That two girls are too many, three's a crowd, and four you're dead
My sleep schedule has gone so far off the rails, I'm not even sure what time zone I'm in anymore, but I don't think it's the one I live in.
Yesterday I tried to take a sort of mental health break, finishing my work in the afternoon and then spending the rest of the day reading Henry Green's Back (1946) and watching John Cromwell's Caged (1950) and a serial and a half of Sapphire & Steel (1979–82) with an interlude of returning books to the library and making rice pudding. I would like to write about all of these things; they were differently great. I may just stare at more Sapphire & Steel instead.
I have decided that my personal best mode of dealing with white supremacists going around invoking Odin as a hate symbol and generally misunderstanding the Vikings is to go around invoking Loki as a queer symbol and talking a lot more about seiðr.
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moon_custafer: I may be in the wrong country to catch a theatrical screening of Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn (2016) tomorrow night (watching movies for people's yahrzeits is just as valid as for their birthdays), but it looks like it will be coming to TCM. Hurrah.
P.S. Has anybody on this friendlist seen the 1977–78 ITV adaptation of Joan Aiken's Midnight Is a Place (1976)? I just discovered it exists; I like its setting of "Denzil's Song" and it's got David Collings, but I can't tell anything else about it except that it seems to have aged up Anna-Marie.
Yesterday I tried to take a sort of mental health break, finishing my work in the afternoon and then spending the rest of the day reading Henry Green's Back (1946) and watching John Cromwell's Caged (1950) and a serial and a half of Sapphire & Steel (1979–82) with an interlude of returning books to the library and making rice pudding. I would like to write about all of these things; they were differently great. I may just stare at more Sapphire & Steel instead.
I have decided that my personal best mode of dealing with white supremacists going around invoking Odin as a hate symbol and generally misunderstanding the Vikings is to go around invoking Loki as a queer symbol and talking a lot more about seiðr.
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moon_custafer: I may be in the wrong country to catch a theatrical screening of Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn (2016) tomorrow night (watching movies for people's yahrzeits is just as valid as for their birthdays), but it looks like it will be coming to TCM. Hurrah.P.S. Has anybody on this friendlist seen the 1977–78 ITV adaptation of Joan Aiken's Midnight Is a Place (1976)? I just discovered it exists; I like its setting of "Denzil's Song" and it's got David Collings, but I can't tell anything else about it except that it seems to have aged up Anna-Marie.
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Hee, thanks for the enabling! I am mainly hesitating because a) I want more old 70s telly too and b) I am waiting for Network to do one of their marvellous sales, because they haven't had one yet this year & the Ealing sets go down to £5 a shot, with no p&p when they do!
DVD region codes are the Devil.
Aren't they just! Some old stuff is multi-region, or region-free, though, but it's unfortunately not always obvious from seller information.
And so many films! At least I won't run out of stuff to watch. Aside from Margaret Lockwood, I'm mainly being a bit almost deliberately lucky dip in my approach - the Ealing rarities, what BBC2 and charity shops provide, as it's quite fun - and then I suppose I'll have a better idea of what things I want to track down more deliberately. More Barbara Stanwyck, definitely, though.
My reviews of these are fairly short and frivolous, often with gifs. (Sometimes I do have more I would like to say, but I don't always have much brain going spare for such things.) However, if you would like to see, my 1930s, 1940s and 1950s tags are almost 100% for films (as British telly doesn't really exist much before 1960 anyway). But if you are interested, here are the entries for: Miracle Woman & Stage Door, It Happened in Paris, Autumn Crocus, The Dictator & Secret Lives, Three Men in a Boat, The Bailiffs, Loyalties & Laburnum Grove, The Silver Darlings & The 39 Steps, The House of the Spaniard, The Beloved Vagabond, Return to Yesterday, Lorna Doone, Lease of Life & Calling the Tune, The Ware Case & The Shiralee, Cheer Boys Cheer & A Honeymoon Adventure, Meet Mr Lucifer & Cheer Boys Cheer, Bank Holiday and The Lady Vanishes.