This is the time of year that the studios trot out the stuff they think will bring them Oscars.
When I jotted down my list of movies that qualify for the comfort food category, the first thing I realized is that only two of them qualify as representative of their makers’ best work. Here you’re looking for something that produces a feeling — and does it consistently — that’s somehow soothing to your innermost being.
Most of us — at least those we call “of a certain age” — grew up on the Little Rascals on TV, which, by the way, is when they actually became the Little Rascals. The question, of course, is how do these old movies hold up?
The 2008 Asheville Film Festival is behind us, and with its passing comes the usual postmortem examination of what went wrong, what went right and what could have been better.
The comments in last week’s column — from a fellow veteran of the University of South Florida’s early-mid-1970s marathon movie screenings — brought my own memories of those days back with no little nostalgia for a time when I was young enough, resilient enough and possibly dumb enough to undertake such a thing as 16 movies in the space between Friday evening and Sunday afternoon.
UNC-Asheville’s Amnesty International Student Chapter will hold its fifth annual Human Rights Film Festival Monday, Nov. 10, through Friday, Nov. 14.
