‘Scared the poo out of me’
Pleased I wasn’t in the next seat.
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There is a lovely clip of Vincent Price talking. He went to see one of his films in 3D and when the credits were rolling , he asked the ladies in front of him if they enjoyed the film .
They jumped sky high, he recounted
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Hi Nick,
On your recommendation I watched it this evening, and thought it was very good.
Great acting by the pair and the ending really caught me out.
Worth a look.
Tony
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Watched 2001: a space odyssey (for the nth time) today.
4K stream from Apple TV.
The first film I’ve played through my hifi.
Rather brilliant.
I realise many won’t like it, but for me it’s right up there.
Tony
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You might enjoy this on BBC sounds Archive on 4 “ The Ultimate Trip: Stanley Kubrick’s Space Odyssey”
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Jim Jarmusch’s latest tryptique.
Do your children really like you? Do you really like your children?How do you know?
Jim certainly finds actors of stature to help find the answer in his usual observational style.
Tom Waites does his set piece.
MUBI.
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Can’t remember if I have heard this before, I will give it a listen.
Certainly I have watched various documentaries and read several books on the film and on Kubrick.
Thanks for the tip, even if I have heard it, it’ll be worth another listen. 
Tony
Some mental junk food
The Last Jedi
The Rise of Skywalker
These had sat on my shelf for literally years. It dawned on me I’d never seen them.
I’m not sure if I like them or not. I don’t think any of the sequels are necessarily inferior (well, TLJ has some very disjointed pacing and structure) but there was so much mystery about the fantasy of Star Wars when it was just three films and by the time you get to episodes 7 - 9 it’s been so over exposed that some of the magic is lost.
I feel like if you were a child in the early 80s you got to see the Star Wars universe in a way that no one else ever will because it lived mostly in the imagination.
If my kids faces lit up when they watched any Star Wars movie I might feel different but they think it’s boring and stupid. Sometimes the age-culture divide is too great to bridge.
When I was 6, I just wanted to be Luke Skywalker.
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Listened on the train, I’d heard it before, but it was still good!!
Thanks
Tony
I find this interesting. My go to fantasy worlds were in books, first CS Lewis and the Narnia chronicles, all of them, and then The Hobbit swiftly followed by Lord of The Rings. Star Wars I enjoyed, having taken my two sons to see it when launched, the various sequels less and less. I enjoyed the LoR films and thought that apart from the omissions they remained true to the books. I still prefer to re read the book though. I think we get stuck in our first experience of things in a way that doesn’t get surpassed by the repeat experiences.
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When I split with my wife and moved out to my own place I didn’t have TV but I did have a projector with a large screen and of course the Naim DVD5 and AV2 combined with my CDS2/552/500/SL2/n-Sub system (a NAPV175 took care of the other channels along with my old ProAc Studio 100s). When my daughter would come and stay she usually wanted to watch the Star Wars films and during the films we would act out the fight scenes with light sabres, and her dressed as Darth Vader. Happy days!
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The Bride!
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s take on the Bride of Frankenstein..
Gangster’s moll gets possessed by the spirit of Mary Shelley, dies and is resurrected as the bride of Frank.. Bonnie and Clyde escapades ensue with a few roaring ‘20’s dance scenes thrown in for good measure… cameo appearance by Fever Ray.. bonkers but enjoyable.
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What a movie!! The filming is just brilliant as is the script; can’t tell much about without spoiling it. Must see!
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Still trying to get the hang of David Lynch. This one seemed to split critical opinion and it certainly has some trade mark weirdness but a wonderful catalogue of characters. Willem Dafoe in particular.
I enjoyed it and look forward to Blue Velvet.
Prime. Good print and soundtrack.
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WAH is stupendous but takes time to digest. As does the equally surreal Lost Highway.
But Blue Velvet is truly in a class of its own.
His failed attempt at Dune is also very compelling. Possibly closer to the feel of the books than the superior modern releases. Really let down by awful special effects in places and some forced pacing but set design and costume design were stunning.
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Leslie Howard was a heartthrob actor of stage, radio and screen with a difference. He was one of the four main cast members of Gone With The Wind and was a matinee idol for most of his career. He was also a committed activist for the Allied cause during the war, a prolific writer, a producer and a director of some distinction (he made only four films, but they’re all worth watching).
One of those Howard-directed features, 1942’s The First of The Few (known as Spitfire in the US), the tale of Spitfire designer RJ Mitchell, takes huge historical liberties and is propaganda, but it’s glorious propaganda, and features Howard as Mitchell and the wondeful David Niven as a dashing test pilot. 1940s British film at its best.
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From 1949, a real oddity in the Hitchcock canon. There’s no suspense to speak of in this drama set in Sydney (Australia) in 1831, rather it’s a slow moving love triangle drama. Hitch seems less at home with this kind of material than he does with thrillers, and consequently the picture drags, not helped by Ingrid Bergman’s bizarre Irish accent and a bit of a “and that’s it?” story. Still, it looks nice, and Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding, Cecil Parker and Margaret Leighton (as the scheming maid) are all excellent, and film students will be interested in Hitch’s use of long (10 minute) takes – a technique he’d used on his previous picture, 1948’s Rope.
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Fed up with the life in Sydney three cross dressing entertainers accept a gig at Ayers Rock.
“That’s all we need a c+ock in a frock on a rock.”
Terrance Stamp,Guy Pearce and Hugo Weaving are our entertainers.
Great fun.Should have shifted a few boundaries in its day.Bradshaw 5*. Ebert sniffy.
Prime. Decent Print and soundtrack especially if you enjoy ABBA.
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The Accidental Tourist
I used to have this on Laserdisc, now an old DVD. Less of an adaptation and more or less a direct representation of Anne Tyler’s book of the same name. It’s not really cinematic but the performances are certainly great at times. Hurt delivers a slightly too robotic delivery for the subject matter but Geena Davis and Bill Pullman give standout and subtly humorous performances.
Fans of the book are likely to be pleased.
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