From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #138 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, May 9 2009 Volume 17 : Number 138 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: feg film faves [James Dignan ] Re: movies you love to hate [Laura Dean Golias ] Re: movies you love to hate [lep ] Bewildering feg moment [James Dignan ] Re: fegdream [Rex ] Re: feg film faves [Steve Schiavo ] Re: movies you love to hate [lep ] Re: movies you love to hate [Laura Dean Golias ] Re: Bewildering feg moment ["Stewart C. Russell" ] topher, yay! (100% dollhouse) [lep ] Re: movies you love to hate [michaeljbachman@comcast.net] Re: movies you love to hate [Jeremy Osner ] Bob Dylan : Could he have concealed TWO more brides and FOUR other children? [HwyCDRrev@a] AAWE Working Paper No. 36 (NR) [Steve Schiavo ] Re: topher, yay! (100% dollhouse) [2fs ] Movies [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: Movies [Jeremy Osner ] Re: movies you love to hate [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: Movies [kevin studyvin ] Re: topher, yay! (100% dollhouse) [kevin studyvin ] Re: Movies [lep ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 15:34:37 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: feg film faves > I'll try off the top of my head: so will I. In no set order: 2001: A space odyssey The party Duck soup Annie Hall Dr Strangelove A fish called Wanda Tampopo Koyaanisqatsi Wings of desire I'm all right Jack Secretary A beautiful mind The third man Rear window Chicken run Blow up A hard day's night The quiet earth La dolce vita The Maltese falcon The thin man To have and have not Spirited away The The lord of the rings trilogy and, for the sake of quirkiness, Death to Smoochy There are many more... James - -- James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 21:34:58 -0500 (CDT) From: Laura Dean Golias Subject: Re: movies you love to hate I'm a bit of a horror movie buff, but there are so many others I like as well. Here are some of my favorites: An Angel At My Table Trust Cat People (original b/w version) Marnie The Bad Seed (original b/w) To Kill A Mockingbird The Snapper Wish You Were Here Hope And Glory The Black Stallion A Clockwork Orange Lolita (original and remake) That's all I can think of right now. These days, I'm more of a reader than a movie-watcher. Laura Dean Golias ldgolias1@verizon.net ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 00:29:42 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: movies you love to hate Laura says: > Trust oh, i love that movie. i have it on VHS; last time i looked it wasn't available on DVD, at least from Netflix. i like "the unbelieveable truth" as well, but really, all of the earlier hartley stuff. > Marnie hitchcock finally appears. yay. (re: "marnie", when i got my first colour television (a gift), i was so attached to my old B&W (it was a ~19" B&W set - kind of gorgeous) that i didn't plug in the colour one for months. the movie that made me finally set up was when they played "marnie"! (of course, had i plugged it in earlier, i would have found out sooner rather way later that "the prisoner" was *not* filmed in black & white.) xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 15:43:29 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: Bewildering feg moment Today's bewildering Robynesque moment... I've just checked the stats on my website (low, but acceptable, traffic... in terms of numbers as well...). Decided to check "Referrals" - where people had surfed into my site from. In amongst the usual googles and yahoo searches, there's usually one or two oddities. This was today's: . Even the date on the site is weird... James - -- James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 21:55:58 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: fegdream On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 8:55 AM, vivien lyon wrote: > > >> I spoke facilely... I don't really have nightmares at all. Even my more > negative, disgusting or scary dreams are fascinating to me, and I almost > never wake up scared or shaken. The dreams I hate most are the boring, > repetitive ones. > About a week before the fegdream, I had a night when I woke up screaming. Can't recall the dream, but it must've been bad. The night after that I had a really shitty nightmare that I did remember. I'm not having much luck with the whole dream thing these days (nor the more general category of "sleep"). ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 00:13:12 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: feg film faves - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 02:22:15 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: movies you love to hate Laura says: > Trust is actually my favorite movie ever. > I also have it on VHS. I wonder if it will ever be available on DVD? my cynically-minded guess is that they're gearing up to re-release the hartley movies with adrienne shelly -- death benefits and what-not. > Marnie is my favorite AH movie, but I am also very fond of The Birds. i love pretty much all hitchcock. BTW, there's a nice little series of books on individual films by the BFI, and the one on "the birds" is written by camille paglia (now, i know she's not so popular on feglist, but whatever, she rules and is one of my personal heroes.) http://www.amazon.com/Birds-BFI-Film-Classics/dp/0851706517 (best pop-culture camille IMO: her audio commentary for "basic instinct". i should probably duck.) > The movie that really changed the way I thought about things was A Clockwork > Orange. > The first time I saw it was on my 21st birthday. I was in college at the > time, and one of the girls who lived across the hall asked me and my > roommate if we wanted to go to the library and watch it. I was blown away > but my roommate hated it. After the movie, Kristen (the girl across the > hall) asked me if I liked it. I told her I loved it. She smiled at me and > said "I knew you would". For some reason, that really touched me. And > changed me. I probably wouldn't be a feg today if it weren't for that movie. that's really interesting. i'd be curious to hear in what way it changed you. i saw it for a class in high-school, and was a bit freaked out by it. to be honest, i still am. when i was younger, i was extremely sensitive to violent imagery (i try to blame my overactive imagination and/or being the wrong age at the time of the charlie manson murders and manhunt.) as a result, didn't see a number of pretty popular movies until later. i think i attended the "clockwork orange" viewing mostly because i had weaseled out of "apocalypse now" field trip for the same class. as it turns out, "apocalypse now" didn't bother me; what does bother me fits into a fairly narrow range of sort of drawn-out, fairly intense, and believable cruelty. like the ear scene in "reservoir dogs" is just around my limit. and as much as i love "blue velvet", i still get creeped out by some of the scenes in that movie (although, huh, the ear scene in *that* one doesn't bother me - the scene that gets me is when frank takes jeffrey on the joyride.) i guess one could say war is drawn-out, intense, and believable cruelty, but i think most war movies don't bring the situation down to a personal enough level for me to be disturbed (although i recall thinking during "saving private ryan": why did i say "yes" when they asked me to go?) i think the whole thing is mostly that my thoughts are dark enough - no help needed, thank you. as ever, lauren (with only one presentation to finish for school, but, man, this one's a bitch) - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 00:43:43 -0500 (CDT) From: Laura Dean Golias Subject: Re: movies you love to hate Trust is actually my favorite movie ever. I also have it on VHS. I wonder if it will ever be available on DVD? Marnie is my favorite AH movie, but I am also very fond of The Birds. The movie that really changed the way I thought about things was A Clockwork Orange. The first time I saw it was on my 21st birthday. I was in college at the time, and one of the girls who lived across the hall asked me and my roommate if we wanted to go to the library and watch it. I was blown away but my roommate hated it. After the movie, Kristen (the girl across the hall) asked me if I liked it. I told her I loved it. She smiled at me and said "I knew you would". For some reason, that really touched me. And changed me. I probably wouldn't be a feg today if it weren't for that movie. Laura Dean Golias ldgolias1@verizon.net Laura says: > Trust oh, i love that movie. i have it on VHS; last time i looked it wasn't available on DVD, at least from Netflix. i like "the unbelieveable truth" as well, but really, all of the earlier hartley stuff. > Marnie hitchcock finally appears. yay. (re: "marnie", when i got my first colour television (a gift), i was so attached to my old B&W (it was a ~19" B&W set - kind of gorgeous) that i didn't plug in the colour one for months. the movie that made me finally set up was when they played "marnie"! (of course, had i plugged it in earlier, i would have found out sooner rather way later that "the prisoner" was *not* filmed in black & white.) xo -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 07:40:00 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Bewildering feg moment James Dignan wrote: > > ... Even the date on the site is weird... It's a splog - I get a ton of those as referrers. It's also a Canadian one, and not merely that, it's really shoddily programmed. "19109" is what you get if you've got your pre-y2k head on: 19 joined with (number of years since 1900). Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 09:04:03 -0400 From: lep Subject: topher, yay! (100% dollhouse) (no *real* spoilers, but jeff 2fs should go away anyway) okay, so topher's been annoying the hell out of me all season, but that's the thing about joss whedon characters: they annoy the hell out of you, and somehow you still end up wanting to have them around (just like regular people!) topher's "soylent green" reference on last night's show - brilliant (i mean, it was (1) really funny, and (2) a "soylent green" reference -- what more could you want?) which i should probably credit the writer of the episode for, and not topher, but, whatever. topher rules. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 14:59:16 +0000 (UTC) From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Subject: Re: movies you love to hate The Criterion Collection will be releasing a deluxe DVD of Go dard's 1962 classic My Live to Live next year. Michael B. