Tag: Titanic

• Jack would NOT have fit on the door in ‘Titanic’

  I’m sorry, but it’s true. I say that in spite of the apparently real investigation into this internet-famous debate by National Geographic and James Cameron himself: All the evidence you need is from the scene itself: When Jack tries to get on the door, it almost capsizes. Putting two grown, soaking-wet adults on it amidst […]

  February 15, 2023

  Film

  film, movies, Titanic

• An Iceberg to Remember

  One of my favorite books of all time is Walter Lord’s A Night to Remember, a retelling of the Titanic’s demise. I finally got around to watching Roy Ward Baker’s 1958 film adaptation of the book on a beautiful Criterion Blu-ray from the library, and it got me wondering: what about the iceberg? In both […]

  October 1, 2020

  Books, Film, History

  A Night to Remember, icebergs, The Rewatchables, Titanic

• What practical lessons have you learned from movies?

  A while back I started keeping a list of things I’ve learned from movies. Not grand philosophical lessons about life and love and all that, but practical, everyday stuff. Stuff I’ve integrated into my life specifically because I saw it in a movie. When I saw this tweet recently along the same lines, I thought […]

  April 3, 2020

  Film

  Children of Men, film, lists, movies, Ratatouille, Titanic, Zombieland

• Here And LeClaire

  I spent part of the weekend in Iowa with my dad. We made a pilgrimage of sorts to Antique Archaeology in LeClaire, the home base of the antique-scavengers featured in the show American Pickers. Didn’t end up selling anything, but it was cool to see their place, which, as my dad reports, is much smaller than […]

  March 27, 2011

  America, History

  Buffalo Bill, Davenport, distilling, Iowa, LeClaire, Lone Star, Mississippi River, Titanic, vodka