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  1. Don Mankowski

    Carl Dreyer's "Vampyr" - best version?

    I am hopeful!
  2. Don Mankowski

    Review your favorite Movie Theater

    No one has yet mentioned the Clark Theater in downtown Chicago? They showed older films and changed the bill on a daily basis. In those pre-VCR days of the 1970s, I caught up with many a film I'd missed due to being too young. So did Siskel and Ebert, I hear.
  3. Don Mankowski

    Biological classic: The Andromeda Strain.

    The film has many nice details, some that only a scientist or a student might appreciate. The way the color fringing indicates that the've cut a slice of the sample that's sufficiently thin. The blocky graph of pH versus Andromeda growth that one guy improvises (complete with typing error). The...
  4. Don Mankowski

    Biological classic: The Andromeda Strain.

    I was already a biologist and a computer pro (well, a dedicated student) back in 1969, and the film was exceptionally up-to-date upon its release, and for quite a few years thereafter. Yes, those monitor-workstations look pretty clunky now, but they were still in use circa 1980, 1985 in a lot...
  5. Don Mankowski

    Can I get suggestions for a Chiller-Shock Theater Fest?

    If you want to watch them in something like the original order , I have an article at horror-wood.com "Rise of the Monster Boomers." The board software wouldn't allow me to post the link.
  6. Don Mankowski

    Carl Dreyer's "Vampyr" - best version?

    I just picked up a DVD from Siren Visual Entertainment, one that pairs VAMPYR with NOSFERATU (1922). Having seen the same old version of VAMPYR so many times in the past, I was resigned to another go, but this appears to be a differemt cut! It has a different title sequence, lacks those boxy...
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