What Did You Smoke Today? (Pipe Edition)

[droy1958]

More Elizabethan Mixture today. I forgot how much I liked this stuff. I'd ran out and hadn't ordered any more for about a month.
Got a tin in and it's darn near been all I've smoked since.

I have some of that Dunhill Elizabethan Mixture in my cart, but I'm trying to decide what else to buy....

[NeverBend]

Ennerdale while I read a fine presentation from The New Yorker on Orson Welles.

As with most film buffs I love Pauline Kael's writings, but I often wondered where her disdain for Welles came from. With so many holding her views as gospel, it's nice to see someone sticking up for the non-Kane works of Welles and helping to point out where Kael went wrong.

Orson Welles at a Hundred - The New Yorker

Long ago, in a galaxy far away..... Oops, wrong film

There used to be books, beginning in the early 1970s, that rated films (1 to 4 in 1/2 star increments) with capsule reviews. One of the earliest was by Leonard Maltin (when he was a yung feller).

I began writing alternate reviews on movies that I felt had been dissed. Continued for several years until I was sidetracked by my Magnum Opus, Greatest Worst Movies Ever Made, (no, not bad like, Plan 9 From Outer Space, more like Brain Damage or Bad Taste).

Touch of Evil received negative reviews in the rating guides, 1 to 2 stars (1-1/2 average). I gave it 4-stars (highest) and I wrote a scathing attack on the (lack of) review prowess of aforementioned Mr. Maltin. Of course I never sent it to him but within some years, Mr. Maltin had revisited and given this film 3-1/2 stars. Mind control. Touch of Evil may be the quintessential Film Noir and the opening scene is to die for .

I didn't believe the hype before I'd seen Citizen Kane, then I saw the film and thought it underrated. Magnificent Ambersons has greatness in it too. Take that Ms. Kael!

[Alligator Gar]

Smoking the second best durn tobacco made, Esoterica Stonehaven in a Plateau top Ben Wade Freehand. @NeverBend My wife produced a straight to VHS movie for Maltin called Cartoons for Big Kids. Also produced his wrap arounds for Turner Classic Movies. Says he was great to work with.

[JimInks]

St. Bruno Flake in a small 1982 three quarter bend meer with a smiling turbaned Turk's head.

[AndyCAYP]

Long ago, in a galaxy far away..... Oops, wrong film

There used to be books, beginning in the early 1970s, that rated films (1 to 4 in 1/2 star increments) with capsule reviews. One of the earliest was by Leonard Maltin (when he was a yung feller).

I began writing alternate reviews on movies that I felt had been dissed. Continued for several years until I was sidetracked by my Magnum Opus, Greatest Worst Movies Ever Made, (no, not bad like, Plan 9 From Outer Space, more like Brain Damage or Bad Taste).

Touch of Evil received negative reviews in the rating guides, 1 to 2 stars (1-1/2 average). I gave it 4-stars (highest) and I wrote a scathing attack on the (lack of) review prowess of aforementioned Mr. Maltin. Of course I never sent it to him but within some years, Mr. Maltin had revisited and given this film 3-1/2 stars. Mind control. Touch of Evil may be the quintessential Film Noir and the opening scene is to die for .

I didn't believe the hype before I'd seen Citizen Kane, then I saw the film and thought it underrated. Magnificent Ambersons has greatness in it too. Take that Ms. Kael!

I'm holding out hope that we'll get a definitive Magnificent Ambersons as long as someone, somewhere has copious notes from Mr. Welles and the footage still exists.

And, I agree about Touch of Evil!

It wasn't just on paper or behind the camera that he excelled, though. The triumvirate of awesomess that was Welles, Joseph Cotton, and Carol Reed combined to create one of my favorite films and, to me, the epitome of noir: The Third Man.

[Emperor Zurg]

I have some of that Dunhill Elizabethan Mixture in my cart, but I'm trying to decide what else to buy....

SPC Mississippi River of course
and don't forget a tin of nightcap and early morning pipe

[JimInks]

MacBaren Burley London Blend in a 2015 three quarter bend two tone Chacom UPO Rouge squashed tomato with a black acrylic stem and shank.

[droy1958]

SPC Mississippi River of course
and don't forget a tin of nightcap and early morning pipe

Ended up with:

Cornell & Diehl Billy Budd
Cornell & Diehl Haunted Bookshop
CB
Dunhill Nightcap
Dunhill Aperitif
Dunhill Elizabethan Mixture

[BryGuySC]

Double post.

[Cool Breeze]

Ended up with:

Cornell & Diehl Billy Budd
Cornell & Diehl Haunted Bookshop
CB
Dunhill Nightcap
Dunhill Aperitif
Dunhill Elizabethan Mixture

Have you had these before, or are you trying some new things?