@El Loro posted:Yes, that's the Sister Boniface series.
She was in the 6th episode if the 1st series back in 2013 "The Bride of Christ". Clip summarising the plot which is read out to pictures from the episode. She is the nun who helps Father Brown in that episode and it's the same actress in the series. The episode isn't available on BBC iplayer.
Thanks El 
@El Loro posted:@slimfern possible films on the Talking Pictures tv channel in the coming week:
Tuesday 10.00am "Strange Woman" (1946) period film noir with an interesting cast - Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders & Louis Hayward. Hedy Lamarr was also an inventor, best known as a pioneer in frequency-hopping spread spectrum.
Thursday 11.25am "20 Questions Murder Mystery" (1950) British crime movie. Prior to committing a crime, someone sends in a question to the B.B.C.'s '20 Questions' programme. That was a popular radio programme at the time and the film does feature the regulars (though not as victims or suspects).
Thursday 17.30 "The Winslow Boy" (1948). Classic British film with Robert Donat trying to get a trial for his son who was expelled from a naval school for a theft.
Saturday 12.00 noon "The Scarlet Pimpernel" (1935) the classic version starring Leslie Howard.
Sunday 19.20 "One Way Pendulum" (1965) surreal comedy starring Eric Sykes, also George Cole.
TWB and TSP are the best of those 5, 20QMM is quite interesting and with an unusual setting. SW isn't a film I've seen. I've never seen OWP, seems to be a very strange film and a film which some will find fascinating and others unwatchable rubbish.
Reading up on Wiki:
'Stranger Woman' sounds really dark...she's horrid 
...not one for me to watch.
One of my sons has Ephraim as a middle name....still not encouraged to watch it though. 
'20 Questions Murder Mystery' looks interesting...will take a look at this one 
'The Winslow Boy' could be good if not a little depressing...
'The Scarlet Pimpernel' is one I've seen before, but worth a second watch...if I remember 
'One Way Pendulum' looks like it could be fun...I like Eric Sykes. Will definitely try to watch this one.
Thanks El for the heads up 
and for giving up some of your birthday for me ...enjoy the rest of your special day 
@slimfern posted:Reading up on Wiki:
'Stranger Woman' sounds really dark...she's horrid
One of my sons has Ephraim as a middle name....still not encouraged to watch it though.
'20 Questions Murder Mystery' looks interesting...will take a look at this one
'The Winslow Boy' could be good if not a little depressing...
'The Scarlet Pimpernel' is one I've seen before, but worth a second watch...if I remember
'One Way Pendulum' looks like it could be fun...I like Eric Sykes. Will definitely try to watch this one.
Thanks El for the heads up
"The Winslow Boy" is a very good film, one of Robert Donat's best films. It's based on the play by Terence Rattigan who based in on a real incident.
@slimfern posted:
very clever happy birthday EL
night EL slim moonsieee
Good morning everyone it's a wet day to come with a stiff breeze but nothing like the winds we've had recently.
Enjoy your day everyone 
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:very clever
Thanks Ros
@slimfern posted:Boogie woogie bees....amazing!
She has magic in her fingers and is very creative
If you do a search on Nicole Peske on Youtube you can find longer clips. for instance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlYT6FH57Ts
where she plays George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" in concert. That is one of the pieces of music which is a fusion of classical music and jazz music so perfect for her. She also performs her take on "Flight of the Bumblebee" as an encore though just on the one piano.
@El Loro posted:If you do a search on Nicole Peske on Youtube you can find longer clips. for instance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlYT6FH57Ts
where she plays George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" in concert. That is one of the pieces of music which is a fusion of classical music and jazz music so perfect for her. She also performs her take on "Flight of the Bumblebee" as an encore though just on the one piano.
Brilliant!
That clarinet at the beginning makes a lovely sound.
It's a wonder how they all remember every note and are able to play them perfectly...it's a long piece.
Nicole Pesce is a wizard on the keyboard
Yes I know...sheet music 
@slimfern posted:
That clarinet at the beginning makes a lovely sound.
It's a wonder how they all remember every note and are able to play them perfectly...it's a long piece.
Nicole Pesce is a wizard on the keyboard
Yes I know...sheet music
Here's a link to an article about how pianists remember all the notes:
https://www.maestrospianolesso...ember-all-the-notes/
Same applies for musicians generally.
Here's a performance of Mozart's famous clarinet concerto in A major. It's in 3 movements, the second (adagio) is one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever composed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT_63UntRJE
It's played by the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and the clarinettist is Arngunnur ÃrnadÃģttir.
