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  1. jake_fink

    The movies are dead - long live the movies

    It definitely killed vaudeville. Colour is the real culprit. Screens should be silver.
  2. jake_fink

    The movies are dead - long live the movies

    Agreed. Gabler isn't always on point, but the stopped clock and all that. The notion of active, even insane idol worship was brilliantly dealt with in Nathanial West's Day of the Locust (poor Homer J. Simpson). Gabler is right when he notes this enormous shift in the cultural conversation...
  3. jake_fink

    Miller 257 Raider open crown: opinions?

    Kermit the frog called. He wants his hat back.
  4. jake_fink

    Modernist architecture has failed us

    There is a Libeskind carbuncle being attached to the museum here in Toronto. It was touted as a crystal canopy or some such when it was in the maquette stage an every one was cheering, but somewhere along the way it wound up looking like a blown over barn. The addition was needed to...
  5. jake_fink

    Modernist architecture has failed us

    From a review in the NY Sun: The full review: http://www.nysun.com/pf.php?id=49501
  7. jake_fink

    The movies are dead - long live the movies

    Neil Gablr is not often the best writer on film - his book on Disney is cheap, sentimental, soft soap - but this op-ed from the LA Times makes some interesting points. Is our cultural consciousness changing? Are films on their way out? From his article: The full article: The movie...
  8. jake_fink

    Miller 257 Raider open crown: opinions?

    True, but it's not as bad as it may sound. "Paper hat" sounds like something you get from a Christmas cracker, but paper yarns are common material for the weaving of hats in Asia. The quality is not high. I got a Biltmore straw at a garage sale last year for 5 bucks - the guy had to wear it...
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    Miller 257 Raider open crown: opinions?

    Miller hats are made by Biltmore, and they've put out a decent product for years. Recent changes at Biltmore have apparently not meant any change in the manufacture of their hats. So it would be a fine hat for the money, so long as you don't spend a lot of time in the rain. There are...
  10. jake_fink

    Which Old TV show do you remember the best?

  11. jake_fink

    Novels and Movies

    No. ......................
  13. jake_fink

    Novels and Movies

    Huston's Maltese Falcon is an excellent translation from book to film, even if it's most famous peice of dialogue was lifted from Shakespeare rather than Hammett. Huston did well with Treasure of the Sierra Madre and very, very well with Fat City where, again, he relies very much on the...
  14. jake_fink

    Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow

    Kerry Conran will probably never make another film. (If only the same could be said for Jude Law.) :rolleyes:
  15. jake_fink

    Crumb & Wife

    That was interesting AND amusing. Ta.
  16. jake_fink

    Dracula

    The music was composed by Philip Glass and performed by the Kronos Quartet. It was a project undertaken about a decade ago - so it's a little late to get your panties all knotted up about it - as an alternative score to a then current restoration and reissue of the film by Universal. It was...
  17. jake_fink

    Magnoli Clothiers: My new belted-back jacket

    :eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap Looks good. Great work IM. Congrats Barry.
  19. jake_fink

    A.I. Bezzerides dies

    Well, that tells me, and it puts a dead man in his place. I'm so glad I stopped by.
  20. jake_fink

    A.I. Bezzerides dies

    Did anyone notice that A.I. Bezzerides died on New Years day? He's best know for his work on Kiss Me Deadly and On Dangerous Gorund. His novel Theives" Highway was the basis for the film of that titel by Jules Dassin. Another great is gone...
  21. jake_fink

    The Conformist (1970)

    The Conformist has been released in a spanking new and beautifully restored version dvd. This is a must see film. It was directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and based on the novel by Alberto Moravia. It's the story of a young man in facist Italy who just desperatley wants to fit in. He takes...
  22. jake_fink

    Harold and Maude

    It's a wonderful film. It was directed by Hal Ashby who began as an editor for Norman Jewison and went on to direct a number of excellent films, among them, The Last Detail, Shampoo and one of my favourite 30s set movies, Bound for Glory. His last big film was Being There, and then he became...
  23. jake_fink

    Thanks for the memories...

    But... but... but... wanting things to be exactly the same for ever and anon is why we came to the Fedora Lounge. :o Unless you're not talking about clothes. ;)

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