Multi Media Discussion
tomierna
(Admin)
– December 07, 2007 09:41PM
Film, TV, video DVD, DV, Flash. Put the Multi to use here, folks.
El Jeffe
– March 02, 2012 04:45PM
What a journey.
Just enjoyed Sherlock Holmes (2).
Satanic pony!! hilarious.
Jeff Cooper
– March 02, 2012 06:13PM
Just saw "The Artist." I don't know that it's the best film of 2011, but it's a lot of fun; I've seen just enough old movies to recognize some of the conventions. Very strange to see Penelope Ann Miller--I don't think I've seen her since "Year of the Comet" in 1992.
ddt
– March 06, 2012 05:16PM
Well, I wasn't bowled over by it. Predictable, the lead seemed more verrrrry French than Hollywood. But it was fun to check off the mandatory location shots I recognized: the Paramount gate, the Bradbury bulding, Oakwood Street (though most shots were on a lot, of course). It was good to see my old cycling pal Jamie Cromwell, though they didn't do much with him.
ddt
ddt
– March 06, 2012 05:34PM
dpbd: and though the actress playing Peppy is gorgeous, she and the lead's dancing styles so do not mesh well. Very distracting.
ddt
Jeff Cooper
– March 06, 2012 06:36PM
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ddt
dpbd: and though the actress playing Peppy is gorgeous, she and the lead's dancing styles so do not mesh well. Very distracting.
ddt
I didn't notice--I was too focused on the fact that she was gorgeous.
"Old cycling pal"?
ddt
– March 06, 2012 07:24PM
Yeah, Jamie used to do this group ride that started in Burbank -- and he'd kick ass! He disappeared for a few months, once. When he showed up again, we asked him where he'd been. "Shooting a movie." "Oh, great! What's it about?" "Uhh, a talking pig." "Oookay." And we spoke not more about it. Said movie was Babe.
ddt
Jeff Cooper
– March 07, 2012 04:46AM
You hardly needed to name it--great movie, and he was great in it.
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– March 09, 2012 08:39PM
I dunno if it was released in the US, but
Red Dog is a fantastic movie.
Not ashamed to say I shed a tear...
Jeff Cooper
– March 10, 2012 08:22PM
Sure, we've had that for years.
John Willoughby
– March 10, 2012 08:30PM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– March 10, 2012 11:15PM
Dog, not God!
Ron Burns
– March 11, 2012 03:43AM
"We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation." Voltaire
Dyslexics edition...
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– March 21, 2012 04:56PM
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– March 21, 2012 06:58PM
tliet
– March 24, 2012 02:48PM
Watched Peter Greenaway's '
A Zed and Two Noughts' tonight. The zoo they shot it at is the Rotterdam Zoo, which is literally around the corner for me.
El Jeffe
– March 24, 2012 03:55PM
What a journey.
got to say some of that is disgusting.
tliet
– March 24, 2012 09:41PM
I had only seen 'The Cook, the Thief, his Wife & her Lover' of Greenaway (20 years ago or so), but my wife told me he's somewhat occupied by the process of decay as can be seen in of his films, but especially in this one. His films are like moving paintings though. High quality visual compositions. I was especially taken by Nyman's music though, what a composer!
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/24/2012 09:52PM by tliet.
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– March 24, 2012 11:03PM
Helen Mirren was great in that movie.
Greenaway is (a fuckload more than) a bit weird though...
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– March 24, 2012 11:10PM
Been watching the HBO series of
Rome lately.
Very good...
Kinda like Game of Thrones minus the dragons and actually loosely based on historical documents
The DVD set has a subtitle setting where it pops up with all all sorts of factoids about Roman life/culture/society/history throughout each episode. You can almost pretend you're learning history while watching the sex, blood & gore...
porruka
(Admin)
– March 25, 2012 07:50AM
Rome was quite good. Too bad it was too expensive for the time and capped at two seasons. It did pave the way for Spartacus though.