@El Loro posted:Here's a link to an article about how pianists remember all the notes:
https://www.maestrospianolesso...ember-all-the-notes/
Same applies for musicians generally.
An interesting read El
Muscle memory in playing bars and notes after learning sections of a piece of music...along with plenty of practice.
It makes total sense
Hard work unless one has a natural talent/aptitude
@El Loro posted:
Here's a performance of Mozart's famous clarinet concerto in A major. It's in 3 movements, the second (adagio) is one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever composed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT_63UntRJE
It's played by the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and the clarinettist is Arngunnur ÃrnadÃģttir.
I would agree El, it is beautiful ...a piece to sit back to with your eyes closed
Thanks
@slimfern posted:I would agree El, it is beautiful ...a piece to sit back to with your eyes closed
Thanks
There was a computer games company called Psygnosis years ago. They were the ones who did all those Lemmings games. One of their games was called "Blue Ice"`. It came out in 1996, was a DOS game, so would be tricky to get it working on computers now.
It was a sort of point and click adventure game but very different in gameplay to the usual one in that one could collect items which were added to the pointers you had access to do various things with.
It was an extremely hard game full of puzzles to try and work out what to do. Very different but possibly of appeal to those who remember Kit Williams' Masquerade.
When I say it was extremely hard, I'm not exaggerating. It's not known if anyone ever fully solved the game.
Each room had a piece of music playing. Very eclectic range, some Brian Eno, some Duke Ellington, some Tangerine Dream for instance and one of the rooms had that adagio for Mozart's clarinet concerto in A major.
I still have a copy of the game in the box, not that I've been able to play it for many years. But it was quite a fascinating game in a strange way.
There are partial clips of the game on Youtube,
Incidentally, the game's narrator was Tom Conti.
@El Loro posted:
There was a computer games company called Psygnosis years ago. They were the ones who did all those Lemmings games. One of their games was called "Blue Ice"`. It came out in 1996, was a DOS game, so would be tricky to get it working on computers now.
It was a sort of point and click adventure game but very different in gameplay to the usual one in that one could collect items which were added to the pointers you had access to do various things with.
It was an extremely hard game full of puzzles to try and work out what to do. Very different but possibly of appeal to those who remember Kit Williams' Masquerade.
When I say it was extremely hard, I'm not exaggerating. It's not known if anyone ever fully solved the game.
Each room had a piece of music playing. Very eclectic range, some Brian Eno, some Duke Ellington, some Tangerine Dream for instance and one of the rooms had that adagio for Mozart's clarinet concerto in A major.
I still have a copy of the game in the box, not that I've been able to play it for many years. But it was quite a fascinating game in a strange way.
There are partial clips of the game on Youtube,
Incidentally, the game's narrator was Tom Conti.
The game is perhaps best described as a cross between surrealist painters Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte, with a plot that is no less strange 
It's not a game I remember but can imagine it being a challenge my husband may have enjoyed...he was a clever clogs.
The video clips on You tube don't show much...
@El Loro posted:Here's Nicole Peske playing Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumble Bee" played in rather an unorthodox fashion and which morphs into out and out jazz
love this EL-its very different and clever
@El Loro posted:Here's a link to an article about how pianists remember all the notes:
https://www.maestrospianolesso...ember-all-the-notes/
Same applies for musicians generally.
Here's a performance of Mozart's famous clarinet concerto in A major. It's in 3 movements, the second (adagio) is one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever composed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT_63UntRJE
It's played by the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and the clarinettist is Arngunnur ÃrnadÃģttir.
absolutely stunning beautiful music-thank you EL
night EL Slim moonsieeee
Good morning everyone it's a cloudy morning with rain later.
Enjoy your day everyone
@slimfern posted:The game is perhaps best described as a cross between surrealist painters Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte, with a plot that is no less strange
It's not a game I remember but can imagine it being a challenge my husband may have enjoyed...he was a clever clogs.
The video clips on You tube don't show much...
I don't think "Blue Ice" was a big seller as it was so unusual and unlike any other game at that time.
As you say, the video clips don't show much and can't give any real sense as to how playing the game felt.
In the box, there is a small leaflet of obscure poems written for the game which might mean something if one could understand them.
