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Marian Schedenig

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Marian Schedenig last won the day on October 29 2023

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  • Birthday 13/01/1979

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  1. Ground rule: When you want to buy tickets for something that's really important and may sell out quickly, always have at least two different browsers ready. If possible on at least two different devices, too.
  2. He's listed under "Music by" on IMDb, that's all I know. He often works as a producer and I think also music supervisor, but he certainly has written scores in other cases (e.g. True Detective).
  3. T Bone Burnett is credited for music, but I don't remember how much there was. Can't be a lot I guess.
  4. I think in many cases the problem isn't so much that they don't understand, but that they either believe they understand, or believe they neither have to nor have to consult experts who do.
  5. "11 o'clock! Dad, 11 o'clock!" - "What happens at 11 o'clock?" - "Twelve! Eleven! Ten! Eleven o'clock, fire!" - "Here you go, Larry! You see what happens? You see what happens, Larry? You see what happens? This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass, Larry! This is what happens, Larry! You see what happens, Larry? You see what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass? This is what happens! You see what happens, Larry? You see what happens, Larry? Do you see what happens, Larry, when you fuck a stranger in the ass! This is what happens, Larry! This is what happens, Larry! This is what happens, Larry! This is what happens when you fuck a stranger…" And its little TV cousin: "Do you see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?"
  6. I recommend arriving early anyway so you can walk the grounds a bit before they close some time before the concert. They're magical.
  7. And it has For Seiji. I admit I'm also a bit tired of very similar programmes being repeated all the time, but complaining about publishing the recordings just validates DG not releasing Vienna II.
  8. I've finally seen it - wanted to earlier, but I couldn't get good places before. Even today the IMAX was full. I liked the first one, but wasn't fully convinced by it. At the cinema, I was very impressed by it at first, but as it went on, I started thinking about all the stuff that was missing, and my first rewatch at home emphasised these shortcomings. There's much to like about it for sure, but leaving out both the banquet (very difficult to put on film, surely, but the one sequence I was most excited to see) and the entire Jessica intrigue plot made it feel rather stale and overlong - adding 10 or 15 minutes with that stuff would probably have made it feel shorter (cf. TTT's EE). Rewatching it recently made me appreciate it more again, but I still think it could be better. I also thought part 1's cinematography was good, but sub par for Villeneuve. I loved part 2 today. I felt it brought across the themes of the book very well, while also giving more substance to the characters, who I remember as mostly plot devices from the book (i.e. quite the opposite of part 1). The cast was great; Chalamet and Zendaya were both very strong and anchored the film, and Ferguson was great as usual as both concerned mother and terrifying Bene Gesserit. The film refreshingly managed to avoid most Hollywood tropes, and what little humour was added mostly worked well by staying true to the characters and situations (something that Peter Jackson increasingly failed at as his LOTR films progressed). I loved the cinematography this time around; some scenes were even reminiscent of Deakins's Blade Runner 2049. And even the score had its moments and only a few bothering moments (fewer than part 1). It still often seemed too loud, but that was just in keeping with the film's sound design (more half of the time it was hard to tell apart the score from the effects anyway). Curiously though one of the score's few moments of silence is one that I thought could have used more music: The silence during the build up of the sandworm riding sequence (and the lack of score through most of it even when the silence was over) was clearly a deliberate choice, and it did work, but I think some tense underscore buildup could have given the whole sequence more of an impact without taking away the "silence before the storm" aspect. Then again, the overall style of the score is very much at odds with what I'm describing, so perhaps leaving the sequence unscored was for the best. Ultimately, it's still nothing I'd be interested in listening to outside the film, and I wish these films had scores that were actually musically interesting - though I admit that I find it hard to imagine the films with significantly different music. I'd also forgotten how much the main theme/motif thingy owes to Once Upon a Time in the West. One thing though: It was too loud! Though that's probably not the film's fault but the cinema's for turning their IMAX equipment up to 13. It was louder than a rock concert. And some of the room's wall attachments kept clattering whenever the subwoofers became active. I don't mind loud films when it works (Dunkirk in the same cinema was physically straining, but that's part of what made it so effective), but this was definitely more than would have been appropriate.
  9. That's the second biggest Monkey Island Collector's Edition I've ever seen! PS: The soundtrack is a proper CD! Included in the 2 CD jewel case that also holds the Windows version of the game (Mac and Linux version come on separate discs in paper sleeves). The jewel case design serves nicely as a soundtrack case, so I'll put that in the CD shelf and the box with my other games.
  10. "With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels." "This chick, Marla Singer, did not have testicular cancer. She was a liar." "I want you to hit me as hard as you can." "Shatner. I'd fight William Shatner." "This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time." "On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero." "His name is Robert Paulsen." "I am Jack's complete lack of surprise." "I still can't think of anything." - "Ah... flashback humor." "You met me at a very strange time in my life."
  11. Might be mine, too. I'm pretty sure I don't give his classic westerns the attention they deserve (though I do like them just fine). But Bad Girls is underrated.
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