*The Sound of Music*

For the 60th anniversary of its release, the movie is now playing in some cinemas on a large screen.  See it if you can.  For a while it was the highest-grossing movie ever, and it is not hard to see why.  It has spectacular visuals, music, and casting, but most of all there is a remarkable sense of life to it all.  Julie Andrews dominates every scene she is in (p.s. I say the Baroness was a Nazi, or at least anti-anti-Nazi).  It is also a fascinating glimpse of both life and aesthetics circa 1965.  Seeing it is one of the very best things I have done in recent times.