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  1. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I saw it last month and totally agree. A really brilliant job on something that could have easily gone horribly wrong. I was also in a nearly empty theater, which I guess is good for Covid safety, but bad for the box office. Surprisingly, despite how beloved the musical is, and what a fine...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Be the lookout for the 1994 remake with Albert Finney, Matthew Modine, and Greta Scacchi. I'm not saying it's better that this version, just that it makes for an interesting comparison.
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Actress Yvette Mimieux: Yvette Mimieux, Who Found Fame With ‘The Time Machine,’ Dies at 80 - The New York Times (nytimes.com) Yvette Mimieux Dead: ‘Where the Boys Are’ Actress Was 80 – The Hollywood Reporter
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    All Fall Down (1962), a family melodrama directed by John Frankenheimer... and released the same year as two of his best films, Birdman of Alcatraz and The Manchurian Candidate. Wow! (The screenplay was written by William Inge.) It's about a very dysfunctional Cleveland family: The father...
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    Sheepskin lined US Authentic flight jacket. Schott 674 copy.

    Thanks. You know, to some of us who've been into leather jackets for a long time, it's the opposite effect: I think today's Schott jackets are just INSANELY overpriced for mass produced, off-the-rack garments. I understand why jackets from artisan makers like Good Wear and specialist makers...
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    Sheepskin lined US Authentic flight jacket. Schott 674 copy.

    Wow, that's excellent! Shaul does great work, and in goatskin, my fave! I had that particular variety (*) of Schott 674. I bought it new on sale for $99 in 1983 and I wore the heck out of it through a half-dozen NYC winters: (* The day I bought mine, there were four distinct choices...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    High-Rise (2015), with Tom Hiddleston, Luke Evans, Elisabeth Moss, Jeremy Irons, etc. This is a seriously disturbing film based on a J.G. Ballard novel, set in a retro-future 1970s England. Hiddleston, a doctor, moves into a newly built, Brutalist concrete residential tower that includes so...
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    sterkowski caps

    Pedantic correction: You mean a deerstalker, glider. The only "deerslayer" I know of is James Fenimore Cooper's Hawkeye. I had a deerstalker back in my teenage hat collecting days - some of my parents' friends, knowing of my hat collection, brought me one they found at a shop in England...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Worf - You are correct, sir! No argument here, I gotta agree, it's also the best of times. It's too easy to focus on the negatives, especially with huge industrial complexes dedicated to exploiting them for profit and persuasion...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Edward, writer-director McKay has explicitly said that Don't Look Up is essentially about climate change... "disguised" as a different existential crisis. And yeah, this is a difficult film to discuss without getting into politics and current events. But I think it's important to note that the...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Netflix's all star cast, hit flick Don't Look Up. I'm not really a fan of Adam McKay's films (e.g., The Big Short), they generally have tone issues that rub me the wrong way, and Don't Look Up is no exception. It wants to be a rollicking comedy, a SF disaster film, a pointed social commentary...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Please don't forget to mention that it's also Mike Nichols' brilliant direction that makes the picture work, and it was just his second film. Also Buck Henry's input on the script. (Henry also gets to deliver one of the film's funniest lines, as the hotel desk clerk who asks Benjamin, "Are...
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    The Vintage Camera Club Thread

    Hmm, nobody's posted on this thread in a while. Guess I'll go again... I recently bought myself a black Nikkormat FTn body (a 1967 design, but this one's from the final year of production, 1975) for a surprisingly low price that's in near-mint condition: even the light meter works. Back...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Finally saw the new Spider-Man film... and didn't really like it. Not that there isn't plenty to enjoy, but this is the third Tom Holland Sony/MCU Spider-Man film, and it mostly fits my long-held observation that trilogies often end with their least satisfying film. (Okay, so it's also part of...
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    Taylor's Leather Wear Police Jackets

    I got one of their sale jackets about five years ago when they were changing their cowhide supplier, but the jackets were still being made in the US. It's the Chicago model, and it's awesome. Super-tough, loaded with pockets... and being insulated (and with very tight wristlets and a fuzzy...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Recent film Vita & Virginia on Netflix, about the relationship between Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf, based on an earlier play by senior actress Eileen Adkins. I watched this because its stars are both on my watch-whatever-they-appear-in list: Elizabeth Debicki as Virginia and Gemma...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I'm most of the way through the Hawkeye series on Disney+. I have to say, this is one of the better ones they've come up with, I like it more than The Falcon and Winter Solider or Loki. It's refreshingly not about a world-threatening scenario, it's set in NYC at Xmas, and is as much about...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    It was the audiences who expected that positive ending too. I believe Capra tested an ending where John Doe killed himself, and the audience reaction was a disaster. I need to pull out my copy of Capra's biography (The Name Above the Title, which is a great read) and double check. And don't...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Capturing Mary, a 2007 British TV/HBO film I ran across. In present-day London, a distressed old woman (Maggie Smith) shows up at a carefully maintained but empty mansion, and despite his orders never to admit anyone, the young caretaker lets her in and allows her to walk around as she...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Two quick observations on these last movies: Billy Wilder's script for Ball of Fire was conceived as a variation on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. A girl on the run is taken in by seven strange dudes who live together, and it's a learning experience for both. (The "fish out of water" trope...

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