Marian Schedenig

(ARE YOU A GOD?)

"Do you see the light!"

Classic FM reports that Anthony Hopkins will play Georg Friedrich Händel in an upcoming biopic supposedly centred around the composition of Händel's Messiah: https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/anthony-hopkins-handel-biopic-messiah/ Händel was 56 when he wrote the Messiah, and 74 at the time of his death. Hopkins is 86 now.

Right, I was going to say the same. They changed the design of the sonic screwdriver. - Ok, fine. They changed the design of the sonic screwdriver again. - Ok, fine. They changed the sonic screwdriver into sonic sunglasses. - Ok, fine. They changed back to a sonic screwdriver. - Ok, fine. They changed the design of the sonic screwdriver again… - Ok, fine. …to make it look less like a weapon. - WHAT? HOW DARE THEY? EXTREMIST WOKE DISNEY SOCIAL WARRIORS! Seriously, what's the big deal? Maybe, but what's the strange bit about it? In my experience (disclaimer: Coming from someone who's watched the 2005+ version and only seen a few bits and bobs of the earlier series), the Doctor has always been a strict (often "militantly") non-violent person. Generally not using weapons is one aspect of that. Having a sonic screwdriver that doesn't look like a weapon (no matter if it did look like one before or not) is consistent with that. Maybe stabbing the Goblin King is the incongruent bit here?

Caution: This is important info for Euro (and other) buyers. A friend of mine who ordered the Japanese edition fell into the same trap.

The one that so worried the German dubbers that they turned the Nazis into cocaine smugglers… I keep confusing it with that Suspicion, also with Cary Grant (the one with the glass of milk that had a light bulb in it while shooting). I loved that, but haven't seen it in 20+ years. One of the best earlier-ish ones (based on only one viewing so far) is Shadow of a Doubt.

All right, Curly. Enough's enough. You can't eat the Venetian blinds. I just had them installed on Wednesday.

Perhaps they're trying to make it less like Hamlet for whatever reason. Which reminds me: I've read that one of the originals sequels was apparently based on Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (with Timon and Pumbaa standing in for the two), and if that's true, I have to see that.

Right, how could I have forgotten about that!

My ranking: Alien Alien³ Aliens Alien: Resurrection/Prometheus/Alien: Covenant I don't really dislike any of them, although I have my share of problems at least with the prequels. The Jeunet is probably the better film of the three, but on the other hand, it probably has the greatest disconnect form the rest of the series, so I'd rather not try to rank those three at all. Alien³ may not be more than the sum of its parts - and that's not surprising, given its confused genesis (I keep forgetting that even William Gibson wrote a version of it). But many of the parts are first rate, so it still adds up to a flawed but striking experience. For comparison, Lynch's Dune also has stunning parts (though probably fewer than the Fincher), but ends up being decidedly less than the sum of them.

Dualists? For those who weren't scared enough by Alien: Isolation:

According to a review I saw, it was a newer type of AI than what used to be used for DNR, and I think they also had human passes over the results. According to that review, most noise is gone, but it looks much better than classic overused DNR. Cameron hated the low quality film stock they used (i.e. it was never intended to be as grainy as it turned out). Supposedly it still looks decidedly different/more modern, but apparently that's mostly an artistic choice/matter of taste.