Recently I’ve had ideas for posts, but I’ve either been at work, visiting family, or too tired to be bothered blogging.
I’m determined to make time to write, produce, shoot and edit a short before the year is out, so I’m slotting in screenwriting time when I can. I’m also helping a couple of friends out with shorts, and still trying to finish off editing another couple of projects – one’s work related, the other is not.
What else? I snagged myself a copy of Lindsay Anderson’s If….. I enjoyed it, but would have taken even more from had I not been tired and corpulently well-fed the night I watched it. Court and I rented Truffaut’s Day for Night the other day, and both loved every second, which is rare, and we just watched Miyazaki’s Kiki’s Delivery Service, which was delightful. Now I’ve consumed two feelgood movies in a row, I feel my next cinematic entertainment should be thoroughly perverse.
It will please certain people to discover that Courtney’s been renting DVDs of the re-made Battlestar Galactica this week. I’ve been watching a few with her, and I’m actually really quite impressed. There’s a sense of restraint in the action sequences and with only one real exception, the tension and plotting is good. It also gives a lead role to the guy who played the origami-making cop in Blade Runner.
05/09/2007
Yay Courtney for getting into Battlestar. First series? They are smart cookies, with a wonderful opening sequence, intelligent scripting, and no fear in killing characters. One of the ways they are subtly smart is that they used an Hispanic actor for the strongest male character, as the sci-fi demographic is apparently largely Hispanic.
Miyazaki (Snr) is genius. There was a £20 boxed set of all the Ghibli films. I love owning it. And lending it out.
I missed you in the UK? AArrrgh.
Good luck with the short.
What’s happening with the move?
15/09/2007
Seriously suggest repeated viewing of If… – it’s been a fave of mine since accidentally catching it on, I think, late-night Channel 4 during the heyday of my insomnia. Channel-surfing stopped immediately and I could not stop watching. Best thing Malcolm McDowell ever did.
If you’ve not seen it yet, I cannot over-recommend “The Lives of Others”.
20/09/2007
Bah, the original Galactica is better!
22/09/2007
Yay for Galactica – best show since I can ever remember. That said, why so long to watch it???