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     Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 574 Registered: 09-2006 |
"A Prairie Home Companion" Being that I've long been an Altman fan it's a bit inexplicable to me why I've not gotten around to seeing this before now. A delight, and a fine swansong. And now on to other deceased directorial masters mentioned in other threads... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1632 Registered: 05-2005 |
Saw Sicko today. It was was extremely selective in how it portrayed the health service in the UK and France and it all but proposed communist dictator Fidel Castro for sainthood... Still though, like all Michael Moore's films, it made me think. What did those of you living as running dog capitalists in the US think of it? | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 107 Registered: 05-2005 |
I've booked a ticket to see Metropolis, with live music accompaniment tomorrow evening, as part of the Kilkenny Arts Festival. Problem is, now Radio GaGa is going round in my bloody head!!! | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2158 Registered: 03-2006 |
"The Third Man". I splurged for another ridiculously costly but infinitely rewarding Criterion edition. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2162 Registered: 03-2006 |
A really bad, but compelling docudrama about the Jacksons on VH1. The person playing Michael might actually be a girl, I'm not sure. The actor playing Bubbles is excellent, though. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 253 Registered: 07-2006 |
i'm finally up to my favourite episodes of prisoner cell block h, circa 1981. it's taken me a year and over a thousand dollars in subscription fees to get here....and i wouldn't have it any other way. i'm keen to see sicko too. saw the simpsons during the week. it was good and all, but i saw the "cape feare" episode on tv the other day and realised it could have been a UNIVERSE of better! like, family-related plots...even those set outside of springfield, etc have been done so well in the past, but the film had my interest waning about half way through. thankfully the simpsons-sized promotional popcorn made it well worth it. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2169 Registered: 03-2006 |
Rome, Seasons 1 and 2. RE-watching, I should say. Another completely ace series for HBO. And, Mad Men, another great new cable series about the Madison Ave. advertising world, circa early 60s. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 615 Registered: 09-2006 |
"The Host," that Korean monster movie/disfunctional family comedy-drama/social satire. A great deal of fun, with many sharp touches, including a good joke on the paleolithic movie convention of having characters who always seem to turn their TVs on at the exact moment when the news they need to find out about comes on. Excellent monster, too. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 617 Registered: 09-2006 |
Hey XY, just got my INLAND EMPIRE DVD, with more than 3 hours of what looks like great extras...which means I shall now be retreating to my cave for some time... | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 302 Registered: 01-2006 |
Yeah Allen mine was posted a few days ago, 2 disc special, should have it in time for a little holiday in rural Ireland ina week's time...these are the extras on the version i got... Special Features Play.com Exclusive INLAND EMPIRE Poster Disc 1: Trailer Disc 2: Guardian interview at the NFT with David Lynch (17 mins) Interview in London (6 mins) 'A Conversation with David Lynch' by Mike Figgis (19 mins) Masterclass with David Lynch (26 mins) Interview at the Cartier Foundation (14 mins) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1665 Registered: 05-2005 |
Meet The Feebles as soon as I get off the internet. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 618 Registered: 09-2006 |
Sounds like a great bunch of extras there, XY...the US version has a pretty different, but equally absorbing lot of stuff: "More Things That Happened" - an hour and a quarter of excellent deleted scenes woven together to form a sort of mini-sequel "Stories" - an hour and a half of DL in front of a microphone talking about the film and other subjects. "Lynch 2" - the first 30 minutes of the new Lynch documentary - some fascinating glimpses into his working methods. "Ballerina" - a short video piece tied to the film. "Quinoa" - another short, with DL taking you through the making of the title dish. Rather superflous, but fun, and the food looks good. Trailers and stills | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 625 Registered: 09-2006 |
"For Me and My Gal," classic 1942 Arthur Freed MGM musical, featuring the screen debut of Gene Kelly, who seems to pop out of the box fully formed, plus Judy Garland at her peak, so tremblingly sensitive and gorgeous you just want to gather her up in your arms. Watching the two of them sing and dance together is like watching the gods at play. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 675 Registered: 10-2004 |
Padraig, I liked Sicko, as I've liked all of Moore's films. My main criticism of Moore, though, is that he's too much of a propagandist, and not always enough of a true documentarian. Perhaps we on the left need that, but the critical thinking part of my brain can't help but squirm a little when Moore oversimplifies certain issues, or as you expressed, when he's a bit too selective with what he chooses to show. I know next to nothing about the British National Health System, but Moore made it look mighty appealing and virtually flawless. I couldn't help but think that some people might have some valid criticisms of the NHS which Moore simply didn't explore. For the record, I'm all in favor of a socialized health care system, but at the same time I'm genuinely curious to hear legitimate complaints about such systems. At the end of the day, Sicko is a thought-provoking piece that needs to be seen by an awful lot of people in this country who probably never will. The US media has done an excellent job of (unfairly) "spinning" and discrediting Moore in this country, effectively branding him as a "trouble-making freak" who "fudges facts". As a result, I think there are a lot of people who don't take him seriously. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 629 Registered: 09-2006 |
"The Big Red One" The reconstructed (about 40 minutes longer) version of director Samuel Fuller's 1980 film based on his experiences in WWII. Not always the most subtle of storytellers, but that's intentional, and he's subtle enough. Also sincere as hell, which counts for a lot. An excellent performance by Lee Marvin as leader of the squadron and a very good one by Mark Hamill as one of his grunts. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 630 Registered: 09-2006 |
