Movies

Lonesome | Rear Window | The Cameraman

Lonesome (1928)

3/419 on the NYC list. A part-talkie about a very lonely gal and a very lonely guy hitting it off at Coney Island and then dramatically losing track of each other.

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Rear Window

A rewatch. I last watched this in 2013 or 2014. A less inwardly tormenting Hitchcock, with our guy L.B. Jeffries convinced he's seen a murder in the apartment across the courtyard.

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The Cameraman

4/419 on the NYC list. Firstly, I didn't know one of Buster Keaton's things was maintaining an absolutely stoic expression while engaged in all of these shenanigans, and it did make his schticks funnier. Secondly, I found myself thinking if that Keaton's character does not know where Grand Central is he does not deserve a job as a newsreel cameraman.

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