wilberfan

wilberfan, 9 months ago

😜

wilberfan, 9 months ago

I rarely missed an episode of their shows over the years. If they both liked a film, I almost always did as well. I much preferred Rogers’s opinions–and personality. Gene always struck me as being kind of a mean grump.

wilberfan, 10 months ago

I didn’t take a lot of pictures, but here’s a short vid showing some of the restoration: youtu.be/xYCuATQ_2DY

wilberfan, 10 months ago

Possibly my favorite film, full-stop, I’ve watched it probably 50-ish times. I was a little trepidatious about watching this fan edit. It was an odd experience–but in a good way: New, but at the same time, very familiar…

it’s very professionally done–if you were seeing the film for the first time, nothing would feel ‘artificial’ or tacked-on.

wilberfan, 10 months ago

A Boomer here, and I’m finding these comments to be very interesting–mostly because I’m realizing I agree in many cases! Far from prudish, just last night I fast-forwarded past the sex scenes in the first episode of a new streamer series. “Yeah, yeah, I get it…you’re hot for each other. Can we move it along, please?”

wilberfan, 10 months ago

That’s oddly about the time I started to become disenchanted with most contemporary cinema. Both parents worked in the Industry, dad was a voting member of the Academy for many years. The Oscars were–no exaggeration–the Holiest night on our family calendar. I even got to attend in person once. (The one where Benigni climbed up on the furniture–'99.)

Then THE ARTIST won best picture (2011). 🤦‍♂️

I stopped watching the Oscars completely about 5 years ago. The only enthusiasm I can muster anymore is new films by old masters (PTA, Scorsese, Tarantino, etc.)

wilberfan, 10 months ago

I remembered there was a website that provided similar information, and meant to check it out before I saw FLOWER MOON this week–but then spaced on it and never got around to it.

I did–only half joking–offer the ticket-taker $20 if she’d sneak up to the projection booth and hit the off button for 5 minutes to give us all a break.

I would have loved an intermission–as it was I got up around the 1 hour mark and went to the back of the theater and stretched a bit, etc. Turns out tho that my pre-screening hydration schedule worked out perfectly: I didn’t need to leave to pee during the screening.