Watched an old movie last night… Summer Lovers.

It’s NOT a great movie. It wasn’t a great movie in 1982 when I saw it the first time with a girlfriend in a New Westminster theatre that is now an Army Navy store!

I remember the theatre and the movie experience NOT because Daryl Hannah was naked (she played ‘Pris’, the replicant, in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner the same year, by the way), but because I broke a tooth on an un-popped kernel of corn during the third reel and spent the rest of the evening in the emergency room of the Royal Columbian Hospital waiting my turn to get a mitt-full of 292s when I should have been getting laid!

But I digress…

No, the movie’s not great, but I did find it fascinating watching it this time around (without popcorn!) because of it’s stellar use of Greek locales in the storyline. The film was shot in the exact same locations that I spent much of my time this past Spring while cruising through the Greek islands - Santorini, Mykonos and Crete. And I mean EXACT! There are shots, entire scenes in this movie where I stood and took pictures, had lunch, shopped, danced (yes, I shop) and walked through the narrow, blindingly white passageways. It’s nice to know that after several thousands of years Greece hasn’t changed much in the last twenty-five. (?) You know what I mean.

So, the whole ‘Summer Lovers’ thing made me go back to my recent archive of Greek photos and make a few more pictures available on my Flickr site.

And yes, it really is that blue!