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "lep" To: "a sweet little cupcake...baked by the devil!" Sent: Friday, May 8, 2009 5:19:15 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: movies you love to hate Carrie says: > I'd be curious to see a current listing of fegs favorite films. somewhat stolen from my myspace answer: Vertigo North by Northwest The Conversation L'avventura Don't Look Now The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 (i'll be curious to see the remake) Barton Fink Eraserhead Muholland Drive Inland Empire Bladerunner Picnic at Hanging Rock Talk to Her The Virgin Suicides Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe The Sweet Hereafter B Five Easy Pieces Sweet and Lowdown Crimes and Misdemeanors Raising Arizona A Streetcar Named Desire Band of Outsiders Dr. Strangelove The Remains of the Day i didn't count to cut off at ten, and i didn't really update it. B but it'll give you the idea. re: on the feglist list that eddie posted: unless i spaced, there's not one hitchcock (alfred, for once!) movie. B that seemed odd. also, i found it interesting and kind of surprising that *just* "red" from the three colours was on there. B i like "red" by far the best, then "blue" next by a lot, then "white". B for some (likely self-absorbed) reason, it never occurred to me that, in general, most people might have a fairly strong preference for one or the other (probably in some way i feel like i'm being a poor viewer for not taking the trilogy as some sort of monolith, or something; i likely assume others to be more sophisticated, hence the surprise.) speaking of the three colours trilogy, i adore that movie "heaven" which was written but not directed by kieslowski. as ever, lauren p.s. and carrie - you owe us a list of your own. - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." B -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 11:12:17 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: movies you love to hate On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 10:59 AM, wrote: > The Criterion Collection will be releasing a deluxe DVD of Go dard's 1962 > classic My Live to Live next year. Somehow Godard just does not appeal to me that much. I like French New Wave movies, the ones I have seen, that are not by him -- but his characters just don't grip me the way (say) Truffaut's or Varda's do. They seem very artificial and not in an interesting way, and the violence just strikes me as gratuitous. Loved his cameo in Cleo from 5 to 7 though, that's one of the all-time classic scenes. Reminds me that I forgot "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure" from my list of faves. J If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 11:20:46 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Bob Dylan : Could he have concealed TWO more brides and FOUR other children? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1179512/Bob-Dylan-hid-marriage- - -daughter--15-years-Could-concealed-TWO-brides-FOUR-children.html my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ **************Remember Mom this Mother's Day! Find a florist near you now. (http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=florist&ncid=emlcntusyelp00000006) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 09:25:41 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: AAWE Working Paper No. 36 (NR) Can People Distinguish Pbti from Dog Food? - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 14:50:03 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: topher, yay! (100% dollhouse) On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 8:04 AM, lep wrote: > (no *real* spoilers, but jeff 2fs should go away anyway) > People say that a lot... ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 21:55:22 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Movies Lauren and Carrie posted fantastic lists. I'm not all that surprised that we seem to have common taste in movies, but it's good to be reminded of that. It may sound strange, but somehow it feels like watching movies like that is a thing of the past for me. In recent years I have watched a much smaller number of films that might fit on such a list. I've got myself to blame for that, of course, because these days I prefer to take a path of less resistance, as it were. But part of it is also that my current set of friends & colleagues just isn't interested in movies as an art form. I used to go to the movies on my own a lot, but I feel more uncomfortable doing that now. So when I go with other people, it's mostly current blockbusters. I guess I should watch more movies on DVD. TV series have taken over that part of my spare time, which is just fine, except that there *are* movies that transcend what even the best of TV series can achieve. There's no Netflix in Germany and the equivalent (lovefilm.com) appears to be quite a bit more expensive (11.99 Euros vs $8.99 a month for 1 DVD at a time), but maybe I should give that a try. To those of you who have Netflix: what plan do you have? Is 1 DVD at a time enough or should I go for 2? - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 16:00:14 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Movies I have 3 at a time but that's because of the size of my family. If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Josi Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Sebastian Hagedorn < Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de> wrote: > Lauren and Carrie posted fantastic lists. I'm not all that surprised that > we seem to have common taste in movies, but it's good to be reminded of > that. It may sound strange, but somehow it feels like watching movies like > that is a thing of the past for me. In recent years I have watched a much > smaller number of films that might fit on such a list. I've got myself to > blame for that, of course, because these days I prefer to take a path of > less resistance, as it were. But part of it is also that my current set of > friends & colleagues just isn't interested in movies as an art form. I used > to go to the movies on my own a lot, but I feel more uncomfortable doing > that now. So when I go with other people, it's mostly current blockbusters. > I guess I should watch more movies on DVD. TV series have taken over that > part of my spare time, which is just