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  • Nick Armstrong
    Host
    • Nov 2010
    • 26516

    Originally posted by LMcD View Post
    Talking Pictures TV have acquired the rights to Thames TV's contributions to 'Armchair Theatre', starting at 2210 tomorrow night.
    Interesting!

    Originally posted by gurnemanz View Post
    Thanks for the tip. It should be fascinating to watch some of these over 50 years later. (Also memories of Armpit Theatre on Round the Horne).
    "...the isle is full of noises,
    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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    • Conchis
      Banned
      • Jun 2014
      • 2396

      Is it just me, or is the soundtrack slightly out of sync with the picture on Talking Pictures?

      Currently watching A Severed Head - a film I'd never seen before with my favourite actor, Ian Holm.

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      • ardcarp
        Late member
        • Nov 2010
        • 11102

        Peter Jackson's They Shall Not Grow Old, first shown last November, was aired again on BBC2 last night. It is an incredible achievement in movie-making, and for me as moving on the second viewing as on the first.

        Peter Jackson brings to life the story of World War I by transforming century-old footage.

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        • Tevot
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 1011

          Originally posted by ardcarp View Post
          Peter Jackson's They Shall Not Grow Old, first shown last November, was aired again on BBC2 last night. It is an incredible achievement in movie-making, and for me as moving on the second viewing as on the first.

          https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0brzkzx
          Certainly agree with you there Ardcarp. I think it is a remarkable achievement.

          Best Wishes,

          Tevot

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          • Serial_Apologist
            Full Member
            • Dec 2010
            • 37563

            Originally posted by ardcarp View Post
            Peter Jackson's They Shall Not Grow Old, first shown last November, was aired again on BBC2 last night. It is an incredible achievement in movie-making, and for me as moving on the second viewing as on the first.

            https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0brzkzx
            A stupendous achievement - which I watched for the first time last night - and truly humbling, for what we were made to see. Given that humanity seems hell bent on assuming more warlike postures than I have ever known in my lifetime, this should be compulsory viewing as part of our secondary education syllabus. If this is what people think they want or can handle, take a look at this!

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            • ardcarp
              Late member
              • Nov 2010
              • 11102

              humanity seems hell bent on assuming more warlike postures than I have ever known in my lifetime
              I feel the same, SA.

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              • Conchis
                Banned
                • Jun 2014
                • 2396

                Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                A stupendous achievement - which I watched for the first time last night - and truly humbling, for what we were made to see. Given that humanity seems hell bent on assuming more warlike postures than I have ever known in my lifetime, this should be compulsory viewing as part of our secondary education syllabus. If this is what people think they want or can handle, take a look at this!
                What about the man who commented: 'We wouldn't have missed it for the world!' ?

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                • ardcarp
                  Late member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 11102

                  Originally posted by Conchis View Post
                  What about the man who commented: 'We wouldn't have missed it for the world!' ?
                  I think the film maker was at pains to represent all shades of opinion. That one source (undoubtedly a very old man, possibly wearing rose-tinted specs) did nothing to alter the powerful message of the film which portrsyed false hope, dashed expectation. the horror of the trenches, the scale of death and horrendous wounding, and...for me...the tragic situation in which those who survived and returned found themselves in an uncomprehending (and financially disrupted) 'Great' Britain. At no stage did I feel any sense of 'the glorification or war'.

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                  • LMcD
                    Full Member
                    • Sep 2017
                    • 8396

                    2 very different programmes last night:
                    'Les Miserables' finished as strongly as it began, with David Oyelowo magnificent to the end.
                    Greatly enjoyed the first 'Armchair Theatre' on Talking Pictures TV, written by and starring Donald Churchill.

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                    • vinteuil
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 12768

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                      ... very much enjoying Ride upon the Storm (channel 4 Sundays, and available for binge watching on All 4). By the makers of Borgen, and with the wonderful Lars Mikkelsen as a charismatic, deeply flawed, alcoholic patriarch priest; a tale of family love and hate, peril, moral jeopardy, redemption, warfare, corruption, love, shattered hopes, death, adultery ... all in the improbable setting of the workings of the Danish National Church. But this is not Trollope : it has more than a hint of Tarkovsky - with a dash of Kierkegaard...




