Month: April 2018
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WFF Day 8
Yesterday was the closing day of the Wisconsin Film Festival, and the only day we saw not one, not two, but three really good movies. I’ve never rated so many films five or of five. Must be getting soft. “Celebrating Sacred Twins In Africa” 6-minute documentary that showed some highlights of an annual celebration of… Read.
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WFF Day 7
Beautiful weather again this morning: sunny and clear, 42 degrees on the thermometer, same as yesterday morning. And once again I’ll spend the day in a darkened room staring at a flickering screen. How crazy is that? On the other hand, I’m not going to the office. Yesterday’s films: “Amarillo Ramp” was twenty-four minutes of… Read.
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get ready
After I rolled out of bed this morning and started the morning pot of coffee brewing, I checked in to Twitter to see what’s new in the world and the first thing I see is OH MY GOD TRUMP IS GOING TO BLOW UP SYRIA! “Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired… Read.
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WFF Day 6
We saw just three films yesterday, and they were not our favorite films. That’s just the way it goes sometimes. I think probably “Hitler’s Hollywood” was made for people who are so hardcore about film they study it the way biologists study rats or fruit flies. As an exhaustive catalogue of films, directors, and actors… Read.
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poor taste
This morning I learned I’m a man of very poor taste. Here’s how I know: I accidentally boiled a pot of coffee this morning. I walked away, I got distracted, and when I remembered and ran back to the kitchen, I found the pot boiling furiously. “Well, that’ll never be drinkable,” I said to myself,… Read.
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WFF Day 5
We’ve upped our game! 4 movies yesterday, starting with “Saving Brinton,” about Mike Zahs, an Iowa farmer who finds a treasure trove of silent films, magic lantern shows and other bricabrac from the era of silent movies in the basement of an Iowa farmhouse. Zahs tries to get someone to preserve them, but when no… Read.
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frosty
B noticed yesterday that the thermometer in the fridge was indicating sixty degrees and the food wasn’t cold, which is sort of the opposite of what you want in a refrigerator. I’d noticed the night before that the beer I grabbed from the door wasn’t as cold as the one I’d drunk the day before… Read.
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WFF Day 4
Take Richard Pryor near the peak of his career, put him in a caper movie with Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto, and what have you got? Well, in the case of “Blue Collar” you have probably the most tragic waste of time and talent of 1978. This movie is a manic-depressive roller-coaster that rolls from… Read.
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WFF Day 3
We watched only four films yesterday. It’s like we’ve already given up trying to squish as many film as we can into each day. What kind of losers are we, eh? The amazing Ruth Bader Ginsberg was the subject of our first documentary film of the day, “RBG.” My Darling B had probably the most… Read.
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WFF Day Two
“12 Days” was a somber, repetitive, and apparently pointless film that gets its title from the period of time a person can be held against their will in a psychiatric ward before they must be allowed a hearing before a judge to determine if they were rightfully interred. The film opened on a scene of… Read.
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