together years ago and keeps at her office, and she had told Anita last year she'd like the White House one because she has been going to D.C. for over a year now, as
a member of the U.S. Access Board.
Anyway. We otherwise caught up; we talked movies, particularly
Spencer and
Passing, currently my #1 and #2 movies of the year. But I have plenty of work to get done this afternoon and now I need to get back to it.
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