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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Of course, The Thing From Another World is a mega-classic that I've loved for 50+ years. A couple of quick notes: The film is based on "Who Goes There?" by John Campbell, a classic 40s SF magazine short story. (Campbell was actually more significant as an editor of those mags - guiding...- Doctor Strange
- Post #30,265
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Another new film starring Florence Pugh (boy, she works a lot!) on Netflix, The Wonder. Pugh plays an English nurse in the 1860s who travels to Ireland to assist with the investigation of a seeming miracle, an 11-year-old girl who hasn't eaten in three months... but is somehow alive. The local...- Doctor Strange
- Post #30,253
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Worf and Fading Fast... I watched Don't Worry Darling last night. An underwhelming flick that begins as The Stepford Wives and ends as The Matrix. Nothing in the story makes any logical sense if you think about it for a half-minute, nothing. But the film's pastel-1960 production design looks...- Doctor Strange
- Post #30,247
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects
Voice actor Kevin Conroy, who for many of us will always be the definitive Batman! https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/kevin-conroy-dead-batman-voice-actor-1235260222/ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/11/arts/television/kevin-conroy-batman-dead.html...- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Question[s] about a Stetson[s]
Six months at Everything Australian. But in stock at HatsDirect and David Morgan: https://www.davidmorgan.com/shop/product/2119/campdraft-hat-open-crown/ You will find entire threads devoted to Akubra Hats, and the Campdraft, here. They are huge favorites. Personally, I think Akubras are...- Doctor Strange
- Post #55
- Forum: Hats
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Question[s] about a Stetson[s]
I'm not up on the details of current Stetsons, but I recommend that you look at the Akubra Campdraft. It has the same dimensions as the Open Road, but comes open crown, so you can crease it as either a western hat or a fedora. It costs less than the Stetson, and the materials/manufacturing...- Doctor Strange
- Post #53
- Forum: Hats
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
On Netflix, Apollo 10-1/2: A Space Age Childhood (2022), written/directed by Richard Linklater Linklater returns to using rotoscoped animation (as in Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly) to tell an autobiographical tall tale about growing up in a big family in Houston in the sixties, when his...- Doctor Strange
- Post #30,229
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The Northman on Amazon Prime. I am a huge fan of Robert Eggers' two previous films, The VVitch and The Lighthouse, so I was really looking forward to seeing his big-budget Viking-age spectacular. And in a lot of ways, it doesn't disappoint: the visuals and production design are stunning, the...- Doctor Strange
- Post #30,225
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Excellent review, FF. The one thing I'd add is that The Mummy is unusual in having been directed by Karl Freund, who was mainly a genius cinematographer. He'd previously photographed many of the great German Expressionist films of the 20s (The Golem, The Last Laugh, Metropolis) and had shot...- Doctor Strange
- Post #30,220
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was the last TV show you watched?
The 1994 film definitely had Rice's blessing - she wrote the screenplay. And (I thought) it was an excellent adaptation at the time, and it still looks great and plays well. Neil Jordan is a visionary director, and it was important film in terms of bringing the story to a broader public and...- Doctor Strange
- Post #18,372
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was the last TV show you watched?
I've been watching prequels and remakes... House of the Dragon on HBO... Meh. This Game of Thrones prequel about Targaryen dynasty infighting 150 years before the start of Thrones looks good, and features an Emmy-nomination-for-sure performance by Paddy Considine. But there is nobody "good"...- Doctor Strange
- Post #18,370
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Excellent review. One thing worth noting is that My Summer with Monica was released in America... as a "racy Swedish movie with nudity"! Of course, Bergman wasn't operating under the Hollywood Production Code, not to mention that his quest for emotional realism was very different from most...- Doctor Strange
- Post #30,194
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
I usually can't stomach anything even vaguely sports-adjacent, but Eight Men Out is a great film. Not for nothing, nearly everything that John Sayles has written/directed is worth checking out. He's a major talent. Of course, Arnold Rothstein's "fixing" of the 1919 Series is key backstory...- Doctor Strange
- Post #30,164
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Akubra Overload
jeff, Akubra's Sand and Silverbelly ARE the same color. Ten or more years ago, I had a color swatch PDF file from Akubra's old web site - alas, lost a couple of computers ago - that showed both names next to the same swatch.- Doctor Strange
- Post #7,843
- Forum: Hats
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The Vintage Camera Club Thread
Okay, here's my fantastic $10 score from a local private sale (found via Nextdoor's For Sale ads). A 1970 Zeiss Ikon Contaflex S in nearly perfect condition. This is a German-made 35mm SLR, unusual in that it has a leaf shutter in its lens (a fixed 50mm/2.8 Tessar) rather than the usual SLR...- Doctor Strange
- Post #418
- Forum: The Display Case
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
I also liked the last Bond film a lot more than I expected to. I mean, all the Craig films other than Quantum of Solace (which I've watched twice... but can't recall at all!) are good, and a big step up for an uber-formulaic series that honestly, I'd lost interest in decades ago. But I...- Doctor Strange
- Post #30,144
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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THE SUNBODY ASSOCIATION
So I wore my Sunbody Open Road through two months of major heat, sweating my brains out... and the sweatband shrank MUCH less than I expected. A little, but nothing like a half size. There are visible sweat stains all around the crown/brim, but I still have to keep the sizing foam under the...- Doctor Strange
- Post #739
- Forum: Hats
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The 1955 Japanese film I Live in Fear, directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune. A less well-known Kurosawa film that I hadn't seen before, recorded from TCM on its recent day of Mifune films. Nearly unrecognizable, Mifune (in foreground) plays an old man (though he was only 35...- Doctor Strange
- Post #30,133
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was the last TV show you watched?
I dunno, Neil Gaiman was very involved with the production of American Gods too... and it was canceled with two more seasons of story left untold. I haven't tried The Sandman yet, but I will get to it. I never read the original comics series, so I'll be going in cold too. ADDENDUM: Okay, ten...- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
