exactly. it's kind of a horror film in that respect.

Hal is very good, a documentary about the director Hal Ashby I just watched on Amazon. Hard to beat that 70s film culture, baby. Ashby's life in the 80s was apparently very tragic, seems like an extraordinary man and visionary artist who just couldn't get his life back on track at some point. His friends really loved him a lot, that's for sure.

Love Ashby’s work...will check that out

Watched the documentary "Red Dog" by songwriter Luke Dick about growing up around strippers at the Red Dog in the 70s.

His mom was a stripper there, seems a few were underage and suprise, suprise, drugs were prevalent.

Not that good, for a film based around the legendary strip bar, it was boring.

Or I need to make my own doc about strippers in the 80s.

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I thought it was boring as well and turned it off about halfway through.

The kind of strip club that was Red Dogs was the kind you rated the girls by their stretch marks/bullet wound scars.

Exactly, the stories should have been legendary.

I remember the milk show, a woman setting her tits on fire, and a stripper falling off the swing they had onstage.

And that was just a typical Tuesday.

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Watched a few fairly diverse movies here lately

The Southerner about a sharecropping family that tries to make a go at farming their own land. Lots of bad stuff happens. The movie was fine but it didn't really grab me.

Harlan County, USA Fantastic documentary about a coal miner strike in a small town in the 70s. The wives are the true heroes here. Highly recommend.

Kramer vs. Kramer I've never seen this. I remember when it came out I didn't want to watch what was labeled as a tear jerker. LOL me. This is a great movie. It's a little dated but still very effective. Top notch writing and acting.

I haven't seen Kramer v Kramer since it came out and don't know how well it's held up, but there's some good stuff in there. The French Toast scene still gets mentioned as a classic.

Queen of Outer Space Four astronauts head to the space station, where they see it get blown up by some cartoon energy beams. One of the fakey beams hits them and they end up on Venus where it looks like it is covered in snow until they get out of their spaceship. They find that it is really a lush tropical jungle where you can breath the fresh air. As a bonus there is a cave with a giant inflatable spider. Fortunately for the men it is colonized by a race of beautiful women, all around the same age, dressed in short skirts and high heels - led by Zsa Zsa Gabor.

That's not even the beginning of how fantastic this movie is.

I caught the opening of this at lunchtime. Neat how the spaceship changed shape from being on the pad vs. external shots in space.

1958 B- movie, I suppose it was fun for that.

Someone needs to do a documentary on Platinum Plus aka the Purple Church in Memphis. That is the craziest place I have ever been to in my life.

When my clinician spouse initiated her career in the mid-90's, something like 20% of her case load was strippers. Most were very young. Lot's of heroin. Tons of early age familial dysfunction. Not a pretty picture.



Clinician spouse says that the court stuff wouldn't fly these days.

That being said, Hoffman was a beast. Meryl Streep was still in supporting cast roles and dominating. Best film Robert Benton ever directed.

I can remember seeing it on a big screen with a gal I reallty cared about. A nice moment in time.

Beat Apocalypse Now and All that Jazz for best picture. That part doesn't make sense except it was the Academy Awards and they dig on culturally significant films - which Kramer v. Kramer was.

New today...

FMJ in 4k UHD.



It looks spectacular...

Steve Jobs Aaron Sorkin wrote a script that could've been turned into a play but instead is a movie directed by Danny Boyle. And I say that as a positive because the movie is two hours of people talking to each other and it keeps you engaged the whole time. It's well shot, edited and acted. Steve Jobs' life and relationships with his coworkers and family are examined through the events that take place just before his infomercial events for 3 key products: The Macintosh in 1984, the Next computer in 1988 and the iMac in 1998.

The one flaw in this movie is that it only works with the assumption that you think Apple is a great company, Apple products are great products and Steve Jobs is a great man. You have to bring those preconditions to the movie. The movie itself doesn't make you think Apple is great, nor does it make you think Steve Jobs is great. And if you don't like or care about them, then it's just a movie about a guy trying to sell widgets who has relationship problems.

So I mentally had to make pretend for 2 hours that I was part of the Apple and Steve Jobs cult to fully enjoy the movie. But if you can do that, or you already are an Apple/Jobs fan, then it's a fascinating look at the man.

How have I never heard of this??!!

I thought I'd seen every 1950s B sci-fi movie in existence. I definitely have to hunt this down and watch it asap.

This movie, along with Anne Francis's stunning turn in Forbidden Planet, are what made me a lifelong SciFi fan.

I had a student years ago named Nailil. Her dad watched a sci-fi movie in which the aliens had common names spelled backwards. So Nailil was Lilian until her dad saw the movie.

Anybody know what movie that was?

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Yes, I do. And if you give me a couple of days, I'll remember the name of it.

Tobor the Great? Tobor (a robot) is robot spelled backwards and when I saw that as a kid thought was really cool. Not sure if that is the movie in question though? I haven't seen it since I was little.

Spalding Gray mentioned that Lon Nol spelled backwards is loN noL... but that was the in relation to the movie The Killing Fields, definetely not fiction.

Saw Spalding Gray do Swimming to Cambodia live. He was terrific.

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Watched Pygmalion on Criterion last night. Wendy Hiller and Leslie Howard are wonderful in it.

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fantastic... I wish I had the chance.

as an point of trivia, SG was in a Pron video called 'farmers daughter'... Not a piece you would want running around in the public's eye because it dealt with some unsavory subjects.

He had a tragic life, but he was mesmerizing in person. I urged my parents, who were not theater patrons at all, to see it and they loved it, too. His brother, Channing, was a long time theater critic for the Providence Journal.

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