One side-note, connecting to the "Dead Man" discussion from another thread here: at one point in the film the exchange "Did I kill the guy who killed me?" "Yes." pops up, and immediately I knew that Jarmusch's dialogue in "Dead Man" had to be a tribute, as he's expressed great fondness for Fuller's work on many occasions. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 764 Registered: 01-2005 |
The Natural (Director's Cut). Out on DVD for a couple of month's now. The DC transforms a very good movie into a great movie by making Robert Redford's character Roy Hobbs a more tragic fiqure with added backgorund sceens. The new sceens are scattered all through the movie though, and the transfer is super crisp. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 632 Registered: 09-2006 |
Hey Twin Peaks fans, have you heard? After we all went and bought seasons 1 & 2, a new box set is coming in October with all of that plus the pilot (US and European versions) and tons of new extras. Yeah, I'm going to shell out for it, it sounds really great, but it still bugs the hell out of me... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1748 Registered: 05-2005 |
Little Miss Sunshine. Made me cry twice! Thank God somebody had the wisdomn to write a film that highlights the abusrduty of the these little miss pagaent fairs. Tha wee actress who plays Olive was joy to watch, and the love that between this disfunctional family that comes through in the end is wonderful, thorupoghly enjoyed it. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 768 Registered: 01-2005 |
The Lives Of Others. What a great movie, certainly the best movie of 2006 and the best German movie since Wings Of Desire. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2207 Registered: 03-2006 |
"Lives" moved me profoundly, Michael. I think it's probably one of the best movies I've ever seen. So, I actually bought it, something I'm doing less and less, but I thought that was worth watching over and over. Plus, it has some enticing looking extras. AB, a sad but possibly amusing tale to relate: I like Lynch, but probably not as much as you. Half the time, I think he's, as Ricky Gervais puts it, " 'avin' a laff". I certainly felt that about Inland Empire - intriguing, fascinating, but at many points, just outright funny. I remember reading, too, that as he watched the rushes from Blue Velvet, he was laughing hysterically at Dennis Hopper's antics, while everybody else was severely freaked out. But anyways, in a spring cleaning, shelf clearing move, I took the first season of "Twin Peaks" to Second Spin, my favorite used shop, to trade in with a bunch of other stuff, figuring I'd never watch it again. So, it brought a tidy sum for a used item - $20 or so. Imagine my annoyance when I go back there a week later and find they have it marked $80. Bastards! So, in my perverse way, that made me want it again. Maybe I'll spring for the big ass box set... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 638 Registered: 09-2006 |
Oh agreed, LK, there are some hysterical moments in IE...one of the things I find so amazing about him is that I find myself laughing, but I can't really explain why - it just feels like the honest, intuitive reaction to have at that moment. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 770 Registered: 01-2005 |
LK, I'm holding onto my Season One TP dvd boxset, as it's chocked full of special features. I'm holding out on that gold box set that's due in October until I know more about it. Maybe if the Season Two and Pilot have a bunch of extras's I'll bite on it. I was extremly disapointed in the bare bones extra features on the Season Two boxset I got a few months ago. It would be nice to have a better dvd of the pilot, as I have that Asian release with the bad background noise problem. The pilot was shot all in Washington state though, unlike the following episodes which were shot in LA and lack the pilots rainy, damp atmosphere. Imagine how worse off Seasons 1-5 of The X-Files would have been had they been shot in LA instead of Vancouver. Imagine how much more sinister and darker Twins Peaks would have been had they stayed in Washington, if that's possible! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 639 Registered: 09-2006 |
Michael, Google "Twin Peaks Gold Box" and you'll find lengthy descriptions on several websites. There are scads of new extras and they look like damn good ones. I, too, am keeping the Season 1 box - for the extras and, sentimentally, for the wonderful packaging. Like you I'm trading in my Asian pilot and the second season box. And I mean trading...I'm already thinking what I could get with store credit... | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 278 Registered: 07-2006 |
i haven't got any tv reception, but mum's taping the last half-season of the sopranos for me. she always claims she's allergic to the f word, but her and i watched the entirety of season five within about four days. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1754 Registered: 05-2005 |
Watchinthis on ebay, you know you'll go down in history when you have a garment made with your only abum sleeve on it!http://cgi.ebay.com/retro-JOSEF-K-only-f un-in-town-Ladies-shirt-m-postcard_W0QQi temZ330158747476QQihZ014QQcategoryZ306QQ ssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 197 Registered: 05-2005 |
Not bidding Spence? | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1755 Registered: 05-2005 |
not my size unfortunately.! | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 198 Registered: 05-2005 |
"As my Mum would say, "You'll grow into it!" | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1700 Registered: 05-2005 |
Final season of Sopranos finally started in Australia the other night. Didn't finish till around midnight. I'm still tired from that. Not used to being up so late on a school night. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 652 Registered: 09-2006 |
