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2015 Yearly Wrap
Martin Ramirez set, Scott # 4968Medal of Honor set, Scott # 4822bCoastal Birds set, Scott # 4994. California condor stamp (1971), Scott # 1430Penguins issue, Scott # 4989Summer Harvest set, Scott #...
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Picture: Mad Max: Fury RoadActor: Michael Fassbender, Steve JobsActress: Charlotte Rampling, 45 YearsSupporting Actor: Mark Rylance, Bridge of SpiesSupporting Actress: Alicia Vikander, The Danish...
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Desert Island 100
The challenge: Pick my favorite feature film each year from 1924-2015. Add 8 more shorts spread out over that period to make an even 100. Here's what I picked. Links are to other blog entries on...
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SFIFF59 Round-Up
With 17 features and 60 shorts screened, this was definitely the most productive SFIFF I’d ever attended. The POV award to Aardman Animation (with guest Peter Lord) accounted for 1/3 of that short...
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She Certainly Can Cannes-Cannes
When people (quickly) discover what a big cinephile I am, the question I get the most often (besides “What’s your favorite movie?”) is “Have you been to Sundance?” And they’re invariably surprised...
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Good as Gold
I’ll admit it: Despite the waste and corruption that often go hand-and-hand with their undertaking, I am easily seduced by the Olympics. Given that coverage (live or tape delayed) often occurs...
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Kringle All the Way
My first associations with Fred Astaire were with Christmas. One of the first films I remember him starring in was the family-friendly TV movie The Man in the Santa Claus Suit (1979), where he is an...
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Luminous Beings
In what now seems a lifetime ago, I once had to go through tens of thousands of feet of 16mm behind-the-scenes footage from the original Star Wars trilogy. Most of this was not shot on the set, but...
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2016 Yearly Wrap
Parakeets, Scott #5124 - part of Pets issueShirley Temple, #5060Sarah Vaughan, #5059 (w/Josh White #3215)Mercury #5069 - part of The Planets issueEverglades #5080l) - part of the National Park Service...
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Picture: MoonlightActor: Viggo Mortensen, Captain FantasticActress: Isabelle Huppert, ElleSupporting Actor: Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the SeaSupporting Actress: Viola Davis, FencesDirector: Barry...
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For E, Four-Oh
Awash with mutual affection, we walked up Filmore St. and had dinner at Florio, where we talked and ate pasta off each other's plates. Then on the way back, she sang Thelonious Monk and Kurt Weill to...
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Like Silver
Happy Birthday to Lily Tomlin, who turns 77 today. One of my favorite films of hers is also the best stamp film from the 70s, Robert Benton’s underrated neo-noir, The Late Show (1977). In it,...
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Boy Story
It certainly resides outside of popular opinion, but I liked Pixar’s latest, Finding Dory (Stanton/MacLane) much more than I did Finding Nemo. I think that certainly has to do in part with how much I...
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Drag Race
The 1982 Oscar race is the first one I can remember. Not only were 3 of the Best Picture nominees films that I’d seen (a first for my then 12-year-old self), but other films I’d been allowed to...
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Picture: Get OutActor: Timothee Chalamet, Call Me By Your NameActress: Saoirse Ronan, Lady BirdSupporting Actor: Willem Dafoe, The Florida ProjectSupporting Actress: Lesley Manville, Phantom...
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Praise Be
Of all the MGM musicals ever made, spanning over half-a-century, only 2 have been memorialized on a US postage stamp. One is, unsurprisingly, The Wizard of Oz, which I have discussed on this blog...
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Picture: BlackKklansmanActor: Willem Dafoe, At Eternity’s GateActress: Olivia Colman, The FavouriteSupporting Actor: Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?Supporting Actress: Rachel Weisz, The...
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