I often find it appropriate to quote Captain Renault from Casablanca (I am shocked there is gambling going on in here), especially connected to politics (a politician accusing another politician of playing politics evokes a hearty, cynical, laugh from me). That's my favorite Bogart film, and Bacall isn't in it. I like to watch it, but not too often.
When I worked at Hewlett Woodmere Library, I could just walk over to its hefty film collection (born of its generous budget), and peruse it; choices were many and myriad: new films, older films, documentaries and collections and television series (aside from its DVD collection, HWPL was building a Blu Ray collection, as well). It was easy to choose something. I don't work there anymore, and now need to choose from QBPL's holdings. I've adjusted.
Last Saturday I found a few films I liked. Today I returned them all, except for The Big Sleep.
My Architect I had seen before, yet wanted to see it again. It's Nathaniel Kahn's paean to his father, Louis Kahn. It's an interesting film, and Kahn senior designed Four Freedoms Park, a memorial to my third favorite US President (Washington, Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt).
As I walked to the Mitchell-Linden branch I noticed that the DVD had come from the Queensboro Hill branch. 60-05 is a strange address, for those of us who know Queens (or, as it turned out, those who think we know our fair borough). Again I learned a lesson.
I didn't watch The Last Waltz. I had seen Scorsese act in Guilty by Suspicion, and reserved the film. I remember loving it, but its time has passed, for me.
Now, Ant-Man I did watch, and I enjoyed it. Curiously, I liked its sequel better, yet I quite enjoyed this one. Recently I watched two others of this ilk, films based on comic book superhero figures (Black Panther and Green Lantern), and didn't like either, turning both off rather quickly. I found the latter inane, and the former fatuous. But the insect I really liked.
The two books are quite interesting. Knife Fights I found indirectly; I read John Nagl's op-ed in the New York Times (Jim Mattis and I fought together. No one called him Mad Dog) on 23 December 2018, and decided to read his book. I found it absorbing, if somewhat too detailed in places.
In his book, Nagl referred in passing to the other book, A time for gifts (subtitled On foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube). It is a travelogue, and I love travel books. Yet I have never read a book quite like this one. Rather amazingly, I found it as an ebook, and I utterly and thoroughly enjoyed reading it.
The two books are quite interesting. Knife Fights I found indirectly; I read John Nagl's op-ed in the New York Times (Jim Mattis and I fought together. No one called him Mad Dog) on 23 December 2018, and decided to read his book. I found it absorbing, if somewhat too detailed in places.
In his book, Nagl referred in passing to the other book, A time for gifts (subtitled On foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube). It is a travelogue, and I love travel books. Yet I have never read a book quite like this one. Rather amazingly, I found it as an ebook, and I utterly and thoroughly enjoyed reading it.
Libraries are great resources.