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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2014
    Kirk Douglas: 97!!! punk
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
  1. Ralph Waite dies:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26185124

    "Goodnight John Walton, Sr."
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    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2014
    There you go Alan. My turn. I thought he was already dead.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2014
    Martijn wrote
    Kirk Douglas: 97!!! punk


    He's in very poor health though.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2014
    Is he?
    He seems incredibly dapper for a nigh-centenarian.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar … Hills.html
    Nothing going on there that isn't readily explained by extreme old age.
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2014
    Well, long live Kirk I say.

    I was thinking of the severe stroke he had, nobody completely recovers from that.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2014
    Martijn wrote
    Is he?
    He seems incredibly dapper for a nigh-centenarian.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar … Hills.html
    Nothing going on there that isn't readily explained by extreme old age.


    "Kirk is still handsome, but was particularly so in his hey day"

    Oh Daily Mail.
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2014
    Timmer wrote
    Martijn wrote
    Kirk Douglas: 97!!! punk


    He's in very poor health though.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KifNgw5wEE
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2014
    The Daily Mail is a filthy stinking shit rag.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2014
    You're being far too kind.
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2014
    I had to to stop my head going into extreme rage.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeFeb 24th 2014
    No more Ghostbusting or groundhog days for Harold Ramis...

    http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertain … 9309.story
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
  2. sad
    Ghostbusters was one of the defining cinema experiances of my childhood.

    Volker
    Bach's music is vibrant and inspired.
  3. Timmer wrote
    No more Ghostbusting or groundhog days for Harold Ramis...

    http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertain … 9309.story


    just read it, so sad sad
    waaaaaahhhhhhhh!!! Where's my nut? arrrghhhhhhh
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeMar 2nd 2014
    RIP, director Alain Resnais:

    http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-26405308

    If he had only done LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD -- one of the most beautiful films ever made -- that would have been enough to secure his place in film history.
    I am extremely serious.
  4. Never heard of him.
    The views expressed in this post are entirely my own and do not reflect the opinions of maintitles.net, or for that matter, anyone else. http://www.racksandtags.com/falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeMar 3rd 2014 edited
    Really? He's considered one of the greatest directors of European cinema.
    I am extremely serious.
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeMar 3rd 2014 edited
    Yea, I'm a little surprised he isn't better known here, even if he's by no means anywhere near my favourite directors (Resnais tends to treat observable reality and linear concepts of time as personal life choices rather than how actual human beings tend to perceive life). I appreciate Hiroshima, Mon Amour (warts and all) and I love his short doco Nuit Et Brouillard, but WHY OH WHY OH WHY did you have to go and mention the EXECREABLE Last Year In Marienbad?

    I hate and loathe that film with a passion.
    In fact, I do not even consider it a film. It's the very antithesis of film. It is everything a film must not ever be: it's the Big Brother (the tv show) amongst films: it's something that you first watched expecting something new and daring, and gradually understanding that there is NOTHING there. NOTHING. Nothing of ANY value, intrinsically, by extension, inherently or by design. It's the Emperor's clothes. It's selling mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations in 2007. It's a deception!

    Even Resnais, in every single interview he did on the film, freely admitted to having no clue what he was doing or what was going to come out at the end.

    But, in my firm opinion, because, you know, he was Renais (Ooooo!) and it was French (Ooooo!) and the exponent of Nouvelle Vague (Ooooo!) (a connotation Resnais always resented, by the way), and because everyone could try and make sense of it on his or her own way which then, by definition, gave the film a Very Deep and Meaningful context , exactly because it's just your own damn frame of reference going off in all kinds of philosophical directions rather than, you know, the actual *film* intelligently trying to convey those concepts *to* you (The Fountain, anyone?), *that* is why Last Year got the utterly undeserved status that it now has.

    God, I hate this film.
    If this film were a person it'd be up there with Milosevic and Mugabe.
    If it were a scent, it'd be turd.
    If it were a colour, it'd be turd too.

    ...I may need to cut down on my caffeine intake.
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
  5. Tell us what you really think! biggrin
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeMar 3rd 2014 edited
    Whoa. We're apparently not only on different poles, but on different planets here.

    While it is a bit too dialogue-heavy for me under normal circumstances, it takes all that back through one of the most marvelous pieces of mise-en-scene in the history of cinema -- so the prose is continually reflected in the staging.

    A marvelous film from start to finish (to which many later films have referenced, including von Trier's MELANCHOLIA).
    I am extremely serious.
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeMar 3rd 2014 edited
    Thor wrote
    one of the most marvelous pieces of mise-en-scene in the history of cinema


    Madness reigns. Logic has no more meaning.
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeMar 3rd 2014
    He, he...it's nice to see that we can be THIS far apart on an issue.
    I am extremely serious.
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeMar 3rd 2014
    But on this friendly board we can always depend on a détente.
    wink
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorBobdH
    • CommentTimeMar 4th 2014 edited
    I'm with Thor here. Though I agree L'Année Dernière à Marienbad is more than a little pretentious, for me it's a film with an exquisitly realised atmosphere, creating a mood that would later be imitated by the likes of David Lynch and Stanley Kubrick (the latter obviously referencing this film in The Shining). For me it's a film that works solely on an emotional level - never on a narrative or intellectual one - and holds moments of exquisite beauty. It's an experience of a film. One I'm not willing to take very often, but still. It's a haunting one.

    But, hey, I also loved The Fountain, a near-abstract rumination on life and death that's able to cut deeper than most linearly structured films are able to. I don't mind a certain Rorschach-test kind of element in a film that leaves the audience to see in it whatever it sees in it. So don't mind me.
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeMar 4th 2014
    Urrrgh.
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeMar 29th 2014
    Saddened to hear of the death of a man who was largely responsible for so much joy in my childhood...

    http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/creator … 201149758/

    Still, 91 is a very good innings.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeMar 30th 2014
    Oh dear!

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26809417

    Kate was in a lot of TV shows including The Avengers and Doctor Who but I'll probably remember her most for Hammer's The Vampire Lovers.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
  6. Can't believe that this made top story on the radio news.
    The views expressed in this post are entirely my own and do not reflect the opinions of maintitles.net, or for that matter, anyone else. http://www.racksandtags.com/falkirkbairn
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeApr 7th 2014
    Timmer wrote
    I thought I'd check on someone I thought maybe had already checked out and found that MICKEY ROONEY is still kicking at 93 years old.


    Steady on Tim. checking out
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeApr 7th 2014 edited
    I never had much time for Peaches Geldof but gods what pain her father Sir Bob and the rest of her family must be going through, it's beyond imagining.

    25 is no age. Tragic.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26931337
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt