The quintessential GB post and delivered with the precision of a freshly sharpened stilettoOriginally Posted by GrahamB
I was hoping you might post more this autumn about the cinema and your beloved skiffle tunes
The quintessential GB post and delivered with the precision of a freshly sharpened stiletto
I was hoping you might post more this autumn about the cinema and your beloved skiffle tunes
Poacher turned game-keeper
Even Renaissance Man has limits to his erudition and, quaintly, "skiffle" is beyond it.The quintessential GB post and delivered with the precision of a freshly sharpened stiletto
I was hoping you might post more this autumn about the cinema and your beloved skiffle tunes
I watched "Dark Blue World" last night. A Czech film about the part played by Czech nationals in the RAF during the war and the treatment they got when they returned to Czechoslavakia at the hands of the Russians after the war (finally released from prison in 1951 but their contribution to the war was not officially recognised in their own country till 1991). Good film, I loved the bit where they were learning formation flying and basic tactics by riding about on push bikes with wings attached
Well I could extol the virtues of cinémoi.tv (an exclusively French film channel) or LOVEFILM- how else are you going to see Miklós Jancsó's The Round-Up [Zegénylegények in Hungarian] from 1965 these days?; but instead I will sing the praises of Sight & Sound, or Monthly Film Bulletin in a previous incarnation, to which I have subscribed since 1964.The quintessential GB post and delivered with the precision of a freshly sharpened stiletto
I was hoping you might post more this autumn about the cinema and your beloved skiffle tunes
Sight & Sound is a journal of record. It reviews (plot summary, critique and full credit listing) every film granted a formal release in Britain. So, although I have dozens of reference books on cinema, S&S is usually the place to start (althoughTime Out Film Guide has much to recommend it).
“Journal of record” means it is fastidious. So film lengths are recorded to the minutes,seconds and frames (ie fractions of a second).
And every year it prints “Additions & Corrections” and to cite just one: it dutifully recorded that they had omitted a . (full stop) from a film title.
Wonderful!
Well DT, what do you need to know about "skiffle"?
Haven't you got some race distances to convert to metric or something???
Not until 2012.Haven't you got some race distances to convert to metric or something???
Watched Doctor Zhivago again tonight only this time in Blu-ray. I'm a huge David Lean fan and I think this was his best film.
" I'll be a doctor for others, and a poet for
myself. "
Where Eagles Dare on C5 at the mo'.
"Broadsword calling Danny Boy"
Deep Impact now on BBC 3
"Mark: How do we set the nukes inside the comet and get out before they blow?
Orin Monash: We don't.
Andrea: Look on the bright side. We'll all have high schools named after us"
Watched Centurion last night, plays like an unsupported long distance round while being pursued by bloodthirsty picts. Some great scenery on view.
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