attic 13 July 2008
I am the madwoman in the attic – official. Myself and the Hairy take to it each day I am in Dublin in the hope that I will write and she’ll get some quality kip. She’s not much help with the work but it’s nice to see her all curled up or stretched out in abandon, depending on the temperature.
I saw one of the most famous sequences in cinema history tonight – the Husband rented BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN which is an amazing piece of movie-making history. The Potemkin Staircase sequence is a classic, it’s the one with uniformed soldiers marching on and killing civilians and a pram with a child in it rolling down the famous steps – it is often ‘quoted’ in modern movies. It was all the more wonderful for us as we could point to where we’d stood only a few months ago. We are both mad for Odessa and it was a treat to see the city as it looked early last century. The breadth of vision in the massacre section was mind-blowing – a great experience. Loved the film and I will be getting us our own version to have in our burgeoning library of (mostly crap) movies (this crapness will change soon). We were given a book entitled The !,000 Greatest Movies of All Time, or Ever, or something like that and I think it would be a fine thing to try to get copies of each of the films named. Of course there are as many lists as there are people to think them up but you gotta start somewhere…
