Today I saw my first proper film library, if you don't count the video rental giant Global Video. I was sat around the halls kitchen with the man-dem and then Eva and Oliver came back with DVDs from the library - which were free! So, like a proper film nerd I ran into my repugnent room and pulled on a pair of split Levis jeans (I'm just trying to illustrate my poverty) and my woman's coat and walked at pace to the library.
When arriving I just saw stacks and stacks of films about the Royal coronation and historical footage of the Vietnam war, World War I&II, Kennedy Assasination and all the other important historical events. I thought 'is this it?', but then Hammond jr. strolled in and started jamming on his guitar.
That last bit is a lie, of course, but I wondered around browsing at all the old cassettes and DVDs of classics like Casablanca, Last Tango in Paris, King Lear (joke), Wizard of Oz etc. and then finally found the foreign cinema section and I could have had a wank right there and then. Shelves filled up with Herzog, Fritz, Fassbender, Bergman, Godard, Kurosawa, Chan-Wook, Melville, Loach, Leigh, Haneke, Hitchcock and...Robocop (Don't know why that was there)
Sadly, I was only allowed to take three DVDs at a time so this has acted as an influence to buy a new PC for my room so I can watch these endless DVDs and do work of course. Oh, I took out Time of the Wolf by Haneke, Naked by Mike Leigh and L'armee Des Ombres by Melville. I am really looking forward to filling my head with cinema history...and Robocop.
