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Category Archives: Movie Lists
Reclaim Video, or #ds106flix
I am just coming off a quick, fun trip back to Virginia. I was invited to talk at Old Dominion University (I’ll say more about that in my next post) which meant I was able to sneak in some time … Continue reading
Reclaim Video’s The Weekly Watch 001
View this post on Instagram @xanderfalls rocking Alice in Wonderland on laserdisc @reclaimvideo and it looks quite good! A post shared by Jim Groom (@jim.groom) on Feb 15, 2019 at 12:07pm PST I got bak into town late Thursday, and … Continue reading
All the Right Movies
Last week was a whirlwind between a major migration, PressED Conference, and a packed-full Easter weekend. There was no real respite yesterday given we had a shared hosting server down most of the day, so attention was split to say … Continue reading
Reclaim Video’s 1983 Wishlist
Reclaim Video is coming along nicely. It will be officially opening sometime in the next month or so. What that looks like exactly is not entirely clear just yet, and ww would appreciate any and all ideas. We are discussing … Continue reading
Tech Noir meets ds106?
Miles, his friend Andy, and I caught a rather clean, but brooding, 35MM print of The Empire Strikes Back (1980) at the Library of Congress, Packard Campus in Culpeper, VA last night. I got to thinking that Empire is very much … Continue reading
Online Dating: the Movie List
Last night the group researching online dating sites did an excellent job taking us through that world. In particular, they referenced an early computer dating service started by three Harvard graduates in the mid-1960s called Operation Match. To quote the 1965 Crimson Tide … Continue reading
bavatuesdays’ 10 Week Mario Bava Film Festival
Note: While writing this monster of a post I realized I wrote a post back in August of 2008 wherein I dreamed up a double-feature bava beverly film fest that matched a Bava film with another classic. Well this is … Continue reading
Cinema Retro: A Primer for Italian Crime Films and more
When Anto was in New York City a couple of months ago she picked me up the latest issue of Cinema Retro, which is similar to my favorite film magazine Filmfax. The main differences being it’s a British publication and it … Continue reading
5 TV Hacking Films from the 80s
The other night I was re-watching John Carpenter’s prescient 1988 film They Live, it was as good as I remembered it was. But this time around something struck me besides the eery resonance with last year’s occupy movement, namely the … Continue reading
September Cinema: This Month at the Packard
This month’s programming for the Library of Congress, Packard Campus Theater is particularly strong this month so I figured I would blog the original page on their site, what’s more I marked it up with links to all relevant Wikipedia … Continue reading