Dark Star was a film of it's time.
You'd have to be stuck in 1974 to think it's owt special these days.
Dark Star was a film of it's time.
You'd have to be stuck in 1974 to think it's owt special these days.
Originally Posted by shaunaneto
Oh dear. And I watched Wings last evening (William Wellman 1927).
I was surprised by the Hunger Games films, I really enjoyed them. Worth watching if you haven't already
Incidentally, i found The Hunger Games to very 70s in feel.
Watched the 1960 School for Scoundrels for the umpteenth time last week, it never fails to amuse.
OK OK Back to 2014.
The Grand Budapest Hotel.
"...a fanatical and fantastically detailed, sugar-iced, calorie-stuffed, gleefully overripe Sachertorte of a film (Sight & Sound)
And laugh-out-loud funny.
Glad it's good, I want to see go and see it, I really like Wes Anderson films.
Aye, I've had my eye of this as well.
Suspect I'll wait until it's out on rental.
At the risk of being thought pompous, patronising and pretentious....
It is ironic, is it not?, that "Hollywood" has spent $zillions (with the camera makers) investing in superb high-tech Dolby sound, digital filmmaking technology etc etc for much of its product to be watched on televisions, or at the nadir, postage stamp sized screens on the back of seats in aeroplanes or on mobile phones.
The Grand Budapest Hotel was actually shot in three different ratios; 2.35:1, 1.85:1 and the classic 1.33;1 to differentiate (or illustrate) the three different time lines in the film. A subtlety that may be lost on a television?
Still, it is said that his Bobness used to play the demos of his new recordings on a cheap tape recorder so he could final-mix his recordings as they would most often be listened to by his audience.
Which in the case of Knocked Out Loaded or Under The Red Sky may have been a small mercy.
At the risk of being thought pompous, patronising and pretentious....
You'd never do such a thing Graham.
This may well be true, but I resent the cinema experience enough that it'd probably be lost there too. At least at home I'm better able to envelop myself in the storyline. Rather than muttering darkly about how cinemas (I mean other people) annoy me. Too easily distracted, the story of my life and my school report cards.A subtlety that may be lost on a television?
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