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When I was around 8 years old, I gave up the cub scouts because it was on the same night as Star Trek. This would have been 1971, I suppose. I loved it, but I never loved it obsessively. It fitted with my love of science fiction, but I didn’t rate it highly enough to [...]
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In Film Club at school this week, we watched Air Guitar Nation, the 2006* documentary about the 2003 World Air Guitar Championships in Oulu, Finland, which were entered that yearby Americans for the first time.
I got three punters, all KS5-ers, and we all enjoyed it a great deal. It’s not only funny, warm, full of [...]
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Three Sacred Cows
1. There’s an interview with Phil Spector on TV tonight, being trailed as his first for three centuries. Ironically, one of the last he gave – for Tony Palmer’s All You Need is Love series – was on a couple of weeks ago. So not that long really.
Radio Times describes Phil as the greatest record [...]
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Spirit of the Star Trek
This week’s film in Film Club was The Spirit of the Beehive, a 1973 Spanish film set during the aftermath of the Civil War. A travelling projectionist shows James Whale’s Frankenstein in an isolated village. Two young girls, sisters, watch the film. Meanwhile, their beautiful mother sends a love letter to an absent lover, while [...]
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Waitress
Waitress was written and directed by Adrienne Shelly, who was murdered in the apartment she used as an office in New York City shortly after the film was accepted at the Sundance Film Festival. It didn’t cost much to make, and was eventually bought by Fox Searchlight for around $4 or $5 million, taking over [...]
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We are a Medium
I bought a new belt, as do-it-yourself belt holes tend to be unsatisfactory. As of right now, I’m officially a Medium in belt sizes, not a Large. This is because I have dropped around 7kg (a stone… ish) since starting WeightWatchers (online) just under 6 weeks ago.
You don’t need to be a maths genius to [...]
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rose, originally uploaded by mcmrbt.
Further to the recent Dire Straits controversy, I decided to spend the 79 pence to get the 8.5 minute live version (from Alchemy). Most of the extra minutes on the recording are shockingly bad 80s stadium rock filler, so the core of the song itself is basically the same.
On my main [...]
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Tags: dire straits, name of the rose, novels, romeo and juliet, semiotics, umberto eco
Juno vs. Wade
Went to see Juno last night, one of three films released this week given five-star reviews by such outlets as the Guardian. Even Kermode was mostly positive about it.
I enjoyed the film. Ellen Page is a star, and the one-liners in the script were funny. Interesting question in my mind as to audience, given the [...]
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Serenity – Shot by Shot
For ‘A’ level media, it’s a requirement that under the “film and broadcast fiction” module, we study contemporary examples. Contemporary is defined by the exam board as having been released in the 5 years prior to the beginning of the course.
This is a little bit of a challenge to me, as I haven’t actually paid [...]
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At last, at last, at last
The Beatles’ Help! is coming out on DVD. I only realised this after watching the 30-minute “making of” special feature docu on BBC2 this week.
Long overdue. Nonsense plot, but fantastic photography and their best film in terms of music (and music videos).
All this and Eleanor Bron in pink leather.
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p.s. It’s on telly this weekend. [...]
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