crypto - yeah, I figured you would have seen some other of his films, not just being outraged at you failing to respect the only Doctor Who to win an Oscar (btw he was definitely "famous" before The Thick Of It)
― shivers me timber (sic), Sunday, 24 January 2021 23:20 (three years ago) link
this movie is a tonic. I watched it twice tonight.
― fbclid=fhAZ3l (f. hazel), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 07:00 (three years ago) link
If you love Local Hero there's a strong chance you love Limbo, which I saw tonight. I found it extremely moving.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pdLSXjEAoc
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 5 August 2021 22:56 (two years ago) link
Amir El-Masry's central performance is a miracle.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 5 August 2021 22:58 (two years ago) link
Doesn’t seem to be streaming in this US,*sigh*
― No Particular Place to POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 August 2021 23:17 (two years ago) link
It's going to be on Mubi soon, they bought it for distribution.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 7 August 2021 23:53 (two years ago) link
Think I saw it was already on MUBI Ireland & UK.
― No Particular Place to POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 August 2021 00:02 (two years ago) link
It's not yet, I just checked, but I think it's coming on to the platform when the cinema run ends in a week or so.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Sunday, 8 August 2021 00:08 (two years ago) link
Some of the humour in this is a bit too broad and doesn't quite land (although my cinema partner disagreed) but I can forgive it a lot because it is so deeply felt and complex as an entire work. I have a very specific niggle about the Scottish accents in it too - Hebridean accents are very specific but rarely deployed here - but again, the same, I forgive it.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Sunday, 8 August 2021 00:15 (two years ago) link
It would have just elevated it to hear actual outer-hebrides accents on screen though. It would have been nice to hear some Gaelic too. A lot of Oueter-Hebridean-Scots don't, won't or even can't speak English. I was shocked to go there on a theatre tour and encounter people who can't speak English and only know Gaelic.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Sunday, 8 August 2021 00:19 (two years ago) link
but there's the Lancaster accent
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 8 August 2021 00:22 (two years ago) link
Amazing to think there are Scots who can't speak English but it's true, there are (though it's very rare, now).
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Sunday, 8 August 2021 00:23 (two years ago) link
Is that a reference to something, Alf?
I think Soto is referring to Burt Lancaster, not to the English region Lancaster, or to the dialect of anyone in the film Limbo
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Sunday, 8 August 2021 00:36 (two years ago) link
ah!
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Sunday, 8 August 2021 01:30 (two years ago) link
Thanks, my darling.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Sunday, 8 August 2021 01:53 (two years ago) link
You’re my eyes and ears!
― No Particular Place to POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 August 2021 08:57 (two years ago) link
Because a little time is all we have left.
― it is to laugh, like so, ha! (Aimless), Sunday, 8 August 2021 18:34 (two years ago) link