Dreamed of the Italian movie epic 1900.
Had lunch with Puitak and Gordon on the Toronto Islands. (We were going to go Monday or Tuesday [this was Wednesday], but Pui had to work.) Afterward we walked to the eastern islands and looked at the houseboats.
Dinner was shepherd's pie.
Saw two more Dreyers. The first one was the silent Michael, which I'd seen before at the Cinematheque. It was an unsentimental story of a celebrated artist, who takes a young, restless male artist/ model under his wing. (I perceived a gay subtext.) His protege then forsakes him for a woman the artist has been painting. Dreyer had a great feel for amorous intimacy, as in a scene where the protege comes upon the woman's gloves.
The second one, Two People, was incredible! It's a movie with a couple conversing in their apartment, sort of like a filmed one-act play. The husband is a doctor who's been accused of plagiarism, and now some clues point to him being a murderer, but the wife has some secrets of her own. I'll have to tell the people in my drama course about it this fall!
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