I woke up around 1:30 and I fell when I was taking a shower.
I had cornflakes and oranges and kiwi and banana for breakfast. I put my orange and kiwi in the fridge last night, and they tasted way better cold.
I went to the Berliner Gallery near my house. There was a new temporary exhibit with photography. There was a big oil painting by Thomas Lange that I really liked and another painting by Trak Wendisch that I also liked.
I was there for maybe an hour and a bit and then walked home and made some rice with tomatoes and carrots and red peppers.
I watched "The Long Goodbye"(1973) by Robert Altman. It was pretty great. I really like Elliot Gould. I'm going to digest the film a bit more and watch it again. It reminded me a bit of those Fletch movies that Chevy Chase did.
I walked over to Kottbusser Tor and ate a falafel and then walked back home.
Then I watched "The Lady from Shanghai" (1947). It was good too. Orson Welles had an Irish accent, that I found uncomfortable, and I normally really enjoy the sound of his voice. I watched "Manhattan Murder Mystery" the other day, and it has a lot of "The Lady from Shanghai" featured in it. That was interesting too.
This is an old truck in Ireland;
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I watched the first "Fletch" movie on television a couple of months ago. (The only reason I've bothered to remember about the franchise is because Kevin Smith has been trying for years to make another film with Jason Lee in the title role.) It was better than I thought it would be, but not great.
Typically comedies from that era don't empress me. I enjoy them as cinema, and I am thankful for the boundaries they broke and the risks they took. Modern comedies are definietly better movies because of the "SNL-type comedies" of the late 70s and early 80s. My point is that modern comedies are better movies.
I think that the comedies of that time had too many "larger than life" comedic characters, and I find it too distracting. Chevy Chase is much better in "Caddyshack" (another movie of that era I just watched) because he's more reined in (mainly due to his character type).
Perhaps I'll give "The Long Goodbye" a watch.
SNL aside, I think I misled you about "The Long Goodbye". It's not a comedy. It's a pretty dark film-noir at times like "Chinatown". It does have a wise-cracking PI though, which is why I thought of Chevy Chase. The big difference is that the Fletches are comedies and "The Long Goodbye" isn't; it's an exhausted and betrayed Elliot Gould in a Robert Altman noir. Totally give it a try, but don't expect a M.A.S.H. Gould...or Caddyshack.
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