* Alice's Restaurant - directed by Arthur Penn, starring Arlo Guthrie
* All Monsters Attack
* Angel in My Pocket
* Andrei Rublev - by Andrei Tarkovsky - (screening in Moscow and at the Cannes Film Festival 1969 / Official USSR release, 20 min. shorter, in 1971 ( Read more... )

Here's how it works: go to Wikipedia (as the most convenient resource), and copy the list of movies that were released in the year when you were 12 years old. Mark in italics the movies that you've seen. (Not necessarily that year.) Mark in bold the movies that you own on video, DVD, Blu-Ray or whatever.

If you're not sure if you've seen a ( Read more... )

I think I'm paying for my sins over the past couple of weeks, because I'm utterly thrashed. I'm also not eating at all well -- a very distinct lack of thought in terms of any sort of meal planning ( Read more... )

Sexual harassment at school 'worse than bullying' - I suspect this is harder to separate out than these people seem to think. The bottom line is that it's all destructive. We need a solution, period.

Credit Suisse bank loses billions When even the Gnomes Of Zurich get clobbered by the credit mess, you know we're in trouble.

US new home sales ( Read more... )

The teaser trailer for The Spirit.



My City screams? The entire Spirit fan community does too, and a large chunk of the movie-going population as well.

I haven't been talking much about what I've been watching, mainly because my mind's been on an assortment of other things, but suffice it to say that I've been watching the usual too much of everything and sometimes not quite enough of specific things. I have at least two good rants about Heroes looking for an outlet, and I might have one about ( Read more... )

Well, my neighbor is apparently hale and hearty and making a lot of noise musically, which sort of puts the kibosh on my intention to redo the intro and end titles for Midsummer's first act now that the remix is done (some levels needed adjusting, and I re-EQ'd David Ault.) I guess I'll do them later tonight. In the meantime I can start other ( Read more... )

Some time ago I saw the pilot episode of Pushing Daisies, the new Bryan Fuller series that combines fantasy, crime solving, and pie-making in a goofy fairy-tale confection that's wrapped in genial narration by Jim Dale. Watching the aired version was no less amusing and engaging -- I like the majority of the characters and think the show is ( Read more... )

Thanks to arcana_j I now know that the trailer for Sweeney Todd is up at Yahoo, and presumably at Apple trailers page as well. The trailer seems to play down the musical aspect, unfortunately, and lines are delivered in a hushed manner rather than the overplayed way that I'm used to hearing (and some of the dialogue has been changed from the book, too ( Read more... )

I think I still need to catch up on sleep, given that I spent much of the afternoon after about 2.30pm in bed and thoroughly out of it, although some of that might be to do with having spent a little too much time hanging about outside for Raya to turn up to drop some stuff off and pick up a DVD from me (I made a disc for her of the six episode CSI ( Read more... )