*** City Lights
*** True Blood, Season 2
**** Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day
*** I Am Love

I don’t really have much to add to the reams of ink and bits that have presumably been spilled praising Charlie Chaplin, except to say that I liked this movie pretty well. As with many movies this old, it sometimes was a little silly or a little slow for my modern attention span, but otherwise thumbs up.

I didn’t intend to watch True Blood with E, but I somehow got sucked in and watched most of Season 2. I thought it was mostly good, except I ended up getting very tired of the whole Maryann storyline. It just didn’t really make dramatic sense — she was far too powerful to have been around for thousands of years without anyone noticing, since she could basically go anywhere and make anyone do anything she wanted. Come on. Plus, she got really annoying.

I think I’ve said it before, but I think Miss Pettigrew is pretty much a perfect movie. It’s not big in scope or anything, but just about everything in it is perfect, and everyone and everything is so damn appealing.

E and I really liked I Am Love, in spite of its unsubtle symbolism and drama (and its sometimes intrusively overly-obvious music). The main reason, of course, is Tilda Swinton, who is usually amazing and was definitely here. She is simply a pleasure to watch.