| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6366 Registered: 05-2005 |
Season 4 of Peep Show. Season 5 to follow later. There are so many laugh out loud moments. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6384 Registered: 05-2005 |
Walter Mitty in the cinema. Hmmm. Spectacular scenery, but an almost non-existent plot. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 863 Registered: 04-2005 |
The '84 BBC documentary about the Everly Brothers "Songs of Innocence and Experience". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5puvf9vus kM&feature=youtu.be&a I think it was this TV program that first woke me up to the true genius of Phil and Don. Someone once said that there was almost a third voice that emerged from their beautiful harmonies. RIP Phil | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6394 Registered: 05-2005 |
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa. Pretty good. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 861 Registered: 05-2005 |
I thought it was brilliant and bloody hilarious | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6397 Registered: 05-2005 |
House Of Cards, US version. Nobody, so far anyway, is as evil as Francis Urquhart in the UK original, it's just that there are so many more evil people. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3329 Registered: 03-2005 |
I finally got around to watching the BBC documentary on the Everly Brothers. Thanks for the link Andrew. It was excellent. To answer your question on another thread as to why their music has aged so well, I'd say a part of it is their usually crystalline recordings. Another thing is that they generally used very simple arrangements which means that there's less room to pursue gimmicky musical fads. And, yes, the music draws from some of the more durable musical traditions in the U.S. including both country and blues but without ever bogging down in a purist approach. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6404 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just watched a documentary DVD on the making of Nirvana's Nevermind album. It's a very interesting insight, especially Butch Vig's contributions. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 864 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Byrd Who Flew Alone brilliant Gene Clark documentary | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3330 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ooh. Thank you for the heads up, Cosmo. Off to Amazon . . . . | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 677 Registered: 03-2007 |
Not available on Amazon at the moment as far as I can tell. Try here. http://www.foursunsproductions.com | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6413 Registered: 05-2005 |
I took my daughter to see Frozen this afternoon. I liked it a lot. GIven the storyline, it was not a surprise to see that the writer is a woman. There was a funny Mickey Mouse cartoon shown before it too. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 865 Registered: 05-2005 |
I got the Gene Clark from Four Suns, quick delivery and no problems,they take paypal. It's definitely worth seeing | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 867 Registered: 05-2005 |
A Cowboy in Sweden Lee Hazlewood TV special | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6419 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just watched the two episodes of Borgen on the SBS website. Both brilliant. | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 231 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Bridge Series 2. Latest nordic drama on Saturday night BBC. Alternately gripping and ludicrous (avoiding spoilers here but some of the things Saga is asked to do when she is so emotionally oblivious are outlandishly irresponsible). Fortunately the gripping parts outweigh the ludicrous parts to make this a great watch. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 958 Registered: 10-2006 |
Ah looking forward to that, Mr Gull. The first series was also both gripping and ludicrous but still made for excellent TV. Meanwhile, having skipped the first two series based closely on the highly enjoyable Danish original, I have now caught up with the (American) Killing, season 3, which breaks free from its European narrative origins but sticks closely to the stylistic touches (including jumpers), and in Mireille Enos has a wonderfully mould-breaking central female figure for American cop shows, in that a career as a top model was perhaps not an alternative to the police. The Yanks also craftily held on to her engaging, gangly partner, unlike the Danes, who rather shot themselves in the foot on that point, since this core relationship is a real strength of the story. And Peter Sarsgaard rips up the screen in the performance of a lifetime. I could do without another bloody serial killer, but the whole thing is so beautifully developed as to be forgiveable. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6423 Registered: 05-2005 |
Inside Llewyn Davis. Not quite as good as I'd hoped, but still very good. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6425 Registered: 05-2005 |
Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me. Quite brilliant. I leant a lot from it, which is surely the point of a documentary. And it has further whetted my appetite for the performance of Big Star's Third next Thursday. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6429 Registered: 05-2005 |
I have just watched season 1, episode 1 of Breaking Bad. For years people have recommended this show to me, but I waited until it had ended and bought a box set of the entire thing. Now I see why people thought I'd like it. It's brilliant. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 960 Registered: 10-2006 |
Hours of fun ahead of you, Padraig! | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 534 Registered: 01-2007 |
The Bridge 2 not disappointing and have breaking bad but not started it yet. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6436 Registered: 05-2005 |
Breaking Bad is quite different to what I'd expected, seeing as I'd purposely avoided knowing anything about it, knowing that one day I'd start watching it. It's far darker, more nuanced and complex than I'd imagined it would be. Nothing is black and white, there are a thousand shades of grey. It's great. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 966 Registered: 10-2006 |
Moneyball. Two things high up on my list of life's incomprehensibilities must be baseball & statistics but this film gripped from start to finish, no doubt thanks to the wonderful Mr Sorkin's hand in the script. And how great is Kerris Dorsey, also brilliant in a recent Mad Men episode? Speaking of which, you'd think Don's massive consumption of fags & booze would by now be severely troubling his erectile tissue; but it seems not. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6460 Registered: 05-2005 |
