More movies: The Aviator, Howard Hughes, Kate Hepburn

We PPVed The Aviator the other day, which I liked. It's awfully sad, though, assuming the details about his disorder are accurate. The ending is really effective. I now have a favorite Leo Di Caprio movie, which just feels weird.

So then we rented Hell's Angels. We've only seen half of it, but I saw the most important part -- the zeppelin crash. Extraordinary. Audiences in 1930 must have gone nuts when they saw that.

Then I happened to have a day off when one of the movie channels was running a Kate Hepburn marathon, and saw just bits and pieces of most of them -- Suddenly, Last Summer, Long Day's Journey into Night, The Lion in Winter. But I watched all of the first one, after missing the first 20 minutes or so, a little-seen (and little-liked) 1946 noirish film called Undercurrent. I liked it quite a lot, even though Kate was not right for role in 1946 (would she ever have been?).

The film uses a recurring piano theme as a plot point, and it took me the rest of the day to figure out where I'd heard it -- Carlos Santana based his song "Love of My Life" on a Brahms passage, and that was the Brahms.