"The Killers," another quite interesting Criterion box set: three adaptations of a story by Ernest Hemingway, and three lessons on how to do an adaptation right. The story takes all of 12 minutes for Stacy Keach to read on one of the extras, and it's pretty typical Hemingway: terse (almost theatrically so), hardboiled with a vulnerable center. Excellent last line. From that little vignette the first version (from 1946) spends its first 15 minutes adapting the story and then goes on to extrapolate, spending most of its time in the past, slowly learning of the events that led up to the murder that occurs just after the original story ends. I kept thinking "Citizen Kane," and then read in the notes that that's a pretty common impression by viewers. It's a quite good thriller from the golden age of noir, with fine turns by a young Burt Lancaster and a lovely Ava Gardner, among others. From nine years later there's a very faithful 20-minute student version by master filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. I'm sure it wouldn't have been included if Tarkovsky wasn't Tarkovsky, but it's still pretty darn good for a student. Nine years after that we get what was originally intended to be the first made-for-TV movie, a noir filmed on the brightest palette possible, so it'd show up on TV screens. Much of the original story is jettisoned except for the crucial event, and the flashback structure of the 1946 version is held to. The biggest change from that version is making the two hired killers (Lee Marvin and Clu Gulager) the people who instigate the murder that they've committed (!). Another very well-done piece of work, which also contains the twisted pop-culture sight of Ronald Reagan slapping Angie Dickinson and in turn being punched out by John Cassavetes. Actually, Reagan's a twisted pop culture sight all by himself: he wears a suit and tie, and this was just a couple years before he quit acting, so he looks exactly like he did when he was president, but he's playing a high-class crime boss. Every time he turned up on screen I just felt weird... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 653 Registered: 09-2006 |
Oops, forgot my point, which is that one big reason all three adaptations succeed is that no matter how much they change they keep the core idea/question of the story intact: "What makes a person who knows that killers are coming to get him just sit there and wait for it to happen?" | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 654 Registered: 09-2006 |
And also that "instigate" in the above post should be "investigate" | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 284 Registered: 07-2006 |
i watched a whole lot of dvds with my cousin on the weekend on a slovenly weekend down the coast. the last don part two (only bother for kirstie alley, fine dramatic performance), wedding crashers (quite good fun really....vince is the much more talented of the two), steel magnolias (*sob*) and finally green street hooligans. i admit, i wasn't too excited by the prospect of the last one...thankfully i was sufficiently hungover not to care too much. anyway, i thought it was rather excellent! elijah wood didn't set the screen ablaze, but he did a decent job and the rest of the main cast were great. also one of the few films i've seen in the past few years where the violence is actually instrumental in accentuating the film...rather than the usual flashly plea to the action crowd. anyone else seen this? i think it was just called "hooligans" stateside. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 780 Registered: 01-2005 |
Watched a couple of Season One episodes of The X-Files episodes yesterday, E.B.E and Shapes. Shapes guest stared Michael Horse who played Deputy Hawk on Twin Peaks. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 657 Registered: 09-2006 |
Actually a fair number of TP alumni have turned up on X-Files, Michael, the biggest one of course being Don Davis, who played Scully's father. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 318 Registered: 01-2006 |
Allen, TP season 2 still hasn't turned up on Region 2 over here and it's driving me nuts....dunno if my DVD can play Region 1/0 and hope it doesn't get to that... At the moment I'm midway through Season 3 of the Sopranos, missed it at the start and successfully avoided all plot developments since then... And still haven't watched Inland Empire yet, lookin forward to it. Did Bob ever get any other roles even though he hadn't acted before TP? | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 658 Registered: 09-2006 |
Sorry to hear that XY...and if you're talking about Killer Bob, I actually heard that he died awhile back... Correction on the above post: the biggest TP alum to turn up on X-Files is, of course, Duchovney...but I think Davis comes in second place. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 781 Registered: 01-2005 |
Allen, Killer Bob did pass away a few years ago. The other big TP alum who is no longer would be Jack Nance who played Pete Martell, as well as being in Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart and Eraserhead. Some of the other older actors have also passed on as well, such as the ones that played the elderly waiter, Norma's mom, the mayor and his brother. Not sure about the actress who played Mrs. Tremond. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 659 Registered: 09-2006 |
Michael, have you ever seen the documentary about Nance, "You Don't Know Jack"? Great fun, and fascinating extras on the DVD. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 319 Registered: 01-2006 |
Sad to hear that bout Killer Bob... Did either of you (Allen/Michael) ever hear the story about how Nance got the job in Eraserhead...something like after Lynch had interviewed him for the film they were walking out to get lunch and they passed a truck that Lynch had done some work on Nance commented that it was a might fine truck...Lynch gave him the role...somehting like that, sounds good anyway... | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 785 Registered: 01-2005 |
Allen, no I haven't seen it and now I want too! Jack Nance/Pete Martell had some of the greatest lines in TP. Especially in the pilot and the first season. Killer Bob was a behind the camera guy when TP first started filming. He got in the way of a shot, and Lynch was so taken with his spookyness that he became Killer Bob. He also continued his behind the camera duties durring the TP run. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 662 Registered: 09-2006 |
Battlestar Galactica - Season 2.5 Wish I had cable, just so I could watch the final season unfold as it's released. I've gassed on about this show before, so I'll just do my usuals: yadda yadda Deep and complex yadda yadda as good dramatically and narratively as The Wire yadda yadda and so... | ||
| Paul N Member Username: Pauln Post Number: 20 Registered: 10-2006 |
I'm watching the re-showing of The Wire from the very 1st episode, heard so much about it but missed it first time round. So far I can see why it is so popular. Also watching and enjoying 'Dexter' also on FX, bit off-beat but an interesting take on a serial killer. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 664 Registered: 09-2006 |
I've been waiting for the Dexter box set to arrive, Paul... | ||
| Paul N Member Username: Pauln Post Number: 21 Registered: 10-2006 |
Allen, Have you already seen 'Dexter' or buying it unseen? | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2239 Registered: 03-2006 |
I have the Dexter set and am about a third of the way through. It's some sick shit....but, I love it. Though a lot of the gorier bits seem like they're trying to be as over the top as possible, for shock value and ratings (a hallmark of Showtime series, it seems), it's incredibly entertaining and I think there are a lot of fascinating psychological insights and ruminations on morality... I'd only seen bits of it in motels (I don't have Showtime at home), so I bought it sight unseen, more or less, based on my brother's recommendation - it's one of his favorite shows. | ||
