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BiggieTembo 15th May 2015		Cinema 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)	Perhaps H.R. Pufnstuf would have been a better choice then. Or Mary Poppins.
BiggieTembo 15th May 2015		Cinema Apocalypse Now (1979)	I knew this guy who could do all the lines from the film. He would chastise anyone who tried to replicate them and got them wrong. He was totally autistic over it. I once had an Apocalypse Now duel with him but I slipped up on the napalm scene - I couldn't remember what the pilot's intercom said after PBR Streetgang, PBR Streetgang... all I could remember was, bring your boys back home, wings abreast - and I think all that was jumbled up (these are the kind of things one discussed down the pub in those days). He could do everything though. He told me once that he would watch this film with the sound off, whilst simultaneously playing Gong's Angel's Egg LP on a constant loop. He was convinced the whole thing synched - whatever that meant. The fact that he was taking tons of acid at the time was neither here nor there.
BiggieTembo 15th May 2015		Cinema A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)	Saw this when I was 12. Me mate rented it at the video rental shop and we sneaked it back and watched it while his Mum was at work. I remember the scene where Nancy is sleeping and Freddy Kreuger's face and hands stretch into the bedroom wall, above her bed. Pretty fricken surreal and scary, aye!
BiggieTembo 15th May 2015		Cinema 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)	Is that right? I read somewhere that a bunch of heads (from San Francisco, probably) said that if you saw this film on acid, then it would be The Ultimate Trip
BiggieTembo 15th May 2015		Cinema Poltergeist (1982)	I am the only one who wanted someone to tie that pint-sized clairvoyant up in a sack and throw her into that bloody vortex at the end?
BiggieTembo 15th May 2015		Cinema Goodfellas (1990)	I came out of the cinema, after seeing this when it was released, and I wanted to whack someone! Thought it was a great film, but after this, and the later Casino, and then having kids, I tried to watch both of them again, about 10 years later, and realised that the characters in this film are utterly unlikeable. Damn, they're some mean mothers, who'd sell their own mothers! It is, however, a really good film, but the characters are absolutely distasteful. This is of course due to the great job done by the cast. One isn't meant to like these guys - at all.
BiggieTembo 15th May 2015		TV Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969 - 1970)	HTV showed it too, in the afternoons, in the 80s. That's where I discovered this great show as well. Me and me mate used to skip off school for a whole afternoon on Tuesdays and watch it 'cause he'd videotaped it on the timer. When my school report came out, it said impossible to comment due to absence. Me Mum laughed her ass of when she saw it! Flippin' eck Tucker!
BiggieTembo 15th May 2015		Cinema Blade Runner (1982)	Just saw the 2007 Director's Cut last weekend on the huge screen at Imperial, Copenhagen. Wow - what an experience. I'd seen it on DVD before, but damn how much better it is blown-up full-size. The surround sound was quite creepy, it was so good, and there's so much more of the city's detail that comes out on the big screen, even the added computerised bits. The Director's Cut is a real improvement on the original, which I saw on video when it was released for rental way back when. Even then I found the Philip Marlowe-type narration annoying, so I'm glad they took it off. There's some great embellishments on the Director's Cut - especially the way they got the actress who played Zhora to come back in, put a bit of slap on and morphed her face onto that stunt woman with the red curly wig. Much better, lads! Still, they should have left the scene where Deckard questions the guy who made the snake silent. Yeah so what we couldn't hear what he's saying, 'cause we're (i.e. the camera) outside the guy's shop. The fact that they added Harrison Ford's new voice synced on the top is just plain hollywood spoon-feeding. You can just imagine some chump in the preview audience making a note about not understanding the scene... Of course the Blade Runner nerds were out in force, but dammit those Replicants are more human than the bloody humans (even those who work in IT departments!) I defy anyone to not get moved by Roy Batty's final forgiving actions and speech. I'm glad I got the chance to finally see this film how it should be - at the flicks ;-)
BiggieTembo 15th May 2015		Vinyl Album The Plastic Ono Band - Live Peace In Toronto 1969	Yeah it was the first record with one side on that you could play at either 16, 33, 45 and 78 rpm - and it still sounded the same!
