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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5106 Registered: 05-2005 |
Skyfall. It's really good. First Bond movie I've seen in 17 years. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2260 Registered: 09-2006 |
Was making my way through one of those 50 year retrospective things and realized that over the years I've seen all but four of the Bond movies. My general interest in them has dropped a huge amount, and even Craig's first turn in the role couldn't really bring it back that much, but the reviews have been so across-the-board glowing I'm definitely curious. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2060 Registered: 10-2008 |
Nearly of these movies have passed by my little universe, and I've just realised I probably haven't saw a Bond movie for over 30 years. I'm getting by. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 686 Registered: 10-2006 |
In general, the Bond films are pretty naff, apart from the occasional good joke or action sequence, even the Connery ones, although I loved him in the part. The books, on the other hand, were excellent, at least the first five or six. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2067 Registered: 10-2008 |
Extremely early REM http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla yer_embedded&v=RiZW_Wlj8Kw | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2262 Registered: 09-2006 |
Current viewing: a 2011 documentary with one of the lamest titles ever ("Great Directors") , of which we'll say no more. And that takes just about all of the downside out of the way. Ten directors (Lynch, Varda, Bertolucci, Linklater, Breillat, Haynes, Loach, Frears, Sayles, Cavani) interviewed by a smart filmmaker who knows how to stay out of the way, and thus captures plenty of great talk about film and art and life and their many intersections. The movie's only 90 minutes, but there's extensive bonus interview clips for each subject. If you're a fan of any of the above subjects it's worth the trip. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5161 Registered: 05-2005 |
I went to see God Bless America last night. It was very enjoyable. Hilarious in parts. A friend of mine went to university with Joel Murray in Milwaukee. (Chris Farley and Pat Finn were also in the same gang at the college. Must have made for fun nights out). God Bless America opened a year ago in the US. Did any of you see it? Allen, I reckon it's your kind of thing. This morning I went to see Trouble With The Curve. Far from perfect, but damn good all the same. Clint Eastwood still has it (when he isn't shilling for the GOP). And Amy Adams is both a fine actor and very easy on the eye. John Goodman was also very good in it, but I'm not sure Justin Timberlake was right for the part he played (though I thought he was great in The Social Network). | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 697 Registered: 10-2006 |
Italian X-factor, the finals. Well, my life is empty once again – this has been a fine edition, with the winner a big-boned, spontaneously natural Viking woman sort from the north with a hauntingly beautiful voice – not a virtuoso over-singer, just a genuinely original, lovely tone. Whether she has the personality to make a career out of it, I don’t know. For a country that has never been able to produce a decent music programme (no equivalent of Jools, for instance) X-factor is one of the few chances to watch live singers, and it is done with a huge amount of taste and intelligence – I dunno, do other international versions include songs by King Crimson, Massive Attack, Brecht-Weil and Of monsters and men? The staging is handled by a genius of a guy who has worked with Michael Jackson and Madonna, and in a place where, in terms of dancing and décor, most TV shows are still working on the level of the BBC’s 1960s Lulu Show, it really is stunning. The runners up were a smart, articulate, music-obsessed rapper and a gorgeous, golden-voiced ex-plumber to keep the lassies happy. Great TV. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5195 Registered: 05-2005 |
Spooks, season seven. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 718 Registered: 10-2006 |
The Big Bang Theory Finally caught up with this. Very, very funny. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2109 Registered: 10-2008 |
My wife watches Big Bang Theory religiously. She loves it. We have one of those On Demand TV services (Youview) where you can watch every episode, and she does!! I've watched a few of them, not really my cup of tea but it seemed quite funny in bits. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 719 Registered: 10-2006 |
Yeah, it's not very edgy, mould-breaking or satirical, just beautifully crafted, high quality American sitcom, like Friends,Cheers,Frazier etc. But the guy playing Sheldon deserves a truckload of Emmies. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5216 Registered: 05-2005 |
I like Big Bang Theory. Channel Nine and Go (one of Nine's digital spin-offs) show two or three episodes every night. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 721 Registered: 10-2006 |
Sophie Hunger's video as she kicks a football around Paris in a pair of heels... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzYRGfKm4 f0 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5236 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rare Exports | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5243 Registered: 05-2005 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXupYKE2O WU&feature=youtu.be Only really worth watching if you love Blur. As I do. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5246 Registered: 05-2005 |
A US TV series called Damages, starring Glenn Close and Ted Danson, Danson is magnificent playing completely against type. Who knew he had megalomaniacal evil in his repertoire? | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2483 Registered: 01-2005 |
