Cinema Cycle - National Geographic: Miniature Miracle, The Computer Chip

National Geographic

Friday, 03.20.2020

Media

Laserdisc

Attendees

Bruce Johnson

Notes

Miniature Miracle: The Computer Chip

1. Alexander Scourby could narrate the phone book and I'd listen
2. Computers, pre internet
3. Early early pioneers, historical
4. Many of these people aren't around to see what their work became.
5. Totally missed the internet and it's quantifying multiplier
6. Focus on biomedical potential, not Surveillance / A.I.
7. Ni eve, they ONLY saw the good.

Cinema Cycle Notes

• 14 miles
• 57  minutes
• Odometer =  11806.8 miles  

Cinema Cycle - The World At War / Volume 5 / Pincers

The World At War - Pincers

Thursday, 03.11.2020

Media

DVD

Attendees

Bruce Johnson

Notes

1. Seen this many times, but always a great documentary
2. The series focuses on the tragedy of war, not the glory. 
3. The best laid plans…...

Cinema Cycle Notes

• 9.5 miles
• 52 minutes
• Odometer =  11803.3 miles  

Cinema Cycle - Sex and the City / Season 2 - Episode 4 (They Shoot Single People Don't They?)

Sex and the City

Thursday, 03.9.2020

Media

DVD

Attendees

Bruce Johnson

Season 2 / Episode4

They shoot single people don't they?

1. Good looking wealthy women and the pitfalls of faking relationships / orgasams
2. If I had a 12 year old son, I would require him to watch this series.  So he knew what to expect in his future. 
3. A somber episode, with Cynthia Nixon as a quasi-porn star, but it is funny. 

Cinema Cycle Notes

• 5.6 miles
• 25 minutes
• Odometer =  11798.4 miles  

Cinema Cycle - Horowitz in Moscow

Horowitz in Moscow 

Thursday, 03.6.2020

Media

Laserdisc

Attendees

Bruce Johnson

Notes

1. Apparently, Vlad only plays a Steinway
2. Vlad...Moscow rock star
3. Very, very somber opening, you could hear a fart in this music hall.
4. Horowitz, eyes closed, all the notes from memory.  EGAD. He is in his 70s here.
5. At about 30 minutes he really starts tinkling those ivories 
6. Vlad needs a bathroom break, Audience says NO WAY.
7. Based on pans of the audience,  uni-brows were pretty common on women in the old Soviet Union.
8. In the interview sections Vlad is pretty hard to understand.
9. I can't believe that anyone can have that much dexterity in their fingers at the age of 70.

Cinema Cycle Notes

• 20.7 miles
• 100  minutes
• Odometer =  11,813.5 miles  

Cinema Cycle - Lena's Holiday

Lena's Holiday

Thursday, 03.4.2020

Media

DVD

Attendees

Bruce Johnson

Notes

1. Odd opening, thrown into a foreign situation.
2. Apparently star vehicle for the lead actress, who I have never heard of.
3. So far ignorant foreigner lost in 1990s L.A.
4. Emphasis on the fall of the Berlin Wall and the liberation of East Germany.
5. It appears that Lena wears less and less clothes as the film progresses.
6. This movie has flow issues, follow on scenes are not plausible. 
7. Chis Lemmon is a dead ringer for his father.
8. Less clothes is right!
9. Sort of like Dorothy from East Berlin, visits Ozziewood.
10. There is good production value here.
11. I could use a bit less stock footage with music overlay.  
12. Definite fantasy, no one in LA lives like this

Cinema Cycle Notes

• 19.8 miles
• 100 minutes
• Odometer =  11,812.6 miles  

Cinema Cycle - Scenes from a Mall

Scenes from a Mall

Thursday, 02.28.2020

Media

BluRay

Attendees

Bruce Johnson

Notes

1. Life in 1990 Los Angeles
2. Woody and Bette dialogue can be hard to take.
3. In the time before cell phones, every phone has a cord!
4. Malls don't look like this anymore.
5. So far I am underwhelmed.  To much fast Woody dialogue and personal issues. 
6. Not movie escapism, more like movie therapy.
7. Not enjoying this.  Tedious / not funny.
8. Woody takes profound films by foreign directors and puts an American slant on them. 
9. It's a sort of plagiarism. (Scenes from a Marriage)
10. Sex scene in the theater...Really?
11. The best thing about this film is the Mime.
12. All the franchise mall stores that are no longer in business.
13. Fabio in the elevator!
14. Ideal movie for folks going through a divorce.

Cinema Cycle Notes

• 17.4 miles
• 89 minutes
• Odometer =  11792.8 miles