The Egyptian and Sherlock Holmes

I left my internship at around 9pm tonight, started walking towards my car and felt inspired to stop by the Egyptian to see what was playing. The Egyptian is this fantastic theater on Hollywood Blvd a couple blocks west of Wilcox that shows random cool films. Tonight they were showing a Sherlock Holmes double feature. The first was called The Seven Percent Solution, about Dr. Watson tricking Sherlock Holmes into visiting Sigmund Freud to help cure his cocaine habit. Yeah, that's why I went despite being super tired. The movie was awesome and funny, mixing a murder mystery with the unconscience discussions of Sherlock's cocaine habit and motivations. In some respects, a precursor to the Soprano's - with British accents. Robert Duvall played Dr. Watson. Vanessa Redgrave was a German baroness recovering from a cocaine addiction as well. Plus, the best scene of the entire movie was Sigmund Freud playing an anti-semetic Kraut in a game of 1840s style German tennis, which seemed to be a mix of regular tennis and raquetball. Yeah, it was cool.

The second film was Murder By Decree which had some cool visual things going for it, foggy London streets with close up horse drawn carridges at nighttime. But I fell asleep and didn't know what was going on - so I left in the middle.