A day late, due to Darth Real Life. mssilverstar, I apologize. Well, first of all, this is highly subjective, and whenever I read other people's resplies to similar question, I'm reminded of that - what's aged for one person has remained fantastic for another, and vice versa. So, I make no claim to speak for anyone but myself. Also "has aged well" for me isn't ( Read more... )

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Having stopped reading Martin's novels after A Feast of Crows and stopped watching Game of Thrones after season 5, both without much rancor, simply because I moved on to stories which held my attention more, I have no skin in this game, so to speak, but like many a non-GOT person am watching the collective meltdown with some voyeuristic fascination ( Read more... )

Neapolitan Quartet - Elena Ferrante:

L'Amica Crudele Lénu and Lila in a time loop. It would never have occured to me to use the Groundhog Day principle on the "My Brilliant Friend" verse, and yet it feels perfect for how Elena uses her memories and writing even in canon in order to capture the vanished Lila.

Sarah Jane Adventures:

Wanted: ( Read more... )

...it is this one. I'm not kidding. I watched it on tv perhaps a dozen times before it was restored to full length and hit the cinemas again back in the 90s, and now I have the dvd. But if this release in the cinema to celebrate the 50th anniversary for just one day is an international thing and doesn't only apply for the states, I'll so be there ( Read more... )

This was another film which deeply divided my flist into nays and yays..  As it finally was released in Germany yesterday, I watched it myself, and am firmly among the yays. It's an individual reaction. You may not share it.  But let me explain why I loved a great deal of what I saw.

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From various people on my flist, most lately ruuger:

First TV show fandom I had self-insertion fantasies about: Probably Karl May's novels, which were the first ones I read as a child. I was totally up for adventuring with Winnetou, chief of the Apaches. Now, by the time I saw Lawrence of Arabia on tv, I was twelve and hormones were kicking in ( Read more... )

Before the meme, a fic rec.

Sarah Connor Chronicles (which everyone should watch, do you hear me, Fox?!?):

Seven Sunday Mother-Daughter Mornings: Savannah and Catherine Weaver, and it's absolutely fantastic, plausible, chilling and touching alike, just like that storyline on the show.

Now, on to the music.

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Lawrence of Arabia and A Dangerous Man are two quite different films in form and intention - a cinematic epic versus an intimate political tv drama (what we'd call Kammerspiel in German); both feature excellent actors and clever scripts, and obviously, both are based on different parts of that much debated and enigmatic man, T.E. Lawrence. I wouldn ( Read more... )