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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7747 Registered: 05-2005 |
Better Call Saul, series 2 and 11.22.63. The latter just ended last night. It was a powerful ending to a very good series. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7765 Registered: 05-2005 |
Finally saw Hail, Caesar! today. I really liked it. No classic, but even good Coen brothers is better than most directors' best. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7798 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm just back from seeing a fantastic documentary called Sherpa. It's well worth seeing. Sixteen dead Sherpas and all most of the western arseholes care about is ticking Everest off their bucket list. Trailer here https://vimeo.com/139654857 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7810 Registered: 05-2005 |
Seasons 1 and 2 of Ray Donovan. Anyone else here seen it? I'm looking forward to season 3. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7840 Registered: 05-2005 |
When We Were Kings, the brilliant documentary on the Ali-Foreman rumble in the jungle. I saw it in the cinema 20 years ago and just came across it on ABC 2 by chance tonight when flicking through the channels. What a film. Just as good as I'd remembered. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 358 Registered: 08-2005 |
The round-ball game now - England vs Russia. We'll see if they can emulate the rugby team and the Welsh football team. I have my doubts. Then again, I always have my doubts... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7866 Registered: 05-2005 |
New Courtney Barnett video with a lot of guest stars, including Paul Kelly and Sleater Kinney. http://themusic.com.au/news/all/2016/07/ 07/watch-courtney-barnett-piss-off-a-bow ling-paul-kelly-in-new-cameo-filled-musi c-vid/ | ||
| fsh Member Username: Fsh Post Number: 320 Registered: 05-2005 |
For anyone in EU, there's a special offer in Aldi this week. If you buy 'Debbie does Dallas' Boxset Vol 1 you'll get Vol 2 free. Get down there quick, they're moving faster than tickets for a Bingo's Handjob reunion gig. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 367 Registered: 08-2005 |
fsh, that's one of the most surreal posts I've seen on this forum – I don't even know where to start... | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1087 Registered: 04-2005 |
Alain Bashung - La Nuit Je Mens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o85WUSqw oeU A live version from French TV...faster, more "muscular"...I love his harmonica solos. Wild guitar. Superb. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3666 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thank you for this Andrew. This is the song that first reeled me in. He's done so many wildly different and great versions of his songs. In the succeeding years I've found myself more and more happy when a Bashung track pops up on one of my iPods in shuffle mode. Some of the records that were originally too musically obtuse for me, like "Figure Imposee," when taken one song at a time prove to be fascinating. And well, I'm just so jealous of his hair. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1295 Registered: 10-2006 |
Such a brilliant song, and such a weirdly evocative lyric too. Always good to be reminded of AB. Wish to god I'd discovered him sooner though. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1800 Registered: 08-2006 |
Me, I'm knee deep in the US political conventions. From my perspective, the Dems have been such a balm after the slapdash shitshow Team Trump cobbled together. When you're dragging Chachi out of his watery grave of irrelevance, you're really plumbing the depths. And the Obamas - how nice to be reminded there are smart, optimistic people with a vision for the country that doesn't involve inviting Putin into our IT infrastructure and walling the entire nation off to everyone else. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7872 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rob, Trump, with almost everything he says, seems to be daring America to turn against him en masse. But it hasn't happened. I hope I'm wrong, but I think it's going to be very close and it's going to turn on how Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania vote. In case you haven't seen it, this is a good reminder of Trump's history. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arch ive/2016/06/donald-trump-scandals/474726 / | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 371 Registered: 08-2005 |
Olympic cycling men's road race - come on GB! | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 373 Registered: 08-2005 |
Olympic track cycling - bit of a theme here... | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1089 Registered: 04-2005 |
