Movie: Time of the Wolf (TODS-only)

Time of the Wolf (Le Temps du Loup) was another online Netflix movie for TODS. He described it as a post-apocalyptic fusion of Hobbes' Leviathan and Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Long, bleak, and oppressive, with some merit for those who wish to reflect on the state of nature thought experiment or the nausea induced by the loss of the conventions on which depends the meaningfulness of life's experiences.

Movie: The Woman in Green

When TODS re-organized our DVDs we ran across several that we had gotten and then never watched, or started and never finished. One of these was a fun double-movie set with shorts, cartoons, etc., so that it was like an old-fashioned double feature. We watched The Woman in Green, an old Sherlock Holmes movie with Basil Rathbone (or, as my mother calls him, Razzle-Dazzle Bathbone) and Nigel Bruce. I enjoy Rathbone as Holmes, but Bruce is written and directed to play Watson as something of a dim-witted buffoon, which I don't like. TODS and I both wondered how on earth we were supposed to be able to tell that the woman was wearing green, given that the entire movie was in black and white. (It's never mentioned in the dialogue.) Afterwards we watched a set of bloopers from various Warner Bros. productions of 1938, occasionally spotting famous people like Claudette Colbert, Humphrey Bogart, and Ronald Reagan.