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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3813 Registered: 05-2005 |
All Larry Sanders all the time in my house at the moment. From successive episodes in season four last night I learned that Shawn Colvin in a woman and Mandy Patinkin is a man. You Yanks and your crazy names! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3814 Registered: 05-2005 |
Oops, that should have been XII. Oh well, I guess there is no bar on having two threads with the same name then. On a related topic, do the Larry Sanders fans here find The Garry Shandling Show funny? I recently gave the entire series' box set to a charity shop as I found watching it so hard going. That laboured wackiness just doesn't appeal to me at all. I'm amazed it kept getting renewed. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1556 Registered: 08-2006 |
Padraig, I totally agree. I love the Larry Sanders show like crazy, but I could never get into It's Garry Shandling's Show. It always reminded me of an updated Benny Hill. Labored wackiness is spot on. But it doesn't take away from Larry Sanders, which I think is one of the most inspired pieces of television anyone ever put on air. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3817 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ireland trounce England in cricket. Wow. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3820 Registered: 05-2005 |
Gnomeo & Juliet. Good fun. | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 379 Registered: 04-2005 |
Padraig - England have beaten South Africa, and therefore Ireland are the best cricket team in the world!! Amazing, to get beaten by Ireland (fantastic innings by the way) and then beat SA is unbelievable. Cheers Jon | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3825 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hall Pass. One day the Farrelly brothers will again reach the heights of their magnificent opening trio of Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and There's Something About Mary, but Hall Pass isn't it. Still pretty funny though. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3834 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rango. It was OK. My daughter really liked it though. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3838 Registered: 05-2005 |
Parks & Recreation: Season Two. Very, very funny. Love the gay penguins episode. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 629 Registered: 04-2005 |
Cover of Laura Marling's "Rambling Man" by Agathe and Fine, two young French women. Maybe one is French Canadian ? And featuring a ukelele. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8SHb92uZ Nk There are several covers by them on YouTube, including a couple of Tom Waits songs. Check out 'Green Grass'. Stunning voices that seem to have that rare quality to blend in a way that gives the impression of a third voice at times. The Everlys had it. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2127 Registered: 01-2005 |
Andrew, Here is the Agathe & Fine facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/folkyfrenchies?v =info | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 434 Registered: 10-2006 |
Garrow's Law Rather fine 18th century courtroom stuff based on real cases and with what looks like some very nice Edinburgh architecture. Spartacus With the acres of beef/cheese cake on view, seems to base itself on the Penthouse Caligula rather than the Kubrick classic, but the dialogue, far more AngloSaxon than Latinate, is hilarious, and John Hannah, playing a gladiator trainer like a Glasgow hardman, delivers it gleefully. Dexter 5 Holding up very well indeed, in fact, lacking the plot contortions of the first two series, perhaps even better, though Julie Benz is much missed. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2094 Registered: 09-2006 |
Who is Harry Nilsson and Why is Everybody Talkin' About Him?: excellent warts-and-all biodoc. I've been a fan for years but didn't know that he never played one live show in his entire career. Chungking Express: Haven't watched it in years, one of my wife's favorites. Very charming and wonderfully put together. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3896 Registered: 05-2005 |
I shot a hole in my TV last night lest I caught a glimpse of that abominable wedding by chance. I also quickly turned over to page two of both The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian this morning. The way France took care of their royals should have been an inspiration to every other country blighted by these scroungers. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1580 Registered: 08-2006 |
Padraig: "blighted by these scroungers" made my morning. Allen: That Harry Nilsson biopic IS excellent. I, too, never knew he never played live. What a crazy life, but he squeezed out a lot of great music. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2154 Registered: 01-2005 |
I don't get all this hoopla over the royals either. Bill Maher called them "a bunch of cousin f**kers" on Real Time last night. That got a couple of belly laughs from me I'll tell you! | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1226 Registered: 10-2008 |
