Steven Rubio's Online Life: from up on poppy hill (goro miyazaki, …
WEB9 hours ago · This is the second film directed by Goro Miyazaki, son of the great Hayao (who co-wrote the script). Compared to some of the classic Ghibli movies, From Up on Poppy Hill is relatively straightforward, missing much of the flights of fantasy associated with Goro's father. It tells the story of teenage love in 1963 Japan, with specific ties to the ...
Steven Rubio's Online Life
WEBAug 26, 2024 · This was the first time in nearly a month that we had a Geezer movie, and almost two months since we'd been to a theater." On June 19, I broke my ankle. We hadn't gone to a theater or had a Geezer Tuesday since Furiosa. Finally, two months, two weeks, and two days later, we went to a theater for Geezer Cinema #242: Didi.
September 2024 - Steven Rubio's Online Life
WEBSep 4, 2024 · african-american directors series: sweet sweetback's baadassss song (melvin van peebles, 1971) Wednesday, September 04, 2024. This is the first film I have watched in "My Letterboxd Season Challenge 2024-25", a "33-week-long community challenge" where "you must watch one previously unseen film that fits the criteria of the theme for the week."
music friday: double shot (of my baby's love)
WEB1 day ago · It was originally released in 1963, three years before the Medallions' version, by Dick Holler and the Holidays. Holler went on to write "Abraham, Martin, and John", a memorable record by Dion. "Double Shot" was an example of a subgenre called "Frat Rock" (think "Louie Louie" by The Kingsmen). One big fan …
geezer cinema: night moves (arthur penn, 1975)
WEB2 days ago · What [Hackman] brings to “Night Moves” is crucial; he must be absolutely sure of his identity as a free-lance gumshoe, even while all of his craft is useless and all of his hunches are based on ignorance of the big picture. The typical old-school private eye is a bit smarter than everyone else. It's the noir "hero" that gets it all wrong ...
Steven Rubio's Online Life: sabotage (alfred hitchcock, 1936)
WEB4 days ago · sabotage (alfred hitchcock, 1936) Monday, September 16, 2024. This is the second film I have watched in "My Letterboxd Season Challenge 2024-25", a "33-week-long community challenge" where "you must watch one previously unseen film that fits the criteria of the theme for the week." This is the 10th annual challenge, and my sixth time ...
Revisiting the 9s - Steven Rubio's Online Life
WEBApr 4, 2024 · [This is the twenty-first in a series that will probably be VERY intermittent, if I remember to post at all. I've long known that while I have given my share of 10-out-of-10 ratings for movies over the years, in almost every case, those movies are fairly old.
tombstone (george p. cosmatos, 1993) - Steven Rubio's Online Life
WEBAug 7, 2024 · While it's not nearly as long as Wyatt Earp, Tombstone goes on forever. We get the famous shootout at the OK Corral, look at the clock, and realize there's still an hour to go. Basically, Tombstone is kinda boring. But it has one thing that raises it to a much higher standard: Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday. Kilmer is tremendous, idiosyncratic ...
Steven Rubio's Online Life: music friday: parliament, "give up the …
WEBAug 9, 2024 · A couple of days ago, my wife was on a Zoom call with some of her knitting friends. I was doing what I usually do these days, lying on the bed, listening to SiriusXM, and I only caught bits and pieces of the conversation.
February 2024 - Steven Rubio's Online Life
WEBFeb 29, 2024 · Nyad is the first fiction film from noted documentary film makers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin. The transition is made smooth by the fact that Nyad is based on a true story ... the core of the script has written itself. I'm not sure I could actually explain the difference between a biopic and a film "based on a true story".
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