Paul C. Dobbs
Living on Sydney Greenstreet
Haunted by Ida Lupino
Wants to be a Brontë
송강호는 내 부조종사다
- Just watched The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) and now I don’t feel so good. What a harrowing film to watch.
- Great picture, but it upset me so much I've never been able to watch it again
- And last but not least, from the archive for Daphne du Maurier, #BornOnThisDay in 1907, a few thoughts on THE BREAKING POINT. An unsettling collection of stories that blur the margins between the real and the imaginary. #BOTD #DaphneduMaurier #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2020/05/12/r...
- Good grief, these look horrifying. I must give em a go. Your reviews do have a knack of selling books
- (Talking about the du Mauriers there - the Bourdhouxhes look great too, though not in a horrifying way !)
- Beer does fill you up. If I have a couple of cans with lunch I can get away with eating a lot less. Whether this will help me lose weight remains to be seen
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- This is clearly a response to the elections last week, but Starmer is badly mistaken in picking immigration as the issue to fight back on. Public services, NHS, cost of living are Labour's strengths. Conservatives have destroyed themselves fighting on Reform's ground, now Labour is doing the same
- First watch: following Robert Altman's Buffalo Bill, another "revisionist" New Hollywood western that hasn't aged terribly well: Arthur Penn's Little Big Man (1970). I can see why this struck a chord at the time, but it seems now too squarely pitched at the anti-war generation. 1/3
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View full threadDustin Hoffman is possibly miscast as a white man who oscillates between life among the Cheyenne and American pioneers. He has the stature but nothing really connects about the character. Not for me I'm afraid. 3/3
- Haven't seen it for decades but I used to enjoy it as a fun historical romp. But yes, he doesn't really add up to a character, and we get a romanticised hippy version of the Sioux. The Anti-Vietnam massaging is a bit on the nose. I read Penn purposely used Vietnamese extras in the massacre scenes
- TODAY the NYT publishes an investigation into the Trump memecoin $TRUMP and how it has turned into a extraordinary venue for foreign influence campaigns. What we are seeing is potentially corrupt attempts to change US policy by paying the Trump family money. This is no "Russian Hoax" nyti.ms/4kkv7D7
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View full threadCorruption requires explict quid pro quo. It is not corrupt to take an action that aligns with the interest of a person who gives you a gift, unless the official action was in direct response to that gift--a bribe. Terms matter. Accuracy and fairness matters. Regardless of what social media wants.
- It is unequivocally wrong to take the gift. You must know this, and it's your job to say it. Report, don't appease
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- It'll be politically disastrous. Trying to outdo Reform is the strategy that has practically destroyed the Tory party. It'll work even less well for Labour to shift this far right
- Starmer out, now
- Always odd to watch a movie from midcentury and realize one of the actors is still with us. That’s a 20-year-old Leslie Caron talking with Joseph Cotten’s execrable mustache.
- Reminds me of getting distraught when Olivia de Havilland died a few years ago (aged 104!) It felt so good living in the same world as the star of Captain Blood
