#Huston Park Wilderness

[valhikes]

Medicine Bow National Forest, Wyoming.

There was a bit more rain than I expected for the 4th day hiking back from the state line on the CDT, but I found a window in the weather for a great diversion up Red Mountain. Also, there was some great wildlife.

[cinenthusiast]

films watched in november 2023

289. Se7en (1995, Fincher) (not sure what viewing / 35mm, Coolidge Corner Theatre, Fincher A-Z) 290. The Maltese Falcon (1941, Huston) (4th viewing / 4K, WB) 291. Touch of Evil (1958, Welles) (4th or 5th viewing / Blu-ray, Universal) 292. The Bling Ring (2013, Coppola) (3rd viewing / Netflix) 293. Double Indemnity (1944, Wilder) (2nd viewing / Criterion Blu-Ray) 294. Body Heat (1981, Kasdan) (2nd viewing / Blu-ray) 295. They Came Together (2014, Wain) (1st viewing / Blu-ray) 296. The Big Parade (1925, Vidor) (2nd viewing / 35mm (LOC print), Somerville Theatre, Silents, Please! w/ silent film accompanist Jeff Rapsis) 297. Touchez Pas au Grisbi (1954, Becker) (1st viewing / Blu-ray) 298. Rififi (1955, Dassin) (2nd viewing / Criterion Blu-ray) 299. Auntie Mame (1958, DaCosta) (not sure what viewing / 35mm, Brattle Theatre, Warner Bros. in the Fifties) 300. Relentless (1989, Lustig) (1st viewing / Amazon rental) 301. Memento (2001, Nolan) (2nd viewing / Blu-ray) 302. Lost Highway (1997, Lynch) (2nd viewing / Criterion 4K) 303. High and Low (1963, Kurosawa) (2nd viewing / 35mm, Coolidge Corner Theatre, Noirvember) 304. Nightmare Alley (1947, Goulding) (2nd viewing / Criterion Blu-ray) 305. Afire (2023, Petzold) (1st viewing / Criterion Channel) 306. The Lost Patrol (1934, Ford) (1st viewing / Amazon rental) 307. Home for the Holidays (1995, Foster) (1st viewing / Amazon rental) 308. Kiss Me Deadly (1955, Aldrich) (2nd viewing / Criterion Blu-ray) 309. The Unsuspected (1947, Curtiz) (1st viewing / DL) 310. On the Run (1988, Cheung) (1st viewing / DL) 311. Sin City (2005, Rodriguez) (2nd viewing / MAX) 312. The Black Dahlia (2006, De Palma) (2nd viewing / Amazon rental) 313. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (1987, Hughes) (not sure what viewing / Blu-ray) 314. Tommy Boy (1995, Segal) (1st viewing / MAX) 315. Decision to Leave (2022, Park) (1st viewing / MUBI) 316. I Am Chris Farley (2015, Murray/Hodge) (1st viewing / Amazon rental) 317. Corridor of Mirrors (1948, Young) (1st viewing / Criterion Channel) 318. The Killer (2023, Fincher) (1st viewing / Netflix) 319. The Emperor’s New Groove (2000, Dindal) (not sure what viewing / Disney+) 320. Soapdish (1991, Hoffman) (not sure what viewing / MAX) 321. Father of the Bride (1991, Shyer) (not sure what viewing / Disney+)

[theinternetmoviedataband]

My 100 best movies of all time

As a start, this is a top 100 I made back in 2018.

To make things tasty, the first rule I followed was "no more than one movie per director". The second one was "don't get mad trying to order that top 100, just write it down".

I told myself a lot of lies about the fact that this top could change any day but I'm too lazy to make a new one every day. So here I am, stuck with this one :)

BEST MOVIES OF ALL TIME ACCORDING TO ME (with no particular order)

Kiss Me Deadly (1955, Robert Aldrich)

The Professionals (1966, Richard Brooks)

Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto (1970, Elio Petri)

Queimada (1969, Gillo Pontecorvo)

C'eravamo tanto amati (1974, Ettore Scola)

Reservoir dogs (1992, Quentin Tarantino)

The Killing (1956, Stanley Kubrick)

Notorious (1946, Alfred Hitchcock)

The Asphalt Jungle (1950, John Huston)

Les enfants du paradis (1946, Marcel Carné)

Kiss Me Stupid (1964, Billy Wilder)

Sullivan's Travels (1941, Preston Sturges)

The Shop Around The Corner (1940, Ernst Lubitsch)

Rio Bravo (1959, Howard Hawks)

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962, John Ford)

The Conversation (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)

Le trou (1960, Jacques Becker)

Dead Poets Society (1989, Peter Weir)

Le salaire de la peur (1953, Henri-Georges Clouzot)

Judex (1963, Georges Franju)

The Departed (2006, Martin Scorsese)

The Prestige (2006, Christopher Nolan)

Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan)

Le cercle rouge (1970, Jean-Pierre Melville)

Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966, Sergio Leone)

Curse of the Demon (1957, Jacques Tourneur)

Singin' In The Rain (1952, Stanley Donnen - Gene Kelly)

Hero (1992, Stephen Frears)

It's a Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra)

All About Eve (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

Das indische Grabmal (1959, Fritz Lang)

Le voleur (1967, Louis Malle)

Born Yesterday (1950, George Cukor)

Ben-Hur (1959, William Wyler)

Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)

Ginger e Fred (1986, Federico Fellini)

Small Time Crooks (2000, Woody Allen)

Barton Fink (1991, Joel and Ethan Coen)

Batman returns (1992, Tim Burton)

I due superpiedi quasi piatti (1977, Enzo Barboni)

The Goonies (1985, Richard Donner)

Carlito's Way (1993, Brian De Palma)

French Connection (1971, William Friedkin)

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957, Jack Arnold)

Gremlins 2 (1990, Joe Dante)

The Bad and the Beautiful (1952, Vincente Minnelli)

Warlock (1959, Edward Dmytryk)

The Unknown (1927, Tod Browning)

Johnny Got His Gun (1971, Dalton Trumbo)

El ángel exterminador (1962, Luis Buñuel)

Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire (1972, Yves Robert)

Down by Law (1986, Jim Jarmusch)

Jurassic Park (1993, Steven Spielberg)

Ladri di biciclette (1948, Vittorio De Sica)

Man without a Star (1955, King Vidor)

Peter Ibbetson (1935, Henry Hathaway)

City Lights (1931, Charlie Chaplin)

Il mio nome è Nessuno (1973, Tonino Valerii)

Excalibur (1981, John Boorman)

Dance of the Vampires (1967, Roman Polanski)

Au hasard Balthazar (1966, Robert Bresson)

Be Kind Rewind (2008, Michel Gondry)

The Fly (1986, David Cronenberg)

Mononoke hime (1997, Hayao Miyazaki)

Les Douze Travaux d'Asterix (1976, René Goscinny - Albert Uderzo)

Touch Of Evil (1958, Orson Welles)

Star Wars (1977, George Lucas)

The Empire Strikes Back (1980, Irvin Kershner)

Groundhog Day (1993, Harold Ramis)

The Front (1976, Martin Ritt)

Big (1988, Penny Marshall)

El secreto de sus ojos (2009, Juan José Campanella)

Amores perros (2000, Alejandro González Iñárritu)

El espinazo del diablo (2001, Guillermo del Toro)

The Man in the White Suit (1951, Alexander Mackendrick)

Village of the Damned (1960, Wolf Rilla)

The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

Ms. 45 (1981, Abel Ferrara)

The Gunfighter (1951, Henry King)

Copland (1997, James Mangold)

Terminator 2 (1991, James Cameron)

Starship Troopers (1997, Paul Verhoeven)

Le Schpountz (1938, Marcel Pagnol)

12 Monkeys (1995, Terry Gilliam)

Man on the Moon (1999, Milos Forman)

Imitation of Life (1959, Douglas Sirk)

The Most Dangerous Game (1932, Ernest B. Schoedsack and Irving Pichel)

A Perfect World (1993, Clint Eastwood)

Dances with Wolves (1990, Kevin Costner)

Gentleman Jim (1942, Raoul Walsh)

Good Will Hunting (1997, Gus Van Sant)

Elephant Man (1980, David Lynch)

Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz)

The Man with the Golden Arm (1955, Otto Preminger)

The Killers (1946, Robert Siodmak)

Punch-Drunk Love (2002, Paul Thomas Anderson)

L'Atalante (1934, Jean Vigo)

La classe américaine (1993, Michel Hazanavicius and Dominique Mézerette)

Back to the Future (1985, Robert Zemeckis)

Un singe en hiver (1962, Henri Verneuil)

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Fashion is an instrument through which you show you belong to a group.

- John Weitz

John Weitz was a man for all seasons. Handsome, intelligent, and debonair. He was a novelist, historian, businessman, spy, and above all a renowned mens and ladies fashion designer. James Bond was fiction but he was the real deal.

Born in Berlin in 1923, Hans Werner Weitz was the son of a prosperous clothing manufacturer and German first world war hero, who had won the Iron Cross in the infantry. The family was living well when Christopher Isherwood visited. But they were Jewish, quick to understand what was about to happen, and, in the early 1930s, moved to London, where the young Weitz went to well known private school, St Paul's in London. At St Paul’s he said it was normal to be caned if he didn’t wear morning clothes to class, so he always did with lapels rolled properly. “On weekends we wore blazers…correctly…with the collar up and with a scarf and with brown suede shoes, which were very new then….but never, of course, after six,” he once reminisced.

He was an apt pupil and Oxbridge seemed to be a seamless next stage. However he lasted only a year studying at Oxford University.

Instead he headed off to Paris to begin an apprenticeship with the women's tailor, Captain Edward Molyneaux. In 1938, at the age of 18, Weitz was falsely arrested as an enemy agent while working in the London office of the Paris fashion house Molyneux.

His father was already in America and in 1939, and when France was overuun at the outbreak of the war, Weitz could see he had to get out of Europe. After a tortuous trip through Shanghai, China and later Yokohama, Japan to reach the USA.

In 1943 and now a naturalised American citizen and aged 21, John (as he was now dubbed) was recruited by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the CIA, operating in Germany until 1946. He was fluent in both French and German which came in handy in his work during the war in Europe.

