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[Marco]

Nice one, Granty. Even though it's old, I actually love stuff like that!

Marco.

[Marco]

Not sure if this the correct place to post (and if it's not, can a Mod move it to a more appropriate place), but tonight at 9:00pm on BBC4 is a documentary about Frank Zappa.

To quote from the RT:

The first all-access documentary - years in the making - about the American musician Frank Zappa, who died in 1993. It conveys the scope of his prodigious and varied creative output, and the breadth of his extraordinary personal and political life. The documentary team was granted exclusive access by his widow Gail to a vast collection of Zappa's unreleased music, movies, incomplete projects, unseen interviews and unheard concert recordings, much of which was deteriorating and in being in danger of being lost for ever.

and

A musically divisive figure, Frank Zappa was a wildly creative Renaissance or a maker of unlistenable noise, depending on your viewpoint. At his artistic zenith - an era of wall-to-wall disco - Zappa was certainly running in the opposite direction. A prolific artist (62 albums) and a beacon for nonconformity (calling two of his children Moon Unit and Dweezil), Zappa freeform oddness connected with many people who were bored of bubblegum pop.

Born in Baltimore in 1940, Zappa led 60s sonic experimentalists the Mothers of Invention, a group that seemed to attract Spinal Tap levels of disaster - Zappa himself was injured after being thrown from a stage.

In solo mode he released prog-jazz-comedy fusion LPs including Hot Rats an Zoot Allures, but as this in-depth, all-access documentary shows. he was also a film-maker and political activist. And one who was almost unstoppably creative, whether you like him or not.

Bazza, did you forget about this thread for that very purpose: https://theartofsound.net/forum/show...19#post1244419

Thanks for the heads-up

Granty, could you do me a big favour mate, and move Barry's post about Zappa to the appropriate thread above? I' need to go and pick up the princess from work

Marco.

[Marco]

Cheers for moving that, Granty

Princess says hi, btw

Marco.

[struth]

Cheers for moving that, Granty

Princess says hi, btw

Marco.

no bother.. hi big P

now, 28 Days Later, 2002. post-apocalyptic horror drama film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Alex Garland.


it stars Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston, Megan Burns and Brendan Gleeson.




28 Days Later was a considerable success at the box office and became highly profitable on a budget of about £5 million. In the UK, it took in £6.1 million, while in the US it became a surprise hit, taking over $45 million despite a limited release at fewer than 1,500 screens across the country. The film garnered over $85.7 million worldwide.

[struth]

Notting Hill, 1999. directed by Roger Michell, and stars Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, Rhys Ifans, Emma Chambers, Tim McInnerny, Gina McKee, and Hugh Bonneville.

[Macca]

Notting Hill, 1999. directed by Roger Michell, and stars Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, Rhys Ifans, Emma Chambers, Tim McInnerny, Gina McKee, and Hugh Bonneville.

written by Richard 'Everything that's wrong with this country epitomised in one man' Curtis.

Unwatchable IMO even though it's got Hugh Grant in it. See also 'Love Actually.'

[struth]

Point Blank, 1967. directed by John Boorman, starring Lee Marvin, co-starring Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn and Carroll O'Connor, and adapted from the 1963 crime noir pulp novel The Hunter by Donald E. Westlake, writing as Richard Stark.




Point Blank is hailed in the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die as "The perfect thriller in both form and vision." Film historian David Thomson calls the film a masterpiece.

[walpurgis]

Point Blank, 1967. directed by John Boorman, starring Lee Marvin, co-starring Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn and Carroll O'Connor

Great film! Got the DVD. (Marco would like this )

I also like 'Payback', the 1997 Mel Gibson remake, which was also nicely savage, albeit with some humour thrown in.

[Pigmy Pony]

I've been watching Blakes 7 on Forces TV. Highlight of the day.

Shame they don't make proper telly like that any more. BBC cancelled it even though it got consistently high ratings. They never gave a reason.

I think it was the rising cost of MDF.

[struth]

From Hell, 2001, stars Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm, Robbie Coltrane, Ian Richardson, and Jason Flemyng. It was directed by the Hughes Brothers.




Visually well done and acting is good, but its not the best ripper film.