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azdak at 02:07pm on 12/05/2005
azdak at 02:07pm on 12/05/2005It's kind of embarrassing to be dragged out of obscurity for a meme that I can only respond to with extreme patheticness, but here goes...
1) Total number of films I own on DVD/video: 2. Unless you count a handful of children's films, like The Grinch and Robin Hood. Oh, which two? The Sting and Rio Bravo, neither of which I can actually watch, because we play DVDs on the computer and real films come out in stop-go motion. I do own Firefly and Buffy series 3 and 4, which don't have this problem. I guess TV shows come in a lower resolution format. I've just remembered that I also have the Austrian dubbed version of Babe on video, which I bought back in my lecturing days for my course on Austrian German because the animals are all dubbed into regional Austrian dialects.
2) The last film I bought: Rio Bravo
3) The last film I watched: Something called Der Babynator. I have no idea if it's also called The Babynator in English or just something equally silly. Actually, it wasn't as bad as I expected - I perked up no end when it started referencing the Sound of Music all over the place (the large family of kids that learns to love their new "governess" is called Plummer, nudge nudge wink wink, and the troubled teenager with the dyed blond crewcut and Nazi armband in his school locker turns out to be playing Rolf in an am dram production). These days I only ever go to the cinema if I'm taking the children as a treat. But the last film I wanted to watch (but didn't manage it)was Ray.
4) Five films that I watch a lot or that mean a lot to me:
Oh dear, this is where I really suck. Um. I used to watch the Adventures of Robin Hood (the Errol Flynn version) religiously when it came on TV. I've never been able to forget certain scenes from the "Idolatry" episode in Kieslowski's Ten Commandments. The Sound of Music, God bless it, is a never-ending source of inspiration. Er, er, I really enjoyed Shakespeare in Love, in a "that was a good way to kill two hours" sort of way. And now I'm stuck. My trouble is that I find cinema rather overwhelming - as a child I had to be taken out of the Railway Children (that moment when the embankment started moving! My God, it was terrifying!), and I sobbed my way through a number of other harmless little films that were considered suitable children's entertainment. As a grown-up, I spent most of Shallow Grave cowering in the toilets, and in general I find that the level of violence most adult films offer as a minimum way exceeds what I can stomach. And on the exceedingly rare occasions when I have an evening off, I'd rather go to an intimate little theatre, where the actors spit all over you if you're sitting in the front row, and no-one is allowed to crunch popcorn in your ear, than go to the cinema. I'm quite happy to watch Gloucester's eyes being gouged out on stage, but I seriously doubt if I would ever dare attend a screen version of King Lear.
1) Total number of films I own on DVD/video: 2. Unless you count a handful of children's films, like The Grinch and Robin Hood. Oh, which two? The Sting and Rio Bravo, neither of which I can actually watch, because we play DVDs on the computer and real films come out in stop-go motion. I do own Firefly and Buffy series 3 and 4, which don't have this problem. I guess TV shows come in a lower resolution format. I've just remembered that I also have the Austrian dubbed version of Babe on video, which I bought back in my lecturing days for my course on Austrian German because the animals are all dubbed into regional Austrian dialects.
2) The last film I bought: Rio Bravo
3) The last film I watched: Something called Der Babynator. I have no idea if it's also called The Babynator in English or just something equally silly. Actually, it wasn't as bad as I expected - I perked up no end when it started referencing the Sound of Music all over the place (the large family of kids that learns to love their new "governess" is called Plummer, nudge nudge wink wink, and the troubled teenager with the dyed blond crewcut and Nazi armband in his school locker turns out to be playing Rolf in an am dram production). These days I only ever go to the cinema if I'm taking the children as a treat. But the last film I wanted to watch (but didn't manage it)was Ray.
4) Five films that I watch a lot or that mean a lot to me:
Oh dear, this is where I really suck. Um. I used to watch the Adventures of Robin Hood (the Errol Flynn version) religiously when it came on TV. I've never been able to forget certain scenes from the "Idolatry" episode in Kieslowski's Ten Commandments. The Sound of Music, God bless it, is a never-ending source of inspiration. Er, er, I really enjoyed Shakespeare in Love, in a "that was a good way to kill two hours" sort of way. And now I'm stuck. My trouble is that I find cinema rather overwhelming - as a child I had to be taken out of the Railway Children (that moment when the embankment started moving! My God, it was terrifying!), and I sobbed my way through a number of other harmless little films that were considered suitable children's entertainment. As a grown-up, I spent most of Shallow Grave cowering in the toilets, and in general I find that the level of violence most adult films offer as a minimum way exceeds what I can stomach. And on the exceedingly rare occasions when I have an evening off, I'd rather go to an intimate little theatre, where the actors spit all over you if you're sitting in the front row, and no-one is allowed to crunch popcorn in your ear, than go to the cinema. I'm quite happy to watch Gloucester's eyes being gouged out on stage, but I seriously doubt if I would ever dare attend a screen version of King Lear.
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