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Post by london777 on Sept 9, 2024 1:13:25 GMT
I saw and really liked From Hell
So I got that wrong too. I thought you hated gratuitous or perverted violence, spider? Or is it only OK if Brits are getting sliced up?
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Post by spiderwort on Sept 9, 2024 1:27:42 GMT
I saw and really liked From Hell
So I got that wrong too. I thought you hated gratuitous or perverted violence, spider? Or is it only OK if Brits are getting sliced up? I don't know what else you think you got wrong, london777 , but I do hate gratuitous and perverted violence, so you got that right. And ever since I made that earlier post, I've been thinking that I'm not sure I actually saw FROM HELL. I thought I saw it, but I'm probably remembering a trailer or something. The old brain just doesn't work like it used to these days, sorry to say.
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Post by mikef6 on Sept 9, 2024 2:26:48 GMT
It is indeed from: Blow-Up (1966) dir: Michelangelo Antonioni Starring: David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, and Sarah Miles I apologize for the monochrome image. I am not cut out for this lark. When is mikef6 back?Congratulations to Rufus-T for getting it right despite the bum steer I gave you all. It's good to be missed. LOL I will be back home tomorrow (Monday, 9/7 - Yay!) and will start next Saturday's thread. 80 gazillion thanks to spiderwort and to you too london777 . I have seen no movies nor TV shows this past week but saw four expertly and professionally mounted and acted stage plays at the Utah Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City. Henry VIII by William Shakespeare. This is one of the last plays Shakespeare worked on. In semi-retirement, he collaborated with John Fletcher, who was taking over for Shakespeare as the King's Men playwright in residence. We first see how Cardinal Wolsey engineers the downfall of the Duke of Buckingham, then the divorce between the King and Queen Katharine of Aragon. The play's highpoint is during Katharine's trial when she defies the court, declares she does not accept them as judges, and walks out of her own trial. In the Utah production this brought mid-scene applause and cheers. I learned that in an earlier performance, someone yelled, "You go, girl." The play concludes with the fall of Wolsey, the marriage to Anne Boleyn (called Bullen in the play) and the birth of Elizabeth. The play closes at the baby’s christening where the Archbishop of Canterbury is moved to deliver a prophecy of greatness for the infant. Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare. One of the world's great comedies. The first fully formed rom-com. I always fall in love with whoever plays Beatrice and this was no exception. Two couples have different paths to love. Claudio and Hero represent the girl-meets-boy, girl and boy break up, girl and boy get back together hook or clothesline while Beatrice and Benedick, who have history together, are witty enemies who trade barbs whenever they meet. They have to be tricked before they can realize they are made for each other. Always a delight. Silent Sky by Lauren Gunderson, the most produced living playwright in America today. We had seen one other of her plays. This one is a bio-play of Henrietta Leavitt, a woman astronomer with a degree from Radcliff who gets a job at the Harvard Observatory in 1900 only to find out that women never get to use the telescope. Instead, they are "computers," staff who get glass photographic plates from photos of the sky and who measure, grade, and classify the stars. Leavitt's examinations of the plates lead to lasting discoveries that were credited to men, e.g. her formulas that allowed scientists to calculate the distance from Earth to a star. Edwin Hubble, who has a space telescope named for him, would not have been able to prove for the first time that some stars are from another galaxy without Leavitt's work. Another fine play in a professional production. The 39 Steps adapted by Patrick Barlow This play for four actors based on the 1935 Hitchcock movie came with some great credentials including the Olivier Award for Best Comedy. However, instead of joking on the scenes, "Airplane" style, the "comedy" consisted of mainly of acting the scenes with high-pitched voices and silly walks. Loud, screechy, annoying. We wished we had seen a second performance of Much Ado About Nothing instead. Again, I can't thank spiderwort and london777 enough.
