Watch List Weekly Recap 1/7/22
Sea-eagles and schlock nostalgia and Peter Bogdanovich and Ben Affleck, character actor -- a busy week, and that's not even counting Sidney Poitier
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Tuesday i returned from a week off with tales of chasing the rare Steller’s Sea-Eagle up and down the Eastern seaboard. No, it’s not about movies, but you sign up for this newsletter, you’re going to get birds every once in a while.
Thursday was a back-flip into a movie of my (and maybe your) early adolescence, 1969’s “If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium” — good fun if not great art.
Some thoughts on the passing of Peter Bogdanovich, a director who had it all and lost it all and then got a little of it back.
Finally, a review of “The Tender Bar” (Amazon Prime) and a meditation on the merits of a movie star who’s maybe best when he’s not the star of the movie.
I’m working on a Sidney Poitier appreciation — as befits one of the most important actors in the history of the medium — and will get it out when I can. Fingers are a little typed out right now.
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