The All New Book & DVD Review Thread (And Gift Hints)

[Snoopy]

   No shagging then.

[Nick]

[Barman]

 

[Barman]

I watched Any Human Heart on DVD last night....

Utterly captivating, stunning and compelling.... 

Broadbent is awesome - and he doesn't even speak for the first 3½ episodes!

Beg, borrer, steal or even buy it (through the normal link of course) but watch it!

[Barman]

Gonna watch Grand Prix in the minema tonight.... 

Went to see it at the cinema when it came out (1966) but it is still supposed to be one of the best motor racing movies ever released... 

Forty years on, Grand Prix is still the best motor racing film ever made. The cars may be faster now, filming techniques improved and special effects more advanced, yet the film still has a truly epic scale and a feeling of veracity down to the last gear change that would be impossible to duplicate today. It feels real because much of it is real, the actors (with the exception of Brian Bedford) doing much of the driving themselves, with the production even entering cars in real races to seamlessly match footage. The real danger is only underlined by the fact that so many of the professional drivers in the film died racing themselves (ten in the decade following the filming alone). The crashes are there, along with the knowledge that that's what many in the crowd come for, but more than that, each race has a different character: more than just a different look, they're almost tone poems at times, one race from the driver's seat, another from a spectator's, another almost inside a character's head. Yet throughout, unlike later films, you always have a clear idea of what is going on and what point the race scenes are trying to make. The sequences have clearly been thought through and designed both emotionally as well as visually, with the great use of long lenses to establish scale and speed as cars drift in and out of focus giving the film a feel at once realistic and almost dreamlike (an impression further heightened in Saul Bass' almost balletic split-screen sequence). It's still a remarkably good looking film, too, not least because it was made at a time when the cars still looked like bullets rather than vacuum cleaners.

[Snoopy]

Which was the car race film that Paul Newman drove his own car in?

[Snoopy]

I've remembered  ........... "Winning" made in 1969. Robert Redford was in it too.

[Barman]

I've remembered  ........... "Winning" made in 1969. Robert Redford was in it too.

 

[Barman]

Wot an amazing film! 

Graham Hill, Raymond Baxter - they are all in it!

Five thumbs up! 

[Miss Demeanour]

Did they go round and round and round in their brum brums like...........   is it bedtime already 

[Barman]

Did they go round and round and round in their brum brums like...........   is it bedtime already 

That's yer Xmas pressy sorted.... 

Amazing film tho!

Never seen a film that has an overture and an Entr'acte before... 

Growler would love it like.... 

[Miss Demeanour]

Oh noes I don't think that is on my ever expanding crimbo list 

You and Growler can watch it together all curled up in the minema like when he moves in   visits you  shortly 

[Barman]

Oh noes I don't think that is on my ever expanding crimbo list 

It is now! 

[GROWLER]

You and Growler can watch it together all curled up in the minema like when he moves in   visits you  shortly 

 

Need to watch it I think, 'cus BM has good taste....similar to mine.
He's my continuing best friend for the 4th day running now!

You's lot have a lot of catching up to do if you want to be considered for next years Golden Coconut Award.

Wilst talking about filums, what's the name of the one with the baby bear in it that (from the clip that was posted in here last year iirc) that was getting chased by a angry wulf in the wilderness.
It was a story about a family of bears in the wild and their adventures and survival I think.

I want to buy it anyway, 'cus i absolutely luv and a door bears.

[Barman]

You and Growler can watch it together all curled up in the minema like when he moves in   visits you  shortly 

 

Need to watch it I think, 'cus BM has good taste....similar to mine.
He's my continuing best friend for the 4th day running now!

You's lot have a lot of catching up to do if you want to be considered for next years Golden Coconut Award.

The race scenes are jaw-dropping!

Graham Hill pops up every now and again too...   

They actually entered cars in the races to get the best footage!