Leonard Cohen and Sonny Rollins : Who By Fire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2T274bX IxU Currently reading Sylvie Simmons' biography of Cohen and had never heard before of this somewhat unlikely coupling from US TV. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 374 Registered: 08-2005 |
Olympic track cycling - Britain beating Oz in the team pursuit. I'm not that patriotic but I do support our cyclists. Big time! RESULT!!!! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3672 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thank you for that Andrew. Cohen from his peak fills me with awe. The coupling with Rollins is, well, Cohenesque. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 393 Registered: 05-2005 |
Simon, I'm godfather of the rwandese mountain bike team trainer. The race of the selected biker for the games is on sunday I think. I doubt he (Nathan Byukusenge) has a chance of medal, but he'll represent nicely his country. https://mtbwal.blogspot.be/2016/07/six-q uestions-simon-hupperetz-qui-sera.html | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7894 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks, Andrew, that Cohen, Rollins video is fantastic. I have Sylvie Simmons's book but haven't read it yet. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 376 Registered: 08-2005 |
TROU, I shall be watching (unless it clashes with me competing in a triathlon - something I do about every two or three years now, and at a very, very, VERY amateur level) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7897 Registered: 05-2005 |
Simon, I'm pretty sure you could beat any of us. We should all get together some time and have a Go-lympics. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1300 Registered: 10-2006 |
The Complete Cheers My wife, though a big Frasier fan, had never seen this before, and I only saw the Diane years, so it’s been pretty good, in a world of ISIS and earthquakes, to get back to the simpler world of Woody & Cliff et al. Holding up well too, thanks to a sharp team of writers and a glorious comic ensemble. Works least well when trying to sit-com, and best when indulging the characters with superb bar backchat. Favourite episode so far, the 4th season one introducing Bebe Neuwirth as the wonderful Lilith – not a dud line in the whole thing. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7929 Registered: 05-2005 |
ABC just had a great two hours of crime mysteries; the start of season two of the excellent Australian show The Code, and the start of season two of the English/French co-production The Tunnel (which is based on the Swedish/Danish co-production The Bridge). Based on the first episode, The Tunnel is getting a lot closer to the brilliance of The Bridge this time round. My Thursday nights are locked in for the next couple of months. | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 311 Registered: 06-2005 |
The Night Of A remake of an old BBC series that I didn't see called Criminal Justice but everything about this series was real quality, might go back to the original now. Hope there's a second season. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7960 Registered: 05-2005 |
Captain Fantastic, which is fantastic. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1102 Registered: 04-2005 |
François Ozon - Frantz Excellent film with an interesting mix of colour sections and B and W. Apparently liberally inspired by a 1930s Ernst Lubitsch film 'Broken Lullabye'. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1107 Registered: 04-2005 |
Pentangle live in Oslo in 1968 https://tv.nrk.no/serie/visefestival-i-k roa/FBUA07005768/07-06-1968 Amazing the things that continue to turn up on the net ! I came across this on the great "Doom & Gloom From the Tomb" blog...as it says it is quite difficult to imagine today how absolutely revolutionary this mixture of styles (jazz/folk) must have been at that time. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7978 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dream Syndicate gig https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk3IGy3w gwE | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1109 Registered: 04-2005 |
Xavier Dolan's "Juste la fin du monde" Really not sure what to make of this film, after the genius that was his last movie ("Mommy"). Based on a stage play, the atomsphere is intensely claustrophobic and oppressive. But the acting is incredible. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1110 Registered: 04-2005 |
"Hell or High Water" Film by David Mackenzie, with Jeff Bridges looking very old! It tries to get that early 70s American indie feel, but fails dismally. "Badlands" it ain't. We were 3 in the cinema. | ||
| Fred Tadrowski Member Username: Ftadrowski Post Number: 36 Registered: 03-2015 |
