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I know the cartoon / graphic novel or whatever probably contained the same corny language and ridiculously OTT violence etc. but that doesn't alter, for me, that's it's just a film full of very corny lines and completely silly bits of violence. I didn't mind the violence that much though. I know it makes no difference if you're bored rigid, but it looks fantastic, a real groundbreaking film if you ask me. Laid down a new template mimicked (unfortunately) by the likes of Beowulf and 300 that will be continue to be used for years.

Kronos Quartet playing Thelonious Monk. Not a big fan of Mertens, never heard of Bryars tbh. Apart of my strange affection for Monk's modern Jazz I am not a big fan of modern (classical) music anyway but rather like my Baroque and Romantic period or traditional jazz. I'm partial to a bit of 'Thelonious Monk' myself.

I forgot.... The tits - the ones that don't go to games but sit on deckchairs for 15 hours to be the first to have the new strip or get a pay £200 for a tattoo of Albert Luque the day he arrives.

Tony > Ridley

Play.com if you're interested. 2J put me on to it. Free delivery too. I've been hanging on for ages to get it as I only had it on VHS previously and I was waiting for the supposedly definitive edition that this is meant to be. Because I'm a dweeb. Ridley Scott is a funny one like; unlike you I quite like some of his films but he's made some dross too. Just Alien. Oh, and if you can live without 3 discs of extras, or you already have the older versions, you can get the 2 disc version for £6.93... http://www.thehut.com/hut/8636550.product

I've heard of all these people, the question is, where do you start with each of them? Like I'm going to go through 155 CD's Make some changes sonna.

9 years? WTF were you using before that Monopoly money? I'm guessing a different national currency.

The extended one before the most recent one, that's the first one to feature the paper unicorn, without the voiceover.

There's just too much unused space and big lines going through the middle of all the coins except the 5p.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml...01/ncoin101.xml Look mis-printed to me.

Rhapsody have a boatload of his stuff for nowt.... http://www.rhapsody.com/stevereich/tracks.html?pagestart=50

Free legal download of 3 movements.... http://music.download.com/bryanverhoye/360...ist_tab_apsongs

I just got another Philip Glass produced album (already had Koyaanastakistikiastiki (sic)) that he did with Uktai. One of the tracks is used on the Nokia ad which compelled me to chase the full album. I've often thought it would be hard to broaden my knowledge, but I don't know why I think like that way when I've already got hundreds of artists on Itunes that I know in depth. It'd only be a few more on the list. I know I enjoyed it at the time, but I've got no recollection of the music on In The Mood For Love. Maybe it's time for another viewing.

I am a bit partial to the odd bit of classical music and I enjoyed Yo Yo Ma's appearance on the West Wing, so I've agreed to go and see Jian Wang this weekend. This sort of thing... http://www.edwardarron.com/shareddocuments...onata-Mvt-3.mp3 Quite looking forward to it as my live music is normally restricted to pop/rock/rap/electronic. I might book up for a few more, seems the sage calendar is chock full of them. So what's your favourite bit of classical I should look out for?

He said Blood Simple was the Coen's best film with gorgeous black and white cinematography so we pulled him up on it actually being in colour. He's a good lad really and his film (and other) chat is informed. He's just never going to (be allowed to) get over that. I presumed you were an alter ego so he could actually post in the film thread again without being pulled up on it....and I'm still not fully convinced you aren't. For a man who hasn't even watched Blade Runner that's a massive glasshouse you've built. Who said I haven't seen Blade Runner? http://www.toontastic.net/board/index.php?...st&p=260896 You need to try being wrong less often, or stick to winding up the N-O simpletons.

I second the motion

Chinatown ain't gritty realism sweetie. Well it ain't Singin In The Rain. It's more film noir updated. Yes, and what was it about the updating that made it fit in the 70's so well? Don't get your knickers in a twist now. "Chinatown’s dark theme is one of the elements that places it in the category of neo-noir, the second generation of the genre known as film noir. Though the precise history of film noir is difficult to define (the term was coined in the journal Cahiers du Cinéma by Nino Frank in 1946), this genre evolved through a combination of German expressionistic drama (such as F. W. Murnau’s 1922 Nosferatu), American gangster film (Mervyn LeRoy’s 1931 Little Caesar), and popular British mystery novels (by Dorothy Sayers, H. C. Bailey, Agatha Christie, and the like). Several common features characterized film noir pictures, which were popular in the United States during the 1940s and early 1950s: the presence of a beautiful but dangerous woman (known as the femme fatale), gritty and generally urban settings, compositional tension (highly contrasting light and dark colors or oblique camera angles, for example), and themes of moral ambiguity and alienation. To prepare for the making of Chinatown, Polanski studied John Huston’s The Maltese Falcon (1941), which is accepted as the first full embodiment of film noir. (Huston himself plays Noah Cross, Chinatown’s most despicable villain). Polanski also read Raymond Chandler’s mystery novels, several of which had been made into film noir classics, such as Murder, My Sweet (1944; originally titled Farewell, My Lovely) and The Big Sleep (1946)." We're both kinda right. I generally see Chinatown primarily reinforcing the claustrophobic elements of noir and using reality altering (unbalancing) camerawork and high color as a distancing device. I would say 'gritty' is an element, but the city is kind of nightmarish and labyrinthian rather than realist. Never saw this edit. If we're both right there was no need for the sarky condescension in the first place then was there?

Boxes - Not even worth discussing. Corporate freeloaders that add nothing. Posh seats - Similar to box types without the perks though. As a result the seats are often empty and it boils my piss to see such prime real estate go to waste. East stand - The old folk. Get angry when someone stands up, or if they can't hear what the ref is saying to a player. Gallowgate/Leazes - Football know alls. The type that get both Sky and Setanta. They don't have a pint beforehand, so they can follow the game properly and have a perfect recollection of every talking point for work/the forums/606/texting the chronicle etc. They get up early for the paper show on a Sunday morning too. Level 7 - The salt of the earth. Pissheads who go for a sing song and to bait opposition fans.

I'll get you Butler I was thinking "Is he havin' a laugh? Is he havin' a laugh?" But either will do.

I think you might be. Have you seen The Life of Brian?

Right! But apart from The Elephant Man, The Straight Story, Wild at Heart and Lost Highway. WHAT has Lynch ever done that anyone can understand.