Oh, for a muse of fanboys
Now I already knew that the international BBC iplayer doesn't work in the US, but what I just found out via my ten days in Venice is that the tv shows and films said player shows in Germany are somewhat different than those it shows in Italy. (Basically: the Italians get Sherlock and Wallander, but only one season of New Tricks. In Germany we get neither of the former, but all six (currently, with more coming) of the later. Presumably the BBC figures it can sell more dvds of the former in Germany?
Yesterday was Shakespeare's death day which is traditionally celebrated as his birthday as well. Rather fittingly, I spotted this article about how James Franco fanboys Shakespeare, River Phoenix, Gus van Sant and Orson Welles by persuading Gus van Sant (when the later was shooting Milk with Franco) to hand over all the unused My Private Idaho footage so he could cut his own fan version of van Sant's modern take on the Henriad. (This article also reminded me that River Phoenix' character is the equivalent of Poins, and that I loved his character while I solidly dislike Ned Poins the fratboy. I think the difference is that Poins isn't tragic and also callous.) Which in turn was van Sant wanting to do a modern version of Chimes at Midnight back in the day, and Chimes at Midnight was Orson Welles cutting the Henriad, six months ago gracing your tv screens as The Hollow Crown, as The Tragedie of Sir John Falstaff.
Anyway, I am somewhere between awed and amused that the Franco version due to his River Phoenix crush comes in two editions, one of which is a twelve hours film. I kid you not. The late Erich von Stroheim would approve, of course, and so would Max von Mayerling. Orson would be somewhere amused, envious and suddenly fearing some Anthony Perkins fanboy would deliver a 12 hours version of The Trial...
m the original twenty-five hours, I cut one film that was twelve hours long and another that was 102 minutes.
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Yesterday was Shakespeare's death day which is traditionally celebrated as his birthday as well. Rather fittingly, I spotted this article about how James Franco fanboys Shakespeare, River Phoenix, Gus van Sant and Orson Welles by persuading Gus van Sant (when the later was shooting Milk with Franco) to hand over all the unused My Private Idaho footage so he could cut his own fan version of van Sant's modern take on the Henriad. (This article also reminded me that River Phoenix' character is the equivalent of Poins, and that I loved his character while I solidly dislike Ned Poins the fratboy. I think the difference is that Poins isn't tragic and also callous.) Which in turn was van Sant wanting to do a modern version of Chimes at Midnight back in the day, and Chimes at Midnight was Orson Welles cutting the Henriad, six months ago gracing your tv screens as The Hollow Crown, as The Tragedie of Sir John Falstaff.
Anyway, I am somewhere between awed and amused that the Franco version due to his River Phoenix crush comes in two editions, one of which is a twelve hours film. I kid you not. The late Erich von Stroheim would approve, of course, and so would Max von Mayerling. Orson would be somewhere amused, envious and suddenly fearing some Anthony Perkins fanboy would deliver a 12 hours version of The Trial...
m the original twenty-five hours, I cut one film that was twelve hours long and another that was 102 minutes.
This entry was originally posted at http://selenak.dreamwidth.org/891998.html. Comment there or here, as you wish.