Category Archives: cinema

watching the talkies

Posted on Tuesday, 2004 May 25 by Anton

Tonight’s feature presentation was His Girl Friday (1940), and it left a bad taste. Summary: a chick digs a guy who’ll do anything, including framing innocent people for felonies, to win her. Do they still make movies in which a … Continue reading →

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temporal foreshortening

Posted on Thursday, 2004 May 13 by Anton

Watching Hitchcock’s Secret Agent (1936, starring John Gielgud so young that I couldn’t place him), I think I’ve spotted Hitchcock – but my first thought was “there’s Rumpole!”.

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another Browncoat

Posted on Saturday, 2004 May 01 by Anton

Claire Wolfe enjoys Firefly, film at eleven. She’s not so keen on Kaylee: The only element that didn’t ring true to me was this little gamin girly they made the ship’s mechanic. She sort of “intuits” the machinery of the … Continue reading →

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dream continuity

Posted on Friday, 2004 April 30 by Anton

I dreamed I went to see a movie that was set in San Francisco, but the producers wanted to avoid location shooting, so all the street scenes were stock film with blue-screening — and the stock was from different periods. … Continue reading →

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grab-bag

Posted on Thursday, 2004 April 15 by Anton

Wanting to learn about database programming, it occurred to me to resume work on my fullerene search code. I’m a bit surprised to find that I haven’t touched it in two years. Speaking of surprises – Angel the vampire had … Continue reading →

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me and my big mouth

Posted on Tuesday, 2004 April 13 by Anton

I used to sneer at those so tone-deaf as to mistake the soundtrack of Conan the Barbarian (1982) for Carl Orff’s arrangement of the Carmina Burana. (Which, by the way, ought to be pronounced cármina, not carmîna.) This last Frinight … Continue reading →

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no Glory!

Posted on Monday, 2004 April 12 by Anton

Continuing to catch up on events in Sunnydale, I find the writing sloppier in season 5. My remarks at greater length. Another fan replies: When Buffy was rockin’ this sort of trivia didn’t matter. The show was about Buffy’s tears, … Continue reading →

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