Friday, 23 November 2007
Video Nasties, Video Lovelies: A Guest List
posted @4:04 p.m. by Richard Kelly
Those of you who enjoyed Fraser Macdonald's wander down VCR Memory Lane a few weeks back will now be pleased to meet today's Guest List-Maker DAN BERLINKA, who is mining a similar vein of 1980s adolescent viewing pleasure, but with all-new personal insights. For me this stuff is like reading Proust. Jenny Agutter was a pivotal figure for a lot of us back then. And I too knew someone who tape-recorded a movie (The Long Good Friday) so he could listen to it on a Walkman. All this before YouTube and the portable DVD player...
Friday, 15 February 2008
Roy Scheider 1932-2008
posted @3:12 p.m. by Richard Kelly
Since I’m on the subject, and contributions having been thin on the ground for a while, let me doff my cap to the great Scheider. He always seemed an unlikely movie star, rather more like someone who had crossed over from stage and TV in the 1960s and 70s, just as did some of the major US directors of that era, the Alan J. Pakulas and so forth. AS a star, though, Scheider made some astounding choices. (I’m afraid to say I never saw Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number (1983), though I remember the cover in the video store.) Here’s my pick of ten favourite RS roles.
Tuesday, 22 January 2008
Nigel Parkin's Bond Things
posted @6:28 p.m. by Richard Kelly
Nigel's ten entries brim with a special passion for and appreciation of the core elements of the Bond corpus. And Moonraker is back in the game too.So what have we learned here that we could pass back to Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson?
1. Don't ever mess with the theme.
2. The Dan Craig thing is working.
3. Maybe clone Donald Pleasance from surviving DNA, and the white cat too? And give them metal teeth?
4. The girls are great, just try and make them all English - or French at a push.
Tuesday, 22 January 2008
Tom Brookes' Bond Things
posted @6:19 p.m. by Richard Kelly
Tom's fine list offers some sterling views on the trademark action elements of the canon. Also some glancingly controversial ones in the Girls and Songs departments...
