did not get to the

Morgan last night---too tired. Worked at Friends and had about four classes in a row. At home not much energy---today is different. Really free until Tuesday morning. Possibly Pollock tonight. Should try to see it; this might be my only chance. Will go down at the last minute and see if I can get in.
Thursday early evening. Caught the 7:00 showing of The Golden Circle. A really good and incisive movie about late thirty somethings, early 40 somethings living in "whitebread" Cobble Hill Brooklyn. Their composure, such as it is, is shook up when one of them, an archivist, hires a 25 year old Australian young woman as his assistant. Lots of strong scenes---really good camera work---the director's camera really loves all the women in the movie---interesting discussions about the strengths, versus the absence of intimacy. Always interesting--it is definitely much stronger than the director's earlier work: Listen Up Philip. But it is telling that the four principles, who live in what has become and is for them an all white neighborhood, all work in jobs---one an archivist, one a therapist (with only white patients) and a husband and wife who own and manage a sound studio---that don't make any demands on them to acknowledge a lower class or a world of people of color---the movie avoids any issues concerning race or poverty---and these are well educated white people. So it is a double edged sword: on one hand there is lots of force in this movie and it kept my interest throughout__on the other hand I was always aware of how insulated and disinterested in real issues these people were. Still, I loved going to Metrograph--may return there this weekend, depending on time concepts.
That is it, wanted to discuss the movie and I did. Will report soon.