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TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 1:21 pm

KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab wrote:
Puskas wrote:
KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab wrote: Not even "Celebrities Dance For Comic Relief...Did We Mention It's Dancing....And For Charity....And It Has Celebrities In It...Because You Love Celebrities, Don't you?....Celebrity"? That's it's full title.
Is it on ice?

It it's not on ice, I won't watch it.

Looking forward to the upcoming series of "The Shield On Ice".

Possibly.
Is it a celebrity Shield? If it ain't, and all that jazz.

Won't work unless you put an ageing, overweight, stooge in there to attract public sympathy and fxxk the voting up. No vote like a GBP one. Now "Politics on Ice".......

Lord Kangana · Post by **Lord Kangana** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 11:18 pm

Mondovino on BBC 4.

Anyone interested in the Politics thread, and the what are you eating/drinking thread would probably like it.

Prufrock · Post by **Prufrock** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:05 am

Puskas wrote:
KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab wrote: Not even "Celebrities Dance For Comic Relief...Did We Mention It's Dancing....And For Charity....And It Has Celebrities In It...Because You Love Celebrities, Don't you?....Celebrity"? That's it's full title.

Is it on ice?

It it's not on ice, I won't watch it.

Looking forward to the upcoming series of "The Shield On Ice".

Possibly.[/quote

I think I love you.

Did I spell that right?

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 9:11 pm

I watched Benjamin Button last night and thoroughly enjoyed it too!

William the White · Post by **William the White** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 9:17 pm

TANGO - Pay attention...

Took the afternoon off and caught two movies from www.vivafilmfestival.com at the cornerhouse in manchester...

Mixed experience... both had that confidence in heightened dialogue, a lack of fear of words, a poetic edge, that i like about spanish/latin american film... Neither would have been made in hollywood, and had a v small chance in UK (Tho 'In Bruges' splashed the UK palette interestingly last year)...

The nearest to conventional story telling, hollywood style, called El Hombre de Arena (Man of Sand), was not very good - in Franco's spain a man insults a fascist officer and fins himself incarcerated in a mental hospital... this is supposed to be a ghastly place but is full of beautiful actors/actresses, has a fab garden, and can't hope for either the politics of 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' or the terrifying realism of 'Midnight Express'... Loses story in sentiment and the desire for beautiful shots of beautiful principals...

La Noche que dejo de llover (The night it ceased to rain) is the one that reminded me of 'In Bruges'... like a lot of night... old, beautiful streets in an ancient city... duologues with poetry... Set in santiago de compostela, after three months of continuous rain, a 33 year old near-virgin, only one previous lover, whose father has just died, and whose mother is beside herself with fear and love for him, who likes The Smiths and bad girls with fringes, who intends to fly to mexico in the morning, finds himself with a mysterious woman, La Rusa (the russian woman) who fills his night and lots of empty emotional spaces... And then discovers she is an eastern european prostitute paid for as a 'last night' present by his 'friends'... Well worth seeing... Very funny, sad, and violent...

Have booked mine and partner's seats for what looks like the main feature of the whole festival La Mujer del Anarquista - The Anarchist's Wife - showing thurs and sat - that people interested in Hispanic film/spanish history should really consider, but definitely reserve in advance...

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 9:18 pm

"A magical night at Anfield"

jmjhb · Post by **jmjhb** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 1:13 am

Psych. Absolutely hilarious programme!

superjohnmcginlay · Post by **superjohnmcginlay** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:32 am

The Omen. Top film.

ratbert · Post by **ratbert** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 12:21 pm

William the White wrote:TANGO - Pay attention...

Took the afternoon off and caught two movies from www.vivafilmfestival.com at the cornerhouse in manchester...

Mixed experience... both had that confidence in heightened dialogue, a lack of fear of words, a poetic edge, that i like about spanish/latin american film... Neither would have been made in hollywood, and had a v small chance in UK (Tho 'In Bruges' splashed the UK palette interestingly last year)...