| Paul N Member Username: Pauln Post Number: 23 Registered: 10-2006 |
LK, I'm pleased you are enjoying your purchase. I agree with you on the 'morals' dilemma of what he is doing, but I'll tell you what, I'm quite pleased with the choice of his victims in some of the episodes. Now what does that say about me? | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2240 Registered: 03-2006 |
Whatever it says about you it says about me, because I think all the people he kills need killin' reeeaal bad. | ||
| Paul N Member Username: Pauln Post Number: 24 Registered: 10-2006 |
LK, Well said. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 666 Registered: 09-2006 |
Paul...haven't seen Dexter but have heard many good things about it, am a big fan of the lead actor (the guy from Six Feet Under) and will most probably, like many of my viewing choices, will be getting it from the library so I can try before I buy... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1710 Registered: 05-2005 |
Went to The Bourne Ultimatum the other night. Awesome! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 669 Registered: 09-2006 |
"Pickup on South Street" Samuel Fuller again, a great film from that time when, as Paul Schrader so aptly assessed it, the classic age of noir was going slowly nuts. LK, your kind of flick, I think. Richard Widmark and (especially) Thelma Ritter have probably never been better. Also finished Battlestar Galactica 2.5...I don't think there's ever been a series that kicked my ass every damn episode the way this one does... | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 880 Registered: 08-2006 |
I don't remember anyone mentioning this on this thread, but I've been getting a kick out of "Flight of Conchords" on HBO. It seems like it was loosely conceived as a vehicle for their hysterical tunes, but it's so loopy and the guys play it all so straight and clueless, it's just hilarious. Does anyone know if these guys really are from NZ, and if so if they were doing this stuff there? Anyone else like the show? | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 671 Registered: 09-2006 |
"Smiles of a Summer Night" - Ingmar Bergman does his version of Oscar Wilde, with quite a bit less cynicism. A great fucking film, from the first frame to the last. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 226 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rob, Yes indeed, Flight of Conchords are from NZ. I saw them at Edinburgh comedy fringe a few years back - I'm getting laughing cramps just thinking about that show!! I've not heard about the show though. Is it a one-off or a series? Will have to keep an eye out for the DVD. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 881 Registered: 08-2006 |
It's a series, Catherine. Basically, it's about the boys living in NYC and trying to get gigs via their inept manager. There's a Sienfeld-esque lack of plot, but it's all very funny (they have one fan, this quasi-stalker woman named Mel who ambushes them outside their apartment). Like I said, it seems as if the "plot" is kind of loosely written around whatever songs they have on hand. Check it out if you can. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 290 Registered: 07-2006 |
"summer heights high"...embarrasingly funny stuff. that guy is just brilliant. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 672 Registered: 09-2006 |
Have heard about that show quite a bit, Rob, but as us folks in the video hinterlands say, "We've just godda wait for the DVDs, mate..." | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 882 Registered: 08-2006 |
I don't have cable either, Allen. A friend of mine was talking the show up and I happened across an article that mentioned that some Web site was streaming all the episodes.So I watched 'em in quick succession before - I can believe it took so long - HBO came knocking and the site shuttered. I saw all but the last couple episodes, so I, too, will have to wait for the DVD to see the whole thing. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 794 Registered: 01-2005 |
Allen, "Pickup on South Street" is great isn't it! I mentioned it on the previous Whatcha watchin'. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 674 Registered: 09-2006 |
Indeed it is, Michael... I must've missed your mention. I'm going to be rewatching Fuller's "Shock Corridor" tonight. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 296 Registered: 04-2005 |
Scotland Vs France on the tele at a friend's house - the game with the ROUND ball! Not a classic match but a classic goal from the Scots to give them the 1-0 victory in Paris. My son wanted to beep the car horn as we entered our sleeping (French) village last night after the game, but I restrained him. Had to content himself with waving the Saltire a lot. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 798 Registered: 01-2005 |
Allen, I've been meaning to buy a copy of "Shock Corridor - Criterion Collection"! I do own a copy of Fuller's "The Naked Kiss - Criterion Collection", which is really good. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 681 Registered: 09-2006 |
Michael, have y9u seen "The Big Red One"? In addition to it being a fine film it also has am excellent documentary on Fuller on the second disc (parts of which are excerpted in the "Pickup" extras. What a character! An amazing combination of the blunt and subtle, with his generation's extremely earnest desire to get their art onto the screen/page/canvas/etc. exactly as they see it their head... | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 801 Registered: 01-2005 |
Allen, it's on my short list. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2265 Registered: 03-2006 |
"Friday Night Lights" - the series. Just about the most moving, beautifully executed, heroic show about ordinary, real people I've ever seen. LK never cries, but, nonetheless, has gotten a lump in his throat from just about every episode. Frankly, I could use a break - let me up guys. It seems that each of the extremely sweet and good-hearted kids has, like, 3 or 4 really tough choices, with 3 or 4 subsets of choices, to make every episode. It doesn't have any mobster characters and there's no talk of "gabagool" and "fangool", so it won't replace the Sopranos as my favorite show, but it's dang close. "Top Chef" - a guilty pleasure. If I had the money, time, cooking equipment, some talent, and wasn't, um, lazy, I'd like to tackle gourmet cooking. So, this show is a good way to sublimate that urge. It does feature some great chefs - Anthony Bourdain, Roy (of the famous restaurants in L.A.) et al., and Padma Lakshmi, the hostess, must be one of the most beautiful human beings on the planet. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1780 Registered: 05-2005 |
