What are you reading?

[Douglas Meltzer]

Cliff,

Thank you for that link!

[Lincoln Thorn]

Currently enjoying this fun Bradbury tales I didn't know existed until recently!

[Cliff Perriam]

Absolutely brilliant, it's NOT the usual nonsense that gets written about horror films.

[Dominique De Bast]

I forgot that thread...

[Cliff Perriam]

Well, the man on the cover has got a Bolex H. I wonder if it's an H9?

[Dominique De Bast]

Well, the man on the cover has got a Bolex H. I wonder if it's an H9?

NO, Cliff, it's a H 16. However the book does speak about 9.5, as well. For those interested, some pictures of a Bolex H 9 : https://www.antiq-photo.com/collecti...e-lezard-vert/

[Douglas Meltzer]

I'm making a list of all the noirs I have to catch up on. This could keep me busy for a while.

[Ed Gordon]

I'm making a list of all the noirs I have to catch up on. This could keep me busy for a while.

A good place to see film noir is https://www.moviestvnetwork.com/noir-to-die-for

They show many restored versions of films; not the old beat up prints you find on late nite TV

Every Thursday, the brightest stars shine in black and white. From crooked cons to dangerous dames, watch your back because it’s... Noir To Die For.

[Steve Klare]

I recently read a Bill Bryson book: One Summer America, 1927, which I thought was really good. It's this tiny little sliver of History in that one summer about what went on and the implications for the coming years.

As a Long Islander, it was sometimes even a little too close to home! -for example, that summer, a woman named Ruth Snyder conspired with her lover to murder her husband for the insurance. They both got caught and got the electric chair for their efforts. What made this case even more notorious was the fact that a reporter secretly photographed her execution and it wound up on the front page of a major newspaper the next day. The murder happened within 3 miles from where I grew up. Similarly, and also that summer, and also within those 3 miles, Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field headed for Paris. Meanwhile, a conference of international banks were meeting maybe 5 miles from where I'm sitting right now, and the monetary policies they agreed on are often considered to have worsened the stock market crash and Depression that followed two years later.

So it was quite a summer here, and other than the Lindbergh part of it, I'm kind of glad I missed it!

[Douglas Meltzer]

Ed,

Thank you for the Movies! link. TCM also has Noir Alley on Saturdays at midnight.

[Lincoln Thorn]

Glad to see people still using this thread!

I'm currently reading SPHERE by Michael Crichton.

[Douglas Meltzer]

Lincoln,

Good threads never die, they just lay low for a bit! Maybe it's time for an updated Theatre Outings topic!

[Lincoln Thorn]

Wise words, Doug!

I don't see anything wrong with resurrecting old topics, it worked for Dr. Frankenstein!

And to stay on topic, Michael Crichton has some great books and this has been among my favorites.

[Ed Gordon]

Here is a link to a post I made a few years ago. It is an article titled The Most Dangerous Hobby in the World: Film Collecting in the Digital Age

https://8mmforum.film-tech.com/vbb/f...-age#post31573

The book mentioned in that post, A Thousand Cuts - The bizarre underground world of collectors and dealers who saved the movies is also a worthwhile read. You are left with the impression that movie collectors are prone turning the art of film curation into hoarding.

The Most Dangerous Hobby in the World Film Collecting in the Digital Age VQR Online.pdf

[Steve Klare]

I have A "Thousand Cuts" as a hardcover, and I've vowed to reread it every couple of years just to try to keep some kind of perspective.

-don't want to become that guy who had trouble climbing his stairs because of all the cans of film on the steps...at least until the day the film avalanche came!

I try to buy less, maybe savor them a little.