Anyway, the movie.
The screening was at Loyola, where the Walker Percy Center for Writing and Publishing has its home. The writer/director gave a few words of introduction, and there was the promise of a panel discussion following the film. Alas, we were too tired to stay for that. I was almost too tired to stay awake for the whole movie. (Truth to tell, they didn't really need the full hour for the content. Or maybe I just didn't know what people were saying when they talked about how existential The Moviegoer was.) Be that as it may, I did find some wonderfully stimulating insights in the movie. I especially enjoyed the snippets of interviews with Robert Coles, one of my favorite writers. (I wish he would do a biography of Carryl Houselander; he does such marvelous studies of Catholic-type mystics.) In the end I brought home a copy of the DVD (thanks, Mom!). (One of the sisters in Boston is a huge Percy fan; she is the type who knows just how existential The Moviegoer is.)
Are you (or could you become) a Walker Percy fan? Want to know more about this influential Catholic novelist? Here's the movie site.
And here's a link to Coles' biography of Percy
1 comment:
Thanks for the DVD! Mom and I watched it on vacation. I liked the section on communication and Percy. Yes, Love in the Ruins is a terrific TOB novel. So is Second Coming - maybe more so.
Sr Margaret
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