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Tampopo
Seen at the Prince Charles in a 4k restoration. I'd never seen it before but it had me with the very first fourth wall breaking scene. It's funny and absurd and sexy and sad and just about life. So delicately filmed, so carefully filmed. There's a couple of shots of trains that have nothing and everything to do with the film. One just a long shot of a train going under a highway and the other looking down and into a train at night, pov a man who's wife is dying.
It just crams so much into a single film. And has a sense of humour too (although I think the audience at the screening was far too British and far too eager to find humour in sex rather than letting it be sensual).
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Pitch Invasion: How the Scottish and Irish Changed Football (iPlayer)
Weren't we Irish great?* I have some inner revulsion at this idea so the title jars but I'm not allowing that to stop me wallowing in some nostalgia especially as the first episode covered the Arsenal team I supported as a kid - I think from when they lost to Leeds in the 72 cup final. I wrote a begging letter to the club at the time and they sent me a sticker album.
Of course, many great Irish players in the team in the 70s and that did matter to me at the time.
I was 'serving my time' when the 79 final was being played. We were doing overtime, working on a bank in Kells (painting, not robbing), so went to the pub to watch the game. When it was over the landlord bought everyone a drink then came around to show us a betting slip where he had backed Arsenal at the start of the cup, at 1k at 7/1 or 8/1, with a covering bet on united at the final.
Other than that, not a great programme to watch perhaps.
*Scots can speak for themselvesLast edited by RaggedTrousered; 07-02-2024, 16:29.
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Originally posted by Gangster Octopus View PostI thought that you didn't partake in such post-millenium thingies.
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Originally posted by Amor de Cosmos View PostThat 'discussion' cued Siri on the speaker in our living room, which started a very bizarre three-way conversation. I do wonder how many other households participated in it.
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Originally posted by Amor de Cosmos View Post
Yeah. La Signora refuses to watch it, the noise/stress factor is too high.
That 'discussion' cued Siri on the speaker in our living room, which started a very bizarre three-way conversation. I do wonder how many other households participated in it.
Awkwardness - or cringe, as the kids say - is almost worse to watch than abject mortal terror.
I have found it especially hard to watch anything about the painful awkwardness of adolescence. It's not so much that it evokes bad memories, although it does.
It's that we, as adults, can see how it's all going to end in tears from a mile away and as often as not, we just have to let it happen in slow motion. I always want to skip to the end.
If I feel that way about movies, I can't imagine actually raising a middle schooler. I found that to be a problem when I was working with teenagers. I wanted to help them skip to the lesson they were inevitably going to learn. But that's not how it works.
I could not get through Are You There God, It's Me Margaret even though I fancy Rachel McAdams,* I couldn't see Eighth Grade nor could I deal with Pen15.
I like Mean Girls, of course. That's different. It's very exaggerated and it's as much about adults as it is the kids. And it's about high school, as opposed to middle school, which is awful in a lot of ways, but not in the same nails-on-chalkboard sorta way.
* She had a lot of her own travails in that story, dealing with the uptight bougie moms. That was hard to watch too.
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Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View PostI just find it a hard show to watch. Everything is so awkward. It just makes me feel anxious-by-proxy.
Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View PostI did enjoy him flipping out on Siri in the car.
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I have only watched Curb occasionally, but I think I'll try to watch this last season. I didn't know what the Young Larry thing was about, but I picked up on it by context.
I just find it a hard show to watch. Everything is so awkward. It just makes me feel anxious-by-proxy.
I did enjoy him flipping out on Siri in the car.
I also liked LD's interview on the Bill Simmons's show. I didn't know he was such a New York sports fan - Rangers, Knicks, Jets and, I think, Mets (right?).
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Started watching the last series of Curb... I haven't really paid that much attention to the last few seasons, Palestinian Chicken was probably the last episode I watched back. Bob Einstein passing was such a loss as I loved Funkhauser and getting Vince Vaughn in didn't appeal to me. Anyway, I hadn't re-watched last season in prep for this final season, so I had forgotten about the Young Larry thing. A few good laughs so far, so i'll remain optimistic.
