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selenakFirstly, regarding last night's linkage and the ensuing commentator, the only thing I have to say is a direct quote from Astonshing X-Men #13: "I'm totally cool. I'm totally calm, and I'm totally cool. My calm is exceeded only by my cool. Which is total."
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likeadeuce, resolute and yours truly were emailing each other like a bunch of squeeing banshees last night are utterly and completely untrue.
Next: re: Hero, the latest BSG episode: David Eick sucks as maths just as certain other creators. Aside from that, it was a good character piece for Adama and Tigh,Dixon Carl Lumley was fine, the father-son scene was the best in a long while and Laura Roslin showed yet again why she's the coolest. (Also why I want Zarek back, because Adama just isn't any challenge for her any more.) Beyond that, though, I don't find much to say about it. (Hm. Maybe Adama-centric episodes don't inspire my sense of meta so much?) (Though I like the Old Man, honest.)
Moving on to: my favourite film from last year, Das Leben der Anderen, about which I wrote an extensive review when it was in the cinemas, has come out on DVD. (shezan, before you ask, sadly without other languages.) Let me take the opportunity again to praise it and hope it gets released, by hook or crook, in countries other than Germany. Subtitled, dubbed, don't care, it's so worth watching. The (German) dvd has two audiocommentaries, one by the director and one by the leading actor, plus a Making Of and cut scenes. Characters, story, dialogue, it's all great, and it should be known internationally. Watching it again after recent BSG eps (from Occupation till Collaborators) was particularly interesting because of the way it tackles similar subjects - though quite differently. One bit about the director's commentary (which as this is this director's first feature-length film, for which he also wrote the script, is full of earnestness otherwise, and interesting background) which amused me: at one point, he says how much he loves a particular shot of Sebastian Koch (who plays what I guess Academy Awards would call the biggest supporting part, though co-lead would be better) and that S.K. is one of the most beautiful men he knows, then adds hastily "which I can say even as a heterosexual man". Florian, you're a director, we expect you to get the aesthetics, and who cares about your orientation anyway?
Also, rumours that
likeadeuce, resolute and yours truly were emailing each other like a bunch of squeeing banshees last night are utterly and completely untrue. Next: re: Hero, the latest BSG episode: David Eick sucks as maths just as certain other creators. Aside from that, it was a good character piece for Adama and Tigh,
Moving on to: my favourite film from last year, Das Leben der Anderen, about which I wrote an extensive review when it was in the cinemas, has come out on DVD. (
shezan, before you ask, sadly without other languages.) Let me take the opportunity again to praise it and hope it gets released, by hook or crook, in countries other than Germany. Subtitled, dubbed, don't care, it's so worth watching. The (German) dvd has two audiocommentaries, one by the director and one by the leading actor, plus a Making Of and cut scenes. Characters, story, dialogue, it's all great, and it should be known internationally. Watching it again after recent BSG eps (from Occupation till Collaborators) was particularly interesting because of the way it tackles similar subjects - though quite differently. One bit about the director's commentary (which as this is this director's first feature-length film, for which he also wrote the script, is full of earnestness otherwise, and interesting background) which amused me: at one point, he says how much he loves a particular shot of Sebastian Koch (who plays what I guess Academy Awards would call the biggest supporting part, though co-lead would be better) and that S.K. is one of the most beautiful men he knows, then adds hastily "which I can say even as a heterosexual man". Florian, you're a director, we expect you to get the aesthetics, and who cares about your orientation anyway?
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Date: 2006-11-19 03:24 pm (UTC)Also, I ordered the Zarek comic mentioned in
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Date: 2006-11-19 03:31 pm (UTC)Somehow I missed that post. Will be on the lookout for that mini. There have been an old and new BSG series launched, but I glanced at them and decided they weren't anything I couldn't get in fic. But Zarek!!!
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Date: 2006-11-19 03:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-19 04:00 pm (UTC)