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                      Last edited by vinteuil; 04-02-19, 10:06.

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                      • oddoneout
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2015
                        • 9136

                        A Slow Odyssey: The Great Wall of China
                        'Slow' is relative - 13000 miles in hour and a half...., and no soundtrack(too high up to get anything apart from about 4 or 5 instances, unlike for instance the reindeer herder journeys), so could be an interesting exercise in compiling a playlist. The occasional onscreen bits of text gave the impression of being translated directly and not always happily from the Chinese. Using aerial(must have been a challenge for the drone operators in some cases I would imagine) filming is an excellent way to get an idea of the size and contrasting topography of China, and some sense of the difficulties of trade(Silk Road) in such challenging conditions. Also a reminder that the images of the Wall we are familiar with are only a small part of the whole and are largely the result of tourism(both internal and international) making repair and maintenance worthwhile.
                        I hadn't intended to watch it all, but got sucked in, and would be happy to watch it again - but preferably with a map to follow progress as the onscreen version wasn't much help, even once I'd realised it was being shown briefly at the top of the screen as the different stages were reached.

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                        • kernelbogey
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 5735

                          Originally posted by ardcarp View Post
                          Peter Jackson's They Shall Not Grow Old, first shown last November, was aired again on BBC2 last night. It is an incredible achievement in movie-making, and for me as moving on the second viewing as on the first.

                          https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0brzkzx
                          This film has a thread of its own from when it came out in November in cinemas.

                          IIRC the makers were reported here to have sent a DVD to every secondary (?) school in the country.

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                          • vinteuil
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 12768

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                            ... fans of Spiral may want to know that series seven is about to start in France, so with any luck it should be with us here before too long :


                            Dans cette septième saison de l’emblématique série créée en 2005, la mort d’un policier pousse chaque personnage à passer de l’abattement à l’envie de se battre, à l’équipe de se ressouder, bon an mal an, autour de l’enquête.


                            O, Laure, Guillou, Roban - we've missed you!




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                            • HighlandDougie
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 3079

                              Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
                              A Slow Odyssey: The Great Wall of China
                              'Slow' is relative - 13000 miles in hour and a half...., and no soundtrack(too high up to get anything apart from about 4 or 5 instances, unlike for instance the reindeer herder journeys), so could be an interesting exercise in compiling a playlist. The occasional onscreen bits of text gave the impression of being translated directly and not always happily from the Chinese. Using aerial(must have been a challenge for the drone operators in some cases I would imagine) filming is an excellent way to get an idea of the size and contrasting topography of China, and some sense of the difficulties of trade(Silk Road) in such challenging conditions. Also a reminder that the images of the Wall we are familiar with are only a small part of the whole and are largely the result of tourism(both internal and international) making repair and maintenance worthwhile.
                              I hadn't intended to watch it all, but got sucked in, and would be happy to watch it again - but preferably with a map to follow progress as the onscreen version wasn't much help, even once I'd realised it was being shown briefly at the top of the screen as the different stages were reached.
                              Having had - last May - one of the best days of my life, climbing up to and then walking along a completely unreconstructed section of the Wall (no-one else to be seen but the group I was with, who were mostly locals out for a hike), suddenly there it was on TV, from the air. Just as steep, rough and mountainous as I had remembered. Agree very much with Oddoneout's point about mapping - but well worth watching.

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                              • Nick Armstrong
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 26516

                                Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
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                                ... fans of Spiral may want to know that series seven is about to start in France, so with any luck it should be with us here before too long :


                                Dans cette septième saison de l’emblématique série créée en 2005, la mort d’un policier pousse chaque personnage à passer de l’abattement à l’envie de se battre, à l’équipe de se ressouder, bon an mal an, autour de l’enquête.


                                O, Laure, Guillou, Roban - we've missed you!
                                "...the isle is full of noises,
                                Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                                Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                                Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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