The Birthday Thread

Mike Bulgakov

G.O.A.T.
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sureshs

Bionic Poster
I was wondering about this myself. He disappeared without warning. He has had a few incidents in the past where his temper got the best of him and he was suspended, but if anything happened recently the posts were deleted. I hope everything's going well for him.
I PMed him but no response
 

Mike Bulgakov

G.O.A.T.
Happy birthday, Irving Penn! (June 16, 1917 – October 7, 2009)

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Willem de Kooning, Miles Davis, Ingmar Bergman

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Alfred Hitchcock, Audrey Hepburn, Martin Scorsese

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Pablo Picasso, Christy Turlington, Philip Seymour Hoffman
 

Mike Bulgakov

G.O.A.T.
P.T. Anderson has spun around the sun 53 times.

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From Kubrick to Tarantino: Paul Thomas Anderson made a list of his 65 favourite films​

Swapnil Dhruv Bose
14TH JUN 2021

Paul Thomas Anderson’s favourite films:​

  • Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa – 1949)
  • The Complete Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles – 1955)
  • Popeye (Robert Altman – 1980)
  • A Prarie Home Companion (Robert Altman – 2006)
  • Network (Sidney Lumet – 1976)
  • Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding – 1947)
  • North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock – 1959)
  • Ordinary People (Robert Redford – 1980)
  • Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur – 1947)
  • The Complete Jacques Tati
  • Repo Man (Alex Cox – 1984)
  • Bad Day at Black Rock (John Sturges – 1955)
  • Bad Santa (Terry Zwigoff – 2003)
  • Baraka (Ron Fricke – 1993)
  • The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler – 1946)
  • The Black Stallion (Carroll Ballard – 1979)
  • Bob Le Flameur (Jean-Pierre Melville – 1982)
  • Breaking Away (Peter Yates – 1979)
  • Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul – 2006)
  • Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul – 2004)
  • You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan – 2000)
  • White Heat (Raoul Walsh – 1949)
  • Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul – 2010)
  • Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick – 1957)
  • Secret Honor (Robert Altman – 1984)
  • Cabin Fever (Eli Roth – 2003)
  • Carefree (Mark Sandrich – 1938)
  • Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier – 2000)
  • The Dark Corner (Henry Hathaway – 1946)
  • Dark Star (John Carpenter – 1974)
  • Nashville (Robert Altman – 1975)
  • This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner – 1984)
  • Homicide (David Mamet – 1991)
  • The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme – 1991)
  • The Beatles: Help! (Richard Lester – 1965)
  • The Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles – 1948)
  • The Killing (Stanley Kubrick – 1956)
  • Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick – 1960)
  • McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman – 1971)
  • Meet the Parents (Jay Roach – 2000)
  • Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme – 1980)
  • Mystic River (Clint Eastwood – 2003)
  • Destination Tokyo (Delmer Daves – 1943)
  • Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick – 1964)
  • The Earrings of Madame de… (Max Ophüls – 1953)
  • Sid & Nancy (Alex Cox – 1986)
  • Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe – 2000)
  • East of Eden (Elia Kazan – 1955)
  • Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick – 1999)
  • The Gay Divorcee (Mark Sandrich – 1934)
  • Giant (George Stevens – 1956)
  • Grindhouse (Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez – 2007)
  • Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino – 1994)
  • Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese – 1980)
  • Ted (Seth MacFarlane – 2012)
  • The Ballad of Jack and Rose (Rebecca Miller – 2005)
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin – 2012)
  • The Big Lebowski (The Coen Brothers – 1998)
  • Sweet and Lowdown (Woody Allen – 1999)
  • Speed (Jan de Bont – 1994)
  • GoodFellas (Martin Scorsese – 1990)
  • I’m Still Here (Casey Affleck – 2010)
  • Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola – 2003)
  • Moonlight (Barry Jenkins – 2016)
  • A Quiet Place (John Krasinski – 2018)
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/paul-thomas-anderson-favourite-films-list-65/
 

Mike Bulgakov

G.O.A.T.
Happy birthday, Barbara Loden! She studied at the Actor’s Studio (Stanislavski, method acting) and eventually married the co-founder, Elia Kazan, who worked with her in “Splendor in the Grass”, as well as with fellow method actors Marlon Brando in “On the Waterfront”, and James Dean in “East of Eden.”


She wrote, directed, and starred in the excellent, very low-budget “Wanda,” which was shot on 16mm and has become increasingly acclaimed over the years (Sight & Sound top 50 GOAT films in 2022 poll). She died too young a decade after making “Wanda.”


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Mike Bulgakov

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Happy 75th, Vesuvio's!

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I see that stately @Sentinel, dressed in his usual copper-green, is loitering just down the avenue, so hopefully he can drop by.

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After stopping by Vesuvio’s, @Sentinel, you might want to cross Jack Kerouac Alley and visit City Lights Books.

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Molinari’s is just two blocks further, and they have a great eggplant parmigiano sandwich!

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Mike Bulgakov

G.O.A.T.
Happy birthday, Ingmar Bergman!

"Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls."
--Ingmar Bergman

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Sentinel

Bionic Poster
Happy 75th, Vesuvio's!

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I see that stately @Sentinel, dressed in his usual copper-green, is loitering just down the avenue, so hopefully he can drop by.

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After stopping by Vesuvio’s, @Sentinel, you might want to cross Jack Kerouac Alley and visit City Lights Books.

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Molinari’s is just two blocks further, and they have a great eggplant parmigiano sandwich!

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Seems to be SFO, where i was in 1996 for a brief period.
 

Mike Bulgakov

G.O.A.T.
Seems to be SFO, where i was in 1996 for a brief period.
I was referring to the Sentinel Building on Columbus, two blocks down the street from City Lights Books and Vesuvio. I’m never sure if you are the Sentinel Building, or if it is a monument built to honor you. San Francisco has a Sentinel Building, but no @sureshs Building.

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Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas founded American Zoetrope at the end of the 1960s to break free from Hollywood studios, and Coppola bought the Sentinel Building in the early 1970s and moved the film production company there. Coppola worked on films like “The Godfather,” “The Conversation,” and “Apocalypse Now” at his production company in the Sentinel Building. I’m not sure about the exact history, but it became just Zoetrope and I think Francis handed it over to Sofia and Roman. Francis (or family) still own the building, Francis still has offices and production spaces (editing) there. Cafe Zoetrope is on the ground floor, and Francis still comes by for his spaces upstairs.

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Mike Bulgakov

G.O.A.T.
What? Steve Jones was a British marathoner in the 80s.
If you want to create an alias of maximal anonymity in England, Steve Jones works, but it’s so generic as to almost arouse suspicion. In Sweden, Lars Johansson or Anna Andersson could be many, many individuals in the database. Do most parents in India name their babies Suresh(s) (gender fluid) these days?
 

Mike Bulgakov

G.O.A.T.
Cheers to Gloria Grahame!

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Celebrate with:

"In a Lonely Place" -- I think it's an excellent through flawed film with Bogart's strongest performance, but many disagree. The film resonates with me for some reason.



"The Bad and the Beautiful" -- Schlockily entertaining over-the-top melodrama.



"The Big Heat" -- Fritz Lang noir

 
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