I must say that the Hobbit was nowhere near as good as Fellowship Of The Ring. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5253 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Day She Came To Dingle. A documentary about Amy Winehouse playing a tiny church in Dingle, Co Kerry, Ireland. I spent a great deal of my childhood in Dingle and can vouch that everything people say on the DVD about what a magical, edge of the world place it is, is absolutely true. I will hopefully be there very soon. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5254 Registered: 05-2005 |
Next up: Curb Your Enthusiasm, season 8. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2118 Registered: 10-2008 |
Padraig, went to Killarney, Co Kerry, back in 1989. First holiday with the wife to be at the time. Loved it, spent a lot of time in Sweeneys, the local pub. Never made it to Dingle though. Did a day trip to Cork, a bit of a dump from memory!! | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 723 Registered: 10-2006 |
The concert for Bangladesh A present for Christmas, and just wonderful. Such a sequence of great songs. Didn't recognise Clapton at first, here with two beagles strapped to his head. Starr and Keltner whacking the whole thing forward together. George forgetting the words to Something. My one regret is that the camera spends too much time caressing Leon Russell's fascinating silver mane rather than lingering a bit over Claudia Lennear back in the chorus, the original, apparently, for Brown Sugar and Lady Grinning Soul. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 646 Registered: 05-2005 |
Berberian Sound Studio this is very good, original and atmospheric. Toby Jones is excellent as always and the Broadcast soundtrack is perfect. Nice to see a film at 88 minutes too, fed up with bloated modern movies overstaying their welcome. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1121 Registered: 08-2004 |
John Carpenter's The Fog | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2487 Registered: 01-2005 |
Stuart, Clapton was in pretty bad shape when the Concert for Bangladesh was performed and filmed, so it was no wonder you didn't recognise him. The Dominoes had broken up during the recording of their second album a few months earlier, and Clapton was in the first year of being a recluse with a serious heroin habit that would last for another 2 1/2 years. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2142 Registered: 10-2008 |
Glen Campbell The Rhinestone Cowboy. Another of those great BBC4 rockumentaries. I never knew he was such a talented musician, a member of The Wrecking Crew no less, who played on many pop classics by The Beach Boys, Elvis, The Righteous Brothers, Daydream Believer by The Monkees and Strangers in The Night by Frank Sinatra. When I was in my very early teens my mum had a great Glen Campbell greatest hits album which she played a lot, so all of his solo songs are firmly imprinted in my mind. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 662 Registered: 05-2005 |
Glen Campbell- Wichita Lineman is my favourite song of all time. All the Jimmy Webb stuff he did is brilliant, all the 60s Webb stuff is great and the Reunion album they did in the 70s is superb . Guess I'm Dumb the song that Brian Wilson gave him is a stunner too | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5258 Registered: 05-2005 |
D'unbelievables live DVD. Two fantastic Irish comedians (Pat Shortt and Jon Kenny - many of you will have seen them in Father Ted episodes) on a reunion tour of their show which affectionately skewers small town Ireland. I first saw them perform together 25 years ago. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5276 Registered: 05-2005 |
An Irish short film about traditional furniture which has just won an award at Sundance. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/brea king/2013/0123/breaking24.html?via=mr | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5284 Registered: 05-2005 |
I tried to see Django Unchained yesterday but the showing was cancelled (after we'd all been sitting in the cinema for a half hour waiting) due to their new projector not working. I went to This Is 40 instead. I'm pretty sure I'd have preferred my original choice. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5285 Registered: 05-2005 |
Right now, Color Me Obsessed: A Film About the Replacements www.spin.com/articles/replacements-color -me-obsessed-documentary-youtube | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5286 Registered: 05-2005 |
Can't get the url to post properly. Just close the gap after color. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5312 Registered: 05-2005 |
Silver Linings Playbook. It's great, very touching and should win many Oscars. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5318 Registered: 05-2005 |
And last night on DVD, Stephen Merchant's Hello Ladies. I liked it a lot. Mostly very funny. Certainly a lot funnier than Ricky Gervais's first live DVD. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5325 Registered: 05-2005 |
Some Father Ted episodes on DVD. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 677 Registered: 05-2005 |
Super Bowl party at my house. Late one and plenty of vino | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3132 Registered: 03-2005 |
This is filmed in my hometown, folks. Watch and envy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SndtdtFH Is | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 755 Registered: 10-2006 |
The Following, episode 1 After The Silence of the Lambs... The Logorrhea of the Bacon. I suggest a 10-year moratorium on over-deviously literate serial killers, so at least writers have to think a little before churning out more of this tosh. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5330 Registered: 05-2005 |
