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Flash Gordon Firefox Spaceballs Any pre-Brosnan James Bond movie But, above all, Escape from New York, which, when I was younger, was easily the strongest movie watching experience I'd ever had. I still like the film alot, but I look at it completely differently now. Whenever I rewatch Flash Gordon, however, I go right back to being a movie-mad kid almost jumping up and down in my chair with glee. Almost exactly the same experience I had back when I was eleven and first watched it.

Romeo & Juliet for Season 1 and MacBeth for Season 2 sounds like a good idea. I had yet another idea for Shakespeare crossbreeding, namely mixing MacBeth with Othello. What you could do there is to introduce a lieutenant to The Dark Prince who sows seeds of distrust between The Dark Prince and Lola, which would then help to leed to The Dark Prince's downfall. And yeah, Demonio would be the perfect guy to finally kill The Dark Prince. Another idea I had was that the show should have a chorus, like in the ancient Greek tragedies. I was thinking they should be blind street preachers like the one in They Live. This also sets up a potential prophet for The Dark Prince.

Oh man, you can SO turn The Dark Prince into a MacBeth-type character. Of course, then you need witches to deliver the prophecy, that needs to be worked out. Just imagine him going into a gunfight going: "I can not be killed by a man of woman birth!". Lola then ofcourse needs to be Lady MacBeth. Or you could sort of crossbreed what I just described with Yojimbo/Man With no Name, that should be interesting. Man, this character has infinite possibilities...

Bah, that's nothing. Try watching seven and a half straight hours of Ingmar Bergman-movies (as I did on friday) and imagine how that felt. Good thing I like Bergman. Good thing I like Bergman. Oh, the films were Wild Strawberries, Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, The Silence and Persona. And as for an explanation as to why I'd spend seven plus hours of a friday night watching Bergman movies, I'm writing a paper on the aesthetic developments during Bergman's career, coupled with the autobiographical phenomena of his work, as it interrelates with his autobiographies.

My list (full of films that no one else will nominate~!): 1. Pierrot le fou 2. Dr Strangelove 3. Céline and Julie Go Boating 4. The Seven Samurai 5. Once Upon a Time in the West 6. Aguirre - the Wrath of God 7. Sherlock Jr 8. Point Blank 9. Taxi Driver 10. This Man Must Die 11. Touch of Evil 12. Belle de Jour 13. M 14. Notorious 15. Nosferatu 16. 8½

I voted for Nickelback. Somehow I get the feeling that I could make better music by rhythmically stabbing myself in the ear with various kitchen utensils.

The whole tv series version of Best Intentions, running in excess of five hours. Having read the script I can understand that it may be a bit problematic to film, but hooboy, Bille August just has too much respect for Bergman. Not to say that it was bad or anything, as it's well acted and despite the formal problems with the script, with a braver director this could have ended up really good as there's good material in there. That brings me to the biggest problem with the series, namely Bille August's direction. Beyond the previously mentioned stuff, his direction is just wholly void of any kind of personality and any sense of purpose. Why does August frame the way he does? Why does he pace the cuts this way? I see no adequate reasons personally, making August's work here even more frustrating. And his use of music was just totally fucking abhorring. This sounds overtly negative, as I did find the series as a whole to be passable, but it's just frustrating to watch because, as I previously stated, with a more interesting director this would most likely have been SO much better.

Last night I rewatched That Man from Rio, a french Bond spoof from 1964 that is just oodles of fun.

John Cale - Fear The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday

The following arrived in my mailbox today: Shivers The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover Zatoichi (Kitano's film, which I have REALLY high hopes in)

I've liked Zappa's music almost as far back as I can remember, which is somewhat strange given that I own but two of his albums, Roxy & Elsewhere and Unmitigated Audacity, both of which are live albums oddly enough. Unmitigated Audacity isn't particularly well-recorded, which hampers my enjoyment of it, but Roxy & Elsewhere is great stuff. Thankfully, a used record shop in my town usually has a bunch of Zappa albums on vinyl relatively cheaply, so next time I have some extra money I'm gonna head off there and see what I can find.

Miles Davis - Sanctuary

As NoCalMike said, it depends on the festival. I'll use the two local festivals in my town as examples. First there's a smaller horror movie festival, where mostly it's just movie after movie in the same theater, with a 30-45 min intermission between films, with the possible seminar or whatever. The whole thing takes place over three days. Then there's the Umeå International Film Festival, which is set up over a whole week with movies in multiple theaters running simultaneously with seminars, workshop, a short film competition and all kinds of stuff going on on the side.

I've been to several, as there happens to be an annual international film festival where I live. Overall I've always had a great time, though the festival you linked to seems to be a different kind of festival, I still think you should go as it should at the very least be an interesting experience.

My Top 5 favourite opening tracks (at the moment): The Kinks - Victoria Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone Talking Heads - Born Under Punches Sonic Youth - Teen Age Riot Prince - Let's Go Crazy

Actually, it's directed by Zhang Yimou, the man behind Raise the Red Latern. I saw it about a year ago when it opened theatriacally in Sweden and liked it alot. The visuals, and especially the use of colour, are absolutely breathtaking.

The Hammer Horror collection and Kids in the Hall discs look good, something I'll have to remember down the line. And I've never actually seen Django. I'm so buying that one as soon as I can afford to.

Unless the film stars an actor I find so horrendously bad that he/she will ruin every single scene the're in, even the ones they're not in, I don't really care who stars in the film. The only thing that really matters to me in that aspect is who directed the film.

I miss the swedish announcers Eric the Eagle spoke of. Terrible wrestling was seldom as much fun as when the commentators started ripping on the match. Too bad I can't remember any specific quotes.

I decided to rewatch Point Blank, which is just all kinds of awesome. It would probably make my top ten if I felt like making one.

My favourites at the moment: Rain Dogs - Tom Waits Something Else by the Kinks - The Kinks Tago Mago - Can This Year's Model - Elvis Costello Fear of Music - Talking Heads

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Joan the Maid - Detailed, intelligent and supremely moving. I am sure that to some it would just come off as a four hour history lesson, but I was absolutely entranced throughout. Masterpiece is the only apt term to describe it I can think of.

Stark Raving Dad features one of my favourite bits of dialogue from the series: Burns: Why is that man in pink! Smithers: Oh, that's Homer Simpson, sir. He's one of your boobs from Sector 7-G. Burns: Simpson, eh? Burns: Well, judging by his outlandish attire, he's some sort of free-thinking anarchist. Smithers: I'll call security, sir. Burns: Excellent. Yes, these color monitors have already paid for themselves... As for favourite episode, that's a tough one. It's a toss up between Cape Feare and Homer vs the city of New York.