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  1. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    A mostly-in-French film by a Japanese director, The Truth (aka La Verite) from 2019. It's mainly the story of a screenwriter (Juliette Binoche) trying to come to terms with her famous film star mother (Catherine Deneuve) after she's written a tell-all memoir that doesn't match the daughter's...
  2. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    According to Wiki, it's based on a memoir by the Jamie Bell character about his experience with Gloria Grahame. So, not quite a biography, but apparently there's a factual basis.
  3. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Yeah, they could have done a lot more about the historical importance of the find itself, beyond a bunch of quick comments how it was older than expected and demonstrated what skilled artisans the Anglo-Saxons were. As to the underplaying, I chalked that up to the twentieth century Brit stiff...
  4. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I liked Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool too. Last night, The Dig on Netflix. Interesting period piece (1939) with good stylization and solid performances by Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes. But it didn't do a great job on the secondary and tertiary characters, they were either...
  5. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    All of us who still have cable undoubtedly have scores of channels we don't watch. In my case, it's the sports channels. (I haven't watched a sporting event on TV in decades. I've never been even slightly interested in sports.) I think the cable industry will have to go a more a la carte...
  7. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    It's also been my favorite Astaire/Rogers picture forever. They don't play the usual hard-to-sympathize-with upper-crust types, the plot is less exhausting with less of those stupid misunderstandings, the supporting characters are warmer, and the romance feels less forced. (I credit ace...
  8. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Re Meet John Doe, it's a problematical picture and was from day one. Capra and Riskin wrote themselves into a corner with the plot, and wrote/filmed several endings - none of which really worked, including the one they used. It's a mess, with Capra stuck between the sappy optimism of his...
  9. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    George Clooney's new starring/directed SF flick on Netflix, The Midnight Sky. I was disappointed. The only thing I was impressed with was the production design - it wasn't realistic (sure, we'll be building spacecraft with huge amounts of empty, wasted interior space in 30 years), but it...
  10. Doctor Strange

    What Films Do You Quote Like "Scripture"?

    WAY too many films to list here!
  11. Doctor Strange

    Recommendation for hat maker for vintage-style hat?

    Try contacting Mike at Northwest Hats. The Northwest Hat Co. (northwesthats.com) He made me an early thirties style fedora a few years back, my "gangster hat". I specified everything - the felt, color, brim width, crown height, lining color, sweatband type, ribbon size and color, brim...
  13. Doctor Strange

    Your First Car....

    For sure!
  14. Doctor Strange

    Silk Opera hat - adjusting the brim opening

    I was gonna say the same thing. I've owned one of these since my teenage magician days, and a collapsible top hat is quite a different animal from an ordinary felt hat.
  15. Doctor Strange

    Your First Car....

    A green (with black roof) 1975 Dodge Dart I bought used in 1983. I only had it about three years: I foolishly continued to drive it when the oil pump failed, despite the red light on the dash, and nearly killed the engine. I had a great mechanic who managed to resurrect it... but it never...
  16. Doctor Strange

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Distinguished actor Hal Holbrook: Hal Holbrook, Actor Who Channeled Mark Twain, Is Dead at 95 - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    It's apparently also a bad week for sixties kids TV performers, first magician Mark Wilson and now Sonny Fox. Sonny Fox, Whose ‘Wonderama’ Mixed Fun and Learning, Dies at 95 - The New York Times (nytimes.com) News From ME - Mark Evanier's blog
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    What a terrible week for actresses. One of Ingmar Bergman's 50s/60s stock company: Gunnel Lindblom, Familiar Face in Bergman Films, Dies at 89 - The New York Times (nytimes.com) She's on the right in this still from The Virgin Spring (1960):
  20. Doctor Strange

    Tales of the Gold Monkey

    Uh, no. It was made afterwards in response to the big success of Raiders of the Lost Ark. And I am not just reporting this from Wiki articles, I was already in my mid-20s then and saw both the day they premiered.
  21. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I also watched this recently and liked it. Like you, I was fascinated to see George Sanders play such an atypically weak character. I'm working my way through several Almodovar films DVR'd from TCM on Sunday overnights. Last night's was The Flower of My Secret. It was good, but not quite...
  22. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I watched this recently too. It didn't make much of an impression, apart from being another one of those postwar "angel" flicks trying to somehow deal with the losses of the war - in this case, the supernatural aspect being the narration by the sentient house. They did a surprisingly good...
  23. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The Apartment is definitely my favorite Billy Wilder film... and most of his work is brilliant, so that's no small thing! Folks with NYC TV stations take note - coincidentally, Channel 13 (WNET/PBS) is running it tonight (Saturday) at 9PM Eastern.
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