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  1. Doctor Strange

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I only lasted 15 minutes with Cunk On Earth. Nothing about it worked for me. The alleged comedy was just too dumb. I didn't realize that Cunk is a character, not an actual person... but either way, I didn't find her interesting/charming/funny/whatever enough to keep watching. Sounds like...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I assume you've also seen Herzog's earlier documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Dieter_Needs_to_Fly I watched it for a film club discussion a few years back, it's an interesting companion piece.
  3. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Hey FF, great review of Not as a Stranger. And you mentioned something that I'd realized I'd left out of my post: the interesting surgery sequences, some of which include some nail-biting suspense.
  4. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I'll have you know that I did a search before I began writing this review to see if you'd already handled it. This one seemed right up your street!
  5. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Not as a Stranger (1955) I thought I'd already seen nearly all the films directed and/or produced by Stanley Kramer, but I hadn't seen this one, his first film as director. It's based on a popular novel and deals - seriously, but melodramatically - with the medical profession. Robert...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I've been watching bits and pieces of The Story of Film: An Odyssey on Amazon Prime. A 15-part documentary series made for British TV in 2011. One of my longtime friends recommended it as brilliant... but as a far more serious film scholar, I think it's a worthwhile attempt... but it misses...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Via TCM, Girl With Green Eyes, a 1964 British kitchen sink drama with Rita Tushingham, Peter Finch, Lynn Redgrave and Julian Glover. The story of an innocent girl having an affair with a married man in early sixties Dublin. I was pleasantly surprised by this film, which is less downbeat than...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Yes, the Vivian Maier story is fascinating, an awesomely talented photographer who worked alone entirely for her own interest in photography, unknown in her lifetime. FYI, many of her wonderful pictures are online: https://www.vivianmaier.com/
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    Show us your photography

    Buddha statues at the local flea market: Shot with my 1979 Olympus OM-2n 35mm SLR, 100mm/f2.8 Zuiko lens, Tri-X 400 film developed in D-76 1:1, negative scanned at 2400dpi.
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Edward, I totally agree that the ending of the 1994 film, with Lestat popping up in Daniel's car, is godawful. It was and remains a big disappointment after all the things the film does right. I can't imagine why Anne Rice - who got solo credit for the screenplay - agreed to it. Of course...
  13. Doctor Strange

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I liked it a lot, I loved it... but I must take issue with it being "better" than the Neil Jordan film. The 1994 version was and remains a good adaptation of the book. What the new series does is frankly admit that the 1994 film is a good, straight take on the book... but it's now decades...
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    He's not a familiar name, but TV director Robert Butler directed the great pilot episodes - and set the tone - for many classic shows - Batman, Star Trek, Hill Street Blues, etc. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/robert-butler-dead-batman-star-trek-hill-street-blues-1235644907/...
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    Aero Leather Clo. Co N.Y

    I live in Beacon. It was a thriving manufacturing center for hundreds of years... Alas, after the postwar collapse of industry along the Hudson River towns, the entire Beacon riverfront factory neighborhood was torn down for urban renewal in the 1970s. Ferry Street, once a vital artery to the...
  16. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Oh, Girl With A Pearl Earring (2003) is a wonderful film. I first saw it at a pre-release screening after already having read the excellent novel it's based on - it's a stellar adaptation. Such incredible production design and cinematography - every shot looks like a Vermeer painting. And...
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Actress Lara Parker, who played the witch Angelique - who'd turned Barnabas Collins into a vampire, and was still tormenting him centuries later - in the original 1960s spook opera Dark Shadows: https://www.avclub.com/r-i-p-lara-parker-dark-shadows-angelique-1850932426 I watched the show daily...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    On Netflix, a new film from Denmark, Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction. Based on a posthumously published story by Isak Dinesen/Karen Blixen, it's set in a fictional 1800s kingdom and concerns the ruler utilizing a painter's seduction skills to help a young prince produce an heir. The most...
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Adventures of Superman's Phyllis Coates, television's first Lois Lane. https://www.avclub.com/r-i-p-phyllis-coates-tv-s-first-lois-lane-superman-1850921993 https://www.supermanhomepage.com/phyllis-coates-tvs-first-lois-lane-dies-aged-96/ I always preferred her feisty, competitive take on...
  21. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Coincidentally, today is Buster Keaton's birthday (10-4-1895), but atypically, TCM isn't showing any of his films. Personally, I find most of his 1930s films pretty unwatchable, but there's no question that they have their moments. He was always a comic genius, and it showed - even amidst low...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I was underwhelmed with Loki (apart from Richard E. Grant as "Old Loki" in the original 1962 costume) and I can't say I'm too upset that I'm going to miss the second season. (I lost Disney+ access when my daughter moved out.) Edward, I could go on gushing about Agent Carter, but I'd like to...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I watched an outstanding new documentary on PBS about German-Jewish photographer Fred Stein, Out of Exile: The Photography of Fred Stein. As a lifelong photographer, I'm surprised that I hadn't heard of him before. His 30s/40s photos of Paris and New York - shot with Leicas and Rolleiflexes...

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