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Entries from November 2017

Screenings: Things to Come (2016)

November 2nd, 2017 · No Comments

watched Nov 02, 2017, spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 6.3 [blu-ray, Netflix] An academic must come to terms with how her life’s work has prepared her for the inevitable changes that life (or the cosmos, or chance) is throwing at her. Huppert is fine, as expected, and there is plenty of food for thought, especially for […]

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Screenings: Morning Glory (1933)

November 1st, 2017 · No Comments

watched Nov 01, 2017, spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 5.9 [DVD, library] The film hardly breaks out of its stage-bound origins, and Hepburn chews the scenery with relish. She won the Best Actress Oscar for this, but it surely wouldn’t have been awarded to her today; thankfully, she matured from this showboating style to the more […]

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Screenings: Bosko’s Mechanical Man (1933)

November 1st, 2017 · No Comments

watched Nov 01, 2017, spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 5.2 [DVD, library] A trifle. What interested me most, aside from the occasional statements spouted forth from the robot’s mouth (that seemed bound to the times in which the cartoon was created), were the striking similarities of the animation and voicing to the early Mickey Mouse shorts. […]

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Screenings: 78/52 – Hitchcock’s Shower Scene (2017)

November 1st, 2017 · No Comments

watched Nov 01, 2017, spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 9.1 [on-demand] You think you must know everything there is to know about a film that you’ve seen about a dozen times, and then a doc like this comes along and opens your eyes. Hitchcock was indeed a genius craftsman, down to every little detail (the […]

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