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Post by patty on Mar 23, 2020 7:13:50 GMT
Not 2 for the blokes but I thought 'Thorn Birds' and 'Gone With the Wind' adapted well to screen... I enjoyed them
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Post by NigelMoore on Mar 23, 2020 9:40:43 GMT
A superb book and the film was, I thought good. As you say a stellar cast with Fred Astaire turning in what I thought was a great performance ..... Another of his books that made a great impression on me was the posthumous "Trustee from the Toolroom" but as far as I know it was never made into a film. A much neglected author nowadays Good to know somebody else has read him! I have ordered a dvd of the film, will see if I can overcome my distaste for romanticised distortions (if that was the case). If one was to characterise Nevil Shute's work, it would be his highlighting the profound and beneficial effects arising from the choices of unassuming “little people” simply doing the right thing in their own eyes after a little careful thought. The seemingly plodding mundane revealed as truly inspirational human greatness of character, enhancing the lives of all around them. What we once might have termed “very British”, though the accuracy of that could now be called in question perhaps. We did the Pied Piper in first year High School; others I've read were A Town like Alice and Beyond the Black Stump. I see that most of his books have been hitherto unknown to me - including the one you mention - must start collecting them.
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Post by JohnV on Mar 23, 2020 10:46:09 GMT
A superb book and the film was, I thought good. As you say a stellar cast with Fred Astaire turning in what I thought was a great performance ..... Another of his books that made a great impression on me was the posthumous "Trustee from the Toolroom" but as far as I know it was never made into a film. A much neglected author nowadays We did the Pied Piper in first year High School; others I've read were A Town like Alice and Beyond the Black Stump. I see that most of his books have been hitherto unknown to me - including the one you mention - must start collecting them. Find a copy of Slide rule ..... autobiography ..... fascinating story of early aircraft and airshipdesigning
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Post by kris on Mar 23, 2020 16:15:07 GMT
One of my favourite end of the world films is “until the end of the world” by wim wenders. Might be one of the only times you would want to sit through the 7hrs directors cut. But a good film with an interesting story.
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Post by lampiniafloat on Mar 24, 2020 20:54:18 GMT
You missed Shaun of the Dead... errr....not seen that either... my film knowledge lacking I REALLY recommend watching Sean of the Dead at the moment - if like me you’re trying not to panic! 😂
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Post by thebfg on Mar 24, 2020 21:12:07 GMT
You missed Shaun of the Dead... and "The Worlds End" The missus and I went to the cinema on date night to see that. Thought it was ok but wasn't the best in the trilogy.
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Post by thebfg on Mar 24, 2020 21:13:07 GMT
errr....not seen that either... my film knowledge lacking I REALLY recommend watching Sean of the Dead at the moment - if like me you’re trying not to panic! 😂 Zombieland and zombieland 2 are worth a watch too. Very funny.
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Post by NigelMoore on Mar 25, 2020 18:30:35 GMT
Sliding off-topic, though still on old films, I took delivery today of some old family 8mm reels that a baby sister no longer had room for - and to my total astonishment the collection includes a few reels of a home movie that I and all my other siblings had thought long vanished, following heat damage back in the sixties. It was produced by my maternal grandfather using his 3 children for the cast, titled “Tarzoola” starring my mother as a very young teenager clad in skimpy leopardskin, swinging from trees as a female version of Tarzan.
I have always retained a vivid memory of the one time Dad screened it for us, but there seems to be a part 2 that I will not have seen. I am very excited at the prospect of getting it carefully treated and digitised (Dad had at least one of the cannisters marked as too brittle to be projected.) Hopefully there will be places here in the UK that can treat such delicate material appropriately, as they have in the States; the film has to be 75 – 80 years old after all, and appallingly the cans were used as a stove support for some years.
It will have been my mother’s only film appearance; she was famous in her day (in Western Australia), but for radio and stage acting and singing, not in film – my grandfather was for a time WA’s only ‘film star’, with a role in “The Overlanders” as well as several other wartime propaganda movies. Perhaps that experience led him to steer Mum away from the scene!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2020 21:08:58 GMT
errr....not seen that either... my film knowledge lacking I REALLY recommend watching Sean of the Dead at the moment - if like me you’re trying not to panic! 😂 To be frightened in a frightening situation is perfectly natural. We need to make allowances for ourselves and others in these difficult times and in my view a laugh or smile has become essential But stay away from the Winchester for now. Rog
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Post by jam on Mar 25, 2020 22:41:59 GMT
I REALLY recommend watching Sean of the Dead at the moment - if like me you’re trying not to panic! 😂 But stay away from the Winchester for now. Rog No problem, it is closed and not even doing takeouts
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Post by jam on Mar 25, 2020 22:52:17 GMT
A superb book and the film was, I thought good. As you say a stellar cast with Fred Astaire turning in what I thought was a great performance ..... Another of his books that made a great impression on me was the posthumous "Trustee from the Toolroom" but as far as I know it was never made into a film. A much neglected author nowadays We did the Pied Piper in first year High School; others I've read were A Town like Alice and Beyond the Black Stump. I see that most of his books have been hitherto unknown to me - including the one you mention - must start collecting them. He was one of my favourite authors, on top of some of the titles mentioned a few memorable books in my collection are 'No Highway' , 'What Happened To The Corbetts and Ruined City. He had a style of his own although a lot of his heroes were middle class.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Mar 25, 2020 22:59:54 GMT
“No-one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space. No-one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinised, as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets. And yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely, they drew their plans against us…”
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Post by JohnV on Mar 26, 2020 3:06:55 GMT
Great album was playing that..... loudly a bit ago
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2020 14:53:24 GMT
Just finished watching this. Not exactly an apocalypse film but I liked it.
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Post by NigelMoore on Apr 7, 2020 11:57:43 GMT
For some reason I found my brain rehearsing scenes from Frank Herbert's 'The White Plague' this morning, as it struggled for complete consciousness prior to the alarm going off. Never made into a film, so far as I know, but an interesting projection of how governments worldwide might react to a (manufactured) plague that could spell the end of human existence.
The plague was deliberately introduced to only 3 countries (England, Ireland and Libya) and the rest of the world told to isolate those countries rigidly, lest the infection spread. Needless to say, that exhortation to self-isolate resulted in too little too late, and the present day reality tends to confirm the accuracy of Herbert's 20thC psychological postulate.
It is a little surprising that nobody thought to make a film of it, though possibly the politics of the day might have made such a project a bit iffy.
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