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  1. MikeKardec

    Grandma Goes to Hollywood, Classic Pics ...

    In the early 1920s my mother's mother came to Los Angeles from Hot Springs, AR. She was one of the 1925 Wampas Baby Stars, a group selected as up and comers by Hollywood publicity types. For a few years she had a minor career in "pictures" before returning in her 20s to finish high school. By...
  2. MikeKardec

    Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

    Wow! What an amazing, complicated, ambitious, film. Not for everyone and containing some problems but very, very, impressive. The story is intercut between moments covering Pvt. Bill Lynn's tour of duty in Iraq and the final day of what is essentially an Army propaganda tour celebrating his...
  3. MikeKardec

    The Seven Basic Plots

    As long as I'm giving mini reviews and critiques of books about writing, here's another one. Christopher Booker's The Seven Basic Plots is an amazing and somewhat controversial piece of work. He tracks the evolution of story through the development of human culture. From The Epic of Gilgamesh...
  4. MikeKardec

    Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t, and ...

    I just finished Steven Pressfield's, Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t and his buddy, Shawn Coyne's, The Story Grid. They are interesting books and sort of function together. There's a lot of good information but there are some critical things lacking too. Steven Pressfield is a one time...
  5. MikeKardec

    Arrival

    Not really pertaining to anything this site is about except community BUT ... A really terrific film made by some of the same people (director, editor, composer) that worked on last year's Sicario. Both thoughtful, creepy, amazingly atmospheric films. They have little else in common except...
  7. MikeKardec

    Ray and Charles, childhood friends

    Halloween was my favorite holiday as a boy. It came at that perfect time of year for growing older. You could say good-bye to the old days of summer, somehow always the foundation of childhood, and enter a new grade in school with all the sense of pride, anticipation, and fear that that might...
  8. MikeKardec

    Westworld

    I'm finding this mesmerizing. Obviously, it's a re-envisioning of the 1973 Michael Crichton movie ... which I had forgotten he directed. It's a theme park, a far more than "virtual" reality environment where you can go to live out your fantasies of "history" (it's much more a place of...
  9. MikeKardec

    The Greatest Show on Earth ...

    ... travels by rail one last time. These were taken in Portland during the final train show for Ringling Bros. Unfortunately, I have no pictures of the train itself!
  10. MikeKardec

    2016 Goodwood Revival

    I was able to get there for a day. Here are some photos ... The word is that one of those Spitfires actually fought in the Battle of Britain.
  11. MikeKardec

    The End of the Era ...

    Contrary to many on this site I consider the end of the Era to be 1973, the year we got bored with going to the moon and chose not to return, the year THIS horrifying photo was taken -- There is no Skull Island, no Land That Time Forgot, no Atlantis ... we saw our limits and we decided that...
  13. MikeKardec

    For the Raiders fan ...

    I've had an early copy of the Raiders of the Lost Arc script for many years that includes, as and additional adventure, the nightclub scene that was eventually used in the beginning of Temple of Doom. Originally, I guess, the Staff of Ra was two separate pieces, the gem that focuses the light...
  14. MikeKardec

    The Last Tycoon - Amazon Pilot

    Sumptuously mounted, fairly superficially written and directed ... and like so many movies about movies, not all that tuned into film making or the realities of Hollywood. A few anachronisms. But I've learned not to write off Amazon's stuff to early in the game. I might have said slightly...
  15. MikeKardec

    Vinatge Racing and Vintage Cameras

    Two of my favorite material objects -- http://www.classiccaradventures.com/2010/01/classic-cameras-for-classic-cars/ And also ... These guys do a great job getting that 'historical vibe', one only hopes someone will do the Goodwood Revival the same way, even the costumes in the stands would...
  16. MikeKardec

    Irony/Ecstasy

    An interesting story about this hysterical send up of the world of Modernist (or Post Modernist) Art in the style of a classic 1950s UK children's book series...
  17. MikeKardec

    Favorite Film Making sequences ... in FILMS?

    In another thread I was just bemoaning the fact that it's only very rarely that I have seen accurate depictions of film making in movies. On top of that it is very often the case that the films being depicted in movies about movie making are terrible ... so terrible that I've always suspected...
  19. MikeKardec

    Hail, Ceasar!

    The Coen Brothers create a quirky though lackadaisical love letter to old Hollywood that is more remarkable for the things it takes seriously than anything it might ever so slightly poke fun at. People here at the Lounge will probably enjoy this film as much as any audience because it takes...
  20. MikeKardec

    Moore's Law

    Uploading, literally, the first five megabyte hard disk, 1956.
  21. MikeKardec

    Unapologetically blowing my own horn ...

    Our latest audio production on the Year's Best List at Audiofile ... If that's too crass, I apologize, but I'm proud of it and all the people who worked on it. A better group has rarely been assembled!
  22. MikeKardec

    Deutschland 83

    Another very good series though I don't know where it is airing ... I found it on iTunes. A young, East German officer is sent west to impersonate a West German he vaguely resembles who is about to become the attache to a West German associated with the implementation of the Pershing II missile...
  23. MikeKardec

    The Man in the High Castle

    I'm well into this and enjoying it a good deal ... grim as it is. It takes an episode or two to settle down, I almost didn't bother after episode one but then decided to try it while I exercised. The story got subtler, the art direction and cinematography found a groove and I started finding...

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