He would only ever describe his work in Germany until 1946 as "sensitive," though, much later, his publisher John Fairchild told the New York Times that Weitz "loved all that romantic part of his past. He was a perfect gentleman."  What is known about his OSS work was that he was part of a 1944 mission in support of the plan to assassinate Adolf Hitler  formulated by German Wehrmacht officers, under the instigation of Claus von Stauffenberg. After the war, Weitz helped to liberate the Dachau concentration camp

Weitz was also a man with connections, as when he confirmed that a former OSS boss had shown him gangster blackmail photos of the longtime FBI director J Edgar Hoover with his boyfriend, Clyde Tolson. In the 1970s, Weitz's friend Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, producer of the James Bond movies, teased him about his resemblance to the character - adding that Weitz was better looking.

Weitz returned to New York in the 1940s, a young garment trader well placed to pick up on American women's new taste for informal sportswear, leather coats and men's shirts.

Weitz founded his women’s sportswear business, John Weitz Designs, in 1954, and launched men’s wear a decade later. For his women’s wear, he often tailored the best of men’s designs for the female figure, with looks such as shaped houndstooth checked coats, formal shirts with jet buttons and cuff links, and corduroy pants.

“Whatever happens in women’s pants comes from the men’s pants,” he said in 1965.

In the Sixties, Weitz began phasing out his women’s and children’s apparel business to concentrate on men’s wear. By 1977, Weitz had 18 licensees and $150 million worldwide retail sales of products bearing his label, including sunglasses, belts, umbrellas and even cigars. That year, he also reentered the licensed women’s apparel category, because, he said, he saw the need for an alternative to coordinated sportswear merchandising.

“I’m rather sick of seeing American working women treated as children with prepackaged clothes,” Weitz said at the time.

In 1964, he launched his menswear range, applying the technical standards of manufacture he had learned from his father. Unusually, in that era of obsolescence, he went for ease and wear - clothes, he said, should be worn "as if they are old and valued friends".

Of course he committed fashion faux pas here and there. This was the 1970s after all. But the previaling zeitgeist had to be understood before we laugh or wince at the designs today. None left a lasting impression quite as strong as the posthumously awarded ‘king of the ‘70s’—the leisure suit.

Once hailed by top designers John Weitz and Calvin Klein as a garment with staying power, the leisure suit was ostracized from the kingdom of en vogue before the 1970s ever came to an end. Just as it had swiftly risen to the top of fashion, it fell into the leagues of comic relief twice as fast.  Today we laugh at the cheesy styles, feminine colors, and garish plaids. But what we seem to have forgotten is that the leisure suit did more than just provide us with years of laughs. The leisure suit helped men open themselves up to new ideas in clothing. It allowed them to experiment outside of the style box they’d been locked in for too many years. If the 1970s had passed without the leisure suit, “business casual” for men might never have developed as soon as it did. The leisure suit may have been a fashion catastrophe, but it laid the groundwork for men to strut their fashion stuff for decades to come.

He was his own dream model - "healthy and scrubbed," with a flat stomach - and toured stores showing off his new line of narrow, European-cut shirts, half the width of the standard American style. His navy suit, alphabet-patterned ties and aubergine socks are commonplace now, but were then part of a new, executive self-presentation, more about putting it together than design. By 1974, he had become a household name, with annual earnings of $18m and a Coty Award, fashion's prize for innovation.

Weitz skilfully let his name generate money by itself, using witty advertisements to maintain a high public profile. A poster on the back of New York buses announced, for example, "She ditched him, John Weitz ties and all".

He also used his writing abilities to promote the business image: his book Man In Charge, The Executive's Guide To Grooming, Manners And Travel (1974), became a bestseller, but was really just part of his trade in suavity and martinis. Even his headquarters was above Madison Avenue. There were also two well received novels, Friends In High Places and The Value Of Nothing.

Two other books, however, marked out Weitz as a historian of the Nazi period. He wrote Hitler's Diplomat, a biography of the third reich foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Hitler's Banker, about the president of the Reichsbank, Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht.

He was repeatedly asked about reconciling the sale of navy blazers and researching von Ribbentrop, but he saw no clash: "Who else but a fashion designer would understand such a worldly man?" Weitz certainly comprehended the Nazis genius for the projection of personal image, and, though never a major historian, established a sufficiently solid reputation as a researcher that the president of Germany consulted him on the subject.

Meanwhile, he lived the life of his executive book, raced cars at Sebring in the 1950s, and belonged to the New York Yacht Club and the Vintage Sports Car Club. In his Park Avenue apartment, a Chinese chef cooked dinner parties for his friends - among them the novelist Tom Wolfe- and film people.

In 1964, he married the actor Susan Kohner, and their two sons, Christopher and Paul, remembered Ingmar Bergman taking them to the circus, and film directors John Huston and Billy Wilder dropping in for coffee -"just nice old men around the house every once in a while". The boys' chief complaint about their father was that he made them wear blue blazers. Both Chris and Paul would go on to forge their own Hollywood careers as the producers and directors of such movies as American Pie (1999) and About a Boy (2002).

John Weitz had a deep fondness for cats which raised eyebrows amongst his more masculine following. But Weitz was unrepentent. Weitz adored their elegance, and was quoted on them more often than on the Nazis. "Even overweight cats instinctively know the rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses," he wrote.

John Weitz died on 3 October 2002 at the grand old age of 79. He remained a dashing figure and aged well - like the American version of Gianni Agnelli. He had throughout his life the air of adventure, even danger. He was stylish fashion designer who lived up to the executive image of his clothes. It’s no wonder no one balked when he made a name for himself with the nowadays unthinkable ad slogan, “John Weitz designs for the woman who wishes her husband could afford her.” His was a life well lived.

[oldmogg]