In terms of adventure games from that era which were trying to do something different, the best would be Lucasfilm Games' "Loom" from 1990. Experimental for its time, and a very good storyline. It is regarded as one of the best adventure games written. The version on Steam is not the original version which was superior. Of course, the graphics and sound are primitive by modern standards. Who knows, one day someone might publish a version for modern devices. There was talk of a sequel but that never happened,
Lucasfilm Games wrote some very good adventure games including the Monkey Island series. One of them was the 1995 "The Dig" which was a science fiction one. Interesting background behind that was that Steven Spielberg had previously envisaged the storyline for a film but didn't go ahead as it would have been too expensive,
@El Loro posted:I don't think "Blue Ice" was a big seller as it was so unusual and unlike any other game at that time.
As you say, the video clips don't show much and can't give any real sense as to how playing the game felt.
In the box, there is a small leaflet of obscure poems written for the game which might mean something if one could understand them.In terms of adventure games from that era which were trying to do something different, the best would be Lucasfilm Games' "Loom" from 1990. Experimental for its time, and a very good storyline. It is regarded as one of the best adventure games written. The version on Steam is not the original version which was superior. Of course, the graphics and sound are primitive by modern standards. Who knows, one day someone might publish a version for modern devices. There was talk of a sequel but that never happened,
Lucasfilm Games wrote some very good adventure games including the Monkey Island series. One of them was the 1995 "The Dig" which was a science fiction one. Interesting background behind that was that Steven Spielberg had previously envisaged the storyline for a film but didn't go ahead as it would have been too expensive,
Spielberg went on to make some very expensive films...'Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull' cost $185,000,000
Never quite got through the first Indian Jones film and not seen anything of it's sequels.
I like Harrison Ford as an actor though
@slimfern posted:Spielberg went on to make some very expensive films...'Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull' cost $185,000,000
Never quite got through the first Indian Jones film and not seen anything of it's sequels.
I like Harrison Ford as an actor though
The first Indiana Jones film had some really horrific scenes in and we didn't think it should have got a PG - the BBFC finally re-re-rated it with a 12A last year.
Most enjoyable one of the series is IJ and the Last Crusade which includes Sean Connery as his father. He and Harrison Ford made a good duo. If I were to recommend one, it would be that one.
Incidentally Lucasfilm Games also made adventure games based on IJ.
@El Loro posted:The first Indiana Jones film had some really horrific scenes in and we didn't think it should have got a PG - the BBFC finally re-re-rated it with a 12A last year.
Most enjoyable one of the series is IJ and the Last Crusade which includes Sean Connery as his father. He and Harrison Ford made a good duo. If I were to recommend one, it would be that one.
Incidentally Lucasfilm Games also made adventure games based on IJ.
I've just realised the connection between Lucasfilm games and George Lucas the film director 
I read that it was no longer in existence, all but a licensing dept, after being a acquired by Disney in 2012.
Sean Connery playing Harrison Ford's father...how did that happen then, there's only 12yrs between their ages
@slimfern posted:I've just realised the connection between Lucasfilm games and George Lucas the film director
I read that it was no longer in existence, all but a licensing dept, after being a acquired by Disney in 2012.
Sean Connery playing Harrison Ford's father...how did that happen then, there's only 12yrs between their ages
And the Indiana Jones films were produced by Lucasfilm, so a direct connection between Lucas and Spielberg.
Connery did have reservations about accepting the role because of that age gap but agreed once his character was changed to make him closer to what Connery was aiming for, he had in mind the explorer & writer Richard Burton (not the actor). Burton and John Hanning Speke went in 1857 to explore the origin of the Nile. They fell out during it (an account of that was filmed as "Mountains of the Moon" in 1990)
@El Loro posted:And the Indiana Jones films were produced by Lucasfilm, so a direct connection between Lucas and Spielberg.
Connery did have reservations about accepting the role because of that age gap but agreed once his character was changed to make him closer to what Connery was aiming for, he had in mind the explorer & writer Richard Burton (not the actor). Burton and John Hanning Speke went in 1857 to explore the origin of the Nile. They fell out during it (an account of that was filmed as "Mountains of the Moon" in 1990)
There's that small world again
Fancy falling out when in the middle of what could be a very dangerous situation...you'd want all the friends you could get.
Here's a link to a walkthrough of Loom in the original non-speaking version. A serious fantasy, the clip is just over an hour long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USBrm-pEtXo
@El Loro posted:Here's a link to a walkthrough of Loom in the original non-speaking version. A serious fantasy, the clip is just over an hour long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USBrm-pEtXo
Thank you for the link El ...I'll take a look later