Docu about Marc Bolan and T Rex on BBC4. Very moving. Another original, that man. Sad way to go. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1808 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just about to finish work Spence, am going to watch the repeat of this in a few hours. BBC6 music was playing lots of T Rex music this afternoon - Marc was my first musical love back in 1972 | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 683 Registered: 09-2006 |
"The Bourne Identity" - I'm finally catching up with this silly series on video...can't really make too much of a comparison with other such things... Bond with the boring parts cut out? Le Carre with killer car chases? Whatever, it's fun. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1809 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dunno if it was broadcast nationwide, but there was a 30 minute documentary on Edwyn Collins last night on BBC1. It was bloody heartbreaking, but strangely uplifting. I hardly recognised him, he was always such a gregarious character but now is a stooped, hunched, shambling figure due to the stroke he suffered. He is a fighter though, and that came through loud and clear. There were snippets of him having to learn to read again, receiving physiotherapy, relearning the guitar, and how he can now draw again, but only with his left hand. There was also rehearsal footage with his band, Edwyn was never the best singer, now he cant sing a note!! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1781 Registered: 05-2005 |
I saw a clip of him on Scottish news. Yes it does shock you, its alright reading about it but when you see him in audio visual it is heartbreaking. I met the man loads of times, as you say he was this fun, gregarious erson. However the fact that he can't do any singing or anything doesn't matter. He's alive, and considering he nearly lost his life more than twice, he's done ok. It seems his view is that too. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1813 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just finishing watching the Bolan documentary. Agree with what Spence said, but he was also an arrogant,pig headed sod at times by the look of it. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 689 Registered: 09-2006 |
Ah, but weren't most of them at some time or another? My current reading of the Zevon bio certainly confirms that. Fame and wealth and drugs and sex aren't an excuse, by any means, but they are somewhat of an explanation. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 78 Registered: 10-2006 |
What's the opinion on 30rock? Worth looking forward to? And did anyone see a British comedy series called Black Books? Gets raves on Amazon, but then so does everything. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 323 Registered: 01-2006 |
Black Books is great Stuart, especially the first series... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1724 Registered: 05-2005 |
Scorsese does Sesame St (Casino version) www.youtube.com/watch?v=z93Kvl3YMWQ Scorsese does Sesame St (Mean Streets etc version) www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn15j-Ypc4 | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1819 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dont forget the Factory Records/Manchester Documentary on BBC4 tonight. All you folks in the States/Aus etc might be able to see it online if you look at the BBC website. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2285 Registered: 03-2006 |
Tell ya what I WON'T be watching: "Good Luck Chuck" with Dane Cook and Jessica Alba. Despite Alba's loveliness, the poor girl can't act a lick, and Dane Cook's popularity continues to amaze me. The guy simply isn't funny at all. What I WILL be watching: "The War", the latest mega-great, mega-important documentary by Ken Burns, this one on WWII. It looks outstanding - must check schedule for when it's on. I think it starts this weekend... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 699 Registered: 09-2006 |
"Good Luck Chuck,"...that's the one with the movie poster ripped off from the classic John & Yoko photo, right? Can't remember if someone commented here on the horridness of that or not... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 701 Registered: 09-2006 |
Stuart, I've heard a great deal of good things about "30 Rock"...I'll probably check it out. As for myself it's "I Shot Jesse James," Samuel Fuller yet again, his 1949 directorial debut...quite the idiosyncratic fellow even then... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 712 Registered: 09-2006 |
"If...." Haven't seen it in more than 20 years, and it feels both very much of its moment and like a timeless folktale, where people who love their land but find their leaders to have become "tradition"-bound and corrupted by power to the point where there is no choice for them but to take up arms against their oppressors...also, Malcolm McDowall is introduced to the world, with a role that contains far more emotional shadings than the even more iconic one that Kubrick would cast him in not long after... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 713 Registered: 09-2006 |
"The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg" an excellent excellent excellent documentary that increased my already pretty decent-sized respect for the man a thousandfold. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 818 Registered: 01-2005 |
The War, first of seven episodes of Ken Burns new series about WWII on PBS. Only the war from the American point of view? Shame on you Ken, pretty lazy on your part, and I could care less about the street address's of the folks you interviewed lived during WWII. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 84 Registered: 10-2006 |
Just finished Boston Legal 2, highly enjoyable, Spader wonderful. How good to see intelligent anti-goverment criticism worked into an entertaining fiction in a way which would be impossible here in Italy ("Communists!" Berlusconi would scream, and simply ban the whole thing from the screen.) And great to see Shatner proving Scott Fitzgerald wrong about there being no second acts in American lives. He had to wait a while, but does he just eat the whole thing up. And the Shield 3 has just arrived for my birthday. All hail the DVD boxed set! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 724 Registered: 09-2006 |
"The Iceman Cometh," a mostly great mid-70s filming of the O'Neill classic. The only real problem is the miscasting of the great Lee Marvin in the lead. He tries gamely, but he just doesn't have the range... Up next: "The Bourne Supremacy" | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 725 Registered: 09-2006 |
"Bourne Supremacy" Again, I'm a latecomer to this series, but I can definitely see why it's so big...the Bond reboot, fun as it was, absolutely pales in comparison. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1738 Registered: 05-2005 |
