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Deborah Weiss's avatar

Thank you for this list of Academy award nominated movies and where to find them. Over the years I've been spoiled by living close to theaters which focused on showing these gems in theaters. I so wish we had a movie theater and education center like JACOB BURNS of Pleasantville, NY. That would certainly expand the appeal of Glens Falls. Meantime, I'lI lower the lights at home and watch your recommendations uninterrupted.

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Ken Tingley's avatar

It has been refreshing being in a city where I could watch the Oscar shorts in one sitting. One of my favorite things.

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Deborah Weiss's avatar

Mine too!

Are there any theaters showing these films within a day round trip of Glens Falls? Albany maybe? Burlington maybe?

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Ken Tingley's avatar

Spectrum 8 in Albany has the shorts. It is an old theater but it has a big parking lot and is safe.

https://www.btmcinemas.com/our-locations/g0297-scene-one-spectrum-8-theatres/

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Deborah Weiss's avatar

Thank you, Ken!

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KC Scott's avatar

What a great list of films. People are always recommending good things to watch, series or movies. But we haven't watched anything in years. We cancelled Netflix 4 years ago when we realized we hadn't used it in over a year. Not a conscious effort, just don't get around to it. I'm grateful that we can be active outside, hiking and walking dogs mainly, gardening in the warmer months, because it helps to wear us out so we're able to sleep through the madness that is bombarding us every day. Books are what keeps us immersed in another, safer, world, and enable us to filter the news and not have it scroll through our brain at all hours (although that does happen occasionally!). And reading newsletters such as yours, Rex, and Will keep us in touch with our community and a local perspective. Thanks for putting your thoughts out there for us.

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Ken Tingley's avatar

As much of a film family as I am, you sign like my kind of people - books, outdoor activities that leave you too busy for television. We all should be like that.

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David Nathan's avatar

Re old fashioned, conventional movies, geezers like me have to love the Dylan movie, tho I appreciated the Joan Baez and Pete Seeger roles as much as the hard to figure Dylan. Two others among the nominees stand out for me, the currently very relevant Conclave, with its tension and great acting, and Anora, a new age, somewhat humorous flick with superb acting as well.

(Assuming you can handle Anora’s acrobatic sex.)

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Ken Tingley's avatar

I want to go back and watch Conclave again. There was a lot happening there.

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mike parwana's avatar

I didn’t love Anora, but Stephen Phelps of South Glens Falls was production designer and his brother Chris also worked on sets. So that is pretty cool!

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Ken Tingley's avatar

I didn't realize that. It was certainly different, but not a best picture nominee.

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Sara Idleman's avatar

Thank you for the list. It was the slight distraction I needed. Yesterday's news has me reeling and it invaded my dreams. This post is a keeper. Again, thanks.

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Ken Tingley's avatar

Make sure to do your homework.

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Tanya Goldstein's avatar

James Carville read my mind. The Republicans have to burn everything down to the ground before we can rise like a phoenix from the ashes. And they assuredly will, because Trump breaks everything he touches. I didn’t buy anything yesterday except a beer from my local craft brewery, how about you?

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Ken Tingley's avatar

I did go to the movies and bought a water.

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Richard's avatar

... did. not. spend. a. cent ...

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Maggie's avatar

Just in case we all didnt get the full message from the bullying and berating in the Oval Office yesterday - this finishes it!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-staffers-load-boxes-onto-air-force-one-containing-materials-taken-from-mar-a-lago/vi-AA1A1y6l?ocid=BHEA000&cvid=b65bcb89dfad4238a5ec377cbee32a7c&ei=48

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Carol L. Clark's avatar

Regarding Mr. Dixon's letter, somehow, the Republican Party and some Democrats have either avoided or forgotten the entire subject of ethics and fair dealing. Trump has given them full permission to do so. Perhaps we should send them a dictionary, but, given the inability of today's supreme court (sic) and how they instinctively read only the words they like, a dictionary may not do. The supreme (cough) have an entire Constitution with its Articles and Amendments and nearly 250 years of history and precedent and that simply hasn't been enough.

