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“Crazy Wisdom”
Paleo Retiree writes: Doc about Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, the Tibetan monk who was mostly responsible for bringing Tibetan Buddhism to the west. He was a big figure in the counterculture from the ’60s through the ’80s (he died in 1987 … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged Buddhism, chogyam trungpa rinpoche, documentaries, documentary, gurus, movies, religion, wisdom
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Crusades
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: “Zero for Conduct, “Jean Vigo’s rough-hewn, poetic evocation of youth under the strain of institutionalized education, is nearly impossible to summarize in words. Among other things, it’s perhaps the greatest expression of the anarchic impulse ever put on film. In … Continue reading
“Particle Fever”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: If you’re as cynical as I am, you might get something out of this documentary, which is currently available on Netflix Instant. It chronicles the attempts of physicists associated with CERN to detect the Higgs-Boson, that pesky “god … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Science, Technology
Tagged CERN, documentaries, Film, Higgs-Boson, Large Hadron Collider, movies, Particle Fever, physics
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Movie Poster Du Jour: “Diary of a Country Priest”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Captures the sense of heightened stillness evoked by Bresson’s style.
Posted in Commercial art, Movies
Tagged Diary of a Country Priest, Film, France, Movie Posters, movies, Robert Bresson
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Notes on “Turn Back the Clock”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: I had an okay time with this rather flimsy and almost Capraesque Lee Tracy film about an Average Joe who gets to relive the recent past. Because he knows what’ll happen, he makes himself into a financial … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Performers
Tagged Ben Hecht, Edgar Selwyn, Film, Lee Tracy, movies, performers, Three Stooges
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Trans Viewing: “Beautiful Darling” and “Becoming Chaz”
Paleo Retiree writes: For no particular reason, The Question Lady and I spent a couple of recent evenings watching docs that we found on Netflix Instant about trans people. The first one was about a transvestite while the second concerned a female-to-male transsexual.
Posted in Movies, Sex
Tagged candy darling, chaz bono, cher, documentaries, documentary, gender, movies, sex, transgender, transvestite
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Movie Poster Du Jour: “Citizen Kane”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: For the first big re-release, in 1956.
Posted in Commercial art, Movies
Tagged Citizen Kane, Film, Movie Posters, movies, Orson Welles
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Movie Poster Du Jour: “La Chinoise”
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Creepshot or Not: Bikinis in the Park
Paleo Retiree writes: When I solicited thoughts and opinions some months ago about whether a snapshot I’d sneaked of a couple of sunbathing cuties in a public park was a Creepshot or not, some visitors concluded A) that it wasn’t, and B) … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Photography
Tagged cheryl dunn, creepshots, documentaries, documentary, movies, photography, robert frank
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