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Murnau 1889 Charles Chaplin / Jean Cocteau / Carl Theodor Dreyer / Victor Fleming / Abel Gance / James Whale 1890 Clarence Brown / Fritz Lang 1892 Ernst Lubitsch 1893 William Dieterle 1894 Frank Borzage / John Ford / Jean Renoir / King Vidor / Josef von Sternberg 1895 Buster Keaton 1896 Julien Duvivier / Howard Hawks / Leo McCarey / Dziga Vertov / William Wellman 1897 Frank Capra / Douglas Sirk 1898 René Clair / Sergei Eisenstein / Henry Hathaway / Mitchell Leisen / Kenji Mizoguchi / Preston Sturges 1899 George Cukor / Alfred Hitchcock 1900 Luis Buñuel / Mervyn LeRoy / Robert Siodmak 1901 Robert Bresson / Vittorio De Sica 1902 Emeric Pressburger / Max Ophüls / William Wyler 1903 Vincente Minnelli / Yasujiro Ozu 1904 Delmer Daves / Terence Fisher / George Stevens / Jacques Tourneur / Edgar G. Ulmer 1905 Mikio Naruse / Michael Powell / Otto Preminger / Jean Vigo 1906 Jacques Becker / Marcel Carné / John Huston / Anthony Mann / Carol Reed / Roberto Rossellini / Luchino Visconti / Billy Wilder 1907 Henri-Georges Clouzot / Joseph H. Lewis / Jacques Tati / Fred Zinnemann 1908 Tex Avery / Edward Dmytryk / Phil Karlson / David Lean / Manoel de Oliveira 1909 Elia Kazan / Joseph Losey / Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1910 John Sturges / Akira Kurosawa 1911 Jules Dassin / Nicholas Ray 1912 Michelangelo Antonioni / Samuel Fuller / Gene Kelly / Alexander Mackendrick / Don Siegel 1913 André de Toth / Mark Robson / Frank Tashlin 1914 Mario Bava / William Castle / Robert Wise 1915 Orson Welles 1916 Budd Boetticher / Richard Fleischer / George Sidney 1917 Maya Deren / Jean-Pierre Melville 1918 Robert Aldrich / Ingmar Bergman 1920 Federico Fellini / Eric Rohmer 1921 Luis García Berlanga / Miklós Jancsó / Chris Marker / Satyajit Ray 1922 Blake Edwards / Jonas Mekas / Pier Paolo Pasolini / Arthur Penn / Alain Resnais 1923 Ousmane Sembene / Seijun Suzuki 1924 Stanley Donen / Sidney Lumet 1925 Robert Altman / Claude Lanzmann / Sam Peckinpah / Maurice Pialat 1926 Roger Corman / Shohei Imamura / Jerry Lewis / Andrzej Wajda 1927 Kenneth Anger / Ken Russell 1928 Stanley Kubrick / Jacques Rivette / Nicolas Roeg / Agnès Varda / Andy Warhol 1929 Hal Ashby / John Cassavetes / Alejandro Jodorowsky / Sergio Leone 1930 Claude Chabrol / Clint Eastwood / John Frankenheimer / Kinji Fukasaku / Jean-Luc Godard / Frederick Wiseman 1931 Jacques Demy / Mike Nichols / Ermanno Olmi 1932 Milos Forman / Monte Hellman / Louis Malle / Nagisa Oshima / Carlos Saura / Andrei Tarkovsky / François Truffaut 1933 John Boorman / Stan Brakhage / Roman Polanski / Bob Rafelson / Jean-Marie Straub 1934 Sydney Pollack 1935 Woody Allen / Theo Angelopoulos 1936 Hollis Frampton / Danièle Huillet / Ken Loach 1937 Ridley Scott 1938 Paul Verhoeven 1939 Peter Bogdanovich / Francis Ford Coppola / William Friedkin / Glauber Rocha 1940 Dario Argento / Brian De Palma / Victor Erice / Terry Gilliam / Abbas Kiarostami / George A. Romero 1941 Bernardo Bertolucci / Stephen Frears / Patricio Guzmán / Krzysztof Kieslowski / Hayao Miyazaki / Raúl Ruiz / Bertrand Tavernier 1942 Peter Greenaway / Michael Haneke / Werner Herzog / Walter Hill / Martin Scorsese 1943 Roy Andersson / David Cronenberg / Mike Leigh / Terrence Malick / Michael Mann / Alan Rudolph 1944 Charles Burnett / Jonathan Demme / George Lucas / Peter Weir 1945 Terence Davies / Rainer Werner Fassbinder / George Miller / Wim Wenders 1946 Joe Dante / Claire Denis / David Lynch / Paul Schrader / Oliver Stone / John Woo 1947 Hou Hsiao-hsien / Takeshi Kitano / Rob Reiner / Steven Spielberg / Edward Yang 1948 John Carpenter / Philippe Garrel / Errol Morris 1949 Pedro Almodóvar 1950 Chantal Akerman / John Landis / John Sayles 1951 Kathryn Bigelow / Jean-Pierre Dardenne / Abel Ferrara / Aleksandr Sokurov / Robert Zemeckis / Zhang Yimou 1952 Jacques Audiard / Gus Van Sant 1953 Jim Jarmusch 1954 James Cameron / Jane Campion / Joel Coen / Luc Dardenne / Ang Lee / Michael Moore 1955 Olivier Assayas / Béla Tarr / Johnnie To 1956 Danny Boyle / Guy Maddin / Lars von Trier / Wong Kar-wai 1957 Ethan Coen / Aki Kaurismäki / Spike Lee / Mohsen Makhmalbaf / Tsai Ming-liang 1958 Tim Burton 1959 Nuri Bilge Ceylan / Pedro Costa / Sam Raimi 1960 Leos Carax / Atom Egoyan / Hong Sang-soo / Richard Linklater / Takashi Miike / Jafar Panahi 1961 Alfonso Cuarón / Todd Haynes / Peter Jackson / Alexander Payne / Abderrahmane Sissako / Michael Winterbottom 1962 David Fincher / Hirokazu Koreeda / Kenneth Lonergan 1963 Michel Gondry / Alejandro González Iñárritu / Park Chan-wook / Steven Soderbergh / Quentin Tarantino 1964 Guillermo del Toro / Kelly Reichardt / Andrey Zvyagintsev 1965 Jonathan Glazer 1966 Lucrecia Martel 1967 Denis Villeneuve 1969 Wes Anderson / Darren Aronofsky / Noah Baumbach / Bong Joon-ho / James Gray / Spike Jonze / Steve McQueen / Lynne Ramsay 1970 Paul Thomas Anderson / Jia Zhangke / Christopher Nolan / Apichatpong Weerasethakul 1971 Sofia Coppola / Carlos Reygadas Directors listed by key production country (Country of birth, if it differs, is listed in brackets) Argentina Lucrecia Martel Australia Jane Campion (New Zealand) / George Miller Austria Michael Haneke (Germany) Belgium Chantal Akerman / Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne Brazil Glauber Rocha Canada David Cronenberg / Atom Egoyan (Egypt) / Guy Maddin / Denis Villeneuve China Jia Zhangke / Zhang Yimou Denmark Carl Theodor Dreyer / Lars von Trier Finland Aki Kaurismäki France Olivier Assayas / Jacques Audiard / Jacques Becker / Robert Bresson / Leos Carax / Marcel Carné / Claude Chabrol / René Clair / Henri-Georges Clouzot / Jean Cocteau / Jacques Demy / Claire Denis / Julien Duvivier / Abel Gance / Philippe Garrel / Jean-Luc Godard / Sacha Guitry (Russia) / Patricio Guzmán (Chile) / Claude Lanzmann / Louis Malle / Chris Marker / Georges Méliès / Jean-Pierre Melville / Max Ophüls (Germany) / Maurice Pialat / Roman Polanski / Jean Renoir / Alain Resnais / Jacques Rivette / Eric Rohmer / Raúl Ruiz (Chile) / Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet / Jacques Tati / Bertrand Tavernier / François Truffaut / Agnès Varda (Belgium) / Jean Vigo Germany / West Germany Rainer Werner Fassbinder / Werner Herzog / F.W. Murnau / G.W. Pabst (Austria-Hungary) / Wim Wenders Greece Theo Angelopoulos Hong Kong Wong Kar-wai (China) / Johnnie To / John Woo (China) Hungary Miklós Jancsó / Béla Tarr India Satyajit Ray Iran Abbas Kiarostami / Mohsen Makhmalbaf / Jafar Panahi Italy Michelangelo Antonioni / Dario Argento / Mario Bava / Bernardo Bertolucci / Vittorio De Sica / Federico Fellini / Sergio Leone / Ermanno Olmi / Pier Paolo Pasolini / Roberto Rossellini / Luchino Visconti Japan Kinji Fukasaku / Shohei Imamura / Takeshi Kitano / Hirokazu Koreeda / Akira Kurosawa / Takashi Miike / Hayao Miyazaki / Kenji Mizoguchi / Mikio Naruse / Nagisa Oshima / Yasujiro Ozu / Seijun Suzuki Mauritania Abderrahmane Sissako Mexico Luis Buñuel (Spain) / Alejandro Jodorowsky (Chile) / Carlos Reygadas New Zealand Peter Jackson Poland Krzysztof Kieslowski / Andrzej Wajda Portugal Pedro Costa / Manoel de Oliveira Russia / USSR Sergei Eisenstein (Latvia) / Aleksandr Sokurov / Andrei Tarkovsky / Dziga Vertov (Poland) / Andrey Zvyagintsev Senegal Ousmane Sembene South Korea Bong Joon-ho / Hong Sang-soo / Park Chan-wook Spain Pedro Almodóvar / Victor Erice / Luis García Berlanga / Carlos Saura Sweden Roy Andersson / Ingmar Bergman / Victor Sjöström Taiwan Hou Hsiao-hsien (China) / Tsai Ming-liang (Malaysia) / Edward Yang (China) Thailand Apichatpong Weerasethakul Turkey Nuri Bilge Ceylan UK John Boorman / Danny Boyle / Terence Davies / Terence Fisher / Stephen Frears / Jonathan Glazer / Peter Greenaway / David Lean / Mike Leigh / Ken Loach / Joseph Losey (USA) / Alexander Mackendrick (USA) / Steve McQueen / Michael Powell / Michael Powell (UK) & Emeric Pressburger (Hungary) / Lynne Ramsay / Carol Reed / Nicolas Roeg / Ken Russell / Michael Winterbottom USA (A-B) Robert Aldrich / Woody Allen / Robert Altman / Paul Thomas Anderson / Wes Anderson / Kenneth Anger / Darren Aronofsky / Hal Ashby / Tex Avery / Noah Baumbach / Kathryn Bigelow / Budd Boetticher / Peter Bogdanovich / Frank Borzage / Stan Brakhage / Clarence Brown / Tod Browning / Charles Burnett / Tim Burton USA (C-D) James Cameron (Canada) / Frank Capra (Italy) / John Carpenter / John Cassavetes / William Castle / Charles Chaplin (UK) / Joel Coen & Ethan Coen / Francis Ford Coppola / Sofia Coppola / Roger Corman / John Cromwell / Alfonso Cuarón (Mexico) / George Cukor / Michael Curtiz (Hungary) / Joe Dante / Jules Dassin / Delmer Daves / Brian De Palma / André de Toth (Hungary) / Guillermo del Toro (Mexico) / Cecil B. DeMille / Jonathan Demme / Maya Deren (Ukraine) / William Dieterle (Germany) / Edward Dmytryk (Canada) / Stanley Donen / Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly / Allan Dwan (Canada) USA (E-G) Clint Eastwood / Blake Edwards / Abel Ferrara / David Fincher / Robert Flaherty / Richard Fleischer / Victor Fleming / John Ford / Milos Forman (Czechoslovakia) / Hollis Frampton / John Frankenheimer / William Friedkin / Samuel Fuller / Terry Gilliam / Michel Gondry (France) / Alejandro González Iñárritu (Mexico) / D.W. Griffith / James Gray USA (H-L) Henry Hathaway / Howard Hawks / Todd Haynes / Monte Hellman / Walter Hill / Alfred Hitchcock (UK) / John Huston / Jim Jarmusch / Spike Jonze / Phil Karlson / Elia Kazan (Turkey) / Buster Keaton / Henry King / Stanley Kubrick / John Landis / Fritz Lang (Austria) / Ang Lee (Taiwan) / Spike Lee / Mitchell Leisen / Mervyn LeRoy / Jerry Lewis / Joseph H. Lewis / Richard Linklater / Kenneth Lonergan / Ernst Lubitsch (Germany) / George Lucas / Sidney Lumet / David Lynch USA (M-R) Terrence Malick / Joseph L. Mankiewicz / Anthony Mann / Michael Mann / Leo McCarey / Jonas Mekas (Lithuania) / Vincente Minnelli / Michael Moore / Errol Morris / Mike Nichols (Germany) / Christopher Nolan (UK) / Alexander Payne / Sam Peckinpah / Arthur Penn / Sydney Pollack / Otto Preminger (Austria-Hungary) / Sam Raimi / Bob Rafelson / Nicholas Ray / Kelly Reichardt / Rob Reiner / Mark Robson (Canada) / George A. Romero / Alan Rudolph USA (S-U) John Sayles / Paul Schrader / Martin Scorsese / Ridley Scott (UK) / George Sidney / Don Siegel / Robert Siodmak (Germany) / Douglas Sirk (Germany) / Steven Soderbergh / Steven Spielberg / George Stevens / Oliver Stone / John Sturges / Preston Sturges / Quentin Tarantino / Frank Tashlin / Jacques Tourneur (France) / Edgar G. Ulmer (Austria-Hungary) USA (V-Z) Gus Van Sant / Paul Verhoeven (Netherlands) / King Vidor / Josef von Sternberg (Austria) / Erich von Stroheim (Austria) / Raoul Walsh / Andy Warhol / Peter Weir (Australia) / Orson Welles / William Wellman / James Whale (UK) / Billy Wilder (Austria-Hungary) / Robert Wise / Frederick Wiseman / William Wyler (Germany) / Robert Zemeckis / Fred Zinnemann (Austria-HungaryJonas Mekas)

[dr-archeville]

Upcoming Retro Films at the Carolina Theatre of Durham (January-June 2019)

All movies are on Fridays (unless otherwise stated) starting at 7:00pm (or so), and cost $9.50 for both films.  Most shows also have drawings for door prizes -- submit your name & a film you’d like to see, and you could win a fridge magnet with a scene from the night’s movie (or something else!).

You can also get a season pass for $80.00, which covers the RetroClassics, RetroFantasma, RetroNoir, and RetroTreasures double features, and the new Wednesday Cinema Overdrive shows (but does not include ActionFlix, Anime-Magic, FantasticRealm, or Mother’s Day Film Series, or the Wednesday MovieDiva Film Series).

January 18th-20th (Fri-Sun): Anime-Magic Film Series -- Bruce W. Smith’s Robin Harris’ Bébé's Kids (1992), Hiroyuki Morita’s The Cat Returns (2002), Isao Takahata’s Horus, Prince of the Sun (1968), Hayao Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle (2004), Masaaki Yuasa’s Mind Game (2004), Isao Takahata’s My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999), Haya Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro (1988), Satoshi Kon’s Perfect Blue (1997), Isao Takahata’s Pom Poko (1994), Haya Miyazaki’s Porco Rosso (1992), Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away (2002), and Katsuhiro Otomo’s Steamboy (2004). 

January 23rd (Wed Cinema Overdrive): Sergio Martino’s Torso (1973)

January 25th (RetroFantasma): Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner: The Final Cut (1982) and Geoff Murphy’s The Quiet Earth (1985)

January 30th (Wed MovieDiva): Alfred E. Green’s Baby Face (1933)

February 1st (RetroClassics): Pal Michaewl Glaser’s The Running Man (1987) and Marco Brambilla’s Demolition Man (1993)

February 3rd (Sun): Nevermore Fundraiser -- $12 to see The Wackhowski’s The Matrix (1999) and Mary Harron’s American Psycho (2000)

February 8th (RetroNoir): John Huston’s The Maltese Falcon (1941) and Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity (1944)

February 13th (Wed MovieDiva ): Maerian C. Cooper’s King Kong (1933)

February 15th (RetroTreasures): Howard deutch’s John Hughes’ Pretty in Pink (1986) and Martha Coolidge’s Valley Girl (1983)

February 20th (Wed Cinema Overdrive): J. Lee Thompson’s 10 to Midnight (1983)

February 22nd-24th (Fri-Sun): FantasticRealm Film Series -- Terry Gilliam’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), David Fincher’s Fight Club (1999), Ken Kwapis’ Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird (1985), Robert Rodriguez’s From Dusk till Dawn (1996), Dean Parisot’s Galaxy Quest (1999), Ivan Reitman’s Ghostbusters (1984), Richard Donner’s The Goonies (1985), Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), Ridley Scott’s Legend: Director’s Cut (1985), Frank Oz’s Little Shop of Horrors: Director’s Cut (1986), Wolgang Petersen’s The NeverEnding Story (1984), Tim Burton’s Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985), Robert Altman’s Popeye (1980), Mel Brooks’ Spaceballs (1987), Bob Spiers’ Spice World (1997), and Ken Kwapis’ Vibes (1988).

February 27th (Wed MovieDiva): Josef von Sternberg’s Shanghai Express (1932)

March 1st (RetroFantasma): Tobe Hooper’s Lifeforce (1985) and Harry Bromley Davenport’s Xtro (1982)

March 9th-10th (Fri-Sun): Nevermore Film Festival (20th Anniversary!)

March 13th (Wed MovieDiva): Wesley Ruggles’ I’m No Angel (1933)

March 15th (RetroClassics): Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954) and Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest (1959)

March 20th (Wed Cinema Overdrive): Menahem Golan’s The Apple (1980)

March 22nd (RetroTreasures): Mike Judge’s Office Space (1999) and Trey Parker’s South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)

March 27th (Wed MovieDiva): William A. Wellman’s Night Nurse (1931)

March 29th (RetroFantasma): David Cronenberg’s The Dead Zone (1983) and Rob Reiner’s Misery (1990)

April 12th (RetroNoir): W.S. Van Dyke’s The Thin Man (1934) and W.S. Van Dyke’s Another Thin Man (1939)

April 17th (Wed Cinema Overdrive): Walter Hill’s The Driver (1978)

April 19th (RetroTreasures): Albert Magnoli’s Purple Rain (1984) and Susan Seidlman’s Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) 

April 24th (Wed MovieDiva): William A. Wellman’s Love Is a Racket (1932)

April 26th (RetroFantasma): W.D. Richter’s The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) and Mike Marvin’s The Wraith (1986) 

May 1st (Wed MovieDiva): Victor Fleming’s Red Dust (1932)

May 3rd (RetroClassics): Brian De Palma’s Body Double (1984) and Brian De Palma’s Sisters (1973)

May 10th-12th (Fri-Sun): Mother’s Day Film Series -- Jon Avnet’s Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), Wayne Wang’s The Joy Luck Club (1993), Gillian Armstrong’s Little Women (1994), Lesli Linka Glatter’s Now and Then (1995), Mike Nichols’ Postcards From the Edge (1990), Emile Ardolino’s Sister Act (1992), George Tillman Jr.’s Soul Food (1997), Herbert Ross’ Steel Magnolias (1989), James Brooks’ Terms of Endearment (1983), Ridley Scott’s Thelma & Louise (1991), Danny DeVito’s Throw Momma From The Train (1987), and Jeff Kanew’s Troop Beverly Hills (1989).

May 15th (Wed Cinema Overdrive): Sergio Corbucci’s The Great Silence (1968)

May 17th (RetroTreasures): Robert Zemeckis’ Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and Joe Pytka’s Space Jam (1996)

May 22nd ( Wed MovieDiva): Michael Curtiz’s Female (1933)

May 26th (Sun): Fan Appreciation Day -- FREE showing (and FREE medium popcorn) of Peter Lord & Nick Park’s Chicken Run (2000) and Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan (1998)

May 31st (RetroFantasma): John Irving’s Ghost Story (1981) and Ken Russelll’s Gothic (1986)

June 5th (Wed MovieDiva): Edgar Selwyn’s Skyscraper Souls (1932)

June 7th (RetroNioir): Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs (1992) and The Wachowski’s Bound (1996)

June 12th (Wed Cinema Overdrive): David Durston’s I Drink Your Blood (1971)

June 14th (RetroTreasures): John Landis’ Trading Places (1983) and John Landis’ The Blues Brothers (1980) 

June 19th (Wed MovieDiva): Marvyn LeRoy’s Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)

June 21st (RetroFantasma): John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness (1987) and John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness (1995)

June 28th-30th (Fri-Sun): ActionFlix Film Series -- Luc Beeon’s The Fifth Element (1991), Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket (1987), Guy Hamilton’s Goldfinger (1964), Iain Softley’s Hackers (1995), Mark DiSalle & David Worth’s Kickboxer (1989), John Huston’s The Man Who Would Be King (1975), Bruce Malmuth’s Nighthawks (1981), Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction (1994), Andrey Konchalovskiy’s Runaway Train (1985), and Steve Barron’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990).

So many amazing films!!!

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A Walk Among the Stars: Visiting the Hollywood Royalty of Yesteryear

Yesterday I crossed the street to visit Marilyn Monroe. The platinum-haired beauty wasn’t much of a car enthusiast—the only automobile she’s said to have ever owned was a 1956 Ford T-bird she received as a Christmas gift—but she did appear in the 1950 John Huston movie The Asphalt Jungle, the title of which I appropriated for the monthly column I’ve been writing for roughly 15 years now. So she’s in my “club.” Playboy founder Hugh Hefner lies immediately to Marilyn’s left, having long ago purchased the marble crypt so he could be assured of sleeping forever next to the star whose photograph became his magazine’s first-ever centerfold.

Hugh was a car enthusiast; he especially loved German metal. Among his wheels: a 1969 Mercedes-Benz 600 Pullman limo, a 1959 300SL roadster, and a 1972 BMW 3.0CS. Some folks even say the name of Hefner’s groundbreaking monthly was inspired by the then-newly defunct Playboy Automobile Company. (Playboy co-founder Eldon Sellers’ mother worked for the car company’s sales office in Chicago.)

Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park is tiny at just 2.5 acres and, if you didn’t know where to look, all but impossible to find. Its entrance is hidden away behind a few nondescript office towers on Los Angeles’ busy Wilshire Boulevard. But I walk there often. It’s nearby, quiet, and peaceful. Filled with flowers and handsome trees. And on a per-square-foot basis, it hosts more celebrities than the lunchtime dining room at Spago.

When I walk past the graves of Monroe, Hefner, and the many other storied names at Westwood Memorial, I can’t help but pause and try to imagine the lives they led—working under the lights, the parties, the beautiful homes, the interactions with fans and critics, stardom’s delirious highs and crushing lows. But of course I also wonder: What did this person drive? And did their cars outlive them? Are their wheels in museums or still prowling the streets today?

Near the Monroe and Hefner crypts rests crooner and actor Dean Martin. (He died on Christmas Day in 1995.) The Sinatra pal and Rat Packer owned a slew of sweet rides, including a ’76 Stutz Blackhawk and a car I once profiled in Motor Trend Classic, the avant-garde 1962 Italian-American Ghia L6.4—one of just 26 ever built. (Sinatra had one, too.) Edgy as it may have been (the L6.4 was based on the striking 1957 Chrysler Dart concept car), the Ghia wasn’t cool enough out of the box for “The King of Cool,” so Martin had famed Hollywood car customizer George Barris (of original Batmobile fame) tweak his with an extra helping of suave. A little research suggests the car was last sold in 2012 with an asking price of $199,500. The Ghia was said to be in immaculate, unrestored condition—with only 46,000 miles on the odometer. I’ll have to whisper that to Dino on my next visit.

Actress Natalie Wood is buried under a tree amid the central lawn, having mysteriously drowned off SoCal’s Catalina Island in 1981. She was just 43 years old. Two-plus decades before her death, at age 19 and already a huge star, Wood purchased a brand-new 1957 Mercedes-Benz 300SL roadster—and promptly had the car painted bright pink. A subsequent owner, not surprisingly, had it repainted back to its original Silver Blue—but the red leather interior and highly desirable Rudge wheels remain as Wood enjoyed them. The car—restored to concours condition—sold at auction in 2014 for $1.84 million, well above estimate. Whenever I stop here, Wood’s grave always seems to be adorned with flowers, but the day of my December visit, someone had also placed a small Christmas tree. It had tipped over in the wind, so I set it back up straight and tucked it in, remembering how gorgeous Wood looked when I first saw her in 1955’s Rebel Without a Cause. And how alive.

