bwh | Fillums

I am trying to get back into the habit of going to the cinema once a week with tea_cantata. In the past two weeks we have seen:

Stage Beauty: a fictional version of the un-banning of women from the stage by Charles II, putting Ned Kynaston (Billy Crudup), star actor of female roles, out of work and allowing his dresser (Claire Danes) to take his place. It's very funny and very sexy (though not historically accurate).
The Motorcycle Diaries: an intriguing dramatisation of the travels of Ernesto "Che" Guevara (played by Gael Garcia Bernal) around South America as a young man. He travelled with his friend Alberto Granado, starting out on a clapped-out motorcycle but later resorting to hitchhiking. Guevara kept a diary and each of them later wrote a book about the journey. It's basically a road movie but provides a little background to Guevara's later political activity. Well worth seeing.

I've also watched, on tape:

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Alice Hyatt, widowed and broke, tries to support herself and her annoyingly precocious son. A lot of people seem to like this one but I didn't really appreciate it. It seems sloppy and clichéd to me, but maybe that's just a sign of its time (1974). Plus a lot of the dialogue was muffled (but maybe that's just my ear at fault).

I've just started a trial of LoveFilm, the DVD subscription rental service. I used the promotional code CSCAM to get a 30 day trial period rather than the regular 14 days. I'm not sure it's really worth £20/month so I probably won't continue after the trial, but I'll see how it goes.