Blind Spot 2015: Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock

"Everything begins...and ends...at exactly the right time and place." - Miranda

The minute Picnic at Hanging Rock ended I immediately wanted to watch it again. Its shining quality, its dreamy and mysterious aura, clung to me in ways only certain films and television dramas have. I decided to keep my rented-from-Netflix Criterion Blu-Ray for another day or two. I did watch this movie again. I had to. It was even better the second time.

Blind Spot 2015: Robert Altman's 3 Women

Millie Lammoreaux (Shelley Duvall) goes across the street to the hospital to eat, rambles on and on to the doctors there about recipes she wants to try out, flirts uncontrollably. Pinky Rose (Sissy Spacek) blow bubbles in her Coke, wanders around, gazes, mimics, obsesses over Millie. Willie Hart (Janice Rule) paints murals; she is the strong, silent type, married to the cowboy landlord Edgar (Robert Fortier) and pregnant with his baby.