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Post by spiderwort on Sept 9, 2024 13:16:29 GMT
It's good to be missed. LOL I will be back home tomorrow (Monday, 9/7 - Yay!) and will start next Saturday's thread. 80 gazillion thanks to spiderwort and to you too london777 . I have seen no movies nor TV shows this past week but saw four expertly and professionally mounted and acted stage plays at the Utah Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City. Henry VIII by William Shakespeare. This is one of the last plays Shakespeare worked on. In semi-retirement, he collaborated with John Fletcher, who was taking over for Shakespeare as the King's Men playwright in residence. We first see how Cardinal Wolsey engineers the downfall of the Duke of Buckingham, then the divorce between the King and Queen Katharine of Aragon. The play's highpoint is during Katharine's trial when she defies the court, declares she does not accept them as judges, and walks out of her own trial. In the Utah production this brought mid-scene applause and cheers. I learned that in an earlier performance, someone yelled, "You go, girl." The play concludes with the fall of Wolsey, the marriage to Anne Boleyn (called Bullen in the play) and the birth of Elizabeth. The play closes at the baby’s christening where the Archbishop of Canterbury is moved to deliver a prophecy of greatness for the infant. Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare. One of the world's great comedies. The first fully formed rom-com. I always fall in love with whoever plays Beatrice and this was no exception. Two couples have different paths to love. Claudio and Hero represent the girl-meets-boy, girl and boy break up, girl and boy get back together hook or clothesline while Beatrice and Benedick, who have history together, are witty enemies who trade barbs whenever they meet. They have to be tricked before they can realize they are made for each other. Always a delight. Silent Sky by Lauren Gunderson, the most produced living playwright in America today. We had seen one other of her plays. This one is a bio-play of Henrietta Leavitt, a woman astronomer with a degree from Radcliff who gets a job at the Harvard Observatory in 1900 only to find out that women never get to use the telescope. Instead, they are "computers," staff who get glass photographic plates from photos of the sky and who measure, grade, and classify the stars. Leavitt's examinations of the plates lead to lasting discoveries that were credited to men, e.g. her formulas that allowed scientists to calculate the distance from Earth to a star. Edwin Hubble, who has a space telescope named for him, would not have been able to prove for the first time that some stars are from another galaxy without Leavitt's work. Another fine play in a professional production. The 39 Steps adapted by Patrick Barlow This play for four actors based on the 1935 Hitchcock movie came with some great credentials including the Olivier Award for Best Comedy. However, instead of joking on the scenes, "Airplane" style, the "comedy" consisted of mainly of acting the scenes with high-pitched voices and silly walks. Loud, screechy, annoying. We wished we had seen a second performance of Much Ado About Nothing instead. Again, I can't thank spiderwort and london777 enough. You are so welcome, mikef6. Glad to have you back and glad that you were able to see those wonderful plays. What a joy that must have been.
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Post by london777 on Sept 9, 2024 13:16:51 GMT
Again, I can't thank spiderwort and london777 enough. All I did was insert confusion and buffoonery. (The story of my life, really).
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Post by spiderwort on Sept 9, 2024 13:20:24 GMT
Again, I can't thank spiderwort and london777 enough. All I did was insert confusion and buffoonery. (The story of my life, really). No you did not, london777 ! Not at all. I'm grateful for your doing what I am not up to doing. So I thank you, too.
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Post by mikef6 on Sept 9, 2024 14:10:47 GMT
Again, I can't thank spiderwort and london777 enough. All I did was insert confusion and buffoonery. (The story of my life, really). It's like you just wrote my biography.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Sept 9, 2024 18:09:32 GMT
And once again, I won’t be providing a mystery frame ... ... and once again, I will. No one posted the solution to my effort last week, but two people claimed to know the answer. Why did they not post it? Am I doing something wrong? It was a hard one, but this week's is central to the main theme of the movie so I am sure someone will soon post the right answer. Last week's frame was from: From Hell (2001) dir: Albert and Allen Hughes A version of the Jack the Ripper saga starring Johnny Depp, Heather Graham and Ian Holm. It is set in Victorian London but largely shot in the Czech Republic, as I imagine the mystery frame was, as the building does not look very English. As one of the two, I can speak only for myself. I didn't post the answer once I had it because I had to consult other sources to get it. A little rule I have for myself is not posting answers to any kind of quizzes unless I can do so without looking anything up. It's more fun for me that way. So, I instead inserted the clue about the film having concerned a series of real-life crimes. Hope that's okay.
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