DISQUS

Was in the area a couple of months ago and on a whim stopped by - luckily there was no one there and was able to do the 'Historic Tour' with only a couple of other people in the whole group - took some pics:

http://flickr.com/photos/jettloe/2495580015/

http://flickr.com/photos/jettloe/2495579957/

I find it very comforting underground for some reason - the silence of the grave???

Hello The Listener, (aka Matt).

Yes, I was trying a bunch of different things. One of the straplines: 'Everyone's a Critic' would make a great line for a movie social network - so am now using it on the TFT Facebook Group.

Anyhew, am experiments/trialling/prototyping different approaches as TFT goes commercial. :)

Another wonderful post from the Dr.!

Couple of things - I think Phil the question is there a performance by DDV that people don't like rather than a movie?

+ Gareth, re: "Man on the Moon - A biopic in which he plays himself 25 years ago and no one notices the difference"

= aren't you mistaken here? He doesn't play his TAXI character, rather Andy Kaufman's agent.

+ in L.A. Confidential, though he doesn't match in any way the physical description given to the character in the novel by James Ellroy, DDV absolutely NAILS it.

They're always worth reading - and they have a calming effect on me.

Which is necessary sometimes.

Thanks for making the leap Phil!

+ yeah we separated them out - wanted to give 'primacy' the show - while still having the insightful posts from the Professor Doctor!

Other people have said the Station Agent is great as well - will Netflix both of them!

+ sorry to hear about West Virginia - you will feel a kinship to the Professor Doctor when he recounts what happened to him regarding a certain film on this week's upcoming chapter: 'Journey to the Center of Hellboy!'.

Cheers for the tip iremonger - had a look and I hadn't 'flipped a switch' on Libsyn properly!

+ glad ya like the new look of the site: we're also on Twitter and Facebook.

It's an experiment - we'll see if the Dear Listener is interested in what Gareth and I are up to and interested in reviewing movies as well on Facebook.

You know - I'd say both!

Thanks for the info Tim :)

'cinematic industrialists' is a nice turn of phrase.

Cinema has been industrial for a long time - but now w/flip cams and youtube - it can be something else - almost weightless maybe...

It's a terrible horrible awful ugly film in all dimensions. As for McAvoy = he'll be fine! :)

Ok Ok - you've convinced me. :) I will go see the Visitor, (never saw the Station Agent), not only for the lovely feeling your post evokes in me but because director Tom McCarthy played the weaselly villainous reporter in the last season of the Wire!

Oh my god Domino - since the entire film was shot w/filters/dutch angles/fast cutting etc, when the characters went on a mescaline trip the director had nowhere to go!

Am not sure sure the extra 'd' will add much.

+ am off to see Hellboy 2 tonight - let's see if we can do a Hellboy2/JTTCOTE double bill!

I'm tellin' ya 'Spoiler's Ahoy! Ringtones' are the way to go!

+ I'm thinkin' of actually going to see JTTCOTE in 3D - just for the hell of it.

+ Brendan Fraser = the Poor Man's Hugh Jackman.

Come to think of it Hugh Jackman is the Poor Man's Hugh Jackman.

I've been thinking of trying 'Brisco County' - I tried a few minutes of 'Jack of All Trades' but found it too broad for my tastes, (though I will give them credit for anticipating the pirate craze of a couple of years later), + it does have one of the greatest title sequences of all time.

Hey Kiley - the sound chip's back up! The show has just been edited this very second - now I've got to drive somewhere to see if I can leech a reliable wi-fi signal!

I for one love the fact that I have no idea where Professor Doctor Gareth Higgins is - he travels internationally while I at the moment seem to be inching my way across the American South.

In other news it's feeling like the backlog of films we have to review is growing - we can't do more than 1 show a week, and cutting the 'reviews' short to fit several in a show defeats the purpose of an in-depth critique o' cinema show... so I don't know - a quandary.

+ Firefly is a lot of fun though slightly cheesy in parts. Part of the reason for the incredibly dedicated fan-base is the sense of nostalgia that permeates the show - it's as if we're watching things not in the future - but in some distant past - and there's a real sense of 'home' - of finding a place to be, to be accepted. I think Fox really screwed up here - they had a gold-mine franchise that would have made them tons of cash over decades, (as in Star Trek), but didn't see it.

Yep 'The Wire' is over = 5 seasons.

Season 1: Brilliant
Season 2: Not quite as good
Season 3 and 4: The best thing that U.S. television has done, period.
Season 5: A great wrap-up.

I gave up on 24 after a few minutes into the first episode of the first season re: the skydiving seductress! -

but anyhew I think you're right Tom. Shows like 'The Wire' are the closest thing to what U.S. cinema in the 70's was trying to do re: moral complexity.

We're in this age now where it's all just 'moving pictures' = I watch Mad Men on my laptop, (and just realized that I haven't turned on the TV except to watch DVDs in months). And old TV shows like 'Star Trek TOS' are now being show during 'special event' nights in cinemas here now thanks to digital distribution and projection.

You know I've always shied away from 'these' type of films, (small-art-house-family-drama), as they normally aren't 'cinematic' enough for me, (meaning they could exist in other media just fine = no reason to be a film rather than a book, etc.), but I'm putting this in my Netflix queue now!, (of course if it's dire I know who to blame Dr Prof Gareth Higgins...).