Finally saw Django Unchained. Fantastic. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5334 Registered: 05-2005 |
In Treatment, season 3. Not as immediately engaging as the first two seasons, but very good nonetheless. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5381 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lincoln, which was quite brilliant. More of In Treatment on DVD. The third season soon became very engaging. It was surprising how often the fact that the doctor (Gabriel Byrne) is Irish is mentioned in this series, when it was barely mentioned in the first two series. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5386 Registered: 05-2005 |
West Of Memphis. A fantastic documentary about the West Memphis Three. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2495 Registered: 01-2005 |
The Sessions with the great John Hawkes. Why he wasn't nominated for a Best Actor Oscar is puzzling. It was great to see three Deadwood actors in The Sessions as well. John Hawkes (Mark O'Brien) played Sol Star in Deadwood. W. Earl Brown (Rod, the attendant),played Dan Dority in Deadwood. Robin Weigart (Susan, played Calamity Jane in Deadwood. Too bad they didn't have Mr. Wu play the motel clerk! | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2175 Registered: 10-2008 |
I always thought that I knew Anna Gunn, who plays Walt's wife Skyler in Breaking Bad, from somewhere, but I reckoned she maybe just had one of these faces. Then I found out yesterday that she played Martha Bullock in Deadwood when we were talking about both programmes at work, and the penny finally dropped. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 767 Registered: 10-2006 |
The Sanremo Song Festival It's strange, but five days, four hours per day, dedicated (mainly) to live music, seem to make Italy, for a week, the most civilised country in the world... | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2180 Registered: 10-2008 |
Should be good? http://pitchfork.com/news/49599-pitchfor ktv-presents-a-documentary-on-belle-and- sebastians-if-youre-feeling-sinister/ | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5397 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm watching nothing because my plasma TV gave up the ghost eight days after its one year warranty ended. Grrrr. Oh well, that's what I get for buying a cheap, no-name brand. That's a $200 mistake I won't repeat. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 688 Registered: 05-2005 |
loved the Belle and Sebastian documentary Kev, I was in nerd heaven watching, the wife liked it too | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 689 Registered: 05-2005 |
also made me realise how much I love the early stuff, although I am a fan of their entire output nothing will ever touch the feeling of first hearing The State I'm In or Stars of Track and Field | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 769 Registered: 10-2006 |
Homeland, episode 3 Hmmm, an element of writer desperation creeping into the 2nd series already? Almost nothing that Brody is forced to do here is credible... | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2182 Registered: 10-2008 |
Yes James, have watched it now and enjoyed it very much. Nice to see some landmarks I recognised in the film. Has Isobelle Campbell developed a "transatlantic" accent? :-) | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 690 Registered: 05-2005 |
yes Kev she has definitely got a mid-atlantic accent going on. most of the band look older and heavier with the exception of Stuart who just looks older | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 691 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stuart, I didn't bother with season 2 of Homeland on the basis that there couldnt be a credible foundation for the ongoing story with the same characters. every one tells me it's very good but I wont be swayed. the end of the first season was stretching it if I'm honest | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 770 Registered: 10-2006 |
Very strong-willed of you Cosmo, particularly considering that Ms Baccarin just seems to get more and more beautiful. But the main reason I watch it is that four-letter word beginning with w and ending with e, the same reason I sit through the ungodly horror of Downton Abbey and Call the Midwife... | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 692 Registered: 05-2005 |
she is indeed beautiful Stuart and I have only just recovered from the last crush, perhaps you can keep me informed as to when her clothing remains in place and when it doesnt and I could view some of the episodes accordingly | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 693 Registered: 05-2005 |
I am kidding of course, I would never be so shallow or sexist | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 771 Registered: 10-2006 |
God forbid. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 779 Registered: 04-2005 |
Thanks a lot for the link for the B & S documentary ! A most enjoyable hour, and they seemed like a nice bunch of people. Those first few EPs and couple of albums were so wonderful, but then I completely lost interest in them. Like Kevin, I recognised quite a few Glasgow landmarks. I've even played the Halt Bar with my first band, and my grandmother was from Hyndland. Didn't notice any mention of ex-Associate Alan Rankine during the "Tigermilk" recording, which struck me as odd. Wasn't he a lecturer on the course at Stow ? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3149 Registered: 03-2005 |
I finally watched it. I'd felt that Belle & Sebastian had been a bit over-played on my old iPod so after 8 months with the new one I havn't yet put any of their work on it. I think it's time to do so now. Those first few albums are pretty evergreen, certainly an influence on me. |