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| Posted: | Sun Apr 22, 2018 4:19 pm |
| Forum: | The Third Eye Reading Room |
| Subject: | What's On Your Bookshelf? |
| yambu Replies: 5641 Views: 1184026 |
My book club is reading Emily Wilson's superb translation of ODYSSEUS. We meet at UC Berkeley, and are fortunate to be joined by two Phd candidates of ancient Greek.
After a lifetime of failing at ... |
| Posted: | Sat Apr 21, 2018 11:08 am |
| Forum: | The Third Eye Reading Room |
| Subject: | What's On Your Bookshelf? |
| yambu Replies: 5641 Views: 1184026 |
I read all of Lewis. They were mostly ok, except for ELMER GANTRY. If it was supposed to be about the politics of preaching, it missed.
I have favorable memories of scenes from other books: The ... |
| Posted: | Mon Mar 26, 2018 3:52 pm |
| Forum: | Third Eye Film Forums |
| Subject: | The Lobby |
| yambu Replies: 66641 Views: 9334609 |
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Hitler was a painter, vegetarian, dog lover --...[/quote] He had a sense of humor, too. When he met Franco for the first and last time, the Spaniard was obdurate about everything. Totally n ... |
| Posted: | Sat Jan 20, 2018 2:38 pm |
| Forum: | Third Eye Film Forums |
| Subject: | Current Film Talk |
| yambu Replies: 47929 Views: 8214825 |
Dunkirk surprised me by being relatively short. I was expecting a 3rd act, or at least a final coda showing something of the scale of the operation, or leading to the British army regrouping and gett ... |
| Posted: | Wed Dec 27, 2017 1:50 pm |
| Forum: | Third Eye Film Forums |
| Subject: | Couch With A View |
| yambu Replies: 36392 Views: 6883362 |
...This is all set during World War II in Mississippi and Chicago with an all-black cast, and Carmen now a worker in a parachute factory....The Spanish film Carmen, directed by Carlos Suara, has her w ... |
| Posted: | Wed Dec 06, 2017 5:12 pm |
| Forum: | Third Eye Film Forums |
| Subject: | Couch With A View |
| yambu Replies: 36392 Views: 6883362 |
...I also watched the BBC version of As You Like It from 1978 with Helen Mirren as Rosalind, and good performances by the actors playing Orlando, Touchstone, Jaques, Phebe and the old shepherd. Celia ... |
| Posted: | Tue Nov 14, 2017 1:00 pm |
| Forum: | Third Eye Film Forums |
| Subject: | Couch With A View |
| yambu Replies: 36392 Views: 6883362 |
I'll watch Gielgud do "Ten Bottles of Beer". That singsong quality that reaches back to John Barrymore, and maybe even to John Wilkes Booth. "A-h-h-h-h Vengeance!" |
| Posted: | Tue Oct 31, 2017 12:23 pm |
| Forum: | Third Eye Film Forums |
| Subject: | The Lobby |
| yambu Replies: 66641 Views: 9334609 |
Then I have to ask, Yambu: if you had had that job, with a Trump-like president, would there have been a moment, when you received a launch order, where you were saying, "Um, maybe we should sto ... |
| Posted: | Mon Oct 30, 2017 10:15 pm |
| Forum: | Third Eye Film Forums |
| Subject: | The Lobby |
| yambu Replies: 66641 Views: 9334609 |
.....I just hope his keepers make sure he's far away from the nuclear button.I was a missile launch officer for four years, and at the centerpiece of the concept of mutually assured destruction is a C ... |
| Posted: | Thu Oct 12, 2017 3:04 pm |
| Forum: | Third Eye Film Forums |
| Subject: | The Lobby |
| yambu Replies: 66641 Views: 9334609 |
Overall, Lewis has a rather clunky writing style. Seems often like a throwback to the pre-1920's before a distinctly American identity and voice arose in literature. He does get a good line in n ... |
| Posted: | Tue Oct 10, 2017 12:30 pm |
| Forum: | Third Eye Film Forums |
| Subject: | The Lobby |
| yambu Replies: 66641 Views: 9334609 |
Happy Columbus Day. Or, for Yambu and Bart, Happy Native Peoples Day. I am a native, I suppose. My line has been here since the Potato Famine. Think of me as O'Yambu. |
| Posted: | Sun Sep 24, 2017 3:28 pm |
| Forum: | Third Eye Film Forums |
| Subject: | Couch With A View |
| yambu Replies: 36392 Views: 6883362 |
I can understand why Torn Curtain appeals to so many, but it's not for me. A true movie star would have handled Julie Andrews without making her suspicious. A TMS would have loved her beyond his missi ... |
| Posted: | Sun Sep 10, 2017 9:36 pm |
| Forum: | Third Eye Film Forums |
| Subject: | The Lobby |
| yambu Replies: 66641 Views: 9334609 |
This weekend at Bard College in upstate New York they are presenting a live performance of the score to Vertigo. Fitting IMO, since it's my favorite film score of all time and Bernard Herrmann's mast ... |
| Posted: | Fri Aug 25, 2017 11:56 am |
| Forum: | Third Eye Film Forums |
| Subject: | Couch With A View |
| yambu Replies: 36392 Views: 6883362 |
On the other hand, I'm watching Kenneth Branagh's take on "As You Like It," set in a British enclave in 19th Century Japan....I didn't know about this. Must see.
Harold Bloom points out t ... |
| Posted: | Wed Aug 23, 2017 1:43 pm |
| Forum: | Third Eye Film Forums |
| Subject: | Couch With A View |
| yambu Replies: 36392 Views: 6883362 |
I'm watching a version of Macbeth starring Patrick Stewart and set in the 20th century (with an atmosphere like Stalinist Russia), which demonstrates why you shouldn't do this. Producers have been tim ... |
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