another year. excellent mike leigh film from last year | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 439 Registered: 10-2006 |
The Killing Moody Danish thriller series which apparently was a big hit in the UK and is now being remade - siiiiiiiigh - in the US. Those darn subtitles, eh? A shame to lose the (very untouristy) Copenhagen backdrop, the jokes about Norway and Sweden, the lilting gurgle of the language and the joy of excellent, unfamiliar acting faces... | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 637 Registered: 04-2005 |
>The way France took care of their royals should have been an inspiration to every other country >blighted by these scroungers. And yet my local French paper had glowing reports of a unified happy British public, even with a front cover the Monday before the wedding. I have done my best to disuade those locals around me that this is the reality; explaining for example that even for Charles and Diana the number of street parties in Scotland could be counted on one hand. Someone described the atomsphere this time in Scotland as 'indifference'. I remember on the day of Diana's funeral trying to take back some library books to the French Institute in Edinburgh. It was closed, but the librarian kindly came out and explained that it wasn't really her choice to close, but told us to imagine the newspaper headlines of 'those Frenchies not respecting the peoples' princess' or some such nonsense. The power of the media to influence us all ? In France Sarkozy has had a damaging 'dumbing-down' effect, with his media obsessed presidency. What with his plan to be the saviour of Libya not quite panning out, we all await that Carla announces her pregnancy and hey 2012 is in the bag! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2100 Registered: 09-2006 |
Stuart, I'd certainly like to see the original...the US version is actually already airing, and is getting many positive reviews, although very few that mention the similarities with a little thing called Twin Peaks (small Northwestern town, popular teen girl murdered, town grief-stricken, many dark undercurrents, many suspects, each episode is one day in the storyline, etc.) | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 440 Registered: 10-2006 |
The Danish original is very low-key, unquirky, slow-moving, as much concentration on the grief of the parents as on the enquiry...I'm a bit surprised it caught on as it did in the UK, really. I suspect the solution will be far more down to earth than TP, though I only saw that series in glimpses... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2101 Registered: 09-2006 |
From the reviews I've read they've kept the focus on the parent's grief in the US, but also (hey, it's the US) amped the atmosphere up just a bit. It doesn't sound like either has borrowed from TP's quirky/supernatural side, and I'd fully agree on your thoughts about the solution. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3919 Registered: 05-2005 |
Brighton Rock. What a film. Those of you with a certain religious indoctrination background will relate to the deep scar of Catholic guilt running through it (as did I). The heathens among you will appreciate it for the great film it is regardless! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2170 Registered: 01-2005 |
Le Trou. Jacques Becker's 1960 prison film still packs a wallop. I have a Criterion Collection copy of it as well as the second Becker classic, 1954's "Touchez pas au Grisbi". One of these days I need to get the third Becker classic, "Casque d'Or", which was actually his earliest classic film from 1952. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 441 Registered: 10-2006 |
Great film, Michael. Hard to go wrong with jail breaks (apart from that dreadful footballing nonsense...)And I've still never seen all of "A man escapes" yet, one of those films which never seems to turn up on the box. Meanwhile, come to the end of the Killing, which probably had less to it than met the eye, though what did meet the eye was sumptious, in terms of photography and acting (and knitwear, of course.) The political stuff never seemed to have any ground to it, and never seemed to connect to the main story except circumstantially. And as for what happens in episode 19... what a stupid move, you writers you!Didn't you see what a great thing you were on to here, dagnabbit? | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2173 Registered: 01-2005 |
Stuart, New evidence unearthed suggests that Frank Morris and the two Anglin brothers did make there way to Angel Island from Alcatraz in June of 1962. The National Geographic Channel is now running a new 1 hour show this month of the uncovering of the recently discovered evidence to support their escape to Angel Island and then to the mainland. http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/ep isode/vanished-from-alcatraz-5147/Photos #tab-Overview | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2114 Registered: 09-2006 |
This is probably great news to no one here but me, but it's great news to me: "Barry Lyndon" is out on Blu-ray a week from today. |