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We'll all go ashore and get some beer
I played so much badminton this afternoon, but I also introduced my niece to pollo a la brasa and plantains and read her a children's book full of riddles which she loved guessing—have I got some folk songs for her—and she complained at bedtime that she hadn't spent enough time with me, so I consider the fact that I am currently sort of a damp rag worth while. I'll see her again tomorrow. Have some links.
1. I have wanted to see F.P.1 antwortet nicht (1932) since about 2007 and I may finally get my chance. I would cheerfully watch the English-language version just for Conrad Veidt, just as the draw of the original is, no offense to Curt Siodmak, Peter Lorre.
2. A.O. Scott, "The Movies Are Back. But What Are Movies Now?" After all the meditation on film and TV and streaming subscriptions, I was most struck by the closing observation, which packs the intended punch: "The screen doesn't care what we are looking at, as long as our eyes are engaged and our data can be harvested . . . As art becomes content, content is transmuted into data, which it is your job, as a consumer, to give back to the companies that sold you access to the art."
3. I had never heard of Paul Huntley before his obituary, but it's a wonderful one. Without knowing it, I had seen a great deal of his work.
It is not that I don't think about the pandemic because I am not talking very much about it; I had to go inside three buildings today and the only one that felt safe was the medical one, because it wasn't behaving as though a plague ends just because people are tired of it. It shouldn't bore anyone, not with breakthrough cases exploding on the Cape, with Alabama in a swamping unvaccinated wave. I think I really have stopped believing in that strain of science fiction where humanity unites against some greater enemy. We had one and it was too much of an inconvenience—or an advantage—to fight.
1. I have wanted to see F.P.1 antwortet nicht (1932) since about 2007 and I may finally get my chance. I would cheerfully watch the English-language version just for Conrad Veidt, just as the draw of the original is, no offense to Curt Siodmak, Peter Lorre.
2. A.O. Scott, "The Movies Are Back. But What Are Movies Now?" After all the meditation on film and TV and streaming subscriptions, I was most struck by the closing observation, which packs the intended punch: "The screen doesn't care what we are looking at, as long as our eyes are engaged and our data can be harvested . . . As art becomes content, content is transmuted into data, which it is your job, as a consumer, to give back to the companies that sold you access to the art."
3. I had never heard of Paul Huntley before his obituary, but it's a wonderful one. Without knowing it, I had seen a great deal of his work.
It is not that I don't think about the pandemic because I am not talking very much about it; I had to go inside three buildings today and the only one that felt safe was the medical one, because it wasn't behaving as though a plague ends just because people are tired of it. It shouldn't bore anyone, not with breakthrough cases exploding on the Cape, with Alabama in a swamping unvaccinated wave. I think I really have stopped believing in that strain of science fiction where humanity unites against some greater enemy. We had one and it was too much of an inconvenience—or an advantage—to fight.
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I wish it hadn’t felt so much like a partisan band in a terrifying forest, but still.
I can do visual media less and less as I get older. It makes me very nervous. I realize most things make me nervous; it was just easier to watch Claudette Colbert and the Monkey-Strewn Lack of Rubber Plantations (and that still took two loads of laundry) than a Marvel film.
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I hope either the Kino Blu-Ray plays in your region, or there is a local equivalent available to you!
Recently when there was a movie about Hansi Burg and Hans Albers on tv which reminded me again.
I can see that. How was the movie?
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I could argue with some of what he was saying about films, but it was very difficult to argue with anything he was saying about screens.
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I think I'm still allowed to be unhappy about the data-scraping and the monetization! The home viewing experience has never been the issue—I became a movie person lying exhausted on a couch.
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I am glad to hear it, but not about the reason.
*hugs*
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But the rest of the population is why we can't have nice things!
I wish it hadn’t felt so much like a partisan band in a terrifying forest, but still.
The fire and the place in the forest . . .
I can do visual media less and less as I get older. It makes me very nervous.
I realize most things make me nervous; it was just easier to watch Claudette Colbert and the Monkey-Strewn Lack of Rubber Plantations (and that still took two loads of laundry) than a Marvel film.
I'm still really charmed that you did.
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