A disgrace to the forces of evil

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I aten't dead! I have seen four movies this weekend, three of them as part of the Somerville Theatre's 70 mm & Widescreen Festival and one from the Brattle's Wicked Queer Flashback. I should like to write about all of them, although I have some other things I want to get out of my head first. For the record, Sleeping Beauty (1959) and Tron (1982) are knockouts in 70 mm; the first is much more beautiful and much more self-aware than I remembered or could perceive in elementary school and the second, while it has some very weird script problems, holds together much better than I'd thought from its reputation and still doesn't look like anything in this universe. I really need to see Maleficent (2014). I should also buy some groceries now that I have a pantry again.

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As a little kid, I had Viewmaster disks of Sleeping Beauty (did you ever have one of those? They were essentially modern-day stereopticons that showed images in 3D) I *loved* it, and was very happy when I finally got to see the movie (fairly early in my childhood--either it or National Velvet was the first movie I saw in theaters).

I'd like to see Maleficent too.

I thought of you during the past week, because I was in Lexington, but I mused that probably you were in the process of moving back out from there, and it looks like I was right!