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Originally posted by hobbes View PostI'm watching the TV adaptation of The Lincoln Lawyer.
It's not my usual bag given there's only been once sort-of car chase and no space battles.
It's not bad at all. Although his relationship with his ex wife is a bit weirdly creepy.
Anyway it's diverting enough and not too soapy.
We've enjoyed both LL and the Bosch stuff. Our only complaint is that neither has the magic dust that elevates them above a regular network procedural. They're....fine. Which maybe is all they need to be.
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Originally posted by steveeeeeeeee View PostSurprised there is no mention of Miners' Strike 1984: The Battle for Britain, as far as I can see. Both episodes have been excellent. There's a big aspect of being told what you already knew, but the first episode focussing on Derbyshire and Shirebrook was enlightening for me. Having read GB84 by David Peace, one of the most shocking things is what seemed like aspects of fantasy in Peace's book was very much reality with blood thirsty Metropolitan Police officers being bussed in to bust some heads. Thatcher's actions are of course indefensible, but I would be interested to hear the thoughts of OTF on Scargill, who comes across as an out of touch megalomaniac obsessed at proving he could damage Thatcher, whatever the cost. Like most wars, it's the people, most of who are loyal and brave, that suffer and really have no voice whatsoever because the NUM didn't listen to them and the government was determined to destroy them.
On Scargill. I have all sorts of problems with him and his politics but he is a clear victim of history being written by the winners.
A good corrective on why the miners were not doomed to lose is the documentary Still the Enemy Within
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The first season of that was ok, but then I just couldn't get excited for season 2. A lot of Amazon procedurals are like that. They just feel like CBS shows from the 80s, for better or worse.
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I'm watching the TV adaptation of The Lincoln Lawyer.
It's not my usual bag given there's only been once sort-of car chase and no space battles.
It's not bad at all. Although his relationship with his ex wife is a bit weirdly creepy.
Anyway it's diverting enough and not too soapy.
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Originally posted by Sean of the Shed View PostTo be fair the whole 80s was a 400m hurdle race with sharks for hurdles.
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Originally posted by danielmak View Post
I saw the film in the cinema and a couple times over the years and I have no recollection of that scene at all. I would speculate that the scene might be on a DVD or Blu-ray that was an extended cut.
The other thing that doesn't make sense is that Leon was the cleaner in Le Femme Nikita. He seemed to be a French cleaner at that time. Certainly spoke french. I can't remember if he lives or dies in Le Femme Nikita but he's shot up in that one. I guess he could have survived and gone back to the US.
EDIT: OK, I just looked up Le Femme Nikita Wiki and the character was Viktor, not Leon.
It was only after switching everything off and heading to bed last night that it occurred to me that this same idea could be the seed of Besson's later Taken franchise as well. He certainly has a genre, whether it's deliberate or not.
Talking of directors who know what they like, tonight I watched The French Connection. Very good. I hadn't realised it was directed by William Friedkin until his name popped up at the very end of the opening credits, and then chuckled to myself as that gave way to the opening shot of the film, a pan out from a tight shot focused on something in the distance to a wider shot of the city the scene is set in ... which if I remember correctly also works as a broad description of the opening shot of The Exorcist.Last edited by Sam; 05-02-2024, 05:29.
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The Lovers. An unusual romantic comedy set mostly in Belfast. I don’t think I’ve ever seen any film or TV show set in Belfast other than Belfast.
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Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View PostPhil Collins road the concord just to play both sides of Live Aid.
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To be fair the whole 80s was a 400m hurdle race with sharks for hurdles.
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Arguably, that is the moment the 80s jumped the shark. Either that or when Phil Collins road the concord just to play both sides of Live Aid.
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Originally posted by WOM View Post
I was curious and I’ll eventually watch it, but it was and remains such a terribly middling song.
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