27. Battle of the V-1 (1958), dir. Vernon Sewell

[strange_complex]

So, as established in my WIDAWTW post earlier on, last week was long and busy on the work front for me. I have a huge list of unwritten LJ reviews nagging at my conscience - I'm six Doctor Who episodes behind now, and have also read six books this year that have yet to be mentioned in these pages. But all of those reviews require thinkiness, and

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[strange_complex]

Oh, yes I have, actually, for both of our sakes. They were never meant to be formal reports to someone actually in a line-management position over me, and a while back you started responding to some of them as though they were. You shouldn't have to do that, and nor should I have to worry that you might.

[strange_complex]

It's all right - you don't need to apologise. You were trying to be helpful and supportive. (I think it was about whole thing with the newsletters not happening last year.) But it just felt like an undesirable blurring of professional and personal spaces for both of us, hence the filter.

I did mean to say I'd done it at the time, BTW, and explain why. But it turns out there's almost no way of saying to someone "I have filtered you out of some of my LJ posts" that doesn't sound drama-llamaish, so I avoided the issue, and of course have now had to explain retrospectively anyway! Oh well, glad you know now.

Full disclosure - Mary is filtered out of the same posts, because you live in the same house so obviously are bound to see each other's computer screens a fair amount. And that's the only LJ filter I use for any purpose, apart from the standard friends vs. public distinction.

[rich_r]

I've seen this film a few times - but it's actually rare that the recoloured version gets shown. It's usually the original black and white. It's quite interesting to see which bits have been painted in, and which left original - very convenient that German soldiers wear grey uniforms for example, just need to do their faces and red armbands :)

Great film though, but maybe didn't need quite so much explanation of how the V1 worked in the first half.

[strange_complex]

Oh, this explains a lot! It was indeed a colourised version that I saw, but I thought all along that the colour seemed odd. I assumed it was just a poor-quality print, but recolourising would also explain much of the oddness. It also explains why, when I found one of the edited-out death scene on Youtube (though sadly not Christopher Lee's), that was in black and white.

And yes, I agree about the first half.

[ms_siobhan]

Michael Rennie is wonderful - he's fabulous in The Day The Earth Stood Still and as the narrator in The Desert Fox in which James Mason plays Rommel.

I can highly recommend both if you haven't already seen them.

[strange_complex]

I'd definitely like to see The Day The Earth Stood Still - that looks well up my street.

[ms_siobhan]

It's a fabulous film - got it on dvd.

Whatever you do - DO NOT watch the remake with Keanu Reeves - even out of an idle sense of curiosity. It is absolutely appalling.

[strange_complex]

Haha, OK! I'll consider myself warned.

[momentsmusicaux]

> I'm six Doctor Who episodes behind now

Yes, you are! And some of those have been real crackers too!

No pressure or anything :)

[strange_complex]

I have seen them all, and wrote notes as I did so, and thought they were great. Just... typing it up into coherent prose is quite a thing. :-/ I'll get there, though!