Search results

Yes - and in addition: my local am-dram company once produced a stage version. Excellent show, because it's a gripping story with a very effective group of characters. Watching it live, though, in a pros arch theatre, is a default masterclass of film-making: camera angles, close-ups and other...

Eek... indeed, then - and I'll raise you a gah! OK I know Hitchcock has a slightly shady reputation for treating actors as as cattle overall and specifically creating the role of the Hitchcock blonde, but I think I'm enough of a feminist to say "jobsworth". Grace Kelly ended up a card-carrying...

QUOTE="duzit, post: 7637, member: 142"]just go with it... OK, thanks, next time it comes my way I'll just go with the flow... by now I think you're on my short list of advisors to be trusted. :emoji_blush:

Damn! Just how many all-time classics has Mr Hoffman made over the decades? Is this today a film a bit unfortunately overshadowed by the "try acting dear boy" anecdote? It's gripping, it's horrifying and magnificent - and my next dental checkup is over three months away, thank you for asking...

Woof! 21st century shitstorm alert! But, yes, point taken. Way back then - early sixties - not even sure marital rape was legally a "thing". I think you raise a very useful point about historical context in watching any older film (or well-researched historical film) today. I remember lots of...

Really? I never knew that, and can't think why they would. First saw this, probably way too young, so the fact Marnie has a complicated back-story about S.E.X. was gob-smacking to someone still reading "Jackie". Also the first film I saw where Sean Connery demonstrated he wasn't just Bond. Ages...

Did this all go wrong because I didn't see it on the big screen? Happy adolescent memories of the comics + Branagh directing were so promising - but when it cropped up on TV I zoned out and switched off about 15 minutes in - at least a cavalcade of (I think) disaffected bods were crossing a...

Hi duzit - well, you just expanded my knowledge of Stuff very helpfully - and given that my laptop is about to qualify for its bus-pass, I need to be scoping out the options for a serious kit upgrade. (Its not that it's still coin-operated, just that it only takes pre-decimal money.)

Yes, my knowledge of crustacean-based cinema is also sadly lacking - (remind me never to tell you about my first experience of an actual lobster... but I could make a bizarre slapstick comedy about it - based on which bits you actually EAT - maybe someone already did?) The excellent Ms Fries...

nil carborundum illegitemis

Alarmed (but not altogether surprised) by the cat, very spooked by the spider (but much better at coping with them these days), but found the ending unforgettably disturbing. I first saw it as part of genuine all night science-fiction marathon, where it was not as outright scary as the original...

Delicacy forbids much by way of further enquiry, but I do hope the moist cold nose of the pup stays well away from both your sets of kidneys under the duvet. It's a hell of a rude awakening, isn't it?

Likewise to the both of you- fascinating ideas, but maybe still room for a few other possible perspectives on Elrond: Given he's still fairly young (for an elf) back then - he just wasn't mature enough to think through the consequences... Given that he's half-elven, he might have been...

I'm glad - but why you call your computer a Nook?

Thanks for the information, Tuco - now I get it! - Kirk Douglas (happy 100th !) also has interesting things to say about how a nice Jewish boy ends up being an heroic Viking, heroic Roman, heroic Dutch artist - well, you get the idea - in his long career did he EVER play an actual Jewish character?

And you know that pointless little removable centrepiece in the lid of a blender? (They say it's for drizzlng oil into a mayonaisse or adding individual ice cubes to a cocktail, but I know better now.)The day not to check it's secure is NOT the day you're dealing with boiling borscht - first the...

Makes total sense - of course who hasn't been a student who had to resort to toothpaste on toast after running out of jam or peanut butter? (Or so I hear.) And I'm not sure about the oil thing - tried it both ways and it seems to make no difference - but any self-respecting Italian housewife...

And that feels like a very, very long time ago - at least I feel very, very much older and wiser, but not necessarily anywhere near drunk enough. Hi Hux - thanks for the comment here - I just left you a very brief message elsewhere about pasta - couldn't immediately grab my Italian dictionary...

Plural for "pasta"?

Roddenberry, remember him? I'll leave it at that my friend - your deterrent pedantry depresses me as much as your lack of anything approaching a sense of humour, proportion, manners or knowing when to quit.