The nearest to conventional story telling, hollywood style, called El Hombre de Arena (Man of Sand), was not very good - in Franco's spain a man insults a fascist officer and fins himself incarcerated in a mental hospital... this is supposed to be a ghastly place but is full of beautiful actors/actresses, has a fab garden, and can't hope for either the politics of 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' or the terrifying realism of 'Midnight Express'... Loses story in sentiment and the desire for beautiful shots of beautiful principals...

La Noche que dejo de llover (The night it ceased to rain) is the one that reminded me of 'In Bruges'... like a lot of night... old, beautiful streets in an ancient city... duologues with poetry... Set in santiago de compostela, after three months of continuous rain, a 33 year old near-virgin, only one previous lover, whose father has just died, and whose mother is beside herself with fear and love for him, who likes The Smiths and bad girls with fringes, who intends to fly to mexico in the morning, finds himself with a mysterious woman, La Rusa (the russian woman) who fills his night and lots of empty emotional spaces... And then discovers she is an eastern european prostitute paid for as a 'last night' present by his 'friends'... Well worth seeing... Very funny, sad, and violent...

Have booked mine and partner's seats for what looks like the main feature of the whole festival La Mujer del Anarquista - The Anarchist's Wife - showing thurs and sat - that people interested in Hispanic film/spanish history should really consider, but definitely reserve in advance...

Sounds like my bag! Especially the second one, though from your synopsis I can't see where the violence comes in...

keveh · Post by **keveh** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 4:17 pm

Looking forward to the Comic Relief shows that are on tonight.

First the Kilimanjaro climb is on at 8, then Comic Relief does the Apprentice is on at 9.

William the White · Post by **William the White** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:28 pm

Red Riding Ep 2...

oh - ratbert - the violence in La Noche comes in the form of a knife attack that frames the entire movie... it's shocking, a total surprise in the context of this rather gentle movie - and good...

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 9:03 pm

William the White wrote:Red Riding Ep 2...

Quite

I'm looking forward to having every sense faith in human nature knocked out of me in the most brutal way.

boltonboris · Post by **boltonboris** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 9:25 pm

William the White wrote:Red Riding Ep 2...

oh - ratbert - the violence in La Noche comes in the form of a knife attack that frames the entire movie... it's shocking, a total surprise in the context of this rather gentle movie - and good...

Not any more it'd not!!

Worthy4England · Post by **Worthy4England** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:51 pm

The original Wicker Man in ITV

William the White · Post by **William the White** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 12:04 am

boltonboris wrote:
William the White wrote:Red Riding Ep 2...

oh - ratbert - the violence in La Noche comes in the form of a knife attack that frames the entire movie... it's shocking, a total surprise in the context of this rather gentle movie - and good...
Not any more it'd not!!

true boris... but this movie is getting no kind of release in UK... so spoilers less important - i'd have been more careful in my original post otherwise...

the viva festival often gives you a one and only chance to catch films even our art houses don't screen...

General Mannerheim · Post by **General Mannerheim** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 9:21 am

Worthy4England wrote:The original Wicker Man in ITV

good beaver action in said flick!

ratbert · Post by **ratbert** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 9:53 am

The Wicker Man: scariest ending ever.

Worthy4England · Post by **Worthy4England** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:17 am

General Mannerheim wrote:
Worthy4England wrote:The original Wicker Man in ITV
good beaver action in said flick!

You know, in amongst all those animal masks, I don't recall one single beaver...

William the White · Post by **William the White** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 11:44 pm

La mujer del anarquista... the anarchist's wife, at the cornerhouse, the final film in the viva festival. Already looking forward to march next year and the next festival...

A love story, with politics all over the shop, as a leading anarchist leaves wife and children to fight franco, is on the defeated side, and exiled in france, where he continues his struggle against fascism in the french resistance. ten years later his wife and only surviving child are reunited with him in france (he can't return to spain, he is under sentence of death imposed in his absence by a franco court. he is involved in continuing underground resistance and unsuccessful assassination attempt on franco. through it all, his wife remains loyal and loving. He dies still young, the wife never returns to spain, tough the daughter does eventually.

based on a true story, i think the film is overcrammed with story, but still has exceptionally moving moments...

Lord Kangana · Post by **Lord Kangana** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:29 am

The Departed.

Quite good.

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