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Michael Muller's avatar

This morning, as I put on my shoes ( Made in China), reviewed my email on my cell phone ( Made in China), ate an apple ( Grown in Canada) and learned that yesterday Trump was overbearing, obnoxious, threatening and contemptuous towards Ukrainian President Zelinski as reported in an NPR news story that I listened to on my iPad (Made in China).....I thought a great deal about Mr. Carville’s advice for the Democrats to “roll over and play dead”!

Trump’s unilateral edict that he will impose extraordinary tariffs on imported goods, his ignorance of International protocols, his concerted efforts to dissemble the structure of our domestic government are quite obvious. And Mr. Carville suggests “ just wait and see....this will all come crashing down on Trump and the Republicans!”

Isn’t that just like waiting for your house to burn down and then criticizing your obviously dysfunctional fire department for its failure to be prepared to fight fires?

I suggest an alternative....something that might be considered right out of the Trump and MAGA playbook. The voters should start sending emails to each of our elected Congresspersons and Senators requiring that at the end of each week our Congresspersons and Senators send to their constituents a list of five things that they accomplished over the past week as our elected representatives in the House and in the Senate. The voters can then, as the next election cycle approaches, be prepared to ask specific questions and require honest answers before casting our votes.

I think rolling over and playing dead is exactly what Trump hopes to achieve and Mr. Carville’s suggestion that in the end this can work ....is bunk!

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Maggie's avatar

Oh Michael - that beats out rolling over and playing dead!!

Sounds like sort of a labor intensive project and certainly one that many people who already do post cards could take on easily!!!

I am aware that the current completely useless Republican Party & the doofuses at the top will certainly screw this country and after yesterdays idiocy, our allies completely over, but really, having our "public servants" just sit back, collect their salary (regardless of those of us who might LOSE our SS etc & "wait till its over"? No - that just doesnt do it for me.

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Ken Tingley's avatar

The counter argument is if you show up to the fire without any water, that's doesn't save the house either.

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W Tucker's avatar

Hello Michael your suggestion might work, although why would the elected Congresspersons and Senators respond?

The following was a question asked of both Trump and Clinton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJlnxbO5N2g “Trump and Clinton are asked to say something nice about each other”

If you listen to Trumps response to the question, Trump looks to fight, and Roy Cohn showed him how to do it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cohn.

I don’t think Carville is saying “rolling over and playing dead”. It is a different approach to the noise of conflict which appears to be one of Donald Trump’s most useful tools. If the noise of conflict is removed, Donald Trump may find himself on the defensive side of the coin instead of side he is most comfortable with, initiating the attack.

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Paula Collins's avatar

James Carville's remark was one of the most irresponsible statements a pundit could have ever said. Carville has the elder's privilege of millions earned. He won't live to see the agony of having to rebuild. I wonder if he would feel the same way if neighbors under age 50 saw him in his house on fire, shrugged, and made no attempt salvage either him or his dwelling. Carville's statement, and the arrogance behind it, cast sand in the eyes of the very people about whom we question, "Why aren't the young people politically engaged?" https://open.substack.com/pub/paulaforny/p/forget-the-eggsjust-give-me-back?utm_source=app-post-stats-page&r=c6j2y&utm_medium=ios

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Ken Tingley's avatar

Of course your premise is that this can be stopped. Republicans hold ALL the cards. I'm not so sure it can be stopped short of rioting in the streets.

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Paula Collins's avatar

Hakeem Jeffries has expressed similar misgivings. (Search for his remarks, "what leverage do we have?")

So glad that this was not the prevailing sentiment in the 1770s, nor in France in the 1790s. I choose my words here very carefully. But I'm also mindful of Jefferson's words, "And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."

We are responsible for this country. If that responsibility involves the now-fired members of the military, marching in the streets, or standing on barricades, then so be it.

If we are shy about those concepts, or reticent to do more than vote every 2-4 years in the hopes of getting it right, then each of us age 50 and up should look our younger Americans in the eye, apologize, and provide an account for why we took their future and handed it over to Vladimir Putin.

