Again This Year
It isn't the first or even second time I have blogged about the classic Autumn movie, Practical Magic. Last night I declared it movie night, and since the theme around this house is Autumn and Halloween, I voted to watch this cutie with Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, and the rest. I really don't watch it for the plot, which starts out cute but gets a little odd at times. I watch it for the house, the little cameo quotes, the aunts, the sisters... the mood of magic.
My original blog from 2007 said so much about my first look at this movie. Here is the link, should you be interested. LINK.
And so, I will just leave you with the images and "famous" quotes to start you on the path to a lovely fall...
Whimsy and Hugs!
5 comments:
My all time favorite movie. I always tell my Hubby that if we win the lottery I want to build a house like theirs. My other favorite fall movies are The Trouble with Harry and Hocus Pocus.
Where did you get these wonderful screen captures????
Fantastic!!!
LOVE this film. and it is on NETFLIX. Hooray!!!!
Guess it's about time I watch it.
Same here, I don't particularly like the 'walking dead' story. Brrrr... But love the house, grounds, magic ambiance, the Aunts, etc.
Also love the line: "there is no devil in the craft." don't remember if that was in the book, but... I like it.
Also, some of the stories are much darker, in the book. Like the woman who wanted some guy, to adore her. Whooo-hooo, in the book!!!!
Yes, I read the book, too, and really liked it, but it was so different that I didn't really recognize parts of it. The flowers were so important in the book!
This is so funny, Gayla. Last night I watched this on Netflix in a hotel in the UP after John fell asleep. LOVE the show---as much for the grand old house as anything! xo Diana
When i saw this yesterday, I guess I just jumped up and went to see if we had it on Netflix---and we do, so now it's on the LIST for our October movie nights. And that HOUSE! Is that not the one on anybody's street that everybody thinks if you live THERE, you must lead an enchanted life?
Several houses in movies have stuck with me for years---this one, and Cher's cluttered, rock-n-roll fun kitchen in Mermaids, and the scene in Endless Love (otherwise eminently forgettable) in which they have that dress-up dinner party---wasn't the light absolutely luminously gorgeous?
And somehow that fabulous, echoing old rental/refuge in Sleeping With the Enemy, with its old hallways and apple trees, and the fabulous white fixer-upper in Beetlejuice, as well as the Smith's house in Meet Me in St. Louis---all covetable, and exceeded only by the Banks's Mary Poppins Mansard and magical occupant--all those memories sometimes outlast the plot.
And of course, Bramasole, which is a total kind of magic all its own.
There's a decidedly odd one here in town which we have seen grow and grow upon its allotted "lot" around a striking ranch-of-the-sixties, like a great amoeba absorbing and devouring all the landscape (and neighboring house) all around. It's a local landmark, photographed and laughed at, and I've been meaning to do a blog post about it. Nowhere I'D want to live, but lots of speculation and lore and gossip and notoriety to the place, so that it looks a little embarrassed with itself.
Hope all is well with you!
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