Saturday, August 30, 2008

Tropic Thunder - Ben Stiller (2008)

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Screened at the Lake West Cinema 5 in Gravois Mills, MO

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Eagles Nest Wilderness - Frisco, Colorado

Five day backpacking trip across three passes

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Baseball as America - Museum of Science, Boston

special exhibit sponsored by The Baseball Hall of Fame

Edge of the World - Michel Powell (1937)

with commentary by Daniel-Day Lewis, Thelma Schoonmaker, Ian Christie

Sunday, August 24, 2008

The Stranger - Albert Camus (1946)

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The Prisoner of Shark Island - John Ford (1936)

with commentary by Anthony Slide

The Roaring Twenties - Raoul Walsh (1939)

* The montage dept at Warner Bros worked overtime on this one.
* Musical themes pervade
* The final scene with Cagney on the church steps in the snow.

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Saturday, August 23, 2008

Gentleman Jim - Raoul Walsh (1942)

Ward Bond and Errol Flynn are so infused with energy you can't help rooting for them both.

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WALL*E - Andrew Stanton (2008)

Screened at the Boston Common

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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Mystery Street - John Sturges (1950)

Highlights
  • Watching a sweaty Ricardo Montalbon play handball like a pro
  • Caricatured mini-tour of Harvard Campus
  • The 'ornithologist' studying the mating behavior of sandpipers on Cape Cod
  • Images of the long-gone Trinity Railroad Station
  • The hula-ing table lamp in The Grass Skirt night club
  • Elsa Lanchester, need we say more
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Jacques Tati in Monsieur Hulot's Work - BBC Omnibus (1976)

Documentary on the Playtime DVD

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Monday, August 18, 2008

Sunday, August 3, 2008