Steven Rubio's Online Life: hard eight (paul thomas anderson, 1996)
WEB13 hours ago — This is the fifth film I have watched in "My Letterboxd Season Challenge 2024-25", a "33-week-long community challenge" where "you must watch one previously unseen film that fits the criteria of the theme for the week." This is the 10th annual challenge, and my sixth time participating (previous ...
Steven Rubio's Online Life
WEBSep 22, 2024 — The Mother and the Whore has achieved universal critical acclaim over the years. It was #94 on the most recent Sight and Sound poll (between Parasite and The Shining) and it's #105 on the They Shoot Pictures, Don't They list of the top 1000 films of all time. Way back when I and a couple of friends did a long, Fave Fifty Films thread on Facebook, Jeff Pike had it as #4 on his list.
October 2024 - Steven Rubio's Online Life
WEB2 days ago — Megan Park's feature debut as a writer-director was 2021's The Fallout, a very good film about which I wrote: Park's directing debut is confident ... there are no signs of first-timers disease. She tells the story as she wants, gets the performances she wants, creates a believable world of high ...
October 2021 - Steven Rubio's Online Life
WEBOct 29, 2021 — Must be time for a final post from Spain, although we don't leave here until Saturday. But there's a pre-written, post-dated Music Friday tomorrow, and we'll be travelling on the weekend, so I likely won't have a chance to write again until we get home.
Steven Rubio's Online Life: update - begonias.typepad.com
WEBAug 23, 2021 — This is what my year has been like. Sometime during 2020 I got a note from the doctor saying it was time for a colonoscopy. Yuck, but what the heck.
Steven Rubio's Online Life: music friday: 2001
WEB1 day ago — The Gossip, "Hott Date". Song came out in 2000, but I saw them in February of 2001: Coldplay, "Yellow". Another cheat from 2000, this one turned up on Now That's What I Call Music! 6, released in 2001. Video is yet another cheat, but a delightful one. In 2019, actress Jodie Whittaker recorded the ...
Steven Rubio's Online Life: graduation - begonias.typepad.com
WEBBeen away for a few days, attending my niece's high-school graduation in Washington. Here is a picture I took through a window in their house (the window explains the random streaks).
Steven Rubio's Online Life: revisiting the godfathers again
WEBAug 24, 2023 — It's not that I have anything new to say after all these years. But last xmas my wife got me the latest box set, which this time is a 4k remaster with the latest revision to the third film, and I finally got around to watching them.
Revisiting the 9s - Steven Rubio's Online Life
WEBApr 4, 2024 — [This is the twenty-first in a series that will probably be VERY intermittent, if I remember to post at all. I've long known that while I have given my share of 10-out-of-10 ratings for movies over the years, in almost every case, those movies are fairly old.
Steven Rubio's Online Life: euphoria - begonias.typepad.com
WEBEarlier this month, Google News paired two headlines in my feed. The first, from The Guardian, read "Coming down: why has shock teen show Euphoria become such a drag?"The second, from Variety, said "'Euphoria' Season 2 Viewership Is Up Nearly 100% From Season 1".You might see this as evidence that audiences are getting dumber, but since I don't agree with the Guardian's take, I'm inclined to ...