Film club

[stuhuggett]

I know some of the others have got a film-club going in Brighton, where they meet up, watch a pre-selected dvd/video together, get drunk, etc; but maybe we should get something similar started over this way, particularly on evenings when there's nothing else going on out & about. It might be nice particularly when people are feeling a bit skint but restless.

As it is, I'm staying in this evening with a few beers, and will probably just watch one of the Doctor Who videos I dug out the other day (some of which I'd forgotten I had - maybe I didn't watch them all in the first place?) For those of us (most of us) who are gonna miss the new series once it finished in a fortnight, the titles I've picked up over the years are:
Peter Cushing (60's movies): The Daleks/ Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 AD.
Patrick Troughton: The Mind Robber.
Jon Pertwee: Spearhead From Space (currently lent-out)
Tom Baker: The Ark In Space; Planet Of Evil; Talons Of Weng-Chiang.
Peter Davison: Arc Of Infinity; Mawdryn Undead.
Colin Baker: The Two Doctors.
Sylvester McCoy: Dragonfire; Ghost Light.
Lee gave me a dvd of odds&ends of 60's episodes on dvd this year, and I taped the original William Hartnell pilot episode off the tv a few years back, but that's the lot. (NB: With a bit of online searching, I've found out that the BBC managed to release every single story on video over the last 20 years or so, and are only just getting onto to reissuing them on dvd. That's a hell of a lot of shelf-space...)

What other stuff would people be interested in watching, if we went ahead with this idea? I've got only a handful of feature films (including quite a few old Alfred Hitchcock), & maybe a little bit of tv programming, but dozens of 80's/90's music videos (live, documentary & promo). A lot of it's nicely obscure though! Could be fun.

[carolyn]

Film Club in brighton has evolved over the past two years - and now the 'host' tends to keep the film a secret - thus giving no one the excuse not to turn up if they don't fancy the film.

It's a great idea Stu - good luck!

[the colonial]

Wasn't this what we were doing at marcus' 7 years ago?

[stuhuggett]

Yes, informally: that's true. But that was seven years ago, and things have quietened down since then. Unless everyone's still doing that anyway, and we're just isolated in the Old Town. Didn't stop me getting through some cans of beer, some Pringles, and Mawdryn Undead, last night. Worked for me.

[stuhuggett]

Has anyone else pre-ordered the new Highpoint Lowlife dvdr? 100 only - otherwise it's a download-only release of the initial 17 audio tracks listed below. Even without Rashamon, it's still a great label (would be better with Rashamon, but then we're biased). The contents (please allow for cut&paste misprints) are making me salivate a bit; and makes me wonder just how much music can be crammed onto a dvdr (didn't Farmers Manual manage over 24hours on theirs? Who amongst our lot wants to give it a go someday?).

+-Analog For Architecture

+ Wav files

+- (Brutalist)
Fisk Industries - Into The Lungs
The Marcia Blaine School For Girls - Faulty Perceptual Apparatus
Production Unit - Pantone
Izu - Twinge

+- (Deconstructivist)
Mandelbrot - Effect / Delay
Calika - The Nervous Bird
Rose And Sandy - Map One
The Village Orchestra - ALA

+- (Expressionist)
Tigrics - Dalston Kingsland Bonus Chicken
Bovaflux - Bleak
Marshall Watson - Walking Down To Teletubby Park
Like A Stuntman - Japanese, Japan

+- (Metabolist)
n.Ln - Queen Of The Moths
Matthew Rozeik - Laugh It Off
randomNumber - RG Smash
Achrid - Morello
Si-cut.db - Estuary

+ 320 kbps MP3 Files
+- same as above.

