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  1. Doctor Strange

    Question[s] about a Stetson[s]

    I'm not up on the details of current Stetsons, but I recommend that you look at the Akubra Campdraft. It has the same dimensions as the Open Road, but comes open crown, so you can crease it as either a western hat or a fedora. It costs less than the Stetson, and the materials/manufacturing...
  2. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    On Netflix, Apollo 10-1/2: A Space Age Childhood (2022), written/directed by Richard Linklater Linklater returns to using rotoscoped animation (as in Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly) to tell an autobiographical tall tale about growing up in a big family in Houston in the sixties, when his...
  3. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The Northman on Amazon Prime. I am a huge fan of Robert Eggers' two previous films, The VVitch and The Lighthouse, so I was really looking forward to seeing his big-budget Viking-age spectacular. And in a lot of ways, it doesn't disappoint: the visuals and production design are stunning, the...
  4. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Excellent review, FF. The one thing I'd add is that The Mummy is unusual in having been directed by Karl Freund, who was mainly a genius cinematographer. He'd previously photographed many of the great German Expressionist films of the 20s (The Golem, The Last Laugh, Metropolis) and had shot...
  5. Doctor Strange

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    The 1994 film definitely had Rice's blessing - she wrote the screenplay. And (I thought) it was an excellent adaptation at the time, and it still looks great and plays well. Neil Jordan is a visionary director, and it was important film in terms of bringing the story to a broader public and...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I've been watching prequels and remakes... House of the Dragon on HBO... Meh. This Game of Thrones prequel about Targaryen dynasty infighting 150 years before the start of Thrones looks good, and features an Emmy-nomination-for-sure performance by Paddy Considine. But there is nobody "good"...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Excellent review. One thing worth noting is that My Summer with Monica was released in America... as a "racy Swedish movie with nudity"! Of course, Bergman wasn't operating under the Hollywood Production Code, not to mention that his quest for emotional realism was very different from most...
  9. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I usually can't stomach anything even vaguely sports-adjacent, but Eight Men Out is a great film. Not for nothing, nearly everything that John Sayles has written/directed is worth checking out. He's a major talent. Of course, Arnold Rothstein's "fixing" of the 1919 Series is key backstory...
  10. Doctor Strange

    Akubra Overload

    Yes, that's the one! Thanks, Brent.
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    Akubra Overload

    jeff, Akubra's Sand and Silverbelly ARE the same color. Ten or more years ago, I had a color swatch PDF file from Akubra's old web site - alas, lost a couple of computers ago - that showed both names next to the same swatch.
  13. Doctor Strange

    The Vintage Camera Club Thread

    Okay, here's my fantastic $10 score from a local private sale (found via Nextdoor's For Sale ads). A 1970 Zeiss Ikon Contaflex S in nearly perfect condition. This is a German-made 35mm SLR, unusual in that it has a leaf shutter in its lens (a fixed 50mm/2.8 Tessar) rather than the usual SLR...
  14. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I also liked the last Bond film a lot more than I expected to. I mean, all the Craig films other than Quantum of Solace (which I've watched twice... but can't recall at all!) are good, and a big step up for an uber-formulaic series that honestly, I'd lost interest in decades ago. But I...
  15. Doctor Strange

    THE SUNBODY ASSOCIATION

    So I wore my Sunbody Open Road through two months of major heat, sweating my brains out... and the sweatband shrank MUCH less than I expected. A little, but nothing like a half size. There are visible sweat stains all around the crown/brim, but I still have to keep the sizing foam under the...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The 1955 Japanese film I Live in Fear, directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune. A less well-known Kurosawa film that I hadn't seen before, recorded from TCM on its recent day of Mifune films. Nearly unrecognizable, Mifune (in foreground) plays an old man (though he was only 35...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I dunno, Neil Gaiman was very involved with the production of American Gods too... and it was canceled with two more seasons of story left untold. I haven't tried The Sandman yet, but I will get to it. I never read the original comics series, so I'll be going in cold too. ADDENDUM: Okay, ten...
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    Show us your photography

    Thanks. I agree that the mannikin head is creepy. Not really seeing it in the others, though.
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    Show us your photography

    Here are some of my recent FILM CAMERA negative scans made with classic Nikon equipment on good old Kodak Tri-X, developed in good old D-76. I shot these around Beacon, NY with a Nikkormat FTn (1967 design) and a variety of "pre-AI" Nikkor prime lenses (vintage 1961-1972) ranging from a 28mm...
  21. Doctor Strange

    Want to buy....6 7/8

    Uh... Phineas, you're responding to a request from nearly 19 years ago. Kentucky Blues hasn't been seen on this site since 2010!
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I finished up the Irma Vep miniseries on HBO. I had not seen the earlier nineties film by the creator/director, nor the original 1915 French serial it's based on. But I liked this series, which is essentially a longer-form remake of the nineties film: it's about the 1915 serial being remade...
  23. Doctor Strange

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Time After Time is a charming little flick, it's been sitting on my DVR for a rewatch for a while. I saw it during its theatrical run in 1979... weirdly, on the exact date when H.G. Wells travels to 1979 in the film! Trek connection: Time After Time was written and directed by Nicholas Meyer...

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