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apogee
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Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 28, 2014 - 10:16am PT
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Been on a Billy Wilder/William Holden kick for the last couple of nights....
Sunset Boulevard
Sooo classic...sooo many great lines....
Sabrina
Audrey Hepburn was simply stunning.
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Leggs
Sport climber
Made in California
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Mar 28, 2014 - 10:23am PT
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^^ good call
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hamersorethumb
Trad climber
Menlo Park, CA
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Mar 28, 2014 - 11:58am PT
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Barry Lyndon by Stanley Kubrik. It was well worth the time.
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Keith Leaman
Trad climber
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Mar 28, 2014 - 12:48pm PT
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Arn: The Knight Templar. The Complete Series. 2010
The six part epic miniseries on Netflix is a compilation of 2 full length movies. Subtitled.
Joakim Nätterqvist - Arn
Sophia Helin - Cecilia
Mostly in Swedish, a joint production between Denmark, Norway, Finland and Germany. Lollie might know this one.
Set in the mid 12th Century, two lovers are separated for 20 years for their youthful indiscretions. Cecilia goes to a convent, and the monastic Arn is sent to the Holy Land as a Knight Templar. There he encounters the enemy of all Christendom, and Saracen leader, Saladin in a depiction of the historic battle of Montgisard.
The monks speak Latin, English, Swedish and French. Scenes in the Holy Land feature Arabic.
IMBd gives it 7.1
Netfix - 4.2 of 5
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Mar 30, 2014 - 01:27am PT
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No Place On Earth - very moving story of 38 Ukrainian Jews who hid in a cave for a year and
a half! Only a few of the men ever went out for food and whatever they could beg or steal.
8.5/10
Grand Budapest Hotel - Clever, well written, entertaining, and well acted. 7.5/10 maybe an 8
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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Jul 30, 2014 - 06:18pm PT
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..I missed seeing this at the Facelift, and just watched it free on Hulu...Wild..
Assault on El Capitan.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/662390
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Dec 30, 2014 - 12:04am PT
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watched Chef... fun road trip movie with foodies and evokes the desire to find and eat a Cubano... (but perhaps we need some of the Floridian contingent to help out on that)...
then You Can Count on Me, which was ok, well acted and a small movie.
I think recently we saw Youth Without Youth which was an interesting film (but not a great film), some interesting ideas there.
The Search for Robert Johnson was another interesting movie, but of course there isn't much history to unearth there... the most moving scene was an interview with Willie Mae Powell, who was a Johnson girl friend (and this would be back in the 1930's). The last she saw of him he was going off to record his music... but she never got to hear Love in Vain, which was played for her...
"...whooo, Willie Mae..."
it was an amazing scene. Could you imagine something like that... 60 odd years later.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
he was dead a year after making that recording.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 30, 2014 - 12:23am PT
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Thanks for such great replies, all, to this bump.
It was just before I watched The Interview that I watched Jake G y Richard Pena in End of Watch, I've spent more time with guns and violence today than I have since I viewed Fury with Brad P last night...
Jiffy-Pop rocks!
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
In What Time Zone Am I?
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Dec 30, 2014 - 12:49am PT
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Wild. Excellent. Followed the book well and wasn't over hyped.
Nice scenery and caught a lot of the "WTF am I doing" feelings when starting out on any great adventure.
Susan
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Dec 30, 2014 - 07:06am PT
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Got honey-dicked into watching The Interview. The publicity campaign is better than the movie.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Dec 30, 2014 - 07:21am PT
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I too watched it, and I thought it was pretty hilarious. Gotta say, between The Interview and A Million Ways to Die in the West, I've decided there ain't no out-of-bounds re decorum in such films any more.
Maybe a good thing?
I intend to use the line, "They hate us cause they ain't us" on the science v religion thread. :)
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 30, 2014 - 08:16am PT
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Looking forward to seeing 'Wild'...it has special meaning for my sweetie & I, for several reasons. I heard it wasn't half bad, either (if you can set aside the technical details of hiking the PCT)...
Watched 'Maidentrip' a couple of nights ago- someone here recommended it. Pretty good, though a little depressing towards the end. Maybe it's just part of the maturation process, but it was sad to watch a spirited, idealistic young girl with a good relationship with her father begin a separation process (& identity establishing process) with her life & roots, through such an impressive adventure. Still worth a watch.
Edited- thanks, HFCS. Pre-coffee brain flatulence for me.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 30, 2014 - 08:39am PT
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Been streaming 'Borgia', the French Canal+ three season series. Pretty damn
good considering the liberties they took with the script. Surprisingly, or
not, they stuck to the known knowns and made the unknowns very entertaining
and believable. They threw in some really subtle historical bits that only
a few people would appreciate. One was a reference to Columbus' recent trips
where they showed a very small portion of a painting in the Vatican museum
which only a few years ago was discovered to show the first depiction of
Carib Indians.
If yer interested:
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=1368983&tn=1020#msg2555349
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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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Dec 30, 2014 - 09:14am PT
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40 years ago I loved On any Sunday. I'm stoked for Part II!!
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Dec 31, 2014 - 05:51am PT
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The publicity campaign is better than the movie.
Uh, huh.
This week, prominent San Mateo, Calif., cybersecurity firm Norse Corp. — whose clients include government agencies, financial institutions and technology companies — briefed law enforcement officials on evidence it collected that pointed toward an inside job.
"We can't find any indication that North Korea either ordered, masterminded or funded this attack," Kurt Stammberger, a senior vice president at Norse, said in an interview with The Times. Although conceding that his findings were not conclusive, Stammberger added: "Nobody has been able to find a credible connection to the North Korean government."
Stammberger said a team of nine analysts dug through data including Norse's worldwide network of millions of Web sensors, internal Sony documents and underground hacker chat rooms. Leads suggesting North Korea as the culprit turned out to be red herrings and dead ends, he said.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-sony-hack-inside-job-not-north-korea-20141231-story.html
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