before it drifts to a distant foggy memory,
Fur and The Notorious Betty Paige,
Movies that I watched in my Woodstock retreat,
were brilliant works so memorable.

Both had a thin common thread;
One a story of a Photographer (Diane Arbus) and the other a story of a sensational pin-up model.
From two sides of the angles,
in two different movies,
there were so many moments worth noting.

"Fur" was memorable for the portrayal Diane's curiousity, the whimsically told story with the many associations with the circus and its intrigues. Further worth swooning, were the cameras, the set up and the little delightful studio scenes I indulged in. For all its lessons, the biggest was how Diane broke the ice between a subject and herself: "Can you keep a secret?" Perhaps it is also worth mentioning, I love almost any Nicole Kidman show. :)

"The Notorious Betty Paige" was extradionary, firstly being shot in B/W and Technicolour, the great lengths the director went to invoke the experience of that era. It was an awesome movie with a different persepective so sorely protuding, Betty being the symbol for Fetishism and watching the story told from her POV, in her belief of the photographs "being silly". She was even pious, and was questioned what would God do if He knew what she was doing, with her answer so wholesomely sincere, it just struck me as how brilliant a movie could make one realise so much. The costumes, the art directions, the props and the colour, the whole directing on its own was so reminiscent of that nostalgic era, it was SUCH a delightful film to appreciate.

I am such a sucker for anything photographic in nature huh.