My Name is Nobody
Great film. Score by Ennio Morricone. Starring Henry Fonda (cast as a heroic lawbringer) and Terence Hill (as himself). Beautiful, long wide shots, inventive action set pieces, and a memorable bar scene. One of the early western comedies.
I enjoyed the Dear White People series on Netflix. Missed the movie when it came around, this isnât what I expected from the title. It shows an ensemble cast of mostly black college students responding to some racially charged incidents on their campus, in their own individual, nuanced, conflicting ways.
Just finished the original Twin Peaks and was disappointed. It seems like all the best concepts from Twin Peaks were better developed in Mulholland Drive, so the high points werenât fresh enough to make up for the tedious subplots involving secondary characters that I mostly stopped caring about. I did, however, stumble upon Lynchâs short film Rabbits, which is simply awesome:
And if you click through to YouTube, the first comment contains most of the the script and interpretive notes.
If you enjoyed the original Samurai Jack cartoon, and like animation, I canât recommend the new (and final) season highly enough. Itâs some of the most beautiful stylized animation Iâve seen on TV in many a year â this is Genndy Tartakovskyâs imagination set free and itâs kind of amazing to watch.
Between Time and Timbuktu
A television film directed by Fred Barzyk and based on a number of works by Kurt Vonnegut. Produced by National Educational Television and WGBH-TV in Boston, Massachusetts, it was telecast March 13, 1972 as a NET Playhouse special.
Thereâs a brief animated sequence suggesting a âYellow Submarineâ animator had watched some Terry Gilliam or Vince Collins.
Part One is on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmBKoO5pT94
Parts Two through Four are zipped files available for download from Google Drive links provided in a comment on this webpage
Rating: too early to tell. Very 1971-ish.
A like because Vonnegut.
Anybody else watching this?
Just finished season 2 of Sense8.
More. Now. Please.
Whispers and the related conspiracy plotline is boring to me⊠I could watch a whole season without the BPO threat and just the 8 dealing with each otherâs lives.
The Book Group
Dailymotion
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2002-2003 comedy drama, two series. Neurotic single young American woman starts a book group in Glasgow. Among the people who respond to her bookstore ad: an easygoing ex-climber, three footballersâ wives, a football fan whoâs yet to come out, and a postgraduate. Anne Dudek, Michelle Gomez, Rory McCann and James Lance are among the stars.
Anne With an E (the first Anne of Green Gables book) on Netflix is so so so good. Wow. Watching it with my 19 year old daughter. Totally perfect adaptation.
American Gods. Wow. Just wow. And Iâm only just over half way through part two. The visuals are superb.
I had a thing for Ian McShane in Lovejoy, even more so in Deadwood. I must admit he is far from how I pictured Wednesday but, damn, he is perfect. Whoah! Cloris Leachman!
Heâs pretty much exactly what I pictured: scummy, ancient, craggy, desperate, con-artist. Deadwood typecast him for the best old-bastard roles. And Tracy Ullman⊠er, Martha Kelly, as the sister of evil and absent good who doesnât talk much except with her eyes.
Visually I donât think I quite pictured Mr Wednesday as looking like Ian McShane, but goddamn if he hasnât nailed every single aspect of the character. Come to think of it, every actor in the show has (how good were Czernobog and the Sisters?)
Yeah I just caught that. I finally noticed it in S02E12 or E13. I assume he was there in the lander in previous episodes but I just didnât notice it.
Also, this looks like a screenshot from a future episode, âProtomolecule Comes to Earthâ:
Damn.
Iâm only on about Episode 3 of Season 2 so far, so the usual quandary presents itself - binge* the rest, or savour slowly?
I must say this season has been maddeningly slow at times, with drawn-out scenes of cityscapes or characters doing tai chi, but the stories are still compelling. The show must have been enormously expensive, though, being shot at actual locations around the world.
*(âbingeâ for me means watching two successive episodes on two successive evenings)
Netflix cancels âSense8,â arguably the most progressive scifi show ever
AAAAIIIIEEEE!!!
A genuinely great show, but experimental and out of the mainstream of character stories. Sad to see shortsighted beancounters ruin another thing.
Am seriously disappointed in this decision.
And American Gods just keeps getting better too!
Between Cripsin Glover and Gillian Anderson last episode was just spectacular.