Took my daughter to see Surf's Up this morning. Very enjoyable. I really didn't like the last penguin film - Happy Feet - at all. That was unbearably preachy. My daughter loved it though. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1742 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sydney beat Newcastle 1-0. It wasn't pretty (most of the time), but we won. First win at home this season. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2311 Registered: 03-2006 |
Two incredibly great, mega-entertainin' flicks: a) Black Book. Rented this - an absorbing espionage tale set in WWII, about a girl working in the Dutch Resistance to avenge the betrayal leading to the deaths of all of her family members. b) Eastern Promises. Saw this at the movie show, the "cinema": it's about Russian gangsters operating in London and features the great Viggo Mortenson. Loved it - put "Russian" and "gangsters" together in a film and just try and keep LK away! It's directed by David Cronenberg, for all you cineastical types. Mortenson's way braver than me. There's a scene in a Russian bathhouse where he has to fight off two assassins, completely buck naked! Somehow, he pulls it off, so to speak... | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 930 Registered: 08-2006 |
"We Jam Econo." I think this was discussed somewhere on this board before, but it's a damn fine little biopic on the Minutemen. Major Revelation: I've been a Minutemen fan forever, and I swear I didn't realize Mike Watt wrote so many of their songs. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1791 Registered: 05-2005 |
American baseball matches on UK TV early inm the morning. I like the way the yanks have kept the old fashined sporing regalia, the helmet, the look etc etc. i have recurring dreams about being in the crowd in some Amercian baseball game, one day I'll make it! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1754 Registered: 05-2005 |
I recommend going to see the Red Sox in Boston Spence. Hey, I'm back! Did anyone miss me? I had a computer meltdown. It's back now. It's working. I still haven't a clue what was wrong. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1767 Registered: 05-2005 |
Right now I'm heading into town for the Sydney v Melbourne match. Not quite up there with an Old Firm derby, or Barca v Real, or Liverpool v Man Utd, but getting there. We've won our last two games and they won last weekend too. Should be a great game (there's an electrical storm on the Northern Beaches where I live though, so I hope it's not like that in the city). | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1864 Registered: 05-2005 |
Padraig, hope your team wins. Presumably news of Celtics fantastic victory over AC Milan in the Champions League has made it to the Southern Hemisphere? I have never known such a monumental high followed by such a crushing low in the space of a few seconds. While celebrating the last minute winner, as soon as I saw that moron on the pitch my immediate reaction was "oh no, we're f*cked". Our only hope of avoiding major punishment is that clown Dida's hystrionics, must be one of the funniest things I've ever seen on a footballl pitch. If anybody hasnt seen it, just do a search for "Dida AC Milan Fan Celtic" on Youtube, the internet is crawling with these images. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2351 Registered: 03-2006 |
Knocked Up - very funny comedy that was a big hit at theaters here. Did it make it across the Atlanic yet? Almost a perfect cross between the profanely funny and the sweet-natured. It also features a soundtrack and appearance by LWIII. He plays a gynecologist. When he talked about his appearance in the movie when I saw him live last month, he said that he'd been "preparing for that role all my life". Tonight, I'll be watching my alma mater, LSU, play Florida. Curiously, LSU has another great team, actually even #1 on one poll, and Florida, unlike some of the palooka-ish teams they've had their way with so far, is a team of real substance that should be a real challenge. If LSU wins this, though, they are likely to go all the way. Maybe I'll get to see them play USC in the Rose Bowl, which would be quite surreal. For all my pals this side of the pond, I believe the game tonight's on network, CBS, I think... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1770 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kevin, I meant to ask you about that. Yeah, I saw it on YouTube (what are we going to do when that gets sanitised?), but it had actually been on domestic TV in Oz and I missed it! Despite the great win I'm actully glad I didn't know it was on TV here. If I had I know I would have been up at the crack of dawn to watch it and that would do nothing to help my current sleep deprived state. Sydney lost last night after playing very well with 10 men for most of the game. I didn't see the sending off incident but people whose views I trust tell me it was a booking at worse. It seemed like every Sydney player bar the keeper got booked after that. I just went home after the game; none of us were in the mood for drinking. And then I watched Australia lose to England in the rugby World Cup... It cheered me up enormously to see that Hibs beat Rangers to go top of the SPL though (even if only for 24 hours)! When's the last time Hibs topped the table? | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1865 Registered: 05-2005 |
Padraig, Hibs have never topped the table for a significant length of time since before you and I were born! Even now it should be shortlived, if Celtic dont beat Gretna this afternoon to go back top then it will be the biggest upset for a long time. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 957 Registered: 08-2006 |
Not technically "watching," but following, the rugby World Cup. England beats the Aussies? France over the All-Blacks? Down is up! Black is white! Andrew, how were the celebrations? What I wouldn't have given to be in Paris... | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 300 Registered: 04-2005 |
Rob, I think I might have heard some fireworks at some point. Celebration were strangely muted, given that I live in a strong rugby area. But personally I detest the game and havent't got a television either so didn't know the score until this morning. Saw the Celtic/AC Milan fan incident: ludicrous, it seems more like he got tickled under the chin. But shame for Celtic if UEFA go in heavy. Shameless self-plug: here i am playing bass in 1989. And Spence this is in the very same space that Josef K rehearsed. The finished version was supposed to have a properly recorded version of the song dubbed over, but it never happened. Raw punk-folk thrash! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8J3iZ2OK iw | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 176 Registered: 01-2007 |
