So, I stumbled across this site which lists ‘great’ movies by year. I poked around a bit and found my way to 1967, a year which gave us these classics (amoung others):
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Cool Hand Luke
- The Dirty Dozen
- The Graduate
- Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?
- How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
- In Cold Blood
- In the Heat of the Night
- The Jungle Book
- Two for the Road
That’s 10 (count ‘em, ten!) amazing pieces of cinema in one year. Compare this to the dreck that Hollywood is churning out now. I’d wager we haven’t had 10 movies of this quality in the last five years, and certainly not in any single recent year.
When I get out of bed for the day I’ve noticed that I’ve developed this odd habit (as if I didn’t have enough of those already). When I actually sit up (this could be after lying awake for some time working up to it) I blurt out the first thing that comes to me, off the top of my head. Sometimes it’s just something I thought of while sleeping that I think is funny “monkey biscuits!”. Sometimes it’s something important I’ve been thinking about while sleeping “Go to the bike shop!“, “buy bread!”, “water the oregano!” it’s really quite helpful when I come up with something I needed to be reminded of. Then there are mornings like today. I sat up and loudly exclaimed “Sidney Poitier!”, and I don’t have any idea why. Should I go rent “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”? Is someone coming to dinner? What does it all mean??