This week, MovieNight took on yet another shape-shift. We had a healthy, pre-movie bar-hang scene, followed by our feel-good-about-feeling-bad feature, Beginners, followed by one tune by Corinne Bailey Rae, during which I playfully inserted the DVD of John Ford’s stunning classic, How Green Was My Valley. I had intended just to have it on for the visual stimulation (beautiful black and white footage!), but somehow (!) the Corrine faded out and the movie faded up. Almost everyone stayed until the end!

I had always wanted to show How Green Was My Valley, but thought it might be a hard sell. So that’s crossed off our to-do list now. With style.

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