Yesterday, I watched the "The Servant" for the first time - a menacing film with great writing, acting and cinematography. Last week I watched "The Apartment" and last year I watched "The Go-Between". I recommend all three films to everyone out there. I have been a fan of the Go-Betweens since 1983, but it is because of this message board that I also have been listening to the Apartments and the Servants for the past couple of years. I believe the 11th Rule of Rock n Roll should be that "the best bands are named after classic films or novels". | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8041 Registered: 05-2005 |
Seasons 1 and 2 of Veep. And I watched season 5 on a plane a few weeks ago. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8046 Registered: 05-2005 |
Season 4 of Ray Donovan. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1120 Registered: 04-2005 |
“No woman can truly love a man who listens to Phil Collins” “Sing Street”, a wee charmer of a film set in Dublin in 1985. Boy forms band to win girl. Manages to juggle between out-and-out comedy, moments of supreme tweeness and a darker side...no mean feat. Wonderful acting by a mainly unknown cast. Swift mention for the cinema where I saw it. Utopia (there are a few round France) in the center of Bordeaux is a converted church with 5 screens and a fab café. Absolutely no adverts and patrons are requested to stay until the credits are finished out of respect to the filmmakers. Amazing and varied programming. I went to the one in Toulouse (an old railway station) a few years ago and they were showing the Scottish filmmaker Bill Douglas’ trilogy. Given that there are probably only about 7 people in Scotland who know these gems it was quite a surprise. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1121 Registered: 04-2005 |
Fred, Second you on that selection ! Been a while since I last watched "The Servant", but "The Apartment" is one of my favourite's. Wilder at his best, and Lemmon and MacLaine are perfect in their roles. And I have an Australian (naturally) film poster for "The Go-Between" that hangs in my living room. Before buying it I didn't know that the film had won the "Palme d'Or" at Cannes in '71. Nice thought for the 11th Rule ! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8082 Registered: 05-2005 |
ESPN's OJ Simpson: Made In America, which is being shown on SBS in Australia. It's stunning, one of the greatest documentaries I've ever seen. I never understood at the time and I still don't understand today how anyone could think for one second Simpson was not the murderer. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1335 Registered: 10-2006 |
Station Agent Two Days, One Night Two “small” films with a positive edge, both showing how little you really need – well, once you have an idea and a good script – to make a decent film. Station agent, from 2003, has a soon-to-be-stars cast with Peter Dinklage, Bobby Cannavale, John Slattery, Michelle Williams and Patricia Clarkson (never quite a star, perhaps, but always brilliant). A slight story, beautifully told. Two days (2014) has Marion Cotillard dressing down in the suburbs as far as she can while still looking gorgeous. One of those films that takes the simplest of themes, a kitchen sink script and a bunch of fine actors and makes something brilliant out of it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8092 Registered: 05-2005 |
I saw Ststion Agent when it came out. Your description of it being "a slight story, beautifully told" is perfect. I'd forgotten John Slattery was in it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8100 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just back from seeing a French film called Rosemarie Blum. Best film I've seen in years. Andrew, or anyone else, have you seen it? | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1126 Registered: 04-2005 |
Pádraig No, missed that one. Just watched the trailer...any film with Belle and Sebastian on the soundtrack must be worth checking out ! | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1127 Registered: 04-2005 |
Very good Pádraig! Apparently a first film for the director and the 3 main leads are all great. I knew that the title rang a bell. It was because it had won "Best Film" in 2015 from the Sarlat Film Festival, where it was premiered. Our local lycée offers a cinema option and the students organise the film festival every year. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8101 Registered: 05-2005 |
And it's Rosalie Blum, of course. You're polite not to have corrected me! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8102 Registered: 05-2005 |
Did you watch it in between your two posts? | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1128 Registered: 04-2005 |
Yes Pádraig, I tracked it down on a less-than-legal streaming site I have to confess. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8105 Registered: 05-2005 |
I was blown away by the film. Every actor in it was superb. As was the direction, choice of music, cinematography, script, everything. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8113 Registered: 05-2005 |
Olivier Giroud's incredible goal for Arsenal against Crystal Palace. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfnWqmZy Sww |