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| jeremy |
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| Patricia, whose populist instinct's I trust (she liked Crash) sawSocial Network and The King's Speech this weekend. She enjoyed both, but considered Social Network the superior andm ore enjoyable film. When allied to the unremitting success of Social Network in the precursor awards, this personal bellwether is bad news for the chances of The King's Speech winning the Best Film Oscar, or much else apart from Colin Firth's coronation. |
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| Kate |
| Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 10:48 pm |
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| Just now getting to the news - I just left the very same Moscow airport 2 days ago. I am more than a little shaken. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 10:22 am |
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Kate wrote: Just now getting to the news - I just left the very same Moscow airport 2 days ago. I am more than a little shaken.
That's just a little too close for comfort! |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 12:36 pm |
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Whoa nelly! I'd be watching out for grand pianos suspended on winches overhead and bike messengers making speedy right turns through crosswalks.
I really hate airports and flying generally, so this news does nothing good for my attitude. Do I have a better idea? Not really -- blimps don't require a large centralized terminal, but they're awfully slow. High speed trains don't negotiate oceans very well. I'm still hoping for a breakthrough in hovercraft. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 12:56 pm |
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| I hate to admit this, but I have no idea what any of you is talking about. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 1:01 pm |
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| The terrorist bomb in the Moscow airport that killed 35 people and injured more than 100 (at last newscast)--Joe, you're too much like my friend David, who doesn't keep up with the news (not even the Daily Show). That's why he has trouble understanding the New Yorker cartoons. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 1:03 pm |
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| The suicide bombing in the arrivals section of Russia's largest airport that killed at least 35 and wounded over 100. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 1:04 pm |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 1:07 pm |
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| But you start a good new page. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 1:10 pm |
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Thanks Carol and Marantz. This is bizarre. I don't have television. But how did I not hear/read about this?
I'm glad you're okay, Kate. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 1:14 pm |
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| Check the national news websites like the NY Times and CNN. (I had forgotten that the Russians have their own problems with Muslims.) |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 1:59 pm |
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Whoah........Kate........very unnerving.
I think it's scary that the arrival sections of airports could be targeted. Screening doesn't happen til boarding area. Will this change that? |
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| daffy |
| Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 2:02 am |
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Quote: Daffy, so good to see you back here and actually posting. I was looking for the next movie at your bar tending venue.
I forgot to thank you for this, marantz. Thanks.
There are some pretty awesome movies coming up at the K2 Lounge:
Quote: Past presenters have included Liv Ullmann, Brian Cox, Vito Acconci, and Alan Cumming.
Fridays at 9:30 p.m.(unless otherwise noted)
The 'Nothing' Series is inspired by the exhibition Grain of Emptiness: Buddhism-Inspired Contemporary Art
Ran - Friday January 28, 2011 @ 9:30 PM
"What's remarkable about Ran is that the drama enhances the spectacle the same way the spectacle bolsters the drama. Few other directors had Kurosawa's ability to convey the intimate as well as the epic, to handle stillness as well as violence." –Los Angeles Times
Introduced by Anthony Gottlieb
The Searchers - Friday February 4, 2011 @ 9:30 PM
In this tale of a Civil War veteran (John Wayne) who confronts nothingness in a quest to find two girls abducted by Comanches, "Mr. Ford and his gang have plastered a wealth of Western action that has the toughness of leather and the sting of a whip..." –Bosley Crowther, The New York Times
Introduced by Antonio Monda
Fellini's 8 1/2 (Somebody call ehle!!!) - Friday February 11, 2011 @ 9:30 PM
"Mastroianni is increasingly aware he has everything -- and nothing -- to say. There are so many elements to savor...Somehow, the movie is more than the dated crisis of a naval-contemplating artist. It's about the inability in all of us to make sense of our lives, put it all together and come up with something meaningful." -Washington Post
Introduced by Baz Luhrmann
Marie Antoinette (1938) - Friday February 18, 2011 @ 9:30 PM
The story of the famous monarch's tumultuous life, from her arranged marriage and growing association with France's elite society, to her rise to power as one of the nation's most extravagant rulers and her ultimate beheading as a result of revolution.
Introduced by Francine DuPlessix Gray
THX 1138 - Friday February 25, 2011 @ 10:00 AM
"...a testament to the emergence of a visually masterful filmmaker. The whole thing feels like a hypnotic dreamscape, so luminously stark, from its white-on-white abstract sets to the wide-eyed, bald, near catatonic residents of this world." –Washington Post
http://rmanyc.org
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 8:13 am |
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| Nice lineup. Sorry I can't be there. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 10:14 am |
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| I'd like to see a couple of those--maybe I can make it early enough for a seat one night. Interesting that they're related to Buddhism. |
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