From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 3 May 2023 07:48:55 -0700 (PDT), Jack Bohn   
    wrote:   
      
   >Paul S Person wrote:   
   >> On Mon, 1 May 2023 14:05:49 -0700 (PDT), Jack Bohn    
   >>  wrote:    
   >>    
   >> >But that's beside the point. What I've done with my extra time is to start   
   randomly checking out some of the DVDs I've been randomly accumulating. My   
   evening matinee began with the 26-episode anime "Last Exile" as the serial,   
   but no need to talk    
   about that here.    
   >> >    
   >> >Now some only a few would see:    
   >> >    
   >> >The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus (2009) Midlist Terry Gilliam. Amazing   
   that he's made enough films to have a midlist. I'm not sure anything was said   
   here that wasn't in Baron Munchaussen.   
   >   
   >> Heath Ledger's last film. Forget the hype about /The Dark Knight/.    
   >>    
   >> They had to get three friends to finish the film by doing the "inside"    
   >> scenes.   
   >   
   >Yes, I suspect the publicity around that is the reason I own it, that the   
   DVDs would have been produced in numbers larger than normal sales of a Terry   
   Gilliam film (and get into the hands of people who don't know what a midlist   
   Terry Gilliam film is    
   like!) and thence got remaindered, where I picked it up cheap.   
      
   Nothing wrong with remainder bins.   
      
   A lot of Amazon Marketplace stuff (some books, several DVDs) turned   
   out to be remaindered. An efficient market sells everything,   
   eventually.   
      
   >> >The Raven (2012) Edgar Allan Poe is contacted by the police about a number   
   of murders containing details from his stories. A common use of historic   
   authors, perhaps not as common as the trope of their stories having been   
   inspired by secret hidden    
   events in their lives. Had this been done with practical effects rather than   
   cgi, the pit with the pendulum might have been scaled back, or given the   
   filmmakers insight about the time and money that would have had to been put   
   into it, but then again,    
   making sense seems less important than looking cool.   
   >   
   >> If this shows Poe doing a reading in front of an audience, then I    
   >> believe I saw this. Like the more recent film with Poe as a character,    
   >> I didn't find it (or whatever I am confusing it with) all that    
   >> interesting.   
   >   
   >Yes, a reading in front of an appreciative and totally female aundience.   
      
   Thought so. The audience /could/ have been a Women's Club of some   
   sort.   
      
   You know, like the ones Anna Russell explores in "Introduction To The   
   Concert (By the Women's Club President)" (from /The Anna Russell   
   Album/).   
      
   Or shown in the drug-induced fantasy sequences in the original /The   
   Manchurian Candidate/.   
      
   Well-to-do women did a lot of group activities to occupy their time.   
      
   At least in the past. And/or in urban legend.   
      
   >There was a '50s movie where the protagonist was hinted to be Poe under a nom   
   de guerre.  This is given as a twist at the end, so it would be a spoiler to   
   recommend it, as that is the only thing that even sidestreams in into this   
   group; the writer was    
   disciplined enough to have the mystery under his ratiocinations NOT have the   
   overt trappings of horror.  Only those following the career of Joseph Cotten,   
   or Barbara Stanwyck, or the humorous stylings of Jim Backus may run across it   
   as it was meant to be    
   seen.   
   --    
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   development was the disintegration, under Christian   
   influence, of classical conceptions of the family and   
   of family right."   
      
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