+-Audio Extras

+- Accrual - Live At Stereo, Glasgow - 9th August 2005
+- Ckid - Backwards ( From upcoming album "Down With Ghosts" )
+- Erstlaub - The Goodnight Stars
+- Fighting Kites - K45445
+- Fisk Industries - Snap, Crackle, Pop
+- Friends Of The Jitney - Good Mourning ( Leafcutter John mix )

+- Izu - Breezeblock Session. Broadcast on Radio One, 20th October
2006
Tracklisting:
Izu - 'Polish Trouble'
Izu - 'It'll All Be'
Izu - 'The Wrong Sun'
Izu - 'Get In And Don't Come Out'
Izu - 'Get UR Fleece On'
Roots Manuva - 'Witness'
Izu - 'Boodle'
M.I.A. - 'Galang'
Izu - 'Jumpers'
Marcia Blaine School for Girls - 'Milk and Honey'
Izu - 'Purpose Stridefully'
Missy Elliott - 'Pass That Dutch'
Lusine - 'Inside/Out'
Izu - 'I Gotcha'
Acen - 'Close Your Eyes'
Izu - 'Me Speak'
Izu - 'Bad Hair'
Izu - 'Dwarf'
Izu - 'North Star'
Autechre - 'Vose In'
DJ Krush & DJ Shadow - 'Meiso'
Izu - 'Litterball'
Dabrye - 'Game Over'
Bizzy B - 'Darkside'

+- The Marcia Blaine School For Girls -
+ Music For Theatre
1. One Man Rant Intro
2. Arpeggio 1 - minor, from Luggage
3. The Dance Of The Melon Man (Terrry's Theme), from One Man Rant
4. Arpeggio 2 - major, from Luggage
5. Puggy Theme, from Two Man Rumble
6. Arpeggio Combined, from Luggage
7. Modem Connection, from One Man Rant
8. Fight Scene, from Two Man Rumble
9. One Man Rant Ending
10. Exit Music From Two Man Rumble
+ Halfway Into The Woods (Remix EP)
1. Boris (Kilowatts Boring Remix)
2. Rude Mechanicals ( Bannister Boys Rude Marimbas Version)
3. Still ( Orphax remix )
4. Last Game Of Mercy ( Erstlaub's Pig Inside a Silk Purse Mix )
5. Yugo Or Iago ( Maps And Diagrams Funnel Mix )
6. Speed Is Distance ( Talve Remix )
7. Milk And Honey ( Izu Remix )
8. Last Game Of Mercy ( remix by Dextro )
9. Still ( Orphax Treatment )

+- Marshall Watson - Contagion, Live Ambient Set at Decibel, Seattle -
2006
+- Marshall Watson - DJ Set from Decibel 06
Tracklisting:
Maus - Vaarwall
Trentemoller - Always Somthing Better
Fisk Industries - Reflections
Dabrye - No Child Of God
Various Productions - Hater
Burial - Wounder
Dub Tracktor - I'm Like You
Ada - Maps
Booka Shade - On and On
Deadbeat - Port-Au-Prince
Trentemoller - While the Cold Winter Waiting
Bjorn Torske - Westside Hotel
Carl Craig - At Les
Various Productions - Today
Marshall Watson - Ungula
Nathan Fake - You Are Here
Pt 2
Yassin & Arne - Bleepy Creep
MANDY - Oh Superman
Jona - Tizia
Jona - Stars Lead to Somthing Else
The Rice Twins - For Dan
Yassin & Arne - Still Awake
Cosmic Sandwich - Cosmic Sandwich (D Eulberg mix)
Trentemoller - Always Something Better (Trentemoller remix)
Underworld - Play Pig (Pig and Dan mix 1)

+- The Quiet Carriage - I Got Off The Bus and Walked Home Through The
Woods

+-Video Extras
+- Alex Alpine - 17.11.03
+- Alex Alpine - 23.03.06
+- Fisk Industries - Last Flight Sonic
+- Mandelbrot live at Bardens Boudoir, 2006
+- randomNumber - Autumn Shine ( video by Dan Booth /
[e-mail] )
+- randomNumber - Troubled Moves ( video by Dan Booth /
[e-mail] )
+- Rose and Sandy - Map One ( Live video mix by Mary )

[stuhuggett]

This Highpoint Lowlife DVD-R has now arrived, and is hours and hours long... However, I probably should've mentioned it in another thread, as the visual content (at the bottom of the tracklisting reproduced above) is actually comparatively short, and designed for viewing on computer. So I won't be lending my copy around for viewing as such, but will do for listening (either through computer or dvd-player). If you're feeling abstract.

