Please excuse this depressing post, but yesterday was horrible, our ten and a half year old dog Eddie died suddenly and completely unexpectedly of something called GDV--which I'd never heard of but which is apparently a known problem for large dogs. But she had a very happy ten years and except for having to take a bath now and then pretty much lived the life she wanted to. I've outlived a number of pets by now, and somehow keep forgetting that it's hard.
In any case I wanted to distract myself but couldn't concentrate on my story so I worked on two reviews I've been meaning to do for a while. One is for an MFU Season 4 episode and doing it is like picking at a scab but it's such a mess of producer/writer/director/actor disfunction that it's perversely fascinating. It's almost done, I just have to clean it up a bit.
The other is of a Jaques Tourneur film called "Berlin Express", released in 1948 and filmed on location in post war Paris, Frankfurt and Berlin and the visuals are unbelievable. It's an oddity since it has segments that are narrated like a documentary, punctuated by the drama starring Robert Ryan, Merle Oberon and other Hollywood types. It's a film with a disjunction between word and image (I sense a theme here) but Tourneur is being subversive on purpose I think. I've made a good start but need to watch the film again for details.
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on 2009-11-24 04:46 am (UTC)In any case I wanted to distract myself but couldn't concentrate on my story so I worked on two reviews I've been meaning to do for a while. One is for an MFU Season 4 episode and doing it is like picking at a scab but it's such a mess of producer/writer/director/actor disfunction that it's perversely fascinating. It's almost done, I just have to clean it up a bit.
The other is of a Jaques Tourneur film called "Berlin Express", released in 1948 and filmed on location in post war Paris, Frankfurt and Berlin and the visuals are unbelievable. It's an oddity since it has segments that are narrated like a documentary, punctuated by the drama starring Robert Ryan, Merle Oberon and other Hollywood types. It's a film with a disjunction between word and image (I sense a theme here) but Tourneur is being subversive on purpose I think. I've made a good start but need to watch the film again for details.
Back to regular story soon.