Naïve Old Fart

PERFORMANCE Fantastic DVD!

I've not seen this, but I like Campion's previous work.

All this ranking is making me a very tired boy I'll not rank every Steve film, but I will do a top-5: 1/ CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND 2/ 1941 3/ EMPIRE OF THE SUN 4/ JAWS 5/ MINORITY REPORT

You're more than welcome, @Thor. It's on his Facebook page.

Don't. Just... don't.

@Thor, PSB scored BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN. That's film music-related In other news... David Gilmour has a new album, on the way. Released in September, it will be called LUCK AND STRANGE.

Oh, man! I would kill to see PSB, again. I saw them in Cardiff, on the NIGHTLIFE tour, and they were fantastic. The tour version of 'Being Boring' has become my go-to version (with the possible exception of the Marshall Jefferson remix).

... I, CLAUDIUS; EPISODES X-XII (hopefully).

Why is there a thread about a film that isn't going to be made?

Yeah. In THUNDERBALL, Fleming talks about a good spaghetti Bolognese that Bond had, in Brighton. Nowadays, food and drink are hardly mentioned, except for the Vesper.

I thought that our Steve said that SCHINDLER'S LIST was his most personal film? Imo, his most personal (i.e. autobiographical) film is E.T. He only directed EMPIRE OF THE SUN because Lean passed. EMPIRE OF THE SUN sure is up there with the best of the best.

Has the wokerati no shame?

Yes, Sweep. NTTD is "a 30-year-old fine, indifferently blended... with an overdose of bon bois."

Thank you for this, @Bayesian. I admire your honesty. At the end of the day, it's horses for courses. You like NTTD, and I don't. I think that there is room enough for both opinions. Don't you mean: "Close, but no Delectados"?

Geez, Louise! That fake trailer is better than the whole of NO TIME TO DIE

Hell, yeah!

"Get off my bed!" "Sit!"

I've tried to sign up, but the menu isn't functioning.

SE7EN is among Shore's finest scores. I don't have the C&C, so I'm so glad that I have the iso, on DVD.

What?! You mean he's not singing along with Seth MacFarlane?

"Holy Americana, Batman!" While I don't think that SAVING PRIVATE RYAN is up there with, say, PATTON, or THE GRAND ILLUSION, or ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT as a great war film, it is a great film, and it deserved to be named Best Picture at the 1999 Oscars, instead of that Shakespeare bollocks. The score is among JW's most restrained works. It would be so easy to score the battle scenes, but SS and JW were wise to go in the opposite direction. If I had my way, 'Hymn To The Fallen' would be played at every Remembrance Day service, the world over.

Er... that would be 'Slave Children's Crusade' Is the film getting a cinema rerelease?

Why do you do it to yourself?

I got up early, this morning (as you do) and I turned on BBC Radio 3 (as you do), and I heard something called O MAGNUM MYSTERIUM, by someone called Morten Lauridsen. It reminded me of music by Gavin Bryars - JESUS' BLOOD NEVER FAILED ME YET; THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC - which I love, by the way. Has anyone else heard of this composer?