fine, except that there *are* movies > that transcend what even the best of TV series can achieve. There's no > Netflix in Germany and the equivalent (lovefilm.com) appears to be quite a > bit more expensive (11.99 Euros vs $8.99 a month for 1 DVD at a time), but > maybe I should give that a try. > > To those of you who have Netflix: what plan do you have? Is 1 DVD at a time > enough or should I go for 2? > -- > Sebastian Hagedorn > Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany > http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ > "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 22:16:03 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: movies you love to hate - -- lep is rumored to have mumbled on 9. Mai 2009 02:22:15 -0400 regarding Re: movies you love to hate: > Laura says: >> Trust is actually my favorite movie ever. >> I also have it on VHS. I wonder if it will ever be available on DVD? > > my cynically-minded guess is that they're gearing up to re-release the > hartley movies with adrienne shelly -- death benefits and what-not. I haven't watched a Hal Hartley movie in ages and my memories are hazy, but I'd welcome a DVD release for any reason. >> Marnie is my favorite AH movie, but I am also very fond of The Birds. > > i love pretty much all hitchcock. Same here. I still don't quite have *all* his movies on DVD, but I have several box sets. One of them covers his earliest films and is really interesting as you can sort of tag along as he develops his style. >> The movie that really changed the way I thought about things was A >> Clockwork Orange. >> The first time I saw it was on my 21st birthday. I was in college at the >> time, and one of the girls who lived across the hall asked me and my >> roommate if we wanted to go to the library and watch it. I was blown away >> but my roommate hated it. After the movie, Kristen (the girl across the >> hall) asked me if I liked it. I told her I loved it. She smiled at me and >> said "I knew you would". For some reason, that really touched me. And >> changed me. I probably wouldn't be a feg today if it weren't for that >> movie. > > that's really interesting. i'd be curious to hear in what way it > changed you. i saw it for a class in high-school, and was a bit > freaked out by it. I was completely freaked out! I *think* I'd read the book before, but I could be wrong. The book freaked my out as well. I've read it two times (both times in German, alas), and I remember that I felt alienated in an almost psychotic way afterwards. Each time it took me a while to find my way back into the world. I saw the movie before I was allowed to do so (it was rated 18 and over in Germany), I think at 16, and I had persuaded my parents to see it with me at a theater. That was a bracing experience. First I felt mortifed watching the sex scenes while sitting next to my parents, and then my father was *really* upset about the movie. I cannot figure out my father at all and it scared me to see him so upset, which added to the freak-out. AFAIR, he felt that the movie advocated letting Alex just be Alex. > to be honest, i still am. when i was younger, i > was extremely sensitive to violent imagery (i try to blame my > overactive imagination and/or being the wrong age at the time of the > charlie manson murders and manhunt.) as a result, didn't see a number > of pretty popular movies until later. i think i attended the > "clockwork orange" viewing mostly because i had weaseled out of > "apocalypse now" field trip for the same class. Our teachers made a big fuss about Apocalypse Now. It was screened at school, but only for students of a certain age, and some teachers warned us not ot see it. > as it turns out, "apocalypse now" didn't bother me; Me neither. I'd say I didn't get it at all (I was probably 12 at the time), but it didn't freak me out either. > what does bother > me fits into a fairly narrow range of sort of drawn-out, fairly > intense, and believable cruelty. like the ear scene in "reservoir > dogs" is just around my limit. > and as much as i love "blue velvet", i > still get creeped out by some of the scenes in that movie (although, > huh, the ear scene in *that* one doesn't bother me - the scene that > gets me is when frank takes jeffrey on the joyride.) Same here, although I haven't seen both in a while and think that it wouldn't bother me as much now than it used to. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 22:24:17 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: topher, yay! (100% dollhouse) Spoiler alert! - -- lep is rumored to have mumbled on 9. Mai 2009 09:04:03 -0400 regarding topher, yay! (100% dollhouse): > okay, so topher's been annoying the hell out of me all season, Yeah, and not knowing the actor prior to this role I kept wondering if it was the actor or the role he's being asked to play. > but > that's the thing about joss whedon characters: they annoy the hell > out of you, and somehow you still end up wanting to have them around > (just like regular people!) > > topher's "soylent green" reference on last night's show - brilliant (i > mean, it was (1) really funny, and (2) a "soylent green" reference -- > what more could you want?) For me it was more the bit where Whiskey discovers that Topher programed Dr. Saunders to hate him. The episode was Amy Acker heaven! First the bad girl outfit, then the self-aware doll ... wow. I don't believe there will be another season, but I'm looking forward to the DVD set (I might even spring for the BluRay edition), just to see the extra episode that Fox won't show. