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  1. Ian Scuffling

    Films you've seen recently and would unreservedly recommend:

    Hell yeah, Lexington is definitely one of those places that's a deceptively small town and deceptively well-represented elsewhere. Encountered a good handful of people from there on the Red Scare subreddit as well.
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    Films you've seen recently and would unreservedly recommend:

    Justified is one of my favorites. Seasons 1 and 5 are mediocre but when it hits it hits, on paper a pretty boilerplate serialized cop show massively elevated by Leonard's influence and Walton Goggins' and Timothy Olyphant's chemistry and charisma. Though I have a soft spot because I grew up in...
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    The Grateful Thread

    These are exactly the sort of books I'm looking for thanks! Is that folder just all the studio albums with a few shows mixed in?
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    Peckinpah and Zahler

    Noticed version posts a lot of director threads and he suggested I start one on these two. Finally got around to watching Brawl in Cell Block 99 last night and was discussing Bone Tomahawk with a friend. After my post yesterday about the way P and Z handle violence got me thinking about the...
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    The Grateful Thread

    One of my favorites. My dad listens almost exclusively to the dead so I knew Fire on the Mountain and One More Saturday Night before I could talk. Only over the last year have I started seriously diving into them and it's been super rewarding. A good Sugar Magnolia never fails to put me in a...
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    Dematerialisation.

    I've always struggled with describing color grading in detail but to the best of my knowledge I would say his use of contrast stands out. Some other people with more photography knowledge may be able to clarify that.
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    Dematerialisation.

    I was actually talking about him with a classmate a few hours ago. I think, broadly, his lack of fear to be "problematic" and make the viewer uncomfortable makes him Peckinpah's truest and perhaps only heir currently working in his unflinching engagement with characters and images that the...
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    Dematerialisation.

    Interesting you mention Inland Empire's reevaluation and Twin Peaks 3 as disappointing over-saturation, because isn't it extremely likely that the latter will get the same treatment, with Lynch having already had a case of this and as a veteran director and stylistic experimenter. I found the...
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    version what type of girl do you go for

    And yes KC is correct unfortunately
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    version what type of girl do you go for

    Waifish brunettes who are worldlier than me. I'd like to be Megan Calvet's young trophy husband
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    Culture exchange thread

    Studying at St. Andrews where there is very little to do and the sun is not out much, so I can't help but think of that one song about Harlan County all the time which is why my initial answer to this question is always "wet, dark and cold." I like Dundee well enough but haven't done much there...
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    Corruption, 'Deep Politics', etc.

    Thanks very much guys!
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    Corruption, 'Deep Politics', etc.

    @william_kent I was wondering if you happen to still have any literature or material on your Grateful Dead/Courtney Love/Hank Harrison/Bohemian Grove idea that you mentioned losing in the resolutions thread? I've been getting into the Dead lately and want to dive into their story, their status...
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    Films you've seen recently and would recommend WITH reservations

    That's one I would recommend with reservations, but those reservations pretty much just boil down to pacing issues and the finale is on par with the best parts of s1 and successfully differentiates itself. The back half makes the mess of the first half (and most of Taylor Kitsch's character)...
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    Dune

    Hello, thank you! I've not seen either actually, as I was so satisfied with the first novel and Messiah as novels that I was frankly uninterested in adaptations, and based on hearing nothing particularly good about the Lynch film, especially his own denunciation, and little about the miniseries...
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    Dune

    Nice to see other lovers of the novel disappointed by Part 2. Not that I was expecting some psychedelic Enter the Void tour-de-force nonsense but I definitely think Villeneuve is missing something his idols had in spades. "Personality" may be too simplistic a term but so many of the design...
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