Author Topic: "A Single Man" (beware spoilers)  (Read 129270 times)

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Re: "A Single Man"
« Reply #50 on: January 08, 2010, 03:26:19 pm »
So, Eric, John, Elle, did any of you get to see this movie yet?? Any comments??
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Re: "A Single Man"
« Reply #51 on: January 08, 2010, 07:59:55 pm »

Meryl--at long last!--shall we meet tomorrow, Saturday, at 3:00pm the latest  (and I'll get tickets earlier)
for the 3:30pm showing of A Single Man?  8)

Then The Bourgeois Pig (on 7th Street between 1st and Avenue A) for a (60-ish and  seasonal!) steaming
cauldron of cheese fondue??  ::)






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Re: "A Single Man"
« Reply #52 on: January 08, 2010, 09:08:12 pm »
Meryl--at long last!--shall we meet tomorrow, Saturday, at 3:00pm the latest  (and I'll get tickets earlier)
for the 3:30pm showing of A Single Man8)

Then The Bourgeois Pig (on 7th Street between 1st and Avenue A) for a (60-ish and  seasonal!) steaming
cauldron of cheese fondue??  ::)

You bet!  I'm in for both "Man" and "Pig".  See you at 3:00.  8)
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Re: "A Single Man"
« Reply #53 on: January 08, 2010, 10:04:08 pm »


You bet!  I'm in for both "Man" and "Pig".  See you at 3:00.  8)


Ok!!!!

A Single and Dapper Pig
(by Tom Ford)
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Re: "A Single Man"
« Reply #54 on: January 08, 2010, 11:09:44 pm »

A Single and Dapper Pig
(by Tom Ford)

OMG how appropriate is that?!
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Re: "A Single Man"
« Reply #55 on: January 08, 2010, 11:52:30 pm »
I feel so contemporary, having seen the movie before some of the New Yorkers! Woo-hoo! It will be here in Maine and I will be seeing it again.

Lee, I think some of your parallels are a bit of a reach but...to each his/her own. Whatever works for you.

Paul, glad you found the link to the screenplay helpful. That is the sort of thing I do well...ferret out sources.

Imaginarium has opened in Maine. Hannah and I will see it this weekend. I expect to be emotional.

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Re: "A Single Man"
« Reply #56 on: January 09, 2010, 08:29:35 am »
John,

Thank you for the pics. As always I feel as if I have been to New York through them.
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Re: "A Single Man"
« Reply #57 on: January 09, 2010, 03:45:04 pm »
So, Eric, John, Elle, did any of you get to see this movie yet?? Any comments??

I am hoping to see it either Sunday or Monday.

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Re: "A Single Man"
« Reply #58 on: January 09, 2010, 10:31:22 pm »

John,
Thank you for the pics. As always I feel as if I have been to New York through them.


You're welcome, Sel!

So--

A most elegant theater for a most elegant film!

"Located next to luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman and across from The Plaza Hotel and Central Park, this posh, single-screen theater
screens independent and international films. Opened in 1948, the Paris Theatre is the longest continually operating art cinema in the United States."









Much will be said about the film--later.
But, in the meanwhile--

--Geo and Charley 'do fondue' at 'The Pig' (how 60's is that)!

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Re: "A Single Man"
« Reply #59 on: January 10, 2010, 12:09:21 am »
Wonderful evening, John!  Thanks for the pics, too, although I've looked better. Must have been the lighting. :P   ;)  ;D

I loved the film and Colin Firth's performance.  So elegiacal and poignant, and it really brought back the sixties to me.  The music is really nice, too.  Tom Ford did a great job!  8)
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