Fabulous weekend being a Rugby fan was pleased to see England beat Australia especially after their pre-match comments,gloat gloat gloat etc. Also France beating NZ great result and great match, just disappointed Scotland failed to beat Argentina. Apologies to our NZ/Wallbies posters. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 978 Registered: 08-2006 |
Hey, LK, sorry to see LSU take the loss to Kentucky. As much as I like to see an upset, I was rootin' for your boys. Tomorrow: South Africa vs. Argentina in the Cup. Watching at my SA friend's house, so it's 'Boks all the way. Although an England/Argentina final would have some interesting historical overtones. England didn't look great today - France controlled that game offensively, IMO, and England's sole try was a fluke - so they'd better tighten it up by the final. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1780 Registered: 05-2005 |
My lovely new 19" computer screen. Internet finally works on it too thanks to a nice young man in India. His nice young colleague was unable to help me about 40 hours earlier. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1781 Registered: 05-2005 |
On DVD I watched a very good documentary called Overnight. It's about a guy who had it all - record contract with a major label and $15m to direct his own film script - and how he blew it. The film got made for half the money eventually. It died. The record got release and sold 680 copies. I wish it explained how he managed to f*** it up so badly though. Being a monumentally arrogant asshole can't have helped, but surely there was more to it? Bet you've seen that one LK? Has anyone else? | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1829 Registered: 05-2005 |
http://www.eyebrowy.com/ Its a killer | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2380 Registered: 03-2006 |
Haven't seen that flick, PC, though it sounds interesting. Sounds like that guy winded up singin' Neil Young's famous song referenced on another thread. Rob, thanks, but, honestly, that was such a great game it's hard to quibble. Kentucky played a helluva game and completely deserved to win, I think. So typical of the Tigers - I knew they'd blow it at some point, though it was creative of them to lose yesterday, instead of last week against Florida, when everyone expected them to get trounced. Not sure about LSU's coach either - some of his so-called brilliant moves, like going for a 57 yard field goal, seemed misguided. It's gonna be extremely interesting to see how all the ratings shake out this week. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 842 Registered: 01-2005 |
The Wind That Shakes The Barley. One of my favorite movies of the last few years. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1789 Registered: 05-2005 |
That's a great film alrigh Michael. I saw it in Ireland the day it opened - I just happened to be home at the time. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1882 Registered: 05-2005 |
What about that scene in .....Barley where the brutal British Sgt Major tortures the guy by pulling his fingernails off with pliars. I couldnt watch that scene, I had to turn away even though I knew they were acting! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 848 Registered: 01-2005 |
Kevin, even pulling fingernails from a corpse can be nerve racking, as in Twins Peaks - Fire Walk With Me. FWWM is one of the scariest movies I have ever watched. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 553 Registered: 04-2006 |
Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 783 Registered: 09-2006 |
Three Colors: Blue, White, Red | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 784 Registered: 09-2006 |
Vertigo. Still dazzling. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 993 Registered: 08-2006 |
As dazzling as Three Colors, Allen? Wow, what a trio of great films. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 785 Registered: 09-2006 |
Wholeheartedly agreed...all four films thrilling in their own way, each one grows in my estimation with each viewing. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1854 Registered: 05-2005 |
Babel. One of the most moving films I have seen in years. The music got me, too. Best soundtrack I heard since Monster's Ball. Imagine Phillip Glass, directing Tuxedo Moon with only ethnic instruments in the house, in Morocco. The cinematogrophy is awesome, the atmosphere like an extended pre heist Italian job (original) when they are getting their overalls in Turin, and then some. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 795 Registered: 09-2006 |
Stanley Kubrick - WB Directors' Series Like the Twin Peaks box coming out next week, the remastered, extras-filled cornucopia that should have come out in the first place...though I realize if I voiced such a notion to a businessmen he's just pat me on the head and give me a deeply condescending smile... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 797 Registered: 09-2006 |
Hey Kurt, weren't you asking about the Wire, Season Four on DVD...just found out it's coming in December. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1590 Registered: 04-2005 |
Thanks, Allen--I just heard that too. Can't wait! Did you see the interesting piece in last week's New Yorker about David Simon and "The Wire"? | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 798 Registered: 09-2006 |
No, I didn't, but I'll make a point to check it out...one of my housecleaning clients subscribes to it, so she may already be ready to get rid of that issue... | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2421 Registered: 03-2006 |
I'm excited about that as well. New season in January, too! The Wire is to television as the Go-Betweens are to music, is my position. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1818 Registered: 05-2005 |
King Of The Hill, season 4. Love that show so much. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 333 Registered: 05-2005 |
I never got into The Wire, what's it's appeal? (Other than LK's comparison to GoBes!). I deliberately avoided it when it came on TV over here, as I already watch too much... Should I give in? | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2422 Registered: 03-2006 |
Hmmm. I was being a little flip comparing the GoBees to the Wire. They're only really alike in terms of quality, both of them being f-ing great, but the artistic approaches of the two are exactly opposite. The Go-Betweens' music, their art, is to me, romantic, in every sense of the word. The Wire, on the other hand, couldn't be more gritty, realistic, grim, and naturalistic. It's about some cops who're trying to bust up the drug trade on street corners in some of the most blighted areas of Baltimore. What's cool about their take on it is that they explore the stories of the drug dealers and the people that live in the 'hood in just as great depth as they do the cops. They're shown to be real people, with real hopes and dreams. Some are downright evil, but others are just people that get caught between. I think the producers are using Baltimore, a truly f-ed up, dilapidated inner city, as a vehicle to talk about the problems facing all American inner cities... Thing is, great as the show is, don't know if it'd necessarily be up your alley, Catherine. You have to like the dark, murky cop stuff... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 801 Registered: 09-2006 |
