https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6N8ADDDs0k
― Don't Renege On (Our Dub) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 15 May 2022 12:23 (one year ago) link
a matter of life and death is insane (this is a compliment). the set designs, the special effects, the flamboyant french angel, naked boy tending goats on a beach, giant camera obscura, david niven's face, doctor racing around on a motorcycle, ping pong, time freezes, giant escalator through the universe, the detour into a court proceeding about the character of british people vs american people. not what i was expecting at all.
― na (NA), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 14:07 (two months ago) link
OTM. But what was it that you did expect exactly?
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 17:35 (two months ago) link
idk, something a little more traditionally classy/romantic/understated?
― na (NA), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 18:07 (two months ago) link
Have you seen other films by The Archers before?
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 18:15 (two months ago) link
I watched The Red Shoes last week and it wasn't quite as insane as I'd been hoping.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 18:22 (two months ago) link
I've heard that complaint before, but to me it's a perfectly balanced work. Almost a concerto in that regard.
― badpee pooper (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 18:42 (two months ago) link
A Matter of Life and Death, tho, is of course bugfuck insane
Peeping Tom too.
I Know Where I'm Going! is in the classic/romantic vein, more toned down than later Archers productions; to me it's the foundational text for every one of those Wacky Hugh Grant English Comedies in mid '90s theaters.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 19:29 (two months ago) link
i've seen a number of them:peeping tom - multiple times, classic obvblack narcissus - saw a long time ago but remember being impressed, probably due for a rewatchcolonel blimp - just watched a few months ago, excellent, more traditional than a matter of life and death but more effective narrativelyi know where i'm going - watched sometime in the past few years, did not make an impession
i started the red shoes at some point but was not in the mood for it and never went back to it
― na (NA), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 19:59 (two months ago) link
Watched A Castle for Christmas last year, which is like a transatlantic pop-trash version of I Know. Was trying to puzzle out whether it was deliberate, got nowhere.
― woof, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 20:44 (two months ago) link
I'd disagree about the Grant films just bcz I know is still a pretty weird landscape, curses, dogs, eagles, whirlpools film, to the point where the romance keeps fading into the background for me.
― woof, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 20:49 (two months ago) link
Yeah it's a long way from Hugh Grant.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 21:00 (two months ago) link
A Canterbury Tale really is something special.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 21:01 (two months ago) link
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― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Well, yeah, I meant the template, not the narrative complications. Hugh Grant would never muss his hair.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 21:13 (two months ago) link
The Red Shoes is their best and one of the best movies ever made.
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 23:05 (two months ago) link
Did anyone else read the memoir by Leo Marx, non-Bletchley Park WWII cryptographer and screenwriter of Peeping Tom?
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 23:52 (two months ago) link
Leo Marks, sorry
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 February 2024 00:18 (two months ago) link
*Not* the author of *The Machine in the Garden* presumably?
Although it's a bit all over the shop - formally, tonally - A Canterbury Tale is the one I think about most often.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Thursday, 8 February 2024 21:07 (two months ago) link
a canterbury tale is my fav by a fair margin
― ciderpress, Thursday, 8 February 2024 21:09 (two months ago) link
Same, there's nothing else like it
― the most powerful man in cornish politics (Matt #2), Thursday, 8 February 2024 21:10 (two months ago) link