Last Sunday’s New York Times had a section on summer movies. It included certain movie peoples writing about their favorite summer movies. One was Miranda July writing about A Room with a View (heart! I love the costume reenactments!). An excerpt:
I came stumbling out into the night, and walked silently between my parents, trying to imitate the child I’d been 90 minutes before and conceal my transformation into a woman in love.
Read the whole thing here. Also, Maya Rudolph on Purple Rain!
Miranda July’s new movie, The Future, will be showing at the Seattle International Film Festival.
Have to wait until Thursday to download the new iSIFF app for the iPhone and iPad.
Dang.
But, this is going to be a very excellent year – and for teh gayz too.
I seem to lack a Merchant-Ivory gene (or perhaps an E.M. Forster gene; I’ve always thought of him as a cross between a D.H. Lawrence for eunuchs and an Anton Chekhov for Anglophiles) that would allow me to enjoy A Room with a View, enticing male nudity notwithstanding.
Still, July make quite a case for it (or at least for her experience of it). Maybe I should give it another look.
You should also check out the movie made from the British play (with an interesting “character”) of The Importance of Being Ernest, it’s quite good.