Is there any utility with o-rings/switch dampeners? If so, any recs?

Is there any utility with o-rings/switch dampeners? If so, any recs?

When I saw it there was a whole marching band percussion section on stage and a lot of them were black but you just go ahead and make stuff up about what you think the show is.

Rack focus baby!

I was so happy to see Byrne on an SNL with Mulaney hosting in Feb/March (pre-COVID). His performances with his troupe were an absolute joy and his appearance in the airport skit made me love him even more.

/Spike Lee angrily Tweets Rose Byrne’s home address

Stop Making Sense isn't maybe the best concert film.  Its the best and even the greats like Last Waltz and Monaray Pop aren't comparable.  Seriously if you've never seen it go watch it right now!!!

Yeah, always take the word of jilted ex bandmates. That makes sense. 

I did a similar French Cinema elective as part of my French degree (which I haven’t used in the last 25 years...). We did some of the same movies but also Subway, Ascenseur pour l’echafaud, Diva and Lacombe Lucien which were all excellent. I remember listing The 4oo Blows as one of my top 10 movies for a survey in the…

One of my favorite things about college was definitely being forced to read books I wouldn’t have read otherwise, watch movies I wouldn’t have watched otherwise, etc. Having smart people curate a reading list (or film festival, as the case may be) for you is a good thing.

He’ll always be Changeling to me, and best buddies with Cyborg. That may all have been retconned away over the years, but the New Teen Titans version of the character was a pretty lovable one (in the early Johnny Storm vein, with Vic as his grumpy Ben Grimm).

I have fond memories of this one. I was going back to finish my degree after a 15 year hiatus and “French New Wave” was the only course available.
So it was this, “Breathless”, “Hiroshima Mon Amour”, “Cleo from 5 to 7", “Le Bourcher”, “Umbrellas of Cherbourg”, “La Jetee” and one or two others.
I had ZERO knowledge or i…

I just remembered Terence Davies’s dreamlike “The Long Day Closes,” a semi-autobiographical film about an eleven year old boy growing up in a harsh working class English family in the fifties. It seems an obvious progeny of “The 400 Blows” but with a vividly distinctive tone that is less prosaic and more…

I was a smart teen. 

I first saw the film the 400 Blows may be when I was 12 or 13 after seeing it on TV on Channel 11 in Chicago. Back in the 1970s, Chanel 11 would regularly play foreign films distributed by Janus Films. I can still remember how I felt when I saw the last scene of Antoine Doinel running on the beach. Though the scene is…

Just prudent and professional.

Coming of age films can so often lapse into gratuitous sentimentality but this one really stands out for taking a much less idyllic view of early adolescence. That’s not to say the film doesn’t have some lovely moments and it does a beautiful job of capturing the inner world of a 14 year old which for a lot of us was…

I still find it funny that my dad had a filing cabinet that looked as it should, but I pulled away the files and behold! nothing but Skinemax softcore. A kid in the late 80's-early 90's was in heaven.

This movie was in the box of “adult” VHS tapes my dad had. The title was very misleading.

What I remember most vividly about this film is the Hitchcockian moment when the head of Antoine’s mother appears ominously in the classroom window.

All you need to see to sense Truffaut’s sensitivity toward people is that shot of the children watching the Punch & Judy show.  It’s just lovely.