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Nov. 18th, 2006 01:02 pmVery edgy today. Resisting the urge to snark. But then always get edgy before a trip. Flight is tomorrow morning. Have to change in Atlanta, so not looking forward to it. Today overcast and gloomy, dang it. Want clear blue skies and sunshine for a change. Got a bit of it yesterday.
Was reading my guilty pleasures - Entertainment Weekly and TV Guide, and found the following tid-bits:
1. Essiential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films - this baby contains 52 films and 50 discs.
It includes 49 truly essential foreign films and three docs. Makes film school almost irrelevant. Here's a sampling: "Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist, De Sica's heartbreaking Umberto D (1952), Kurosawas's Seven Samurai (1954), Hitchcock's The 39 Steps (1935), Truffaut's The 400 Blows(1959) and Jules and Jim(1962), Cocateau's Beauty and The Beast, Fellini's first solo feature, The White Shiek, Polanski's breakthrough - Knife in the Water(1962), Renoir's The Rules of the Game, Carol Reed's The Third Man, it goes on. No making's of or commentaries - but I hate those anyways, they are mostly self-congratulatory and don't talk much about the process or authorial intent. Only seen four or five people who do that. But it does include a 232 page hardcover book with history of the US distributor, a Martin Scorsese intro, plus credits, photos, and essays for all the films.
This baby is of course not cheap. Comes to you at a whopping $850, which granted is cheaper than film school. I lust. But there is no way in hell I can afford and no, my family can't afford it either for Xmas. So I'll just quietly lust after it.
Or other box sets out? The Complete Six Feet Under, The Complete Homicide Life on The Street, the Complete MASH - series, The West Wing - the complete series (yes, all 7 seasons) and The Rodgers and Hammerstein Collection.
Somedays I wish I was a multi-millionaire just so I could collect DVDs and watch them at my leisure.Considering the fact I barely find time to watch the ones I currently own which aren't that many, this amuses me greatly.
My wish list DVDs? Six Feet Under - The Complete Series, The Essential Art House, Veronica Mars - Seasons 1 and 2.
2. In TV Guide - Matt Roush does a great take on what is wrong with Studio 60, which I agree with."Though much about Studio 60 dazzles, the stimulating behind-the-scenes antics of putting on a late-night comedy show has taken a backseat lately to Sorkin's grandstanding about culture (and culture wars) at large, which certainly aims high but is far less entertaining....The self-importance and self-righteousness can be galling..." This I agree with. I don't agree with him that 30 Rocks is more entertaining, it's not, at least to me.
3. In EW - about Lost: it has apparently lost 1.1 million fed-up veiwers to Criminal Minds, yet also kept 7 deeply million deeply confused viewers. (Hey, beg to differ - not confused on Lost. More or less figured it out a while ago. Just a tad frustrated and disappointed is all. But I'm still there. And now that it is on hiatus, not watching TV on Wed's. Honestly, you'd have tie me to a chair clockwork orange style to get me to watch another episode of serial killer of the week Criminal Minds. Wait last week - they had two serial killers competiting for the teams attention - according to the previews.)
4. A meme of sorts...that I was thinking about while listening to an old Dresden audio book.
Somewhat Embarrassing Favorite Fictional Male Characters of the ages (or male characters I got ridiculously obsessed with and lusted over, ahem):
Ranked by order of appearence in my life. [Basically pick fictional characters, male or female, that you lusted after, obsessed over, and enjoyed - can be from film, tv, cartoons, comics or books.)
( my choices )
Was reading my guilty pleasures - Entertainment Weekly and TV Guide, and found the following tid-bits:
1. Essiential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films - this baby contains 52 films and 50 discs.
It includes 49 truly essential foreign films and three docs. Makes film school almost irrelevant. Here's a sampling: "Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist, De Sica's heartbreaking Umberto D (1952), Kurosawas's Seven Samurai (1954), Hitchcock's The 39 Steps (1935), Truffaut's The 400 Blows(1959) and Jules and Jim(1962), Cocateau's Beauty and The Beast, Fellini's first solo feature, The White Shiek, Polanski's breakthrough - Knife in the Water(1962), Renoir's The Rules of the Game, Carol Reed's The Third Man, it goes on. No making's of or commentaries - but I hate those anyways, they are mostly self-congratulatory and don't talk much about the process or authorial intent. Only seen four or five people who do that. But it does include a 232 page hardcover book with history of the US distributor, a Martin Scorsese intro, plus credits, photos, and essays for all the films.
This baby is of course not cheap. Comes to you at a whopping $850, which granted is cheaper than film school. I lust. But there is no way in hell I can afford and no, my family can't afford it either for Xmas. So I'll just quietly lust after it.
Or other box sets out? The Complete Six Feet Under, The Complete Homicide Life on The Street, the Complete MASH - series, The West Wing - the complete series (yes, all 7 seasons) and The Rodgers and Hammerstein Collection.
Somedays I wish I was a multi-millionaire just so I could collect DVDs and watch them at my leisure.Considering the fact I barely find time to watch the ones I currently own which aren't that many, this amuses me greatly.
My wish list DVDs? Six Feet Under - The Complete Series, The Essential Art House, Veronica Mars - Seasons 1 and 2.
2. In TV Guide - Matt Roush does a great take on what is wrong with Studio 60, which I agree with."Though much about Studio 60 dazzles, the stimulating behind-the-scenes antics of putting on a late-night comedy show has taken a backseat lately to Sorkin's grandstanding about culture (and culture wars) at large, which certainly aims high but is far less entertaining....The self-importance and self-righteousness can be galling..." This I agree with. I don't agree with him that 30 Rocks is more entertaining, it's not, at least to me.
3. In EW - about Lost: it has apparently lost 1.1 million fed-up veiwers to Criminal Minds, yet also kept 7 deeply million deeply confused viewers. (Hey, beg to differ - not confused on Lost. More or less figured it out a while ago. Just a tad frustrated and disappointed is all. But I'm still there. And now that it is on hiatus, not watching TV on Wed's. Honestly, you'd have tie me to a chair clockwork orange style to get me to watch another episode of serial killer of the week Criminal Minds. Wait last week - they had two serial killers competiting for the teams attention - according to the previews.)
4. A meme of sorts...that I was thinking about while listening to an old Dresden audio book.
Somewhat Embarrassing Favorite Fictional Male Characters of the ages (or male characters I got ridiculously obsessed with and lusted over, ahem):
Ranked by order of appearence in my life. [Basically pick fictional characters, male or female, that you lusted after, obsessed over, and enjoyed - can be from film, tv, cartoons, comics or books.)
( my choices )
