Snow Or Never
Look at the world today. Is there anything more pitiful? What madness there is! What blindness! What unintelligent leadership! A scurrying mass of bewildered humanity crashing against each other, propelled by an orgy of greed and brutality. A time must come, my friend, when this orgy will spend itself. When brutality and the lust for power must perish by its own sword.
Words spoken by the fictious High Llama in Frank Capra's 1937 classic, Lost Horizon. Well, it obviously hasn't happened yet, but you can read about the restored DVD version of a film that was itself largely lost for 60 years, here at The Boomer Hall of Fame. And enjoy the snow.
And about the DVD of Wild Strawberries with a remarkable interview with Ingmar Bergman at age 80 here, also at Boomer. (He's 87 now, and made his most recent movie at 86.)
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