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From the director of PS I Love You! Talk about damned with faint praise!

Thanks so much for hosting another viewing Cinco! So glad I got to drop in for the last few songs.

That is indeed the case. In the summer this was released, there was a great deal of publicity around Toronto to push this movie for its local flavour. I'm cringing in advance to have to see my city insulted in the way it inevitably will be.

I tried to drop in but rabb.it wouldn't let me in for some reason - my password wouldn't work, then it wouldn't work after I reset it. Sorry I missed the conversation!

Ooh, I've never seen this one. I'm going to do my best to make it to this one. BEES!

They're finally finishing the renovation in our department this summer so for the fall semester we're moving buildings and I have to shift into an office half the size. When they first told us the furniture we were allowed to have, they said that we could have one (1) six foot bookcase, and one (1) two foot bookcase, totalling ten shelves. That MIGHT cover SOME of my Shakespeare. Maybe. I have no idea how I'll cope having to only take a third of my books. Maybe just piled up on the floor?

Hi guys! Cam just reached out to tell me I'm in line for next week, and I totally feel shitty about having dipped on you guys for about three hundred years. I really want to start getting back into visiting and participating (yeah, we've heard that before) and it could happen with a less busy semester ahead of me. I loved the stage version of 'Last Five Years' so I'll see if I can join in this week to earn my place for next week's pick! Love you all!

I mean, I fully have always acknowledged that Cakebug Tranch is the stupidest login name ever, but I always liked that it was so weird that it has absolutely no connection to my real life and I could never be tracked down through this forum (it sounds paranoid but I had some bad experiences of the sort through Twitter, using real names or identifiers). I like that it's completely random, even though it's super dumb.

Hey guys! My parents are visiting from Australia so things have been so crazy around here that I haven't actually logged on to the forum since the update. Sorry to be AWOL, but it's nice to know that there's a community there waiting without judgement for when I finally get my act back together. Then again, I start a new four-course teaching load on the 27th, so things may well go to hell for a bit there too. Anyway, have fun with Billy Joel-singing stray animals! I'll be back soon, I'm sure! (Also, I should probably change my name back: Kit Walker was my original login name but I changed it years ago...)

I went out to the Toronto International Film Festival Bell Lightbox last night to catch the 70mm version of '2001', and I can't say enough great things about it. I fully agree with Paul's take on the sound - the signal sound from the moon was truly jarring, for example - and the placement of the intermission (15 minutes) right after the lip-reading revelation was mind-blowing even to the group of film geeks in the cinema last night who knew it was coming. I can't imagine how incredible it would have been to viewers in 1968. I have a longer review on my letterboxd account, but in short, please go see this if you can. It's incredible.

That's how I felt when I finally read Ulysses - I had been daunted by its 'Mount Everest' status but once I made the decision to read and not to try to understand everything, but let it wash over me, I loved the experience in just about exactly the same way I loved 2001.

Or if it was, it would be a Rob Schneider comedy treatment.

I really appreciated how much attention he gave that sign. Really read it through, which suggested that it was serious business.

Its playing all over: http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2018/07/26/detail/2001-a-space-odyssey-new-70mm-print/ Or, come up to Toronto and see it with us!

I thought I had seen 2001 until this week when I watched it again and found that aside from a couple of iconic scenes and things I knew from The Simpsons, I definitely hadn't seen it. I absolutely loved it and immediately booked tickets to see Christopher Nolan's 70mm re-release of the film that is playing in Toronto this week only. I'm seeing that on Wednesday - looking forward to reporting about how it looks on a giant screen!

On the other hand, if you see any Illinois Nazis on a bridge, then go for it.

Uh, bad news Taylor... http://www.flare.com/tv-movies/kevin-spacey-movie-billionaire-boys-club/

It's not Wright, it's the truckload of money Sony dumped on his doorstep. He went from being staunchly anti-sequel to writing it in minutes.

I'm not sure about anything. But honestly, would anyone be surprised if it were true? I mean, http://www.nme.com/news/film/baby-driver-2-already-in-the-works-2168341

This popped up on Letterboxd this morning. https://letterboxd.c...m/la-la-land-2/ Why?!?!? (I guess I'm not the only one asking: https://letterboxd.com/eivrylp/list/why-would-someone-do-that/) Also, I wish this article was real. https://aboveaverage...ing-saving-ska/

That lady also said that the parade (or her inability to remove her cake from the oven) was "UnAmerican." Seems like she's got a pretty 2018 interpretation of what that word means way back in 1986, where "UnAmerican" equals "inconvenient."

It hurts me deeply to say that BB2000 is straight up terrible. I'm dreading the HDTGM treatment this film is going to get soon, but even I, as a Blues Bros superfan, knows that the sequel is a mess. It's definitely made for the fans, with plenty of callbacks, cameos and interesting moments, with direct parallels back to the original (we go back to Bob's Country Bunker which is now a breakfast place; we go back to pick up Matt and Blue Lou from Aretha but instead of being at the Soul Food Cafe they run a Mercedes dealership (which is in Toronto, and I drove past it this morning). But all in all, it's god-awful. The parallel version of 'Rawhide' is at a Bluegrass Festival where they are booked in as 'The Bluegrass Brothers' with big ZZ Top beards on, but they do a utterly brilliant version of 'Ghost Riders in the Sky', which is worth the movie all on its own. I love parts of BB2000 in its own way, but ultimately, with the soul of the film (Jake) absent, and a wisecracking kid in his place, it's nothing but disappointment.