I finished watching Breaking Bad last night (after an eight marathon watching of the final season). Magnificent. The writing and performances are so brilliant. And what an ending. Glad I knew nothing about it beforehand. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6467 Registered: 05-2005 |
Second and final part of Never Tear Us Apart, a drama about the history of INXS. I thought it was very good. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 879 Registered: 05-2005 |
Aningaaq - gorgeous short film which is the opposite side to conversation on radio that Sandra Bullock character has in Gravity http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/w atch-jonas-cuarons-7-minute-gravity-spin -off-short-aningaaq-in-full-20131120 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6470 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks Cosmo. I hadn't heard of this before. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6480 Registered: 05-2005 |
I watched the first episode of The Killing last night. Bacon, pastries, quality TV dramas, is there nothing the Danes don't do well? | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 979 Registered: 10-2006 |
Not too hot at looking after giraffes, maybe... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6481 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yeah! Giraffe-hating fukers. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 872 Registered: 04-2005 |
Jim Jarmusch's 1999 "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai" Excellent! I am not the most ardent admirer of rap but the soundtrack by RZA works well and is very atomspheric. I have a little Jarmusch related tale! Many years ago in Edinburgh's trendy arts cinema I worked alongside a girl, for whom everything just seemed to fall easily into place. On announcing that she was going off to live in New York, people started telling her how they'd heard it was so hard to find an good apartment there, so expensive etc. So you guessed ? She easily found a wonderful cheap apartment through an advert in a deli on her second day in the city. She moved in and that first evening the doorbell rang and a guy was standing there. "Hi, just wanted to say hello, as I'm your neighbour from upstairs. If you would like to come out tonight, there's a group of going to the premier of a film that I made". It was Jim Jarmusch and the film was "Mystery Train". | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6486 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nice story Andrew. Have you googled her name to find out where she's landed now? | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 873 Registered: 04-2005 |
Pádraig, last news was that she had a high-flying job with MTV and that her husband was a director of music videos...but I can't remember her surname at all ! Last night watched the 1961 Italian film "Una vita difficile" ("A Difficult Life") by Dino Risi. DVD courtesy of this board's resident in Italy ! Very enjoyable, an interesting mix of a fictional story and real political events in post second war Italy. Italian cinema remains a largely unknown quantity to me, but this has given me a desire to investigate further. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 982 Registered: 10-2006 |
Glad you liked it! Two other great Sordi films to look out for are La Grande Guerre (La grande guerra)and La Grande Pagaille (Tutti a casa). Few countries have been blessed with an actor who seems able to put the nation's very soul, with all its graces and weaknesses, right up there on the screen. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6502 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bruce Springsteen does Staying Alive in Brisbane. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs-7N8Y1 s68 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6503 Registered: 05-2005 |
And then does Highway To Hell (with Eddie Vedder). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s25WLbQK MCU | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6520 Registered: 05-2005 |
That Mitchell & Webb Look, season 2 | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1133 Registered: 08-2004 |
Watched the first episode of True Detectves last night. Twas a little disappointing and overtly grim. | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 234 Registered: 05-2005 |
Breaking Bad at last. Just finished Series 1. Enjoyed the Lego Movie. Madcap affair and a good Dad and Lad movie seen in our local cinema on a Sunday morning sitting on a sofa - now that's a good way to watch movies. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6532 Registered: 05-2005 |
Season 2 of The Killing. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6536 Registered: 05-2005 |
Watching Sydney vs Brisbane, and being hugely annoyed at the halfwit Fox sports commentator who thinks Berisha was unfairly sent off for his heinous studs up tackle. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6546 Registered: 05-2005 |
Top Of The Lake. Episode 1 is very promising. And it features an actor I met in Glasgow on the day of my 30th birthday. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2543 Registered: 01-2005 |
Andrew, have you seen "La Samourai" by Jean-Pierre Melville? Jarmusch's 1999 "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai" was an homage to it and some of Melville's other films. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 898 Registered: 05-2005 |
Michael, I am a fan of Melville's Le Samourai as I am of Ghost Dog, the lineage of the existential lone assassin goes back to This Gun For Hire - Frank Tuttle's noir masterpiece from 1942. I believe Melville was paying homage to that with Le Samourai. Do you know the film? I highly recommended it | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6570 Registered: 05-2005 |
Adelaide Utd v Melbourne Heart. 1-2 at half-time. What a first half. A goal after 26 seconds, two penalties, one missed, and a sending off. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6580 Registered: 05-2005 |
Episode three of Top Of The Lake. Elizabeth Moss is a great actress, but having her trying to do the accent of a character who has spent half her life in New Zealand and half in Australia, can be excruciating. Sometimes I just can't figure out what she's saying. They're are subtitles available, but I don't want to use them when they're speaking English, albeit oddly. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6589 Registered: 05-2005 |
A brilliant documentary about the Flying Nun label http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjUDemQFz nA | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 888 Registered: 04-2005 |
Julien Temple's wonderful documentary about Detroit. Utterly fascinating account of the Motor City and its decline. And all that with a great soundtrack. http://documentarystorm.com/requiem-for- detroit/ | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6600 Registered: 05-2005 |
R.E.M. live in Germany, October 1985 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBVVtNnH eEg |