@slimfern posted:Not a sight one would see everyday El
True 
Surfers from around the world may be trying to break the record for the longest surf on the Severn (7.6 miles in 1 hour 17 minutes back in 2006) on September 30th when it's a 5 star bore 
@El Loro posted:True
Surfers from around the world may be trying to break the record for the longest surf on the Severn (7.6 miles in 1 hour 17 minutes back in 2006) on September 30th when it's a 5 star bore
Is it something you might look out for El?
Confess that I've never had any interest in surfing. 
All's good. I can handle that 
Feck the world's gone full scale beserker. Nuts.
Beserker was a full scale Taggart episode. I come in peace me luvlies 
@velvet donkey posted:All's good. I can handle that
Feck the world's gone full scale beserker. Nuts.
Beserker was a full scale Taggart episode. I come in peace me luvlies
The word "berserker" comes from Old Norse and probably means bear shirt, some thought that such warriors got their powers from bears.
I see that Charfield in South Gloucestershire may be getting a new railway station (the old one closed back in 1965 thanks to the Beeching cuts). Takes me back to when I was a child and we would go by train to Bristol.
Used to be other stations (long closed) on that line such as Frocester, Wickwar, Mangotsfield and Fishponds.
@El Loro posted:I see that Charfield in South Gloucestershire may be getting a new railway station (the old one closed back in 1965 thanks to the Beeching cuts). Takes me back to when I was a child and we would go by train to Bristol.
Used to be other stations (long closed) on that line such as Frocester, Wickwar, Mangotsfield and Fishponds.
Sounds like the beginnings of a shipping forecast
1965 is such a long time ago....I hope the station will be well used to warrant the expense.
That's dependant on the trains actually running through it 
You couldn't rely on a train right now
Wtf has happened 
@El Loro posted:Star Wars stormtroopers on the River Severn:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/...cestershire-34945402
thanksEL
night EL slim velvet
Some photos of Venus, Jupiter and the Moon pictured across Wales on Thursday night:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-64756972
@El Loro posted:Some photos of Venus, Jupiter and the Moon pictured across Wales on Thursday night:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-64756972
I wonder if Susy Storm is the weather watchers real name 
Liked her picture of the moon, you can almost make out his face
@El Loro posted:Some photos of Venus, Jupiter and the Moon pictured across Wales on Thursday night:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-64756972
thank you EL stunning -seen the moon and Venus but not with Jupiter -fantastic
night EL slim velvet
I note that the Martin Scorsese film "The Age of Innocence" (1993) has been reclassified by the BBFC from a U certificate to a 12A certificate. Film was adapted from the book by Edith Wharton and starred Daniel Day Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer and Winona Ryder.
The reason given for this seems to be the most fundamental change of policy by the BBFC in decades:
"The filmâs themes of unrequited love and infidelity make it more suitable for teens and adults."
Film is one I saw when it was shown on television and it's not one I enjoyed. I think children would find it boring.
@El Loro posted:I note that the Martin Scorsese film "The Age of Innocence" (1993) has been reclassified by the BBFC from a U certificate to a 12A certificate. Film was adapted from the book by Edith Wharton and starred Daniel Day Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer and Winona Ryder.
The reason given for this seems to be the most fundamental change of policy by the BBFC in decades:
"The filmâs themes of unrequited love and infidelity make it more suitable for teens and adults."
Film is one I saw when it was shown on television and it's not one I enjoyed. I think children would find it boring.
It's not a film I've seen El, so couldn't really comment, but I'll take your word for it
@slimfern posted:It's not a film I've seen El, so couldn't really comment, but I'll take your word for it
"The Age of Innocence" is set in the 1870s in New York and is more talk than anything else, there's no violence in it. One of the films which influenced Scorsese was one which you've seem - "The Magnificent Ambersons".
@slimfern posted:Remember enjoying that film
"The Magnificent Ambersons" is a more enjoyable film even though the version we see was savagely mauled by the producers with the result that it's only 1 and Â― hours with the middle section being removed with Welles having no say in it. He was in Brazil at the time trying to make a film which was never completed.
One of the problems with "The Age of Innocence" is that it's a faithful adaptation of the book including scenes which read better than a film can. And I didn't like Daniel Day Lewis's character, if you watch this trailer, you may see why:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3Mx8OSlNYM
night EL slim velvet bazzy
Slim, I haven't seen much new of interest on the Talking Pictures tv channel during the coming week.
May be of minor interest is tomorrow at 16.30 "Crow Hollow" (1952) a British thriller In a spooky mansion, where one of three sinister spinsters tries to poison her nephew's wife to steal a large inheritance.
The old film on Thursday at 15.10 is "Bulldog Drummond at Bay" (1937) where he goes up against foreign agents trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft. In this Bulldog Drummond film, he was played by John Lodge and his friend Algy Longworth by Claud Allister. Allister played the same character in 3 other Bulldog Drummond films with that character being played by different actors - Ronald Colman, Ralph Richardson and John Howard.
@El Loro posted:Slim, I haven't seen much new of interest on the Talking Pictures tv channel during the coming week.
