Besides watching lots of movies and writing about them I also went down in the basement yesterday and found my freshman year film textbook, The History of Narrative Film by David A. Cook, and I’ve been reading all the chapters we didn’t cover in class. It’s good stuff and I’m really into it, and hopefully I’ll be getting something really great out of it, other than an even larger list of DVDs I have to buy. Truffaut, Goddard, Fellini, Antonioni, Dreyer, Bunuel and Bergman are just the tip of the iceburg of directors I want to know better. I’m immersing myself in cinema, and hopefully a little of that will wear off on me.

Also, I got the first Twilight Zone box set from someone for my birthday. I just started checking it out today. They arranged it real odd: The episodes aren’t arrange chronologically or by theme, just a random sorting. The first episode on the first disk is especially an odd choice. In it a drunk store Santa wishes for a happy Christmas and ends up becoming a real Chris Cringle. Why that is the first episode is anyone’s guess, although the only reason I can think of is that people watching the marathons probably do so around the holiday season, making this a logical place to start.

Anyway, I’ve never seen a single Twilight Zone episode, so this is a real delight for me. I just started the second disk and I can’t wait to get a little further into it. I’ll let you know what I think of it when I’ve got more to work with.