GoF Weekend!

Friday I met my friend S's new baby, which was awesome, and we hung out and had lunch and stuff, and then I met up with ziggy1278 who took me to see the comic play "Absurd Person Singular" followed by a late supper at a French bistro.

Saturday night we were a cast of thousands (actually, 16) for dinner and the film (well, only 15 for that as the lovely calloocallay joined us for dinner though she'd seen the film) and much squished fun was had, followed by some coffee and conversation at a diner. I said this in the theater, but I'll say it again: I want to see every HP movie with mistful.

Last night we went out for blackholly's birthday celebration and had a vast quantity of excellent food followed by drinks at Hudson Bar & Books, a lovely little spot I admit I had forgotten about though I'd definitely return on a Sunday. Sunday night, man, that's the night to go out in New York, I tell you what.

As for GoF, wordplay said I thought about the film too much, so I just want to disclaim here that I am a film studies student by training and a media critic by nature. I keep trying to write something about the film and it ends up being too impressionistic, too much love this moment/hate that moment, so I've narrowed it down to two things:

( Romance and Visuals )

Much else that I could say has been said by others. The new characters were great, as were the returning ones, and there were so many fun moments that I'm not going to recount them all here. Given the tight visuals I've lost my yen to see it on IMAX, I must admit, but the DVD, oh yes, it will be mine. It also got me all excited about all things Potter again, in the way that sadly new canon never seems to because it gets so political and crazy so quickly, whereas the films are just fun.

Reqs, and Dan in Blender

It made the newsletter so likely you've seen it, but must highly recommend Of Cheese, Quidditch, and Mutual Attraction, a perfectly darling bit of Ron/Padma from significantowl. Go, read!

If you want to know what it was like to sit next to mistful at GoF, read her recap, and you will see why I want to see every subsequent film with her.

taradiane has a scan of Dan's little Blender thingum in which he yammers on about the Pixies song "Debaser". Okay, Dan? It's called Un Chien Andalou, it was directed by Buñuel but co-written by Dalí, and it was actually a cow's eye. Good film though. I also recommend L'Age D'Or.

So many movies to see this December! So many!