What did this person drive? And did their cars outlive them? Are their wheels in museums or still prowling the streets today?

His crypt not far from Monroe’s, actor Robert Stack, like Wood and Hefner, was also the proud owner of a Mercedes 300SL roadster. Although probably best known to contemporary audiences as the blundering Captain Rex Kramer in 1980’s Airplane! or as the host of Unsolved Mysteries, in 1960 Stack was the rising young star of ABC’s hit drama The Untouchables, where he played famed Chicago law-enforcement agent and Prohibition enforcer Eliot Ness. It’s said that every day Stack would drive down Sunset Boulevard on his way to the studio and, passing an auto showroom, stare at a bright green ’57 SL on display. Finally, his wife, Rosemarie, threw up her hands and said, in effect, “Just buy the darn thing!” Yet Stack didn’t do so, telling a MotorTrend writer in 1998, “I’d never pay that much money for a car for myself.”

Natalie Wood had her 300SL roadster painted pink.

As fate would have it, though, Stack didn’t have to spend a dime. Unbeknownst to him, Untouchables producer (and I Love Lucy star) Desi Arnaz bought the car for Stack, a gift for his having won the Best Actor Emmy for 1960. Stack owned the SL right up until his death in 2003. A decade later, the car—now painted dark red but otherwise almost completely original—sold at auction for $808,500. Sorry, Mr. Ness, but that good news merits a cold martini.

Actor Jack Lemmon, who died in 2001 at the age of 76, has the best headstone in Westwood Memorial. It reads simply: “Jack Lemmon”—then, below, “In.” Yet the two-time Oscar winner was the complete opposite of a car guy. In a 2014 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Lemmon’s son, Chris, confessed: “[My dad] was the worst friggin’ driver. He wrecked a magnificent sports car for pretty much every film he ever did. For How to Murder Your Wife, he wrecked an Aston Martin. During Tribute, he wrecked a vintage MG that he bought from Bill Bixby [late star of the 1977–82 hit CBS series The Incredible Hulk].” Lemmon’s grave lies in a prime spot, at the end of a line of four that includes actor Carroll “Archie Bunker” O’Connor, legendary writer-director and Lemmon favorite Billy “Some Like It Hot” Wilder, and actor Peter “Columbo” Falk. It’s a 12-foot walk of fame.

For me, Westwood Memorial isn’t a sad place; it’s a celebration of lives lived uniquely—and full-up. It’s also, at times, a reminder of the utter absurdity and unpredictability of existence. (The child star of the 1982 horror hit Poltergeist, Heather “They’re heeerrrre!” O’Rourke, rests in a crypt near the entrance; she was only 12 when she died of septic shock in 1988.) Thankfully, near Lemmon lies comedian and actor Rodney Dangerfield; inscribed under his name on the headstone: “THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD.” Mr. “I don’t get no respect” died in 2004, just shy of his 83rd birthday. Whether Dangerfield gave one whit about cars, I don’t know, but every time I come to Westwood Memorial, I’m uplifted by memories of the comic’s hilarious stand-up routines, many of which revolved around his wife and her lousy driving. One of my faves: “My wife took her driver’s test . . . oh, she was happy. She got 18 out of 20! Yeah, two guys jumped out of the way!”

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A Walk Among the Stars: Visiting the Hollywood Royalty of Yesteryear

Yesterday I crossed the street to visit Marilyn Monroe. The platinum-haired beauty wasn’t much of a car enthusiast—the only automobile she’s said to have ever owned was a 1956 Ford T-bird she received as a Christmas gift—but she did appear in the 1950 John Huston movie The Asphalt Jungle, the title of which I appropriated for the monthly column I’ve been writing for roughly 15 years now. So she’s in my “club.” Playboy founder Hugh Hefner lies immediately to Marilyn’s left, having long ago purchased the marble crypt so he could be assured of sleeping forever next to the star whose photograph became his magazine’s first-ever centerfold.

Hugh was a car enthusiast; he especially loved German metal. Among his wheels: a 1969 Mercedes-Benz 600 Pullman limo, a 1959 300SL roadster, and a 1972 BMW 3.0CS. Some folks even say the name of Hefner’s groundbreaking monthly was inspired by the then-newly defunct Playboy Automobile Company. (Playboy co-founder Eldon Sellers’ mother worked for the car company’s sales office in Chicago.)

Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park is tiny at just 2.5 acres and, if you didn’t know where to look, all but impossible to find. Its entrance is hidden away behind a few nondescript office towers on Los Angeles’ busy Wilshire Boulevard. But I walk there often. It’s nearby, quiet, and peaceful. Filled with flowers and handsome trees. And on a per-square-foot basis, it hosts more celebrities than the lunchtime dining room at Spago.

When I walk past the graves of Monroe, Hefner, and the many other storied names at Westwood Memorial, I can’t help but pause and try to imagine the lives they led—working under the lights, the parties, the beautiful homes, the interactions with fans and critics, stardom’s delirious highs and crushing lows. But of course I also wonder: What did this person drive? And did their cars outlive them? Are their wheels in museums or still prowling the streets today?

Near the Monroe and Hefner crypts rests crooner and actor Dean Martin. (He died on Christmas Day in 1995.) The Sinatra pal and Rat Packer owned a slew of sweet rides, including a ’76 Stutz Blackhawk and a car I once profiled in Motor Trend Classic, the avant-garde 1962 Italian-American Ghia L6.4—one of just 26 ever built. (Sinatra had one, too.) Edgy as it may have been (the L6.4 was based on the striking 1957 Chrysler Dart concept car), the Ghia wasn’t cool enough out of the box for “The King of Cool,” so Martin had famed Hollywood car customizer George Barris (of original Batmobile fame) tweak his with an extra helping of suave. A little research suggests the car was last sold in 2012 with an asking price of $199,500. The Ghia was said to be in immaculate, unrestored condition—with only 46,000 miles on the odometer. I’ll have to whisper that to Dino on my next visit.

Actress Natalie Wood is buried under a tree amid the central lawn, having mysteriously drowned off SoCal’s Catalina Island in 1981. She was just 43 years old. Two-plus decades before her death, at age 19 and already a huge star, Wood purchased a brand-new 1957 Mercedes-Benz 300SL roadster—and promptly had the car painted bright pink. A subsequent owner, not surprisingly, had it repainted back to its original Silver Blue—but the red leather interior and highly desirable Rudge wheels remain as Wood enjoyed them. The car—restored to concours condition—sold at auction in 2014 for $1.84 million, well above estimate. Whenever I stop here, Wood’s grave always seems to be adorned with flowers, but the day of my December visit, someone had also placed a small Christmas tree. It had tipped over in the wind, so I set it back up straight and tucked it in, remembering how gorgeous Wood looked when I first saw her in 1955’s Rebel Without a Cause. And how alive.

What did this person drive? And did their cars outlive them? Are their wheels in museums or still prowling the streets today?

His crypt not far from Monroe’s, actor Robert Stack, like Wood and Hefner, was also the proud owner of a Mercedes 300SL roadster. Although probably best known to contemporary audiences as the blundering Captain Rex Kramer in 1980’s Airplane! or as the host of Unsolved Mysteries, in 1960 Stack was the rising young star of ABC’s hit drama The Untouchables, where he played famed Chicago law-enforcement agent and Prohibition enforcer Eliot Ness. It’s said that every day Stack would drive down Sunset Boulevard on his way to the studio and, passing an auto showroom, stare at a bright green ’57 SL on display. Finally, his wife, Rosemarie, threw up her hands and said, in effect, “Just buy the darn thing!” Yet Stack didn’t do so, telling a MotorTrend writer in 1998, “I’d never pay that much money for a car for myself.”

Natalie Wood had her 300SL roadster painted pink.

As fate would have it, though, Stack didn’t have to spend a dime. Unbeknownst to him, Untouchables producer (and I Love Lucy star) Desi Arnaz bought the car for Stack, a gift for his having won the Best Actor Emmy for 1960. Stack owned the SL right up until his death in 2003. A decade later, the car—now painted dark red but otherwise almost completely original—sold at auction for $808,500. Sorry, Mr. Ness, but that good news merits a cold martini.

Actor Jack Lemmon, who died in 2001 at the age of 76, has the best headstone in Westwood Memorial. It reads simply: “Jack Lemmon”—then, below, “In.” Yet the two-time Oscar winner was the complete opposite of a car guy. In a 2014 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Lemmon’s son, Chris, confessed: “[My dad] was the worst friggin’ driver. He wrecked a magnificent sports car for pretty much every film he ever did. For How to Murder Your Wife, he wrecked an Aston Martin. During Tribute, he wrecked a vintage MG that he bought from Bill Bixby [late star of the 1977–82 hit CBS series The Incredible Hulk].” Lemmon’s grave lies in a prime spot, at the end of a line of four that includes actor Carroll “Archie Bunker” O’Connor, legendary writer-director and Lemmon favorite Billy “Some Like It Hot” Wilder, and actor Peter “Columbo” Falk. It’s a 12-foot walk of fame.

For me, Westwood Memorial isn’t a sad place; it’s a celebration of lives lived uniquely—and full-up. It’s also, at times, a reminder of the utter absurdity and unpredictability of existence. (The child star of the 1982 horror hit Poltergeist, Heather “They’re heeerrrre!” O’Rourke, rests in a crypt near the entrance; she was only 12 when she died of septic shock in 1988.) Thankfully, near Lemmon lies comedian and actor Rodney Dangerfield; inscribed under his name on the headstone: “THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD.” Mr. “I don’t get no respect” died in 2004, just shy of his 83rd birthday. Whether Dangerfield gave one whit about cars, I don’t know, but every time I come to Westwood Memorial, I’m uplifted by memories of the comic’s hilarious stand-up routines, many of which revolved around his wife and her lousy driving. One of my faves: “My wife took her driver’s test . . . oh, she was happy. She got 18 out of 20! Yeah, two guys jumped out of the way!”

