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Liliana Cavani directed The Night Porter, which is just weird and bizarre enough to make me think about watching anything thing else she directed. Porter is a twisted S&M tale of a Nazi concentration camp survivor, a yummy Charlotte Rampling, and her former tormentor/SS Officer, Dirk Bogarde after they accidentally meet again in a [...]

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Things I overheard or saw today. I could try and edit it into some story, but….
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In the Harvard Coop, a bookstore in Harvard Square.
A sort of Cali girl says, “This is like a great place. It’s like, it’s like a big book bookstore.”
Her friend, “No Jenn, it is a big bookstore.”
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In the local video store [...]

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Last night’s post was really delayed a few days. I waited to give Steph a chance to see Munich. So tonight I’m going to catch up. Why I feel like I should be reviewing movies, is beyond me. But here I go, with the three films I’ve just seen.
Walk the Line, is just another false [...]

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In the last week I’ve seen three films that have a lot in common, The Constant Gardener, Syriana and last night I watched Munich. I can’t say I loved Munich.
All three films have a great deal in common. The subject matter of course, the effects of post colonialism, the twisting plots, murder death and mayhem. [...]

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Recently I was called a living IMDB. I took that as a compliment, but maybe it means I talk too much…about movies that is. Over the last two nights I’ve gone to see two comedies at the Boston Commons AMC. Last night I went to see Clerks II, and tonight I went to Talladega Nights. [...]

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I walked into the DPL at Emerson today and there was a familiar song playing, but I couldn’t quite make it out at first. Keto was sitting in an office there staring at a computer with the music playing, then it struck me what the song was. It was, Trouble, by Cat Stevens. It seemed [...]

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One of the last things I do in the morning is to put my ear phones in and turn on my iPod before I leave the apartment. This morning as I did that, I began to wonder if my Song of the Day list, that I’ve started here is reflective and or predictive of what [...]

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I saw two movies this weekend worth mentioning. I saw more than two but….
I watched the Sydney Lumet/ Paddy Chayefsky film Network for the first time in years. What a breath of fresh air from the past. While I was in California last week, my brother and I talked about the films of the 1970’s. [...]

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