 is brilliant as Veronica, the lover left behind, and I love the character’s arc in the movie. It also features great editing techniques and camera movements.
Can’t think of any specific movie that’s similar to this, but I highly recommend it!
The film opens with a tracking shot that follows the title character as she looks through her jewelry drawer, her closet full of fur coats, and the rest of her mansion (part of which is evidenced in the screenshot above). Right away the audience is taken in with the film’s grandeur, both aesthetically and technically. The set design and costumes are to die for, there’s a lot of detail in them. The three main actors, Danielle Darrieux, Charles Boyer, and Vittorio De Sica all give good performances too.
Recommended if you enjoy: The Rules of the Game, Letter from an Unknown Woman, and All That Heaven Allows.
This movie is proof that Rock Hudson could work well in a dramatic role, and not just as a romantic leading man. I’d say this movie is a good one to watch in October too, though it’s not quite horror, it’s a perfect paranoia film like Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The atmosphere remains quite creepy throughout, thanks to Jerry Goldsmith’s score and James Wong Howe’s cinematography. And the opening credits by Saul Bass give a sure sign for disturbing things to come.
Recommended if you enjoy: The Manchurian Candidate, another film directed by John Frankenheimer.
Sorry I’m a little late in checking in, Keisha! Cool about Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but there are three other entries I’m interested to hear your thoughts on…three I really like, and which are all part of my DVD collection: Planet of the Apes, Deliverance, and Freaks.
Planet of the Apes: Despite knowing how the movie ended, I was still pretty disturbed! And I also knew about the famous movie quote (“Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!”) but not the context, so I really loved that that was the first thing that Heston’s character said to the apes. I had fun watching it.
Deliverance: Another disturbing movie for me! I wasn’t too familiar with the movie beforehand (aside from the creepy hillbillies), so I found a lot of it shocking. A good thriller/adventure movie!
Freaks: Loved this! Really interesting to get a bit of an insight on the lives of circus performers. The scene towards the end with Hans and his friends go after Cleopatra was actually pretty scary, especially after seeing what they did to her! I do wish the movie had ended there though instead of seeing Hans and Frieda reunite.
Cool Keisha, glad you liked them! And if I remember correctly, I think I’d read somewhere where the ‘Hans and Frieda’ ending to ‘Freaks’ was tacked-on after the fact. I too wish the film had ended with the previous scene!This little machine has a learning curve. I watched YouTube videos before starting. It does take practice to get it to work well. I was like the other people when I first started making i-cord, not finding the right size yarn. (crochet string was easiest to practice) But after using a heavier weight I have had much better luck with light-weight yarns. The device can crank out yards of i-cord in one evening. I still keep a sharp eye out for mistakes but I am usually adjusting the weight so it does not hit the floor. Take something heavier and dangle it from the weighted clip supplied in the kit. I used my camera because that was the first thing available. It is not ideal because the strap is too long but you will be able to find something around the house. The i-cord will twirl as it grows so keep your ball of yarn away or they will become twisted together and slow your progress. I have found that using my left hand to twist the handle works best for me because I have a free hand to straighten the yarn and use a small crochet hook to catch missed loops. A few missed loops will not spoil the end result. Do not go crazy turning the crank because you may become discouraged. I have also introduced crochet string along with the yarn to produce multicolor results. The yarn does have to be light-weight to work correctly. Right now I have made fun figures for the grandchildren: a monkey and twisty characters. I use a yarn needle to sew them together. I would love to teach the grand children to turn the crank when they get older. This product is not for young children but an older child will have fun.
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If you need further help or information please visit our Online Help Center"Encase" you missed it, I did a fairly detailed bit of storytelling as to how I qualified for the Pro Tour at the Salt Lake City, UT #RPTQ on [MichaelJ] Monday. You can read the first part of "Just Encase" here.
I'll guess that since my own tournament report, many other discussions, and mentions on this site from Conley Woods, Adam Yurchik, and Jeff Zandi already that you have some idea about what this deck is about. So rather than Reiterate all stuff that everyone has already said, I'd rather just 1) address what I feel the deck is and isn't, 2) post the updated deck list for this weekend, and 3) offer my sincere thanks and props to everyone who helped me get back on the Pro Tour (or even just made me comfortable while away from home while a few time zones away).
There are a few misconceptions around the deck that I think are worth talking about... but that's okay, this is a pretty unusual combination of cards!
The deck isn't a one-trick (or one-matchup) pony.
When I started working on the deck, I wasn't actually thinking of Esper at all, let alone being an anti-Esper deck. I just liked Bryan Raymer's Mono-Blue deck from States and, along with Patrick, worked to increase the power level of a collection of cards that started off emotionally resonant with me.
Collectively we transformed Raymer's shell -- a Tap-Out Blue deck with some Dragons and an Inevitable top end -- into a more powerful overall strategy by adding more, different, kinds of Dragons. Prior to Dragons of Tarkir, Planeswalkers like Ugin, the Spirit Dragon or Garruk, Primal Hunter were the most powerful threats you could play in Standard. Today Regents, Stormbreaths, and of course Dragonlords are the most powerful things you can do; and Dragonlords in particular are more powerful than Planeswalkers in general, answering them instantaneously with haste or triggered abilities, and at value.
So essentially we have a suped up Tap-Out Blue deck, that I think, is doing the most powerful things you can do in the current format, regardless of matchup. Does it have a great Esper matchup? Sure! But it also explores deckbuilding space that no other deck has yet charted, and is poised to explore even further and incorporate even more dragons soon!
One of the things that might be confusing to some readers is the concept of a Tap-Out Blue deck. There's four distinct families of Control decks: Tap-Out Control, Draw-Go, Lock, and Combo-Control. For the most part control decks are blue, and we would consider Non-Blue Control decks or flavors of The Rock or PT Junk as different kinds of midrange decks, even if we use names like "Abzan Control".
Tap-Out Control decks can sometimes be mistaken for Draw-Go decks because they also play a lot of cheap Counterspells (you know, just like Draw-Go decks). But the use of Counterspells in Tap-Out decks is simply to prevent the opponent from gaining too much momentum in the first few turns of the game (rather than trying to lock out the end game with an overwhelming hand size, like Draw-Go). The reason? On turn five or six the Tap-Out deck will (at least against a less powerful deck) just "Tap-Out" for a threat that is more powerful than any card in the opponent's deck. To a degree this is a gamble, but depending on how well the opponent has created some momentum in the first few turns... It might not be at all risky.
Back when we originally "Tapped-Out" using Keiga, the Tide Star we were under no illusions that Keiga couldn't be killed... Simply that it would be costly for the opposition to do so. We would get about three cards in exchange (which most opponents were loathe to cede)... and we were probably planning to play another awesome threat to replace Keiga anyway.
Counterspells are interesting in a deck like Mono-Blue Five-Color Dragons. They don't have the goal of locking out the game with any permanence of inevitability. Rather, they are used to manage time both before and after we attempt to take our big turn, and to some degree are interchangeable with other fast interactive cards. We can use Nullify, Silumgar's Scorn, or Voyage's End fungibly to manage the opponent's successful mana consumption