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18:29 / 30.07.06

Er...yes quite so, wonderstarr. I was thinking of Sirk's interest in Brecht's use of distanciation and furthermore of Fassbinder's interest in Sirk at the time, and I then generalised for easiness' sake or perhaps got a little muddled, I'm not sure which(?).

I ended up starting a thread on it, if you'd care to contribute (Link.)

miss wonderstarr

18:47 / 30.07.06

Oh I see, didn't realise I was coming to the discussion when it had already branched off and developed! I didn't know Sirk was interested in Brecht ~ I wouldn't say it showed but I have only seen Imitation of Life (and Far From Heaven if that half-counts!)

19:09 / 30.07.06

I think something to do with Sirk's concern with social class also. I've read that Fear Eats the Soul (a reworking of All that Heaven Allows) makes use of Brechtian tableaux and formal alienation (in the scene at Hitler's favourite restaurant and later after Ali and Emmi's wedding in the beer garden). I was quite wrong to put Brecht into that category, although apparently some of his earlier plays verged on the melodramatic.

miss wonderstarr

15:37 / 31.07.06

Salut les... les mecs! Chill, les gars! Mon pote! Super-bien! etc.

As you all know from my fluent post about "Banlieu 13", I used to enjoy a bit of French. I stopped using French in around 1988, hence my up-to-date slang.

Anyway, even further back in the day I even owned a French storybook of Star Wars, before it was called Episode IV.

The main characters included Dark Vador, Yan Solo, Chiqtabba (sp?) Z-6PO and D2-R2.

Now, for some reason I found myself looking up Star Wars in French on Wikipedia yesterday and I discovered that some of those names have been updated ~ presumably when the saga became more of a global phenomenon, the various national adaptations and interpretations of the character names were all brought into line, perhaps for marketing purposes.

Yan Solo is now listed as the former French version of Han Solo. Chiqtabba is now listed alongside Chewbacca. Dark Vador, however, still stands, and apparently so do Z-6PO and D2-R2.

Is anyone in "la maison" who can tell me when the French versions were updated, and whether Yan Solo is still ever used?

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The same website also pointed out that the Fr. translation "La guerre des etoiles" isn't quite true to the original. Of course, it means "War of the Stars", instead of "Star Wars".

But this website offered "Les guerres stellaires" as a more accurate translation.

What's the difference, really, between "des etoiles" and "stellaires", in meaning terms? Obviously "of the stars" and "stellar" is different in English, but don't they mean pretty much exactly the same thing?

16:29 / 31.07.06

Oh, thanks on the Suspiria question Franca & Stoatie!

19:46 / 01.08.06

I'm haunted by an image from an old television show that I watched as a child, but can't remember the source.

A man in a suit walks down a hallway in an office building. When he reaches the door at the end, he opens it to reveal the star-filled blackness of outer space. He then looks around to make sure nobody's looking and steps in, closing the door behind him.

I'm fairly certain that this image occured during either the opening or closing credits of some show. It was life-action, not cartoon, and may well have been an old Japanese show (like Johnny Soko or Space Giants).

If anybody could help me figure out what it was, I'd be most grateful as I feel like I really need to see it again.

Thanks.

20:21 / 01.08.06

I've got a question: In the movie "Lightspeed", the main character(a Flash rip off in blue spandex)is trying to talk the villain, Edward, out of becoming a world dominating meglomaniacal lizard-man. Yeah.
So anyway, in this one scene the main character says the villain's name, and the villain says something like "Edward doesn't live here any more." I believe this is a reference or a quote from another movie or book, but I can't think of what it's from. Anyone know where I could have heard this line before?
Thanks.

00:14 / 02.08.06

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore by Martin Scorcese?

Henningjohnathan

17:55 / 27.08.06

Looking forward to the FOUNTAIN by Aronofsky and I went back to watch PI which is still very well-done indy - not that dated.

Anyway, what are Aronofsky's influences? What films are similar to PI? ALTERED STATES? CREATOR? I've heard that Aronofsky was approached to direct an episode of LOST, but was lost (especially the "numbers" in the show) influenced by Aronofsky's PI?

Henningjohnathan

17:55 / 27.08.06

Looking forward to the FOUNTAIN by Aronofsky and I went back to watch PI which is still very well-done indy - not that dated.

Anyway, what are Aronofsky's influences? What films are similar to PI? ALTERED STATES? CREATOR? I've heard that Aronofsky was approached to direct an episode of LOST, but was lost (especially the "numbers" in the show) influenced by Aronofsky's PI?

14:21 / 05.09.06

inspired by an inarticulate conversation held in the pub the other night resulting in me being let down for the first time by Any Questions Answered; what is this movie?

- British horror flick set in the time it was filmed; 60s / 70s
- All girls school
- Opening scenes feature particularly nasty girl in trad St. Trinians uniform on a school bus with her classmates, baiting the weary driver. She has a cigarette lighter and a malicious gleam in the eye. Predictable outcome; burning schoolbus apocalypse and dead driver.
- Her mother (guardian?) is a stock crazy (drunk?) played by a Beryl reid-a-like who warns the investigating coppers that her daughter is cursed. She's ignored and ends up dead on a bonfire on the school Bonfire Night.

Anyone?

I think it's a movie but there's a chance it was a Tales Of the Unexpected-type thing. Either way, my memories of it were that it was genuinely creepy and entirely awesome. Help me - been bugging me all day...

19:03 / 06.09.06

A big styliistic influence on Aronofsky is Bob Fosse's highly underrated All That Jazz. The repeated pill taking in Pi is a direct lift and there's a bunch of other things in there as well. In terms of content, from what I've read, 2001 is the most direct ancestor to The Fountain.

Mysterious Transfer Student

20:47 / 08.09.06

Jodrell -

The film you mean is 'Nothing but the Night' from 1972. Starring Christopher Lee and - as the boozy mother - Diana Dors (depressingly enough, in one of her late-period blowsy roles, c.f 'From Beyond The Grave'). Not on DVD, according to the IMDB, but did used to turn up on the UK Horror Channel (before it was called Zone Horror or whatever the heck it's called now). I remember watching it late night BBC1 years ago, and dozing off halfway through.

(P.S., this is by way of a guest post from Det Goren's S.O. while he's out of town - with his permission, of course. I suppsoe this means I'm Eames...my fate always to never get enough close-ups)

21:43 / 02.11.06

If one were to examine The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Critically where would one begin (with specific relation to theory)?
I realise a bit of a will-you-do-my-homework-for-me question but I do have at least some ideas and would be appreciate some books/applicable modes of thought I perhaps haven't considered. Cheers.

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