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  1. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    C'mon, C'mon (2021) written and directed by Mike Mills. Mills is one of those filmmakers (like Noah Bumbach) who makes dramatic films in a continuing attempt to come to terms with aspects of his parents and childhood. I really liked his previous film 20th Century Women, so I gave this one a...
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    George Costanza's mom! https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/estelle-harris-dead-seinfeld-toy-story-1235124023/
  3. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Broken English (2007) with Parker Posey. She plays a NYC boutique hotel customer service specialist who is pretty good at her job, but really bad at relationships. At first, it's just "bad luck with guys", but as the story unfolds, it becomes clear that she has some real issues - mood swings...
  4. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I'm definitely willing to believe it was much more impressive on a big screen with an audience. And yeah, I'm not saying that the casting was wrong for desert folk, just that it seems a lazy way to make this crazy SF story a little more relevant to our own society's problems. Not that that...
  5. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I watched Villeneuve’s new Dune last night. It is NOT better than Lynch’s wacko version from the 80s. Both follow the book closely and mostly hit the same narrative beats. The production design is ugly – huge spaces of colorless, brutalist concrete – and despite 35 years of effects technology...
  7. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    A couple of recent films: After Yang - a "soft" science fiction film set in a near future after humanoid robots have been perfected. When Colin Farrell's young-adult robot Yang, who has functioned as "older brother" to his very young adopted-from-China daughter for years, malfunctions, she's...
  8. Doctor Strange

    The Vintage Camera Club Thread

    Re "recently started", I've never stopped shooting film cameras. For that matter, I've never owned a "good" digital camera. I've always been film-first. But I haven't done wet printing in over a decade, not since we tore down my parents' basement darkroom when preparing to sell their house...
  9. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I don't want to clog up this thread with comments on The Green Knight, but here are a couple of the things that bothered me: Gawain's mother (who is never identified as Morgan Le Fay, only referred to as the king's sister [why?]) is the one who casts the spell/runes that apparently bring forth...
  10. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Um, I was once an English major who could read Middle English, and I have devoured every bit of King Arthur lore ever filmed (and plenty of books too)... and I had to go to the Wiki page on The Green Knight immediately after watching it to make sense of the story. It IS pretentious and...
  11. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Totally agree. A B pic, but a superior one. I watched it last year and definitely enjoyed it.
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Producer Alan Ladd, Jr. He was responsible for a lot of good films, but the headline is there'd be no Star Wars without him! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/movies/alan-ladd-dead.html
  14. Doctor Strange

    Social Media for those of a certain age?

    "Influencers" are young people who (often for reasons that are utterly incomprehensible to us geezers) have an alleged position as arbiters of fashion, opinion, etc. on today's hip Internet sites. It can actually be monetized and become a "career"... though let's see how these people fare in a...
  15. Doctor Strange

    Considering a Stetson Open Road, what pairs well with it?

    Oh, it's been there before, Bfd70. Good Wear Dubow 27798 in dull russet horse I got a decade ago.
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    Considering a Stetson Open Road, what pairs well with it?

    Speaking as someone who presently owns just a single Open Road-style hat (but also had a Stetson in the past), I second johnnycanuck: The Akubra Campdraft is a better hat at a better price than current Stetson Open Roads. (I just checked, it's $60 less from Everything Australian than an Open...
  17. Doctor Strange

    Show us your photography

    I don't think it's about "clarity" per se. Modern digital cameras with good sensors and good lenses can capture just insane amounts of detail and resolution... even higher-end smartphone cameras are utterly amazing. To get comparable detailed results on film you need something bigger than 35mm...
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    Show us your photography

    Thanks, Al. Traditional photography is a through-line of my life. Having grown up in the 60s/70s working alongside my pro photographer parents, I learned the nuts and bolts of b/w photography in a very technical, pragmatic, craft-oriented way. Starting in the mid-90s as part of a mini midlife...
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    Show us your photography

    Let me break up the digital image parade with some old-school b/w film shots I took a few days ago around Beacon and Cold Spring, New York. I shot these with my just-repaired seventies Olympus OM-2 with same-vintage 24mm and 100mm Zuiko lenses, on Ilford FP4 Plus film that I developed in...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    FF, the only thing I'll add to your review is that Marty was originally a live TV drama that starred Rod Steiger. (There's a kinescope, and it's worth seeing.) When it aired, it was so praised and successful that it was quickly remade as a feature film. Oh, and how could you not mention that...
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    The Vintage Camera Club Thread

    I've also got 4x5 (Graphic View II, Crown Graphic) and medium format (YashicaMat LM) cameras, but I don't see myself ever shooting them again. My half-dozen classic Olympus and Nikon 35mm cameras are more than sufficient to keep me occupied!
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Visual effects genius, etc., Douglas Trumbull: https://www.avclub.com/rip-douglas-trumbull-blade-runner-star-trek-2001-1848504178 https://www.indiewire.com/2022/02/douglas-trumbull-dead-1234697409/

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