that was true even in the fall before omicron. and talking to the doctors that i know interact with, that is being exasperated by doctors catching omicron and having to quarantine. and it s stressing stretching staffing levels very thin. yes, even though the number of patients and icus are about the same as they were a year ago. overall, our hospitals are much more crowded. both because we are taking care of all of the other problems that exist out there in the world. and all that we put off course for the last two years. and we have fewer stuff. health care has been affected by the great resignation as much as anyone else. and perhaps more so. because the effective this of this covid wave is not just this covid way. it is the multiple effect of the covid wave after covid wave after covid wave. with no change in the underlying systematic conditions that are burning out our health care workers,
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sentimentalised, but it s a childhood view it s a memoir about childhood. it s fiction, but it s clearly inspired by real life, and as you said, from watching that clip, if that clip didn t sell you the movie, nothing well, frankly. yes! it sounds it sounds delightful. and it s funny because british people, ithink, think of kenneth branagh still as a classical stage actor, but actually, he has directed a lot of films, and this is a. 0h, he s a he s a very accomplished film maker. i will still fly the flag for frankenstein, which is much derided, and i think that is a very, very underrated film. 50, second film this week. total change of gear. nightmare alley new film by guillermo del toro who, obviously, shape of water, but this actually dates back to when he was making cronos, which was like a vampire movie. and this is based on a novel from the a05 that was first filmed in 1947 a kind of a film noir. story is bradley cooper is a natural born con man. he s running away from
it s a real sort of cinematic treat. and the other thing is it has the darkest ending of any film in recent memory, and i love the fact that it doesn t bottle out. i love the fact that it s the story has got an arc to it and it goes from here to the and the place that it s going to is inevitable and it does not look away from it. it s real cinema, it s transportive. i thought it was great. i know you re not a horrorfan, so i m going to say to you it s a film noir, it s a neo noir, it s not a horrorfilm, 0k? i am intrigued, most definitely. i think you ll like it. i i sort of enjoyed the shape of water, which won the oscar, didn t it? yeah, absolutely. but in a slightly odd way, perhaps without understanding it, but i but i enjoyed it. it s, you know. visually, it was extraordinary, and i m getting the sense that this is, too. shape of water is a creature from the black lagoon meets splash. this is nightmare alley, as re envisioned as a horrorfilm, but it s not a horror film. 0k
well, i don t love it! i don t love it. i cannot tell you how many frank exchanges i have had in the newsroom in the last week about licorice pizza. yeah. and there s a divide out there. oh, it s very. there s a real divide. it has proved surprisingly divisive much more so than i thought it was going to but, hey, you know, in a way, that s what cinema is meant to do. it is meant to divide opinion. and i still love the two central performances, and we re looking at them now. alana haim isjust great. i mean, and she you know, neither of them have starred in a movie before and, i don t know, it feels natural and funny and i mean, idid i i just found it enchanting. i know people who absolutely loathe it! so, it s, you know, it is kind of interesting the way it s dividing audiences but, you know, it s a paul thomas anderson film and like punch drunk love, his films are not for everyone. and i m intrigued by your choice of dvd this week. yeah well, this is streaming. i don t kn