BiggieTembo 15th May 2015		Cinema Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid (1973)	Review They call movies like these Descontructed Westerns (refer also to Monty Walsh with Lee Marvin, for example) It's not about good against bad. Cops against Robbers. It's about how times change. This is a film about two friends. They make choices, and I guess have to bear the fruits of their choices. With a great director at the helm (although the shooting of any Peckenpah film was reportedly not smooth) a great cast, a great script and a great score by Bob Dylan, this film is one of the deepest, human films you may see. Yes, it's about men, but these men are tired. They see the changing of the times. One decides to give it a last shot, one decides to survive. All the characters (played by the greatest ensemble of 1950s-1970s US character actors you will ever see) are sincere, even when they make the wrong choices. All of the characters act out of their own convictions - this is a tremendous success for an actor - to accurately portray (and have the permission to/be allowed to) portray a role so honestly, and that's the key to this great film - they play it all authentic. The moustachioed Coburn is majestic; the drawling Kristofferson incredibly effective. Even Dylan's good too ("Beans!") There's such a melancholy about this film too - the music steers the viewer down this path, for sure - but the feelings involved are much deeper than any of Peckenpah's other films. Who cannot see the scene where Coburn's Garrett has to gun down the honourable Jack Elam without feeling a sense of loss? Who cannot see the scene where the stomach-shot Slim Pickens, in the middle of a gunfight, goes to the river, while Katy Jurado drops her rifle and goes to him, sits by the side of him, and watches him see the dying of the light, without feeling so much sadness and sorrow, and yet so much love between them. It's almost a transcendental scene. This is the key to Peckenpah, his films and the often misinterpreted violence he used. Anyone who can craft a piece of cinema art like this must have been walking around with a tremendous amount of sorrow, but also a tremendous amount of love. The studios hacked and edited this film upon release. Thankfully, this film was re-edited after Peckenpah's death, guided by his personal notes about how the film should be. It's a magnificent film on all levels. See it. Sample dialogue: BILLY sits in a cantina over the Mexican border with members of his band. GARRETT has just told BILLY that he is going to "run with the law", and if he sees him again, he's going to have to arrrest him. After GARRETT leaves, one of BILLY's band pipes up: BAND MEMBER: Why didn't you just shoot him? BILLY (taking a slug of whiskey): Why? He's my friend. 2 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
BiggieTembo 14th May 2015		TV The Clifton House Mystery (1978)	Hey Radox you're uploading HTV stuff! What about Robin Of Sherwood or Children Of The Stones?
BiggieTembo 14th May 2015		TV Grange Hill (1978 - 2008)	Come on, Sir! We're the only kids in Britain that never say... [YouTube Video]
BiggieTembo 14th May 2015		TV Grange Hill (1978 - 2008)	Zammo chased the dragon and got a smack on the nose!
BiggieTembo 14th May 2015		TV Multi-Coloured Swap Shop (1976 - 1982)	Good Man Radox - West Country Man like meself (you mention HTV, which was pretty early in picking up on ATV's Tiswas). But enough about that great show - we're talking about Swap Shop. Mmm... interesting dialogue since I've been away guys. Thanks for the contributions. However I must add that Swap Shop was vastly superior in one thing only - mediocrity. Tiswas was punk, anarchy, imrovisational comedy and freedom. Swap Shop was Auntie Beeb, Conservatism, boredom and carefulness combined.
BiggieTembo 14th May 2015		Cinema Performance (1970)	Both Cammell and Roeg's films are all extremely good. If the stories falter, there's always the visual side of things. Time-cuts, flashbacks, slow-motion sequences and explorations of linear/circular time and memory. True cinema.
BiggieTembo 14th May 2015		Cinema Control (2007)	Uncanny re-staging of the live TV performance of Transmission in the film, the instruments being played by the actors [YouTube Video]
BiggieTembo 14th May 2015		TV Blue Peter (1958 - Now)	Noakes was clearly the only real element in this show. I recall seeing a where are they now-type programme shown many years later, where a greying-haired Noakes talked about his time as a BP presenter. When asked where Shep was, he broke down, explaining that Shep had recently died. Now I don't like dogs, and even more I detest mediocre BBC children's magazine programmes, but damn this was moving.
