That product support dude... Just look what they've taken from us!
David A. Conrad, Ph.D.
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Author of AKIRA KUROSAWA AND MODERN JAPAN (2022) Essayist for RAN 40th anniversary Blu-ray (2025) New book on postwar Asia in progress
Part-time stay-at-home dad, adjunct, historian, old movie fan
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It's never been so easy to understand how it happened that most Germans decided they'd rather not have elections again than take the risk of leftists winning elections. But it is surreal to see Americans making that same choice, with no hesitation.
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I'm a Bond-head, seen most of them half a dozen times, but I haven't ever rewatched this movie. One and done. I'm glad to hear that's been the right call!
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He reminds me so much of a younger Musk. A creature who people believed was "extending the light of human consciousness" even though every time he talked it was like your stupidest college acquaintance who got in as a legacy admit and spent the entire time belligerently drunk.
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What I want to know is what the people supporting her at the Capitol right now can do about it. Can they form a wall around her and walk her past the cops, out of the building? Would she want to try that? It really is time to move from "protest" to action.
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I knew Lee would rock his HIGH AND LOW remake. It's the best Kurosawa remake, but it's probably even better as a furtherance of what Lee has been working on for decades. I don't have time to dive deep, with a semester looming, but I have the sketch of a thought. www.facebook.com/DavidConradA...
David A. Conrad, Author
I think Spike Lee nailed it. Of course, anyone who doubts Spike Lee probably would have doubted Kurosawa at points in his career, too. What Lee has given us with HIGHEST 2 LOWEST, his remake of...
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Note that this is not a movie recommendation - recommending Flaherty is shaky ground, unless you're just exploring doc history for its own sake.
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Things like learning about the island, traveling to the reef and going underwater (some of Flaherty's best footage), meeting a pua, encountering mysterious coconuts, etc.
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I know there was a guy saying that Disney stole MOANA from him, but honestly, it's underrated how much Disney stole from the 1926 Flaherty docudrama MOANA (in which Moana is male). Minus the mythological stuff, the order of events in that one is quite familiar. Happy 99th to that doc canon fixture!
Moana (1926)
YouTube video by Free Culturist
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It's so bad.
