cyberhobo

Author: cyberhobo

  • Movie: The Motorcycle Diaries

    To me this is a retelling of the fable of Prince Gautama’s early forays from the castle – young men venture out into the world for the first time and encounter human suffering there. The scenes on the road are irresistable to me. The earth is a character, and the they become lost in it…

  • Pray It’s The Last

    Something that rarely happens to me occurred today – I thought of a joke. I know it’s not a joke to be proud of, but it makes me marvel at my own odd sense of humor. Why do I laugh at stuff like this? I have no idea. Unfortunately this a computer-geek joke as well,…

  • Movie: Monster (Il Mostro)

    This movie makes you think that just following Roberto Benigni around on the street would be exhaustingly funny. We had to take a break halfway through this farcical tale of mistaken identity and sexual perversion, but I sure wouldn’t want to miss the closing scene…

  • Movie: The Third Man

    I thought I’d had enough film noir for a while, but wanted to get this one last classic in. Well worth it. Best of all, the sound track is mostly guitar instead of orchestra. The reparte may not be as snappy as a Dashiell Hammet story, but there’s also less melodrama here, which makes for…

  • Movie: The French Connection

    We seem to be catching on to controversial 70’s movies lately. This one would be good just as a drug bust movie, but it’s excellent as a scathing attack on the war on drugs. Like Dog Day Afternoon was revealing of Al Pacino’s early career, here Gene Hackman shines 10 years after his debut. It’s…

  • Movie: Mrs. Brown

    For me this movie was a good history lesson about Queen Victoria and the labor and tory parties, with some really good performances.

  • Did I Say Spring?

    The Crabapple blossoms look a little different this morning – they’re now all the white variety. I’m curious what things will look like in another week.

  • Movie: Black Robe

    A bitter tale of the devastating effects French Catholic missionaries had on the Algonquin and Huron tribes along the St. Lawrence river. Beautiful scenery is the only respite in a spiteful, if accurate, story.

  • Name the flowering tree

    These blossoming trees have brightened the streets of Fort Collins lately, like a message that Spring has officially opened. I had no idea what they were, but there were clearly two varieties: white and rose. They intrigued me enough to tote the camera to work with me and identify them. I usually have little interest…

  • Movie: Dog Day Afternoon

    I had no idea what I was in for with this movie. It starts with a true story that took place in Brooklyn in 1972, and proceeds to hit you from all directions with the oddities of human behavior. Economic hardship, the influence of mass media, gay marriage, mob psychology, hostage psychology, transgender operations, geographic…