Films galore

There are times, when you really really want to go to the cinema to watch a movie, but there is really nothing good on, so you end up going to a film you didn't really want to see just to be inside a cinema.
And then there are times when there are so many (potentially) good films about that you can't find the time to watch them all.
In the last two weeks, we flipped from situation 1 to situation 2, the quickest positive trend in film on offer for a long time.
Firstly, there was The Grand Budapest Hotel, which we saw in the art cinema last Sunday. Great film, quite strange, but in a good way. In the previews we saw the trailer of August: Osage County, which I have been meaning to watch since the Oscar nominations came through, and I want to watch even more after reading a very positive review on it. There was also a preview of The Book Thief, based on a young adult novel that is quite popular (writing this sentence made me realise that English is lacking a term for 'boekverfilming', the Dutch word used to describe films based on books. In the past, most Dutch films were based on books as funding is hard to come by otherwise, but the English-speaking world is quickly catching up, with most films now based on books or 'true stories'...). The film got some pretty bad reviews but still looks good anyway. The same is true for A Long Way Down, based on my favourite Nick Hornby novel. Most reviews say the film has done anything possible to wreck the great atmosphere of the novel, but still, I love the story and I will have to see it for myself.
So that made for 4 films, only 1 of which I have already seen.
But then yesterday's paper had even more film reviews, and they were quite positive about The Invisible Woman, which is a portrayal of one of the darker parts of Charles Dickens's life. Another literature film! I will have to see it. On the next page over was a review of Kill Your Darlings, the film starring Daniel Radcliffe and dealing with Alan Ginsberg's younger years. I am not a fan of the Beat generation, partly because I gave a horrible presentation on them once, and partly because I think the stuff they wrote is just too far-fetched, but this also looks like quite a nice film.
So, 5 films I need to watch, 4 of them literature-related. What more can a person ask for, apart from better cinema-going weather. It's going to be sunny and warm for the next few days, so I will have to put my film-cravings on hold for a little while, as great weather is even harder to come by than great films!