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A Walk Among the Stars: Visiting the Hollywood Royalty of Yesteryear

Yesterday I crossed the street to visit Marilyn Monroe. The platinum-haired beauty wasn’t much of a car enthusiast—the only automobile she’s said to have ever owned was a 1956 Ford T-bird she received as a Christmas gift—but she did appear in the 1950 John Huston movie The Asphalt Jungle, the title of which I appropriated for the monthly column I’ve been writing for roughly 15 years now. So she’s in my “club.” Playboy founder Hugh Hefner lies immediately to Marilyn’s left, having long ago purchased the marble crypt so he could be assured of sleeping forever next to the star whose photograph became his magazine’s first-ever centerfold.

Hugh was a car enthusiast; he especially loved German metal. Among his wheels: a 1969 Mercedes-Benz 600 Pullman limo, a 1959 300SL roadster, and a 1972 BMW 3.0CS. Some folks even say the name of Hefner’s groundbreaking monthly was inspired by the then-newly defunct Playboy Automobile Company. (Playboy co-founder Eldon Sellers’ mother worked for the car company’s sales office in Chicago.)

Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park is tiny at just 2.5 acres and, if you didn’t know where to look, all but impossible to find. Its entrance is hidden away behind a few nondescript office towers on Los Angeles’ busy Wilshire Boulevard. But I walk there often. It’s nearby, quiet, and peaceful. Filled with flowers and handsome trees. And on a per-square-foot basis, it hosts more celebrities than the lunchtime dining room at Spago.

When I walk past the graves of Monroe, Hefner, and the many other storied names at Westwood Memorial, I can’t help but pause and try to imagine the lives they led—working under the lights, the parties, the beautiful homes, the interactions with fans and critics, stardom’s delirious highs and crushing lows. But of course I also wonder: What did this person drive? And did their cars outlive them? Are their wheels in museums or still prowling the streets today?

Near the Monroe and Hefner crypts rests crooner and actor Dean Martin. (He died on Christmas Day in 1995.) The Sinatra pal and Rat Packer owned a slew of sweet rides, including a ’76 Stutz Blackhawk and a car I once profiled in Motor Trend Classic, the avant-garde 1962 Italian-American Ghia L6.4—one of just 26 ever built. (Sinatra had one, too.) Edgy as it may have been (the L6.4 was based on the striking 1957 Chrysler Dart concept car), the Ghia wasn’t cool enough out of the box for “The King of Cool,” so Martin had famed Hollywood car customizer George Barris (of original Batmobile fame) tweak his with an extra helping of suave. A little research suggests the car was last sold in 2012 with an asking price of $199,500. The Ghia was said to be in immaculate, unrestored condition—with only 46,000 miles on the odometer. I’ll have to whisper that to Dino on my next visit.

Actress Natalie Wood is buried under a tree amid the central lawn, having mysteriously drowned off SoCal’s Catalina Island in 1981. She was just 43 years old. Two-plus decades before her death, at age 19 and already a huge star, Wood purchased a brand-new 1957 Mercedes-Benz 300SL roadster—and promptly had the car painted bright pink. A subsequent owner, not surprisingly, had it repainted back to its original Silver Blue—but the red leather interior and highly desirable Rudge wheels remain as Wood enjoyed them. The car—restored to concours condition—sold at auction in 2014 for $1.84 million, well above estimate. Whenever I stop here, Wood’s grave always seems to be adorned with flowers, but the day of my December visit, someone had also placed a small Christmas tree. It had tipped over in the wind, so I set it back up straight and tucked it in, remembering how gorgeous Wood looked when I first saw her in 1955’s Rebel Without a Cause. And how alive.

What did this person drive? And did their cars outlive them? Are their wheels in museums or still prowling the streets today?

His crypt not far from Monroe’s, actor Robert Stack, like Wood and Hefner, was also the proud owner of a Mercedes 300SL roadster. Although probably best known to contemporary audiences as the blundering Captain Rex Kramer in 1980’s Airplane! or as the host of Unsolved Mysteries, in 1960 Stack was the rising young star of ABC’s hit drama The Untouchables, where he played famed Chicago law-enforcement agent and Prohibition enforcer Eliot Ness. It’s said that every day Stack would drive down Sunset Boulevard on his way to the studio and, passing an auto showroom, stare at a bright green ’57 SL on display. Finally, his wife, Rosemarie, threw up her hands and said, in effect, “Just buy the darn thing!” Yet Stack didn’t do so, telling a MotorTrend writer in 1998, “I’d never pay that much money for a car for myself.”

Natalie Wood had her 300SL roadster painted pink.

As fate would have it, though, Stack didn’t have to spend a dime. Unbeknownst to him, Untouchables producer (and I Love Lucy star) Desi Arnaz bought the car for Stack, a gift for his having won the Best Actor Emmy for 1960. Stack owned the SL right up until his death in 2003. A decade later, the car—now painted dark red but otherwise almost completely original—sold at auction for $808,500. Sorry, Mr. Ness, but that good news merits a cold martini.

Actor Jack Lemmon, who died in 2001 at the age of 76, has the best headstone in Westwood Memorial. It reads simply: “Jack Lemmon”—then, below, “In.” Yet the two-time Oscar winner was the complete opposite of a car guy. In a 2014 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Lemmon’s son, Chris, confessed: “[My dad] was the worst friggin’ driver. He wrecked a magnificent sports car for pretty much every film he ever did. For How to Murder Your Wife, he wrecked an Aston Martin. During Tribute, he wrecked a vintage MG that he bought from Bill Bixby [late star of the 1977–82 hit CBS series The Incredible Hulk].” Lemmon’s grave lies in a prime spot, at the end of a line of four that includes actor Carroll “Archie Bunker” O’Connor, legendary writer-director and Lemmon favorite Billy “Some Like It Hot” Wilder, and actor Peter “Columbo” Falk. It’s a 12-foot walk of fame.

For me, Westwood Memorial isn’t a sad place; it’s a celebration of lives lived uniquely—and full-up. It’s also, at times, a reminder of the utter absurdity and unpredictability of existence. (The child star of the 1982 horror hit Poltergeist, Heather “They’re heeerrrre!” O’Rourke, rests in a crypt near the entrance; she was only 12 when she died of septic shock in 1988.) Thankfully, near Lemmon lies comedian and actor Rodney Dangerfield; inscribed under his name on the headstone: “THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD.” Mr. “I don’t get no respect” died in 2004, just shy of his 83rd birthday. Whether Dangerfield gave one whit about cars, I don’t know, but every time I come to Westwood Memorial, I’m uplifted by memories of the comic’s hilarious stand-up routines, many of which revolved around his wife and her lousy driving. One of my faves: “My wife took her driver’s test . . . oh, she was happy. She got 18 out of 20! Yeah, two guys jumped out of the way!”

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Medicine Bow National Forest, Wyoming.

I headed out on a backpacking trip to do the southern 20 or so miles of the Continental Divide Trail in Wyoming. The first day was a day of big meadows (or "parks") then rocky, wide ridgeline on high in the Huston Park Wilderness along the Great Divide itself.

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Routt National Forest, Colorado.

Medicine Bow National Forest, Wyoming.

Returning from the state line after backpacking the southern 20 miles of the CDT in Wyoming, I searched for three more state line monuments before starting up the hill back to Huston Park Wilderness.

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Freezer repair

Our company does professional freezer repair Boise, Idaho. If your freezer is leaking, not keeping the temperature cool enough or making a noise, we can help. Our team of highly trained professional technicians is well versed in all aspects of freezer repair and maintenance. We work on all brands and models of freezers both new and old. For example Asko, Bertazonni, Bosch, Dacor, DCS, Electrolux, Fisher&Paykel, Frigidaire, GE, Jenn-Air, KitchenAid, La Cornue, LG, Liebherr, Marvel, Miele, Perlick, Samsung, Siemens, Sub-Zero, Thermador, Traulsen, True, Viking, Whirlpool, Wolf and many more. No matter how extensive or complicated the project is, we will be able to give you great results. Our company promises you that your freezer will be working as good as new after an appointment with us. We all know how inconvenient it is when your freezer brakes and the contents of it starts melting. Your food can quickly become spoiled. That is why you need a professional company to give you a hand with repairing your freezer. Our technicians are right for the job. They are factory trained and certified by freezer manufacturers. They are up to date with the latest in appliance repair technician and have the tools. Our Boise freezer repair team will be able to diagnose your freezer properly, find the right parts and install them correctly. We are very detail oriented and precise in our work so you can be sure that the repair is done right the first time.

Great customer service:

Besides outstanding skills and experience in freezer repair, we also offer you excellent customer service. Our techs are professional, polite and friendly. They do everything possible to keep our customers satisfied. Our appointment scheduling is flexible. We will work around your schedule and make sure the appointment is convenient for you. Our company also offer a FREE service with repair and a FREE, accurate estimate before any job. We always treat our customers right. We make sure they are totally happy with our work and service. No matter where in Boise you are located, we will be able to get to you and fix your broken freezer.

About us:

Boise Appliance Repair Pro is a company with a lot of experience in appliance repair in general and freezer repair in particular. We have been doing it for more than 30 years. Our company is local to Boise, Idaho and is family owned and family managed. Boise Appliance Repair Pro service area includes Apple Valley, Bowmont, Caldwell, Doles, Enrose, Garden City, Greenleaf, Homedale, Huston, Knowlton Heights, Kuna, Marsing, Melba, Meridian, Middleton, Mora, Nampa, Notus, Star, Sunnyslope, Ustick, Weitz, Wilder and surrounding areas within 20 miles of Boise. We do the most extensive project for both commercial appliance repair and residential appliance repair customers. In fact, we can fix any appliance in your kitchen as well as washers and dryers. For example, we do refrigerator repair, washer repair, dryer repair, dishwasher repair, stove and range repair, oven repair, steam oven repair, microwave repair, freezer repair, ice maker repair, barbecue repair, pizza oven repair, patio heater repair and much more.