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 16:40:53 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: movies you love to hate This thread of conversation is reminding me to ask whether you people (And especially You Softboy Girl!) have seen The Pervert's Guide to Cinema by Slavoj Zizek. A lot of fun, it is. Me: Not that interested in horror movies as such, though I frequently like thrillers -- is there some overlap between the genres? I guess when I hear "horror" I think "gory thriller", not sure if that is a valid translation of categories. My favorite (Sir Alfred) Hitchcocks are the psychological ones -- I love, love "Lifeboat" and "Rear Window" but only love "Vertigo". "The Birds" and "Psycho" didn't really do much for me but I'm sure I'll give them another try. "North by Northwest" is sort of in its own category -- Hitchcock parodied himself a lot but never (I think) as overtly as here. Here are a couple of movies that I only saw once and have pretty dim memories of but seem to recall liking a whole lot and think I would enjoy watching them again: Naked Lunch (I remember being mystified and amazed that the filmmaker was able to make a movie out of this book) Mulholland Drive Ghost World J If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 14:03:52 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Movies > To those of you who have Netflix: what plan do you have? Is 1 DVD at a time > enough or should I go for 2? > -- > Sebastian Hagedorn > Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany > http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ > "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock > 3 at a time, which we typically have laying around for a month before we bother to look at them. Might be better off with the 1 movie plan. What immediately comes to mind in re: favorite movies -- O Lucky Man! Satyricon The Maltese Falcon Chinatown Bringing Up Baby Charade Only Angels Have Wings (OK, I'm a big Cary Grant fan) The General Died At Dawn The Magic Christian The Big Sleep McCabe & Mrs Miller Performance Metropolitan (or any of Whit Stillman's stuff, really) The Royal Tenenbaums Mulholland Drive (the only Lynch flick I have any lasting fondness for) Moulin Rouge Velvet Goldmine Dracula (the Tod Browning original) Aguirre: The Wrath Of God enough for now... ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 14:09:34 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: topher, yay! (100% dollhouse) > For me it was more the bit where Whiskey discovers that Topher programed > Dr. Saunders to hate him. The episode was Amy Acker heaven! First the bad > girl outfit, then the self-aware doll ... wow. I don't believe there will be > another season, but I'm looking forward to the DVD set (I might even spring > for the BluRay edition), just to see the extra episode that Fox won't show. > -- > Sebastian Hagedorn > Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany > http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ > "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock > Speaking of Amy Acker heaven, the last season of Angel is in reruns at the moment & it's been way too much fun watching Illyria again. Now there's a character I miss. And Lorne too. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 18:10:00 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: Movies Sebastian says: > Lauren and Carrie posted fantastic lists. I'm not all that surprised that we > seem to have common taste in movies, but it's good to be reminded of that. > It may sound strange, but somehow it feels like watching movies like that is > a thing of the past for me. In recent years I have watched a much smaller > number of films that might fit on such a list. I've got myself to blame for > that, of course, because these days I prefer to take a path of less > resistance, as it were. But part of it is also that my current set of > friends & colleagues just isn't interested in movies as an art form. I used > to go to the movies on my own a lot, but I feel more uncomfortable doing > that now. So when I go with other people, it's mostly current blockbusters. > I guess I should watch more movies on DVD. TV series have taken over that > part of my spare time, which is just fine, except that there *are* movies > that transcend what even the best of TV series can achieve. There's no > Netflix in Germany and the equivalent (lovefilm.com) appears to be quite a > bit more expensive (11.99 Euros vs $8.99 a month for 1 DVD at a time), but > maybe I should give that a try. i adore going to the movies -- i think i still have some sense of there being something kind of wonderous about the big screen -- but actually, it's been a really dry year for me as far as that goes. but even when i do get out to the movies a lot, i watch a lot from netflix, actually both movies and television series, but mostly movies. i don't have cable (i guess that's on purpose since i seem to be able to find WAY to much to watch) so without netlifx, it's just a few commercial stations and PBS. (and BTW, IMO, blockbusters are one of the best reasons to go out to the movies!) > To those of you who have Netflix: what plan do you have? Is 1 DVD at a time > enough or should I go for 2? i get 2 at a time. last time i noticed, it was $14.99 a month (fair bit cheaper than cable, i believe.) i think only 1 at a time would be a bit stifling (but, then, i'm kind of moody when it comes to movies - what seemed like great fun two days ago at the top of my queue may find me muttering: "jesus, another fucking french movie?!" when it arrives in the post.) although with netflix, it's very easy to change plans... xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #138 ********************************