[carrie]

nanny mcphee. fucking awful, intelligence insulting, horrible horrible film. even barney wanted it switched off after twenty of the longest minutes of our lives. you childless people have no idea of the dreadfulness you are missing.

[the colonial]

lemony snicket wasn't too bad, though may give Barney nightmares, Jim Carrey trying to kill everybody is both sinister and sinisterly possible.,

[caroline]

MirrorMask. Rented on a whim at the video shop this afternoon...

Started watching it in a somewhat grumpy mood, and spent the first 15 minutes unconvinced. However, by the end, I was captivated and sniffling. In a good way.

So yeah, depends on your tolerance for fantasy films, I suppose (mine's usually fairly low), but if Labyrinth, Dune, Alice in Wonderland and some opium had a baby, this would be it...

And the real-life bits are set in Brighton, which is pretty cool!

[carrie]

everybody loves sunshine.
goldie, bowie, where could it go wrong? errr everything about the film was terrible!

this weekend we're going to see this is england, which i am excited about.

[stuhuggett]

Where's This Is England playing?

[carrie]

sent you a link

[petra]

Where IS it playing, other than the Duke of Yorks?

[stuhuggett]

Quite possibly only the Duke Of Yorks!

[petra]

Well where is Carrie going to see it? If she's coming to Brighton and going to see a movie I want to see, then I want in.

[carrie]

oh a link to it online, looks ok, maybe not....

[stuhuggett]

I've just checked in the local paper - This Is England is also showing at Eastbourne's Cineworld (Sovereign Harbour Retail Park, Pevensey Bay Road) www.cineworld.co.uk

[carrie]

'this is england' was bloody brilliant.

may i recommend alluc.org to all, it's a mixed bag of links to stuff available to watch online.

that folks is my good deed for the day.

[carolyn]

At my film club last night we had The Last King of Scotland. I knew it was but going to be fairly grim, but jeez... it was a sleepless knightmareish night for me. Forest is so good though, can see why he won the oscar for it.

But, why does Hollywood love BioPics so much? It seems a sure fire way to win an oscar.

[stuhuggett]

This album looks fun...
www.amazon.co.uk/High-School-Reunion-Tribute-Those/dp/B000CC3PJO

[carrie]

we've been watching the infernal affairs trilogy on film four, pretty damn good last one tonight. (infernal affairs being the film scorcese remade less well as the departed)

[carrie]

admin said:

I know some of the others have got a film-club going in Brighton, where they meet up, watch a pre-selected dvd/video together, get drunk, etc; but maybe we should get something similar started over this way, particularly on evenings when there's nothing else going on out & about. It might be nice particularly when people are feeling a bit skint but restless.

so, shall we do this then?

[caroline]

Sounds like a good plan!

(Although can't promise much in the way of intelligent discussion and film deconstruction afterwards...)

[carrie]

....or from me, i just need to see people, in as cheap a way as possible

[caroline]

The question now, then, is when, where, and what... (and with relation to the latter, film selection via democracy, or benevolent dictatorship*?)

I'm at Russell Brand with Carolyn and Lisa this Friday, and have got a fairly full week next week, so Monday-Thursday there are probably out for me, and the Tuesday to Saturday of the following week, we're away at Paula's (hopefully not going blind on parsnip wine!) Other than that, before or after, I'm pretty easy for the moment, and will go with the consensus on timing...

_{*Fair warning, though- anyone who tries to make me watch 'Hostel' will find vomit in a random selection of their pots and pans when they go to cook the next day...}

[carolyn]

Went to see the new Harry Potter film last night - was much fun. There was a good atmosphere in the auditorium - round of applause for the kiss scene! I am soooooooo excited about the book on Friday (tomorrow!!!!) I cannot sleep.

[carrie]

ok, i suggest thursday (no reason, can be other if people have thursday commitments) after caroline and mike get back from scilly....

....and we're happy to be first hosts.

[stuhuggett]

I'm good with Thursdays, ta.

[mooominmama]

that does sound like fun..sorry i cant join in and i know its a bit old but have you all seen 'together'?
i liked it...

[carrie]

...i haven't, but do keep trying just things seem to get in the way...

so thursday 9th august, my house, barton fink....