27 October, 2010

the hunt is over


i have searched for el nido (1980) for a good ten years! out of print. out of favour. out of luck. well, i found it! an old VHS copy that will somehow have to be converted into 21st century viewing technology. but hell, i could not be happier.

i like to think of it as a valuable accompanying piece to harold and maude. the touching story of an eccentric widower and the precocious 12-year-old Goyita. To a sountrack of Haydn. what's not to like?

2 comments:

Lady V said...

Have been looking at that poster for about 7 of those years on the pigshed wall. Dying to see it...

albeo said...

Damn. I thought I had managed to get rid of all copies. I scavenged the earth, bribed old men in old video stores, threatened spinsters at University videoteques, destroyed hundreds of copies with fire, water and tools. I must have missed THAT one. Damn. Now I'll be forced to see what is clearly over-indulgent toss over and over by you two females. God oh god... Have to be more careful next time...