Posts by Geoff Lealand
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I am with Ian: be not in haste. We need both Islander and Sacha here, to brighten our online world. I have a sense that PAS is in a bit of a trough at the moment, so it needs all the contributions it can gather.
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Capture: Cinema Scoped, in reply to Rob Stowell,
Would a $100 contribution help? Let me know how I can send it to you.
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Ian Dalziel: you are a top-ace bloke! Turns up with a folder full of old film magazines for me.
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For Ian and other Christchurch folk: To my great surprise--and considerable pleasure--I have learnt that the Academy/Metro Cinemas have re-opened in Christchurch as the Academy Gold Cinemas at 363 Colombo Street.
I will hasten along there tomorrow afternoon, to check them out.
I am at Canterbury University at 2pm tomorrow (Lecture Room A5) to do a presentation for Cinema Studies/Humanities --- 'In Love With Shirley Temple: Cultural Memory, Hollywood ... and Christchurch'. If anyone local is interested in this, I am sure there will be spare seats.
Also interviewing one more elderly lady in the morning--another contestant in the 1935 Shirley Temple 'double' competition in Christchurch in 1935. Coincidentally, she lives in Shirley. This research is so much fun! -
Good to see you and Jose in the Waikato yesterday,
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Thanks, Ian. I will follow that up after we get home to NZ (waiting for the plane at SFO, after being stranded in Detroit for 9 hours and thus missing last night's flight).
In the meantime, here is a pic of a rather sad looking cinema in Woodville, a small town in NW Ohio (est. 1836). Taken last week. -
Robbie (again)
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Robbie Robertson's double guitar from The Last Waltz
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In anticipation of our return home tomorrow (Detroit/SF/Auckland) I am posting a couple of shots from our visit to the Rock and Roll (why not ‘Rock ’n’ Roll?) Hall of Fame in Cleveland yesterday i.e.
The Ramones, Chuck Berry
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Hard News: Satire's shooting star, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
, I watched a most enthralling long-length doco 'Kind-hearted Woman' on PBS (6 hours over two nights) a couple of weeks ago. A complex story, filmed over several years, about a Native American single mother seeking legal redress, the custody of her children, and a new life. I have suggested that MTS acquire it,