What to expect from freezer repair:

For freezer repair call us at 208-204-0044 or fill out our short online form. Our technician will be ready with all the tools, equipment and parts to come out to your residence as soon as possible. As soon as he gets there, he will disassemble your freezer, defrost it and start figuring out what is going on. There are several tests available to see how well the freezer is cooling and how well it's working overall. Our tech will quickly determine the issue. Here are some of the problems that people have with their freezers: The freezer does not run and the light does not work

Over-freezing Freezer not cooling Bad smell coming from the Freezer Freezer leaking water Condensation around the door Freezer is noisy There’s lots of ice in my freezer Water inside or outside of the freezer We can easily solve any of those freezer repair problems. Our technician will give you the most affordable and efficient solution possible. Usually, all it takes is a little bit of tinkering with the mechanism, and your freezer is back in action. But once in a while, the problem is more complicated. This usually happens when the freezer is older or has not been properly maintained. In that case, we will be happy to order genuine parts for you. As soon as those parts get there, we will send out our technician again, and he will make sure to install the components appropriately. After the job is completed, our tech will run your freezer and test it to make sure it's working correctly. He will clean up after himself and dispose of the old parts. Only then will he turn it over to you. You will get a perfectly functional freezer, that is safe and ready to use. We guarantee that you will be happy with the job.

Why pick us to do freezer repair for you:

We are the premier appliance repair service in your area. If you need convenient and fast freezer repair in Boise, Idaho, please give us a call. Our family-owned business has more than 30 years of experience. With us, you can be sure to get the best professionals to work on your appliances and do the job right for you. Our skilled technicians are factory trained and factory certified. Our team cares about every little detail and makes sure that your appliance is fixed well and functioning great. You are not going to need our help with this particular appliance for a long, long, time. Also, our service is friendly and convenient. We are ready to work around your schedule. Customer satsifaction is our number one priority.

Contact us:

If you need help with your freezer repair give us a call to 208-204-0044 or fill out our online form. Our team will make sure to schedule an appointment with one of our refrigerator repair specialists at your convenience. We will be happy to help you or give you advice. Our service area is Downtown Boise, North End Boise, Warm Springs Mesa, South Boise Village, Boise Junction, West Bench, Depot Bench, West Cloverdale, West End Boise, West Valley, Collister, Sunset, Highland, East End, Vernon, Central Rim, Central Bench, Winstead Park, West Downtown, Sherman Hollow, Morris Hill, Franklin – Randolph, Sunrise Rim, Harrison Boulevard, Warm Springs Estates, Barber, Vistas, Hillcrest. Save Save Read the full article

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Refrigerator repair

Our company performs professional refrigerator repair services in Boise, Idaho. When your refrigerator brakes, it becomes a real household emergency. Your food will go bad. You will not be able to store any more food in the future. Also, your electrical bills may increase. You will need a trusted refrigerator repair technician to come in and fix your refrigerator. Time is of the essence in such a situation. Our technicians have a lot of experience fixing all kind of refrigerator. They are all factory trained and certified. That means they know everything there is to know about refrigerator repair and main. Our techs will be able to correctly diagnose what is wrong, order the right parts as needed and professionally install those parts. They are punctual and detail oriented. You can be sure that we will do the job right the first time. And of course, we clean up after ourselves. We know how frustrating it can be when all your food is getting spoiled, and your frozen food is melting. That’s why we try our hardest to get your refrigerator in great shape as fast as possible. We repair all brands and models of refrigerators. For example Asko, Bertazonni, Bosch, Dacor, DCS, Electrolux, Fisher&Paykel, Frigidaire, GE, Jenn-Air, KitchenAid, La Cornue, LG, Liebherr, Marvel, Miele, Perlick, Samsung, Siemens, Sub-Zero, Thermador, Traulsen, True, Viking, Whirlpool, Wolf and many more. It does not matter if your refrigerator is old or brand new our team will be able to repair it.

Great customer service:

What makes our company different is the excellent customer service we offer. Our staff is always polite and helpful. Our scheduling is flexible. We will work around your schedule without a problem. Also, we give you a FREE service call with repair and FREE, accurate estimate. There is a warranty on both parts and labor available. Our skilled techs will make sure that your refrigerator will be working as good as new!

About us:

Boise Appliance Repair Pro has more than 30 years of experience doing refrigerator repair as well as other appliance-related services. We are family owned, and family operated a company. Our goal is to give our clients a top-notch professional appliance repair service at a reasonable price. We strive to make the whole experience easy and convenient for you. Our service area includes Boise neighborhoods. For example Apple Valley, Bowmont, Caldwell, Doles, Enrose, Garden City, Greenleaf, Homedale, Huston, Knowlton Heights, Kuna, Marsing, Melba, Meridian, Middleton, Mora, Nampa, Notus, Star, Sunnyslope, Ustick, Weitz, and Wilder. Over the years we have acquired excellent skills and knowledge in the field of home appliance repair. We are ready to apply those towards repairing your household appliance. Our repair technicians are factory trained and certified. They know every aspect of appliance repair in both your kitchen and laundry. Our team does professional refrigerator repair, washer repair, dryer repair, dishwasher repair, stove and range repair, oven repair, steam oven repair, microwave repair, freezer repair, ice maker repair, barbecue repair, pizza oven repair, patio heater repair and much more. Give us a call in Boise and we will diagnose your broken appliance, find and order the right parts and will professionally install them for you.

Our services:

For any refrigerator repair in Boise, please give us a call at 208-204-0044, and we will schedule a convenient appointment for you. Our services include refrigerator repair, mini fridge repair, touchscreen refrigerator repair, commercial refrigerator repair and much more. Refrigerator repair with different door configurations: We repair refrigerators with different door configurations. For example, there is a french door refrigerator, side by side refrigerator as well as bottom and top freezer refrigerators. Of course, we as a company have seen them all and can repair any one of them. Recently KitchenAid came up with a five-door configuration. This kind of unit includes two pantry-style French doors for the fresh-food compartment; two pull-out drawers, including one with multiple preset temperatures; and a pull-out freezer drawer. We are also very familiar with speed chilling technology such as Maytag PowerCold future. With this technology, you can keep your refrigerator cool even after you put in some hot or warm food. Mini fridge repair: Companies such as Perlick produce very beautiful and efficient mini fridges. Those include undercounter refrigerators and outdoor refrigerators. Those refrigerators are small but very efficient and practical. They often can be stacked together in different configurations. They also can make your outdoor kitchen even more convenient. We know how to repair and maintain those mini refrigerators of any brand and model. We will also help you to install and sustain it. Touchscreen refrigerator repair: More and more modern refrigerators come out with computers and touch screens on them. This is the latest trend in technology. For example, Samsung just came up with the Family Hub touch screen and software. Only top refrigerator repair experts know how to deal with those sophisticated machines. You have to know the software as well as hardware in order to troubleshoot such an appliance. Commercial refrigerator repair: We are also experts in commercial refrigerator repair. For example, we fix all reach-in refrigerators and freezers, merchandizing refrigerators, countertop refrigerators, bar refrigerators, prep refrigerators, commercial ice cream freezers and more. Our company works on all brands and models of those. And it does not matter how complicated or simple the project is. We can handle anything. Our true expertise lies in both commercial appliance repair as well as residential appliance repair.

Refrigerator repair process:

After you contact us, we will make an appointment for you and our technician will be at your house as soon as possible. He will get all the necessary information from you. Then he will start to diagnose what is wrong with your refrigerator. Here are some common refrigerator problems that we encounter: Refrigerator will not keep a low temperature Freezer will not keep low temperature Refrigerator might be making strange noises Refrigerator has torn door seal Light bulb goes out Significant frost buildup Refrigerator is leaking water Refrigerator will not turn on Our refrigerator repair technician will figure out the problem and find the easiest way to fix it. Often this will require getting new parts. In fact, we usually bring all the parts necessary in our trucks. We try to do all the work in just one appointment. Finally, the work is done. Our technician will check all the connections and will move your appliances back into place. He will clean up the workspace to live the space nice and tidy for you. Your refrigerator will be working properly once again. We know how to keep our customers happy with excellent results!

Why chose us to do refrigerator repair:

We offer you expert refrigerator repair service in Boise. Our company has tones of experience and our team is very knowledgeable and highly skilled. They are up to date on the latest and greatest in new refrigerator technology. Our technicians all have factory training and certification as well as at least 5-year experience in the field of refrigerator repair. We can do stuff that other companies do not know how to do. For example, we specialize in luxury appliances repair and European as well as Asian brands. In fact, there is not a brand or a model that we can not repair. For best appliance repair Honolulu gives us a call, and we guarantee that you will be happy with our work!

Contact us:

If you need help with your refrigerator repair give us a call to 208-204-0044 or fill out our online form. Our team will make sure to schedule an appointment with one of our refrigerator repair specialists at your convenience. We will be happy to help you our or give you advice. Our service area is Downtown Boise, North End Boise, Warm Springs Mesa, South Boise Village, Boise Junction, West Bench, Depot Bench, West Cloverdale, West End Boise, West Valley, Collister, Sunset, Highland, East End, Vernon, Central Rim, Central Bench, Winstead Park, West Downtown, Sherman Hollow, Morris Hill, Franklin – Randolph, Sunrise Rim, Harrison Boulevard, Warm Springs Estates, Barber, Vistas, Hillcrest. Read the full article

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Residential appliance repair

Our company provides top quality, professional, residential appliance repair. We repair all kitchen appliances and laundry appliances. That includes refrigerator repair, washer repair, dryer repair, dishwasher repair, stove and range repair, oven repair, steam oven repair, microwave repair, freezer repair, ice maker repair, barbecue repair, pizza oven repair, patio heater repair and much more. There is not a brand or a model of appliance that we can not fix. As long as we can find parts, highly skilled technicians can find a way to fix your appliance. We do both commercial appliance repair as well as residential. Our technicians are all factory trained and certified. They keep their skills up to date and know all the latest innovations when it comes to modern kitchen appliances. When it comes to residential appliance repair, we are simply number one. Our company has flexible scheduling. We have same day service as well as afternoon and weekend appointments. Our technicians are always polite, dependable and hard working. We give you an accurate estimate before starting any job and make sure to stick to you. You will be happy with results, and your appliance will be as good as new after an appointment with us. There are many brands and models of kitchen and laundry appliances on the market today. Also, there are many older models in homes of our customers. Sometimes it is hard to find the right part for older or more unique brand. Sometimes it is hard to find a person who knows how to deal with this particular model. Oregon appliance repair will help you with all of your repair, maintenance and cleaning needs. Our residential appliance repair technicians are familiar with almost every brand out there including European and luxury brand kitchen appliances.

