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i just meant that its a shame that its so thoroughly unpokeyish

maybe its a satire in some way i don't understand

dng wrote: Sun Jul 20, 2025 2:57 pm i just meant that its a shame that its so thoroughly unpokeyish

Agreed.

Oh no. I couldn't bring myself to watch that.

The new South Park / Trump episode is quite something...

I watched the goonies. It has a lot more swearing in it than itv ever let me know about

As I said last year:

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I listened to a podcast about The Goonies.
After listening to a podcast about The Goonies, I realised that I've only ever watched the first half or so of The Goonies.

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This bothered me more than it should've done.

I watched Weapons.

I’m really not sure if it was good or not.

Although it was enjoyable to watch I guess.

So it was good but not great.

A 43 second short film from 1991 that I've just put up over on archive.org:

Pinecone (1991, Evan Mather, USA)

Dark absurdist goodness - yay!

Yes

also i just watched crimes of the future (the recent one, rather than the 70s one), where david cronenberg does a parody of david cronenberg films and it's kind of hilarious really

i liked it a lot

i also saw the shrouds recently, in which david cronenberg makes a film where vincent cassell is david cronenberg, and also he's made a special sort of coffin where you can watch your loved ones decompose, forever

this wasn't funny at all

it was utterly depressing

(i quite liked it though)

I loved Crimes of the Future so much

I haven't seen the other one yet

"Children's TV favourite Bagpuss to reawaken for new film"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crrjwlvxknko

Nurse! Get my extra strong nerve pills! Now!

Today I went to the BFI Southbank, to view some old programmes in their Mediateque section. (Sorry, can't spell "mediateque".) You don't need to book in advance for the regular stuff, but I think for certain "deep cuts" you have to make arrangements in advance or something. Anyway, I watched the surviving footage of "A Show Called Fred", which was good fun even though it was two episodes wonkily edited together.

After that I saw the first episode of Countdown in full, or at least skipped through the bits that looked the most interesting. Carol Vorderman appears for about two seconds at the start, and everyone looks very nervous. Ted Moult is who they had in 1982 instead of Suzie Dent.

And then! I watched an episode of Murun Buchstansangur, because I had looked it up in the BFI library computers beforehand and it told me they had some available for show. The weird thing about it is that this episode (and a couple of other different programmes I briefly looked at) had a full chunk of adverts and continuity beforehand and after, and it didn't seem to be sourced from VHS. The episode I saw was one already on Youtube, but shown on a different date, and had the continuity announcement to The Last Resort afterwards.

Oh, and there was a typically shit-looking trailer for Network 7. "TELEVISION, BUT MORE SO". To make the really quite lovely animated trailer bumper (this one, at about seven minutes in) look more "street" (Porter), they'd mucked about with it using very crude video effects, and coloured it all a grisly shade of pukey green. I genuinely thought the digital transfer had gone wrong at that point until I realised what was happening.

Is The Museum of the Moving Image still there?

that all sounds pretty excellent

also they closed the museum of the moving image down in the early 2000s. the wankers

(i never went but would liked to have done, obviously)

i went on a school trip in 92

also boo.

Yes, BFI Southbank is now the thing that occupies where the Museum Of The Moving Image used to be. It's sad, but you do now at least have the aforementioned Mediateque (still can't spell it), and they've expanded the cinemas that were on site to four screens now. Also you get regular announcements in the building when a film is about to start that sound like cheery train station announcements. I got confused when I heard the first one (through my headphones, as Peter Sellers was pretending to be the Rank gong man) and thought they were informing us that the 15:25 to Guildford had been delayed.

But yeah, MOMI was fantastic. I went a few times in the 90s - actually I think the very first time I went, it was the late 80s (1988, I think?), and it had just opened. Weirdly enough recently I found the full souvenir brochure from that first visit - I'm going to have to scan it, assuming someone hasn't already done that.

Once I went to MOMI with the whole family, and they had a half a Dalek on display. It was only half a Dalek because the back had been removed, and visitors were invited to sort of crouch into it and "operate" it (i.e. waggle about the gunstick and yell into a microphone that went into a ring modulator). My little sister, who was very young at the time, went into it and shouted into the mic: "I am a Dalek! You gimme... gorgonzola!!!". Everyone laughed at the cuteness.

As it happens, that Dalek prop was one of the ones that went missing, and they spent ages trying to track it down again. Actually I can't remember if they ever found it or not.

The Southbank venue also has a shop, and they had loads of rare compilations on DVD of experimental short films. I bought a couple, despite the eye-watering expense - guess it's Pot Noodles for a couple of weeks for me now. And I got a book of interviews with Hanna-Barbera (as in the two men who the company was named after). There were also boxsets of Children's Film Foundation films, but I'd spent enough already.

endar wrote: Wed Sep 17, 2025 10:58 pm i went on a school trip in 92

I went as an art stoodent in 99-ish

It was good, then my friend and I went to a pub that was hosting a publicans convention.

Now homfrus owns wetherspoons

That's a very hurtful thing to say!

I watched Tucker & Dale vs. Evil vesterday.

It's very good, although I had to look away a few times due to blood and guts-ness.

Rating: 8/10

i quite liked that too

dng wrote: Sat Sep 20, 2025 9:26 pm i quite liked that too

How was youse with the gore?

I know it's meant to be OTT, but... ick...

i don't really remember

that wasn't very helpful was it

dng wrote: Sun Sep 21, 2025 5:52 pm i don't really remember

You are the worst Barry Norman ever!

Last nacht I watched Novocaine - a comedy/action film.

I quite liked it.

The Glassworker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTuPHCyV6mw

From Pakistan and definity containin' Studio Ghibli vibes.

i watched the godfather films this week, because they'e on th eiplayer. for some reason, the third one is a new version (from 2020 or something) which isn't called part 3 but instead is called "coda: the death of michael corleone"

then they changed the ending so that michael corleone doesn't die any more (spoilers)

anyway it was still kind of rubbish, and now even more entirely superfluous

i hadn't seen any of them since the 90s but weirdly still seemed to remember almost all of the first one word for word

I bought the box set in 2013 having never seen any of them before, but I never got around to watching the third one

there's not really much point to it at all, to be honest. not francis ford coppola's worst film ever, but only because he's made some of the actual worst films ever

although i've never seen this film he made once



which looks pretty amazing

i thought she was wearing a big red boot on her head initially

he seems to have done new cuts of loads of his films recently, I'd quite like to see the Cotton Club updated version as I really like that one

I don't think I've seen any of his really terrible ones although I keep seeing Megalopolis on MUBI and wondering whether to give it a chance. also I have Finian's Rainbow on DVD due to box set madness

I will never watch Jack

I was made to watch Jack once. It was bloody awful, obviously