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Kevin Robbins's avatar

I’m not much for watching movies. I don’t have the patience to sit for 2 hours. With Gene Hackman’s death I’d been thinking about the French Connection, tho. Maybe done in two courses.

Not sure how I feel about Carville’s rope a dope strategy. Since Dems control nothing it’s maybe a moot point. I saw yesterday that there are big cuts at NOAA that follows and warns of hurricanes, among other things. That, combined with the promise to get rid of FEMA might leave hurricane-prone states in a bad way at some point in the next 4 years.

Katrina didn’t do Dubya any good. We may see if Teflon Don does better. In any case, the utter incompetence will out.

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Ken Tingley's avatar

Trying to find Incident - It's 15 to 20 minutes long. The documentary shorts are really journalism in living color.

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Joan's avatar

If Democrats choose to follow James Carville’s advice we will be far worse off by the time they finally step up to “save the day” — and what we allow to break may not even be save-able. NOW is the time for everyone with a conscience to stand up and call out the lies and abuses. Cuts to Medicaid and SNAP to fund tax cuts for billionaires? Did tRump voters realize they were voting for that?? Call out the corruption that’s now happening right out in the open!

Biden and Harris both imagined that tRump would show himself to be so clearly unfit that voters would repudiate him — how did that work out? If now we simply stand back and let him swing his wrecking ball, we will all find ourselves in the wreckage.

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Richard's avatar

...re a movie on the list above. A man who lived in Hudson Falls and who was warden at Comstock held that position, previously, at Sing Sing. / re Bob Dylan. Infamously, he was featured twice in front page articles of the New York Times Arts section; once for using as "his" lyrics in songs on an album[or two], unattributed lines from poems of Henry Timrod, a Civil War era southern poet; and another time for paintings of "his" discovered to have been based on, again, unattributed photographs of at least three photographers. There are articles on the subject easily accessible on line. [Why so few seem disturbed by this is, itself, disturbing.] One article notes, "None of this would be controversial if Dylan had credited his source material." [Really?] / Also subject to charges of plagiarism is, surprisingly, Doris Kearns Goodwin, noted historian and author, and- was there not a speech given by MelaniaTrump w/striking similarities to a Michelle Obama speech...et cetera, et cetera, etc.

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bernice mennis's avatar

Thank you...a good film opens heart and mind....there are three here that I know I want to see. ll would probably be censored for being dei--which is why we need the arts.

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frank cappabianca's avatar

Ken, just to let you know I sent emails to all the Qby town board members regarding the Republican ethics issue early last week, saying up front I'm a GF resident & not Qby but still concerned about the situation. Haven't heard a peep back from anyone (yet).

But boy, after I read Dan Alexander's flawed, in my view, opinion piece "Common Sense vs. Nonsense" in a recent issue of THE SUN COMMUNITY NEWS, did I ever receive a very public response from him following a letter I wrote to the paper in response!!

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Edward Low's avatar

1) always impressed with what a bon vivant you are... a man for all seasons.. from sports to anarchy in the Whitehouse

2) I get this isn't what your real job was exactly... but (as a broken record (kind of falls into those clichés that people of our age uses) I repeat) You have made it clear you have had time to notice the crimes of republicans (and I am sure the same would be true if it were democrats committing crimes)

So I will ask... why doesn't the media (from back in the day to now) cover these people... these crimes *

It is abundantanly clear, that even though you are retired.. you are able to find time to track down the lies of pos_tfnKKK, hmpy trmPEDOfile, of the republicans, report on a Ukranian Woman's story....

AND

enjoy Mardi Gras, help with the Chapam Gallery, watch a lot of movies, see basketball games... on and on and on.....

* while the media will say they are smaller...blah blah, they also share stories with each other so in essence, their staff could be considered larger and vast (er?)

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Cecily Bailey's avatar

I wonder if Carville still thinks that after last Friday's Gaslit (is that a word?) meeting in the Oval Office?

Love your list of movies. thanks much!

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