Lucas has excellent taste in classic movies, and I’m sure my boyfriend is going to make me watch them all. (This is the boyfriend who asked recently if it was possible to have cable but only pay for Turner Classic Movies.)
Some of us, however, prefer our movies

In color
In English
Audible (meaning with audio tracks from the […]

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Fire up those Netflix queues. Lucas Joaquin recommends films to watch during the recession.

“L’Argent” (1983, Robert Bresson)
A teenage boy in Paris passes off a counterfeit bill to make some extra money, and we follow the repercussions, eventually leading to a man’s incarceration, and a family’s murder. Robert Bresson, cinematic genius and Jansenist Catholic, delivers […]

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Fire up those Netflix queues. Lucas Joaquin recommends films to watch during the recession.

“Thieve’s Highway” (1949, Jules Dassin)
Nick Garcos comes home from war to find that his father has been crippled by a crooked produce distributor in San Francisco. He sets out to take revenge, but gets wrapped up in a plan to drive […]

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Fire up those Netflix queues. Lucas Joaquin recommends films to watch during the recession.

“Wages of Fear” (1952, Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Yves Montand is a drifter who’s come to a dreary oil town in Venezuela with hopes of striking it rich. He and his friends spend most of their time in a dingy town bar drinking and […]

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Fire up those Netflix queues. Lucas Joaquin recommends films to watch during the recession.

“They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?” (1969, Sidney Pollack)
All of the action in this film takes place during a dance marathon on the Santa Monica Pier in 1932. Contestants dance for as long as they possibly can, with a ten minute break […]

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Fire up those Netflix queues. Lucas Joaquin recommends films to watch during the recession.

Recession and the movies. As Daily Variety will tell you, hard times equals good box office business. That’s because Hollywood assumes that during a recession you, the moviegoing public, crave escape from your misery, and that the easiest place to […]

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Come on down to Barometer, a jewelry and object boutique in Chinatown, and relive the days when dinosaurs ruled the earth!
Jenna and Anna are putting on a fun arts & crafts show that celebrate the myth and mystique of the dino. Also, recession-friendly free drinks and food courtesy of Whole Foods, as well as an […]

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Image: Garfieldminusgarfield
Recipe courtesy of Carl. We ate it during the thrilling conclusion of Project Runway. Everyone was very happy.
A WHOLOTTALASAGNA (VEGETARIAN)

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To get you warmed up for months of staying home with piles of recession movies, listen to resident 801a hero Andy Rooney’s take on watching movies at home versus at the theater. Netflix! Preposterous! Can’t rent the popcorn…

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In weeks forthcoming, Lucas Joaquin, film expert and friend of 801a will share his encyclopedic knowledge of film with us through the lens of the recession. What should we watch that will help us to contextualize and cope with the recession? Look out for his guest blogging, TK.

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