good movie night

[Uri Guttman]

On 05/22/2015 12:13 AM, David H. Adler via yapc wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 04:34:17AM -0400, Uri Guttman via yapc wrote:
>> hi all,
>>
>> i am sure dave adler will be running some form of bad movie night. maybe one
>> about a shark getting zapped by FOO rays and becoming the president of cuba!
>> :)
> I'll be bringing movies, as I'm sure will drforr. Any chance of making
> this an official part of the conference again? I like that because it
> means I don't have to find a room for it. :-)
that would be good but i can't do anything. maybe the powers that be can 
get a movie room?

>> but if you recall, i selected a pretty well received double feature in
>> austin, the president's analyst and the court jester. we won't be getting
>> theater but we may be able to get a room with a projector (well, we can
>> ask). my suggestion is a pair of noir like flicks. the first is a great
>> british spy story set in london in the 60's and starring michael caine
>> called the ipcress file. this is what james bond should have been and
>> without the gadgets. the other is a modern classic that deserves to be seen
>> multiple tiles, chinatown. it has jack nicholson at his peak alongside the
>> dazzling fay dunaway as the femme fatale. 1000 whose line points to anyone
>> that can actually explain the evil plot run by john huston!
>>
>> any interest in these two? of course i would have to ask dave to
>> benevolently acquire the dvd's for these (i am sure he must have chinatown
>> already! :).
> Oddly, I own neither of these. I might get them before the conference.
> If that doesn't happen, though, I will certainly have other "good" films
> on hand. I have a decent sized hard drive,and I'm not afraid to use it!
>
well, i would be up for watching either or both given time, energy and 
your bringing them on your disk!

uri