It’s great landing in a movie like and just getting wrapped up in it.
Yes it is, and I'm afraid I don't give myself many chances for it to happen these days. I generally insist on planning and "controlling" my watching as opposed to just giving something the chance to do its thing.
I don't know why, but I started watching a Criterion Eclipse series of Yasujiro Ozu Silent Crime Dramas this week. The first, That Night's Wife, was good but somewhat melodramatic. The second, Walk Cheerfully, was strangely wonderful. It was about a hoodlum who falls in love with a poor woman and decides to go good. Trite plot, but there were so many unexpected scenes that you just got swept up in it. The hoods had their own way of communicating, usually in the form of choreographed movement. But there are also just wonderful shots of feet tapping together that made you wonder what universe you were watching.
I'm looking forward to the last of the series, Dragnet Girl, maybe Saturday.