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    28 minutes ago, Grand Moff Talkin' said:

    It was shot in Toronto and judging by the cops' uniforms, I think it's supposed to be set in Toronto's Little Italy.

    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.

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    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?

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    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!

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    25 minutes ago, CameronH said:

    I remember when you first changed your name to CakeBug, and I resisted the change. Now Kit Walker just feels weird.

     Hope your parents are enjoying their stay! And, of course, we're always here for you.

    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.

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  9. Posted

    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...)

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  10. Posted

    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.

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    I was thinking about Cam Bert's teacher referencing Ulysses, and how that relates to 2001, and while there's a lot of differences in creation -- Joyce purposely fills his novel with puzzling obscurities, Kubrick just ambiguous, unexplained, subconscious moments -- but the mundane would be the best correlation. That's what Joyce brought to literature, just writing about everyday moments. Kubrick brought it to sci-fi in a similar way.

     

    (Further, the movie is called a 'Space Odyssey' and Ulysses is also based on The Odyssey.)

     

    My brother is a bit of a Joyce scholar, and his advice for Ulysses was always to "don't worry about it, just read it." Don't fret over not understanding every moment or word, just enjoy reading through it. And I think that's similar to 2001: puzzling over it all is fun! but it's not necessary, and as many of you have noted, if you just EXPERIENCE it, you can be wowed.

    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.

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    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!

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    Supposedly this town is so small that everyone seems to know each other but crazy lady who left her oven on and wants to bonezone Cru, isn't aware that she's talking to his own mother when gushing about him at the race.

    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."

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  23. Posted

    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.

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