About us:

We are number one residential appliance repair service in Boise, Idaho. Our service area includes Apple Valley, Bowmont, Caldwell, Doles, Enrose, Garden City, Greenleaf, Homedale, Huston, Knowlton Heights, Kuna, Marsing, Melba, Meridian, Middleton, Mora, Nampa, Notus, Star, Sunnyslope, Ustick, Weitz, and Wilder. We are a family owned and family managed company. Our company was started more than 30 years ago, and we have been helping people with their household appliances ever since then. We do both residential appliance repair as well as commercial appliance repair. Our goal as a company is to provide the best professional services in the most convenient and friendly environment. We strive to please our customers, and you can be sure that your project will be our number one priority.

What to expect from Boise residential appliance repair service appointment?

For any residential appliance repair, please give us a call at 208-204-0044, and we will schedule a convenient appointment for you. We understand that sometimes a broken appliance means disaster to a household. People rely on their appliances so much they often take them for granted. But when your refrigerator brakes and you are stuck with a bunch spoiled food or when your broken dishwasher leaves you with a big pile of unwashed dishes. Thies becomes an emergency. All you have to do is give us a call, and we will schedule a convenient appliance repair in Boise appointment for you. Also, we will get all the information down about your appliance and if it’s possible will pre-order you the parts. This way our skilled technician can get to the bottom of the problem right away. Our technicians work fast and are diligent because they know what they are doing. Here are some of the things that they often do: Indoor Kitchen: Refrigerator repair Freezer repair Dishwasher repair Oven repair Steam oven repair Stove top and range repair Ice machine repair Garbage disposal repair Microwave oven repair Vent hood repair Wine cooler repair Trash compactor repair Pizza oven repair and cleaning Outdoor kitchen: Barbecue repair and cleaning Outdoor pizza oven repair and cleaning Patio heater repair Outdoor kitchen appliances repair and cleaning Laundry room: Washing machine repair Dryer repair Dryer vent cleaning Whatever the plan is, he will help you throughout it. We will order new parts for you, schedule another apparent if necessary and install those parts. Our technician will be respectful and make sure to keep your house clean and undamaged. He will use furniture protection and drip cloth whenever possible. Our tech will install the parts and again will test your appliance to make sure that it works great now. Only after we are 100% satisfied with how your appliance works will we hand it over to you. You can be sure that you will have no problem for years to come.

Commercial appliance repair:

Besides doing a residential appliance repair, we also do the commercial repair. For example, if you have a restaurant or catering business, we will be able to repair your commercial ovens, commercial freezer, and refrigerators. We know everything there is to know about commercial cooling equipment as well as ovens and barbecues. Our team will work with you to make sure that you don't lose any business during repairs. We work fast and make it convenient for you and your team.

Appliance maintenance service:

Boise Appliance Repair Pro offers great appliance maintenance service. This service will save you both time and money and will give you peace of mind. With this service, we come to you on annual or biannual bases and will take care of all or some of your appliances. We will examine them, clean them, change filets, do repairs as need it. We will catch any problem before it becomes big or expensive. You can be sure that your appliance is always in great shape and working at top performance.

Why chose us to do residential appliance repair:

Our company has many years of experience doing the best residential appliance repair in Boise, ID! We know how to please our customers and how to keep their appliances in top shape. Our technicians are factory trained and certified. With us, you can be sure that your major home appliance is in good hands. From the moment you call us to the moment we present you your fully functional appliance, we try to make every step of the process convenient for you. Our customer service is one of the best, and so are the prices on labor and parts that we offer. Check out our homepage for our discount and special deals! Customer satisfaction guaranteed!

Contact us:

If you need help with your residential appliance repair give us a call to 530-366-3016 or fill out our online form. Our team will make sure to schedule an appointment with one of our appliance repair specialists at your convenience. We will be happy to help you our or give you advice. Our service area is Downtown Boise, North End Boise, Warm Springs Mesa, South Boise Village, Boise Junction, West Bench, Depot Bench, West Cloverdale, West End Boise, West Valley, Collister, Sunset, Highland, East End, Vernon, Central Rim, Central Bench, Winstead Park, West Downtown, Sherman Hollow, Morris Hill, Franklin – Randolph, Sunrise Rim, Harrison Boulevard, Warm Springs Estates, Barber, Vistas, Hillcrest. Read the full article

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Appliance repair

We are your number one appliance repair specialists in Boise, Idaho. Our company Boise Appliance Repair Pro repairs all brands and models of appliances. For example, Asko, Bertazonni, Bosch, Dacor, DCS, Electrolux, Fisher&Paykel, Frigidaire, GE, Jenn-Air, KitchenAid, La Cornue, LG, Liebherr, Marvel, Miele, Perlick, Samsung, Siemens, Sub-Zero, Thermador, Traulsen, True, Viking, Whirlpool, Wolf and many more. We do repairs on all those brands because we know them through and through. No other company in Boise has as much experience and knowledge like we do. What makes us stand out is the fact that our team is factory trained and certified to do repairs, installation, and maintenance of the majority of kitchen and laundry appliances. Our team does professional refrigerator repair, washer repair, dryer repair, dishwasher repair, stove and range repair, oven repair, steam oven repair, microwave repair, freezer repair, ice maker repair, barbecue repair, pizza oven repair, patio heater repair and much more. Give us a call and we will diagnose your broken appliance, find and order the right parts and will professionally install them for you. Besides having great skills when it comes to appliance repair, we offer you customer oriented service. Our certified appliance repair technicians are friendly and helpful. We can schedule you a convenient appointment even on weekends or afternoons. You get a FREE service call with repair and FREE, accurate estimate before any job. Our prices are always competitive and fair. Nowhere else can you get such a reliable service for such a reasonable price.

About us:

We are number one appliance repair service in Boise, Idaho. Our company is family owned, and family operated for almost 30 years. We serve our neighbors in Boise neighborhoods. Our extended team has several trucks and cam come our fast to any of Boise neighborhoods. For example Apple Valley, Bowmont, Caldwell, Doles, Enrose, Garden City, Greenleaf, Homedale, Huston, Knowlton Heights, Kuna, Marsing, Melba, Meridian, Middleton, Mora, Nampa, Notus, Star, Sunnyslope, Ustick, Weitz, and Wilder. Our team is selected among the best-certified repairmen in the industry. We make sure they have taken all the courses and are well qualified. And we update them as innovations come out. Because of this our team can fix both older models as well as newer models of kitchen equipment. We often work on high-end appliances and European brands that other companies refuse to work on. If your chef's kitchen is in need of repair or maintenance, we can help.

What to expect from Boise Appliance Repair Pro service appointment?

For any appliance repair, please give us a call at 208-204-0044, and we will schedule a convenient appointment for you. One of our appliance repairs makes sure to review your project and pack the right tools and equipment for your particular project. Yes, we are always ready for the job. He will come over to your location and start working right away on diagnoses of your appliance. Once he figures us what the problem is, he will explain to you what your options are. Whether you can easily salvage your broken appliance or it's cheaper for you to buy a new one. Usually, most modern appliances can be fixed by simply replacing worn out parts or just tinkering a little bit with the mechanism. Whatever the plan is, he will help you throughout it. We will order new parts for you, schedule another apparent if necessary and install those parts. Our technician will be respectful and make sure to keep your house clean and undamaged. He will use furniture protection and drip cloth whenever possible. Our tech will install the parts and again will test your appliance to make sure that it works great now. Only after we are 100% satisfied with how your appliance works will we hand it over to you. You can be sure that you will have no problem for years to come.

Commercial appliance repair:

Besides doing a residential repair, we also do the commercial repair. For example, if you have a restaurant or catering business, we will be able to repair your commercial ovens, commercial freezer, and refrigerators. We know everything there is to know about commercial cooling equipment as well as ovens and barbecues. Our team will work with you to make sure that you don't lose any business during repairs. We work fast and make it convenient for you and your team.

Appliance maintenance service:

Boise Appliance Repair Pro offers great appliance maintenance service. This service will save you both time and money and will give you peace of mind. With this service, we come to you on annual or biannual bases and will take care of all or some of your appliances. We will examine them, clean them, change filets, do repairs as need it. We will catch any problem before it becomes big or expensive. You can be sure that your appliance is always in great shape and working at top performance.

Why chose us to do appliance repair:

We should be your number one choice in appliance repair in Boise. Our company is more than 30 years old, and we know how to treat our customers right. Whether it's repair of appliances or maintenance or installation our team will do a good job for you. We make sure to be as detail oriented and treat your appliances like our own. If other companies come many times to fix the same problem. We try to do everything in one shot. In fact, after an appearance with us, you can be sure that your appliance will be functional for years to come. Our company is geared towards total customer satisfaction. That is why we always come to every job on time and fully prepared. Each one of our trucks is packed with the newest and equipment and tools as well as most used parts. If necessary, we can also order the parts for you and get you the best quality and most well-priced parts out there. We have a warehouse full of most necessary appliance parts, and we can get those parts to you quickly. Customer satisfaction guaranteed.

Contact us:

If you need help with your home appliance repair give us a call to  530-366-3016 or fill out our online form. Our team will make sure to schedule an appointment with one of our appliance repair specialists at your convenience. We will be happy to help you our or give you advice. Our service area is Downtown Boise, North End Boise, Warm Springs Mesa, South Boise Village, Boise Junction, West Bench, Depot Bench, West Cloverdale, West End Boise, West Valley, Collister, Sunset, Highland, East End, Vernon, Central Rim, Central Bench, Winstead Park, West Downtown, Sherman Hollow, Morris Hill, Franklin – Randolph, Sunrise Rim, Harrison Boulevard, Warm Springs Estates, Barber, Vistas, Hillcrest. Read the full article