Croix Parler

[Croix]

I'd like to use this pace for miscellaneous matters that don't fit elsewhere

Thanks

Croix

[Croix]

That can only mean one thing—and I don't know what it is!

[Peppermintbach]

Hi Croix,

Thanks for the recommendations 🙂 I'll have to check out Dusty Springfield's Woman. I'm very curious...

Yeah, Janis Joplin was incredibly talented! I had heard her name before but didn't really look into her music till I read Just Kids.

Kind thoughts,

Pepper xo

[Moonstruck]

Got another movie for ya Croix. Don't be put off by the name which isn't as soppy/romantic as it sounds...called Lovesick....with Dudley Moore and a very young Elizabeth McGovern. (the mother in Downton Abbey).

Dudley plays a psychiatrist with wonderfully unique patients.... Has some cameo appearances by big names including Alec Guinness (as Sigmund Freud who Dudley imagines is giving him advice) and famous Director John Houston as Dudley's mentor.. I love this sweet film.

[Croix]

Dear Moon et al.~

I have not seen that one, though of course I remember Dud from Beyond the Fringe to Arthur. so thanks for the recommendation. I'll wander down to my s/hand movie store in a few days and see if it is there .This one has both Alec Guinness and John Huston. Actually Huston is in one of my favorite noir detective films -Chinatown (Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway)- have you seen it?

Croix

[Moonstruck]

No I was never attracted to seeing Chinatown. But speaking of Jack Nicolson.....two of my most favourite movies of all time....right up there...two of the best has Jack in them.....As Good As It Gets...everyone knows that one...with Helen Hunt and the gay neighbour and the little dog etc....brilliant lines, brilliant performances.

the other is Something's Gotta Give with Jack and Diane Keaton...about people falling in love in their mature years...it's brilliant too. I could, and have, watched them over and over!

I seem to get attached to movies in which either the plot, or the characters sort of mirror real situations I am going through...or real people in my life at the time. And when I re-watch them months or years later.....I always think of that person, or that time of my life!

I'd be lost without my collection of special DVDs of hard to get,very old, or out of print movies that mean so much to me. some years back someone recommended a particular website (in Australia) where I've managed to get the really "hard to find" ones...so I can have them forever.

[SubduedBlues]

For Jack Nicholson, you can go past One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

[Croix]

Dear SB~

I haven't seen much of you lately, have you been keeping OK?

That film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is most definitely a very great piece of cinema, from memory I think it won Academy Awards .

Unfortunately it is so good I can't watch it now, too many people I empathize with in most unhappy situations, and an institution out of hell.

Nevertheless probably Jacks' greatest part.

Croix

[Croix]

Dear Moon~

Just taken your advice and ordered Lovesick, with that cast must be ok. Ta for the recommendation.

Croix

[Guest_3712]

Have to agree with you Croix Jack at his back but huge trigger for lots of people including me

My first hospital admission someone thought it would be funny to bring that movie in on DVD . They played it on movie night - the result was very distessing .

[Croix]

Dear Stressless~

I'm glad you said that, there are times when I think I'm alone in not handling things like that - silly I know, self-doubt is all part of that great PTSD/Dep ... etc. etc. experience I guess.

Thanks

Croix