pure joy to see this in a packed theater with an audience of many generations of parents and children. one observation: way back when, movies used to be raucously funny without being comedies. I found myself laughing through almost every minute of this at every brilliant little facial gesture and saucy retort, and then crying all the others. transcendent, unreal, etc. also *way* too real right now. feels like I'm seeing way too many Rolfs around these days and not enough Captain Von Trapps. strangely though, the moments where I found tears inexplicably running down my cheeks were in the pure joy; Maria taking the children out to Saltzburg in their playclothes, the children's first performance for their father, Maria and the Captain in the gazebo...it's pure goodness and beauty and tenderness distilled. I got full body chills and sobbed during Edelweiss. I can't imagine being behind the camera for some of these shots. majesty. all my love.