Sunday, April 26, 2009

Sun Sessions

Just to change things up a bit, here is a video called Sun Sessions by a junior film major at columbia college. It is quite good.


Sun Sessions from Eddie O'Keefe on Vimeo.

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Breakfast at Tiffany's



Walking into Breakfast at Tiffany's I was curious. From the DVD case to the old trailer for it I just could not understand how this movie was often considered one of the film greats. From My Fair Lady I didn't know why everyone was so furiously in love with Audrey Hepburn, and I sure was not keen on the idea of watching a movie about a woman in love with money. Yet I watched it, and yes I am glad I did. What a delightful package this movie is. Audrey Hepburn is splendid as Holly Golightly a woman in love with money only because she has never had enough to support herself and in love with no one because she has never found anyone to belong to. As her couterweight George Peppard as the level headed Paul is strong and loving. Both are caught in lives that most anyone would consider immoral, Holly is a high class call girl and Paul is kept man. Oh yeah, Paul is a writer as well. The story is thin because it is so much about the characters. Watching Holly and Paul develop together is the marvel of the movie as neither are conventional stereotypes typical of romances in movies, but real breathing people who make wrong choices and live with them and on occasion make the right ones. This film ranks as one of the best romances, it is not ravishing or high flying, but quaint, cute and dazzling. If Casablanca is the great romantic epic then this is the great romantic comedy.