BiggieTembo 14th May 2015		Cinema Straw Dogs (1971)	As a film fan, and coming from the West of England, I couldn't believe it when I found out that one of my favourite directors, Sam Peckenpah, had made a film in Cornwall with a bunch of yokels in it! Of course they were pretty stereotyped yokels, but that didn't make this a bad film. You can argue that generally, in movies, when it concerns characters travelling to remote, out-of-the-way places, there's always a bunch of country-folk waiting to whoop ass. But to be perfectly honest, I come from that kind of environment, and there are some places and people like that. Leaving the pacifism vs. provoked fascism discussion aside, this film does however include some of Peckinpah's graceful ballet-of-action and flashback/forward direction and editing. He was a one-off where this type of visual imagery is concerned. I think that only a handful of directors (Peckenpah, Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg - perhaps Dario Argento, too) mastered this form of cinematic storytelling, playing with time, space, and memory, all in a single moment.
BiggieTembo 14th May 2015		Cinema Lilja 4-Ever (2002)	One of the most heartbreaking films I've ever seen. As if Ken Loach moved to Sweden and made a film
BiggieTembo 14th May 2015		Cinema Some Kind Of Wonderful (1987)	Zab you should really check this out - Why isn't Eric Stoltz more recognised than he is? Maybe he is in the US... This, and his incredible ensemble turn (with the intense William Forsyth, and a great performance by Wesley Snipes) in The Waterdance should have won him an Oscar. Elias Koteas - always authentic in everything he's been in - is like a Henry Rollins-type skinhead in this. In Crash and The Thin Red Line he also excels.
BiggieTembo 14th May 2015		Cinema Performance (1970)	CHAS (to Turner): You'll look funny when you're 50!
BiggieTembo 14th May 2015		Cinema Some Kind Of Wonderful (1987)	Of all the mid-80s teen-movies that came out of the USA, they say that The Breakfast Club is one of the best. Followed closely by Pretty In Pink. Although Breakfast had a few characters that were somewhat realistic, Pretty In Pink failed miserably for me. I just couldn't identify with the characters, and I was just as lost as they were at that time... Until I saw this one. The great Eric Stoltz and tremendous Elias Koteas in roles that I could identify with. Sensitive, individual, restless, authentic-to-themselves (or at least they were trying to be), anarchistic - all the things about being young and alive. And trying to be real in an age of wtf-hopelessness. This film also had great humour. In the UK we were bombarded with US culture so much, we thought all it was about was winning. This film showed me for the first time that thoughful, good, alive teenage characters existed in US culture too.
BiggieTembo 14th May 2015		TV The Word (1990 - 1995)	Yep - remember seeing all those - the Grace Jones slap, Oliver Reed drunk (or was he?), Nirvana's UK TV debut, L7's no-trousers (punk, innit!), PIL doing Cruel from That What Is Not, Oasis for the first time on TV, Stereolab doing French Disko, Whiteout doing No Time, Shabba Ranks destroying his career, and many more. All that happening whilst stuffing toast into my mouth trying to avoid room-spin and sober up before I went to bed, because I would've puked otherwise. Those were the days, aye. Funny I remember some of the lines Oliver Reed came out with in that famous sofa-interview. He was pointing to his upper arm saying "What do you think this is, birdshit?!" (alluding to officer's stripes?), and "Keep your horses to the wall!" whatever that meant.
BiggieTembo 14th May 2015		TV Tiswas (1974 - 1982)	Zab, you're a gentleman! Sally was No.1 - until I discovered...Debbie Harry :-s
BiggieTembo 14th May 2015		TV Absolutely (1989 - 1993)	Moray Hunter's brilliant Callum Gilhooley [YouTube Video]
BiggieTembo 14th May 2015		TV Absolutely (1989 - 1993)	Morwenna Banks' Tour Guide [YouTube Video]
BiggieTembo 14th May 2015		TV Absolutely (1989 - 1993)	The amazing John Sparkes and his Bert Bastard [YouTube Video]
BiggieTembo 14th May 2015		TV Absolutely (1989 - 1993)	The great Morwenna Banks and her Little Girl [YouTube Video]
BiggieTembo 14th May 2015		TV Terry And June (1979 - 1987)	That's the story of the BBC - Flog A Dead Horse
BiggieTembo 14th May 2015		TV Tiswas (1974 - 1982)	Fine with me zab - Sally's mine anyway

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