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Halloween Weekend

admin — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 20:08:09 +0000

There is nothing especially Halloween-like about the movie, but it was part of a perfect evening in Palo Alto. Karloff was quite good.
The Stanford Theatre is a magical place – one of the great places to go see a movie.

Test Clips of 1922.

normd — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:36:18 +0000

These vignettes are fascinating. Technically they are very well done – the lighting especially. Watching these models as they pose, then relax and be themselves, is – well – it’s like reading a Ray Bradbury story. Time travel – people who are now dead, captured using a technology that is essentially dead.

Do yourself the favor of muting the sound while watching; the music is overkill.

Viral Disaster

normd — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:19:39 +0000

Watching The Killer That Stalked New York on Tuner Classic Movies tonight, I was put in mind of the troubles today. At one point in the film, after NY’s public health department has been busy vaccinating millions of citizens, they reach the end of the vaccine supply.

Happy Home Movie Day

normd — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:38:20 +0000

If it wasn’t for BoingBoing, I would not have known it, but August 11 is “Home Movie Day.” If I had an operating 8mm projector, I would watch the home movies of my second birthday party.

Nights of Cabiria

normd — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 05:08:13 +0000

Watching Giulietta Masina in Nights of Cabiria was the high point of my weekend. Masina was wonderful. Like Chaplin, her postures, movements and facial expressions tell a complete story. I have never really understood or cared for Fellini’s later films. Put off by the surrealism, I guess. Nights of Cabiria is a gritty movie – hardly anything nice happens, and plenty of bad things do – but it is also a beautiful movie.