Why are they making another version of Persuasion?
Oh, no, oh, no! Spontaneous poetic exclamations. Lord, spare me college boys in love.
Dr. Walsh ,'Potential'
Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell
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Dana - Aug 27, 2006 4:32:17 pm PDT #3764 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
sumi - Aug 27, 2006 4:41:39 pm PDT #3765 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Because they can?
Because P&P did really well?
But ASH in Regency costume!
Fiona - Aug 27, 2006 11:39:31 pm PDT #3766 of 10001
I don't either, but apparently she was in Tipping the Velvet, which IIRC several Buffistas have read and seen and have big deep love for, so there's got to be someone here with an informed opinion on her.
I didn't see "Tipping the Velvet", and she wasn't one of the leads in that, but she was a lead in "Fingersmith", and very good in that. She also had excellent reviews for a BBC play that was on a couple of weeks ago. I like her.
Glamcookie - Aug 28, 2006 7:56:27 am PDT #3767 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Tipping the Velvet starred Diana Rigg Jr. (her look-alike daughter Rachel Stirling). Yum! I liked the movie of Tipping the Velvet better than the movie of Fingersmith, but Fingersmith was the better book hands down. Was similar to The Woman In White, only gay! Yay!
t makes note to reread Fingersmith
Tom Scola - Aug 28, 2006 9:11:45 am PDT #3768 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Jessica - Aug 28, 2006 10:12:09 am PDT #3769 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
film editing remains perhaps the least heralded and least understood of the cinema's technical arts.
When it comes to udnerappreciated and misunderstood technical arts, I'd put sound ahead of picture any day. Even people who don't really care how a movie is made are, I think, aware, in a vague sort of way, that footage gets edited. I don't think it even occurs to most people how complicated the art of putting together a soundtrack is.
Aims - Aug 28, 2006 10:22:59 am PDT #3770 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
There something you want from ND today, Jess?
Heh.
Jessica - Aug 28, 2006 10:29:21 am PDT #3771 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Yes, I would like a present.
t waits
Jessica - Aug 28, 2006 10:54:11 am PDT #3772 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
And, okay, this?
This exhausting back-and-forth approach doesn't even necessarily require dialogue. For the (spoiler) protracted kiss at the climax of "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby," the movie ricochets between camera setups as if the scene were a heated cross-examination instead of a comical clinch.
The reason that moment had to be edited that way was they wanted it to look like it went on longer than it actually did, probably because the two actors kept cracking up and made it impossible to actually shoot one long take. ALL of the interactions between those two actors were edited that way. It wasn't an artistic decision, it was a last resort.
Scrappy - Aug 28, 2006 12:55:23 pm PDT #3773 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Saw Idlewild last night and someone brought their 8-year-old kid. The film had swearing, fairly graphic sex, and murder--what were they thinking?