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  1. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Um, I was once an English major who could read Middle English, and I have devoured every bit of King Arthur lore ever filmed (and plenty of books too)... and I had to go to the Wiki page on The Green Knight immediately after watching it to make sense of the story. It IS pretentious and...
  2. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Totally agree. A B pic, but a superior one. I watched it last year and definitely enjoyed it.
  3. Doctor Strange

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Producer Alan Ladd, Jr. He was responsible for a lot of good films, but the headline is there'd be no Star Wars without him! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/movies/alan-ladd-dead.html
  4. Doctor Strange

    Social Media for those of a certain age?

    "Influencers" are young people who (often for reasons that are utterly incomprehensible to us geezers) have an alleged position as arbiters of fashion, opinion, etc. on today's hip Internet sites. It can actually be monetized and become a "career"... though let's see how these people fare in a...
  5. Doctor Strange

    Considering a Stetson Open Road, what pairs well with it?

    Oh, it's been there before, Bfd70. Good Wear Dubow 27798 in dull russet horse I got a decade ago.
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    Considering a Stetson Open Road, what pairs well with it?

    Speaking as someone who presently owns just a single Open Road-style hat (but also had a Stetson in the past), I second johnnycanuck: The Akubra Campdraft is a better hat at a better price than current Stetson Open Roads. (I just checked, it's $60 less from Everything Australian than an Open...
  8. Doctor Strange

    Show us your photography

    I don't think it's about "clarity" per se. Modern digital cameras with good sensors and good lenses can capture just insane amounts of detail and resolution... even higher-end smartphone cameras are utterly amazing. To get comparable detailed results on film you need something bigger than 35mm...
  9. Doctor Strange

    Show us your photography

    Thanks, Al. Traditional photography is a through-line of my life. Having grown up in the 60s/70s working alongside my pro photographer parents, I learned the nuts and bolts of b/w photography in a very technical, pragmatic, craft-oriented way. Starting in the mid-90s as part of a mini midlife...
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    Show us your photography

    Let me break up the digital image parade with some old-school b/w film shots I took a few days ago around Beacon and Cold Spring, New York. I shot these with my just-repaired seventies Olympus OM-2 with same-vintage 24mm and 100mm Zuiko lenses, on Ilford FP4 Plus film that I developed in...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    FF, the only thing I'll add to your review is that Marty was originally a live TV drama that starred Rod Steiger. (There's a kinescope, and it's worth seeing.) When it aired, it was so praised and successful that it was quickly remade as a feature film. Oh, and how could you not mention that...
  13. Doctor Strange

    The Vintage Camera Club Thread

    I've also got 4x5 (Graphic View II, Crown Graphic) and medium format (YashicaMat LM) cameras, but I don't see myself ever shooting them again. My half-dozen classic Olympus and Nikon 35mm cameras are more than sufficient to keep me occupied!
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Visual effects genius, etc., Douglas Trumbull: https://www.avclub.com/rip-douglas-trumbull-blade-runner-star-trek-2001-1848504178 https://www.indiewire.com/2022/02/douglas-trumbull-dead-1234697409/
  15. Doctor Strange

    TFL Site Upgrade issues thread

    Okay, never mind. I found the Show All button I didn't notice before!
  16. Doctor Strange

    TFL Site Upgrade issues thread

    Nathan, I seem to have lost all the years of assorted Conversations I had before. Are they gone for good, or will they be restored later? Hey, if they're gone, no biggie. None were currently or recently active. But I had to ask. Thanks, and keep up the great work!
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    The Vintage Camera Club Thread

    I hate to be the only one posting on this thread, but I have a recommendation for folks who are still shooting b/w film: Check out Kodak Double-X! Tri-X 400 has always been my favorite b/w film, producing fantastic images in every possible camera and situation. But while it dates back to the...
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    Vintage lamps/light fixtures

    While not exactly a lamp or a light fixture in the sense of the others, I thought these might be of interest... These are WWII-surplus US Army Air Force landing strip lights, banks of fluorescent tubes that include heater circuits to keep them working in cold conditions. My parents, the...
  20. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Ridley Scott’s latest, The Last Duel. My longtime feeling on Scott is that about one-third of his films are brilliant, and two-thirds of them suck. This is his third medieval period flick (after the terrible Kingdom of Heaven and even worse Russell Crowe Robin Hood), and I’m happy to report...
  21. Doctor Strange

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I just want to mention that I was relatively pleased with the first episode of The Gilded Age. If you enjoyed Downton Abbey, by all means, give it a try. Sure, it's got all of Julian Fellowes' weaknesses as a writer on display. Some of the dialog is painful, many/most of the characters'...
  22. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Certainly, musicals are not the mega-popular form now that they were in the past. And selling-Sweeney Todd-as-not-a-musical was an incredibly stupid strategy. But that film ultimately did pretty well, Les Mis did pretty well, and modern "backstage musicals" like the awful Pitch Perfect series...
  23. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Ralph Bakshi's masterpiece American Pop (1981). I was blown away by this animated feature when it was new, but I hadn't seen it since. I DVR'd it from Turner Classic Movies and watched it with my sister. A very unusual animated film, it follows four generations of men, starting with a boy...

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