The Thing from Another World (1951) Set the standard for monster movies for years to come - all they did was make the monsters bigger. Always entertaining, and a rare opportunity to see Paul Frees. It was interesting to me that a shot of the reporter tumbling backward over a cot appeared in the trailer but not in the film. 9/10
Classe tous risques (1960) Lino Ventura and Belmondo in the story of a hard guy at the end of the line, mopping up ex-pals who let him down. Ventura is always great, and this was an unusually sympathetic picture of a man with his back to the wall, interesting but never really exciting or compelling. 6/10
Grey Gardens (1975) Donna seemed to like this a lot more than I did. If I had never seen screwballs jabbering away amid their squalor before I guess I would have gone gaga over it like everybody else has, but for the past decades that sort of thing is a penny a gross. Anybody with a camera who knows a kook, crank or nut can just point the damn thing at them and it's some kind of social document. Maybe at the time nobody had ever done that. Anyway, I sat through it, mostly thinking about what it must have smelled like. 3/10
