movie odds and ends

amc has had a bunch of really good films in the past week.
last night i watched" the green years "with charles coburn,hume cronin,jessica tandy,elsa
lancaster and the young dean stockwell. it's one of those family saga poor/orphan/lost boy
makes good after many social/family crises--a bit like "how green was my valley" which no one else in my family appreciates but which i think is one of the top films ever made.

george raft appears in a minor role---as a priest no less--but he maintains his usual deadpan usually reserved for his roles as a gangster.

i almost went to see "flightplan" with jodi foster tonight after reading a very positive review in the daily cardinal but how good could this film about a mother looking for her child in a plane for 2 hours be. interestingly i recently saw jodi foster in a french film playing a totaly minor role
( i mean a walk on character for 2 minutes). it was quite a surprise--after all --she is a STAR.
her french was perfectly fluent (although the character was supposedly not born in france).
i thought of jodi foster because there was a news story about hinckley possibly being released which must be distressing to her whether or not he in fact gets released or whether or not he is now risk free.

our last netflix viewing was "divorce italian style" with the young marcello mastroianni. i hadn't seen it for many years but it holds up well. wonderfully constructed story line and marvellous background music.