a pond with the city in the background
aprox km 3549 Devonian Harbour Park
For your listening pleasure: Off Minor
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Day #21,564
Walk km 3547-3551: Thurlow/Alberni/Devonian Harbour Park/Stanley Park/(bus)/Granville/Dunsmuir/Richards/(bus)/Bute/Haro
a pond with the city in the background
aprox km 3549 Devonian Harbour Park
For your listening pleasure: Off Minor
a pond with the city in the background
aprox km 3549 Devonian Harbour Park
For your listening pleasure: Off Minor
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Day #21,563
Walk km 3533-3543: Robson/Howe/Georgia/(skytrain)/Cambie/24th/Laurel/23rd/Laurier/Margeurite/33rd/Angus/35th/E Blvd/37th/W Blvd/36th/Camosun/38th/Dunbar
Walk km 3543-3547: Robson/Homer/Nelson/Howe/Helmcken/Burrard/Davie
Christmas decorations still up
aprox km 3535 Laurier Avenue
Diet: -2 (48 to go)
Movie #1175 (#3 this year): The Younger Generation(1929, Frank Capra)
Frank Capra may have been a great director but he still needed a script. He doesn't have one here. There's a hole in the plot that you could drive a truck through. And then the "bad guy" makes a 180 degree turn at the end of the movie for no apparent reason only to reverse himself again in the final scene. Also, making it part talkie, part silent further distracts from the plot.
Walk km 3543-3547: Robson/Homer/Nelson/Howe/Helmcken/Burrard/Davie
Christmas decorations still up
aprox km 3535 Laurier Avenue
Diet: -2 (48 to go)
Movie #1175 (#3 this year): The Younger Generation(1929, Frank Capra)
Frank Capra may have been a great director but he still needed a script. He doesn't have one here. There's a hole in the plot that you could drive a truck through. And then the "bad guy" makes a 180 degree turn at the end of the movie for no apparent reason only to reverse himself again in the final scene. Also, making it part talkie, part silent further distracts from the plot.
Friday, January 1, 2010
Day #21,562
Walk km 3523-3530: Thurlow/Georgia/(skytrain)/King Edward/Yukon/26th/Peveril/27th/Quebec/King Edward/Main/26th/Ontario/2nd/Quebec/(skytrain)/Burrard/Alberni/Bute/Robson/Haro
Walk km 3530-3533: Robson/Denman/(bus)/Robson
an intersection
aprox km 3532 Denman @ Robson
Diet: 0 (50 to go) and I thought I would lose weight over Christmas! What was I thinking?
Movie #1173 (#1 this year): La Belva Con Mitra(1977, Sergio Grieco)
Another of the MillCreek reissues and another one that has had both sides of the film sliced off to create the dreaded "fullscreen". Quentin Tarantino gave this one the thumbs up by showing it playing on TV in his "Jackie Brown". It is very effective but I wonder how it would have looked if I had been able to see the entire film. Here's a sample from YouTube: the opening titles in widescreen:
Movie #1174 (#2 this year): Boss Of Big Town(1942, Arthur Dreifuss)
Jean Broooks
Another skid row cheapie from PRC. This one is in rough shape: the picture is washed out and I couldn't make out a lot of dialogue. I decided to stick it out because the story was by Edward "Shack Out On 101" Dein. However, there's not much of interest here except for a fine performance by the actress who plays the ingenue: Jean Brooks. Jean was married to Richard "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" Brooks at the time but they were divorced a few years later and Jean died of malnutrition caused by alcoholism in 1963.
Walk km 3530-3533: Robson/Denman/(bus)/Robson
an intersection
aprox km 3532 Denman @ Robson
Diet: 0 (50 to go) and I thought I would lose weight over Christmas! What was I thinking?
Movie #1173 (#1 this year): La Belva Con Mitra(1977, Sergio Grieco)
Another of the MillCreek reissues and another one that has had both sides of the film sliced off to create the dreaded "fullscreen". Quentin Tarantino gave this one the thumbs up by showing it playing on TV in his "Jackie Brown". It is very effective but I wonder how it would have looked if I had been able to see the entire film. Here's a sample from YouTube: the opening titles in widescreen:
Movie #1174 (#2 this year): Boss Of Big Town(1942, Arthur Dreifuss)
Jean Broooks
Another skid row cheapie from PRC. This one is in rough shape: the picture is washed out and I couldn't make out a lot of dialogue. I decided to stick it out because the story was by Edward "Shack Out On 101" Dein. However, there's not much of interest here except for a fine performance by the actress who plays the ingenue: Jean Brooks. Jean was married to Richard "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" Brooks at the time but they were divorced a few years later and Jean died of malnutrition caused by alcoholism in 1963.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Day #21,560
Movie #1172: Weddings And Babies (1958, Morris Engel)
Here's #3 in the Morris Engel trilogy and the first without Ruth Orkin. This one plays out like the first two except that the happy ending is gone. A man is engaged to be married but he wants to continue to run his life alone. The fiancee finally gives up on him and leaves before it's too late. Another well made film that I didn't really like as much as I think I should have for a reason that I'm at a loss to explain.
Here's #3 in the Morris Engel trilogy and the first without Ruth Orkin. This one plays out like the first two except that the happy ending is gone. A man is engaged to be married but he wants to continue to run his life alone. The fiancee finally gives up on him and leaves before it's too late. Another well made film that I didn't really like as much as I think I should have for a reason that I'm at a loss to explain.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Day #21,557
old truck
south of Highway 52 Manitoba
a horse
north of Grunthal Manitoba
winter scene in three parts
south east of Steinbach Manitoba
Movie #1171: Lovers And Lollipops(1956, Ruth Orkin & Morris Engel)
This is a tough one. Well done all around. Well directed, looks great, believable story, this one has everything going for it. And yet.....I was bored. Not sure why.
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