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Entries from January 2014

Movie: 011114

January 11th, 2014 · No Comments

“Inside Llewyn Davis” at Birmingham’s Carmike Summit

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Oven on Wheels

January 10th, 2014 · No Comments

Bags of cinnamon-scented pine cones are in the back seat. When I open the driver-side door, the interior of my truck smells like a cookie.

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Screenings: Golden Boy (1939)

January 9th, 2014 · No Comments

Watching Golden Boy with Mom. There is a black character named Chocolate Drop. Did I mention the film was made in 1939?

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Confused Cookies

January 7th, 2014 · No Comments

Made cookies for work tomorrow: mint-chocolate chip in shortbread sprinkled slightly with cayenne and salt. I call them “confused cookies.”

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Postcard: Golden Gate Bridge

January 6th, 2014 · No Comments

Card is untitled on its front.

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Screenings: A Hard Day’s Night (1964)

January 5th, 2014 · 2 Comments

Really less a film than a document, and proves what a great debt the early Beatles owed to the Marx Brothers.

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Screenings: Touchy Feely (2013)

January 3rd, 2014 · No Comments

Perhaps the best among the sub-genre of Pacific Northwest character-driven ensemble dramedies. And that includes Juno.

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Screenings: Renoir (2013)

January 3rd, 2014 · No Comments

It’s clear in its opening moments that the film is about perception, then a shot of sunlight through trees seals the deal.

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Screenings: Pacific Rim (2013)

January 1st, 2014 · No Comments

It’s Avatar for gamers, Godzilla for fanboys, and a whole lot of indistinct monster shapes filmed in darkness and smoke.

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The Best Films I Saw in 2013

January 1st, 2014 · No Comments

Confession: I watch more films than I should. Snotty Opinion: The vast quantity of movies that I have seen over the last half-century makes me uniquely qualified to judge their merits in relation to all other films. Result: I have compiled a list, below, of films I watched over the last twelve months that I […]

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