Can't add much to what LK just said, Catherine, except that I feel your wariness...I take great care before letting any new show in, no matter how excellent it looks, as it's just one more expenditure of time. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2423 Registered: 03-2006 |
Ain't that the truth. We live in what I think is the golden age of TV. There are truly more great TV shows out there than there is time enough in the day to watch them. But anyway, if this'll help you decide about it, Catherine, here's a pretty over-the-top, rapturous essay about the Wire and why it's good: http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/feature/2007 /09/15/best_show/index1.html | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 802 Registered: 09-2006 |
Still immersed in the Kubrick box, and having a high old time. Except for 2001 none of the films have been released in their proper aspect ratios on disc until now, and that, plus the remastering, makes them look incredible. The extras allot equal time to making-of info and personal thoughts on the films by participants and well-known admirers...cut together they resemble excellent roundtable discussions. That form is especially potent on the Clockwork Orange disc, a film that (in what I've learned is a fairly common progression) I really dug when I was younger but now find much more unpleasant and disturbing, and not in a way that gets one pondering, but in a way that reminds me that when one begins to explore the darker side of humanity one must take great care not to be seduced by it. It's nice to know that Kubrick felt much the same as the years went on. The only bummer thus far: the terrifying visage of Camille Paglia turns up on in both the 2001 and Clockwork extras. I guess I have to admire her for one thing: even long after her 15 minutes have expired she's held firmly to her position that a combination of rampaging ego and too much formal education equals deep profundity... | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2424 Registered: 03-2006 |
I was amazed to read, in one of her pieces for Salon, that Camille, despite obviously being no dummy, is a global warming denialist, or more precisely, a skeptic that it's anthropogenic, caused by man, etc. Her position seems to be based on nothing really but the typical knee-jerk skepticism and ignorance of so many of the denialists. She seems to think that the observed warming is based on the natural variability of the sun, which has been roundly and soundly disproved by whole teeming hordes of the world's pre-eminent scientists. I considered buying that box, Allen, but was saved from my spendthrift ways by Best Buy being sold out of it. They had it for the low low price of $54.99, which, loving a bargain, I wouldn't have been able to resist. It sounds great, though. Curious: it supposedly has the unrated version of Eyes Wide Shut. Have you watched that yet? I was wondering if that rescued it from being the stultifyingly boring snoozefest it turned out to be at the theaters... Though I thought it was danged cool when I saw it as a wee lad, I think I'd probably find Clockwork as disturbing as you have upon re-visiting it... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 803 Registered: 09-2006 |
From the few times I've run across Paglia in the past few years it seems that she's grown more conservative, though I admit my sampling is far from comprehensive. Though I (and quite a few others) found her provocative back in the days of "Sexual Personae" and indeed her intellect is prodigious, I think she's a case study in how intelligence unbalanced with wisdom is nearly worthless - even back then her love for the sound of her own voice obviously clouded her perceptions to an alarming degree. Yep, Best Buy is where I picked up my set. The Eyes Wide Shut set does have the unrated version, something I was surprised to see hasn't been that well-publicized - I didn't find out about it until I got the box and read the back. I'm actually of the camp that liked the film when I first saw it, and like just about every one of his films it's only grown in my estimation. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 108 Registered: 10-2006 |
Really, Catherine, don't hold back on getting the Wire. It is marvellous, very possibly the best thing in, as someone else says here, a truly remarkable period for TV shows. The rich contrast between the Coptalk and the Gangstertalk is virtually Shakespearean. Your only worry is perhaps losing your heart to the lead actor, who has my wife whining pathetically every time he swaggers drunkenly on. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 869 Registered: 01-2005 |
The Kubrick box sounds great! I've been holding out on buying some of the cropped full screen Kubrick discs before, waiting for the correct aspex ratio versions to be released. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 337 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks LK, Stuart, for the info and recommendation. Looks suitably gritty. I'll keep an eye out for the new series to start over here, and in the meantime, might check out availability of cheapo box sets.. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2448 Registered: 03-2006 |
If it's further inducement to watch it, the actor Stuart's talking about, Dominic West, is actually Irish, playing American. Unless he's talking about my favorite character, Omar, the gun-toting, gay thug who likes to jack drug deals. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2449 Registered: 03-2006 |
Oops, he's actually English, I just read. You'll still like him, I bet, though he's no Bookannon. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 109 Registered: 10-2006 |
Start with series one, Catherine!! You have to watch the whole dynamic between the central characters develop from the beginning. Omar is a tremendous creation, but the whole cast is just so in-depth rich it's marvellous. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1836 Registered: 05-2005 |
The end of Sopranos. Brilliant ending. Now off to watch Entourage, series 3, part 2. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 341 Registered: 05-2005 |
Personally, I would have preferred if Carmela had gone "Postal" in Bada Bing  I just IMDb'd Mr West. I don't judge solely on appearance, but he's easy enough on the eye. Does he sing though??? |