May be of minor interest is tomorrow at 16.30 "Crow Hollow" (1952) a British thriller In a spooky mansion, where one of three sinister spinsters tries to poison her nephew's wife to steal a large inheritance.
The old film on Thursday at 15.10 is "Bulldog Drummond at Bay" (1937) where he goes up against foreign agents trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft. In this Bulldog Drummond film, he was played by John Lodge and his friend Algy Longworth by Claud Allister. Allister played the same character in 3 other Bulldog Drummond films with that character being played by different actors - Ronald Colman, Ralph Richardson and John Howard.
Thank you El
I know the name Bulldog Drummond but couldn't tell you if I've seen any of the films...
'Crow Hollow' sounds interesting.....On one occasion a large poisonous spider jumps on her from a box of delivered flowers 
I quite like an old B&W eerie mansion mystery film
@slimfern posted:Thank you El
I know the name Bulldog Drummond but couldn't tell you if I've seen any of the films...
'Crow Hollow' sounds interesting.....On one occasion a large poisonous spider jumps on her from a box of delivered flowers
I quite like an old B&W eerie mansion mystery film
Thanks Slim
The only Bulldog Drummond film I know I've seen was the 1929 one of that name which had Ronald Colman in the lead. It was quite watchable.
I've found a bit of film trivia which will interest you. That "Number Seventeen" (1932) film by Alfred Hitchcock was the last film he made for British International Pictures. He moved to Gaumont-British Picture Corporation. The first film he had intended to make in 1933 was called "Bulldog Drummond's Baby". However the rights to the character Bulldog Drummond were held by British International Pictures who refused to sell the rights.
Hitchcock made two films for Gaumont in 1934. One was "Waltzes from Vienna" which is the one Hitchcock film to avoid.
The other used the basis of what would have been his "Bulldog Drummond's Baby" film but without the character of Bulldog Drummond. A couple are abroad with their young child and get caught up in an international conspiracy and their child is abducted. If that sound's familiar that's because the film was "The Man Who Knew Too Much" which he remade in 1956.
@El Loro posted:Thanks Slim
The only Bulldog Drummond film I know I've seen was the 1929 one of that name which had Ronald Colman in the lead. It was quite watchable.
I've found a bit of film trivia which will interest you. That "Number Seventeen" (1932) film by Alfred Hitchcock was the last film he made for British International Pictures. He moved to Gaumont-British Picture Corporation. The first film he had intended to make in 1933 was called "Bulldog Drummond's Baby". However the rights to the character Bulldog Drummond were held by British International Pictures who refused to sell the rights.
Hitchcock made two films for Gaumont in 1934. One was "Waltzes from Vienna" which is the one Hitchcock film to avoid.
The other used the basis of what would have been his "Bulldog Drummond's Baby" film but without the character of Bulldog Drummond. A couple are abroad with their young child and get caught up in an international conspiracy and their child is abducted. If that sound's familiar that's because the film was "The Man Who Knew Too Much" which he remade in 1956.
Yes I can see the resemblance
'The man who knew too much' is a good film, but I still believe Doris Day has no place in a Hitchcock film
@slimfern posted:Yes I can see the resemblance
'The man who knew too much' is a good film, but I still believe Doris Day has no place in a Hitchcock film
Hitchcock asked that Doris Day be in the film as he liked her performance in a film called "Storm Warning" (1951). Although that also stars Ginger Rogers, it's not a musical but a film noir involving the Ku Klux Klan so far darker than her other films. (can be seen through Youtube at a cost, they've classified that as an 18).
@El Loro posted:Hitchcock asked that Doris Day be in the film as he liked her performance in a film called "Storm Warning" (1951). Although that also stars Ginger Rogers, it's not a musical but a film noir involving the Ku Klux Klan so far darker than her other films. (can be seen through Youtube at a cost, they've classified that as an 18).
I don't recall ever seeing her in a serious role other than 'The Man WHo Knew Too Much', usually I've known her for her musicals and comedy films....and very good she is in them too
@slimfern posted:I don't recall ever seeing her in a serious role other than 'The Man WHo Knew Too Much', usually I've known her for her musicals and comedy films....and very good she is in them too
The 1961 William Wyler film "The Children's Hour" was a serious film set at a girls' school where a student makes false accusations that two of her teachers played by Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine were having a love affair with devastating consequences. The film was constructed with the intention of having two other actresses for those parts but they were unable to do the film due to their film schedules. The Audrey Hepburn role would have been Doris Day and the Shirley MacLaine role Katharine Hepburn.
@El Loro posted:The 1961 William Wyler film "The Children's Hour" was a serious film set at a girls' school where a student makes false accusations that two of her teachers played by Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine were having a love affair with devastating consequences. The film was constructed with the intention of having two other actresses for those parts but they were unable to do the film due to their film schedules. The Audrey Hepburn role would have been Doris Day and the Shirley MacLaine role Katharine Hepburn.
Two rather odd couplings El 
night EL Slim
@slimfern posted:Two rather odd couplings El
"The Children's Hour" was a very good film but very serious. It was adapted from the play by Lillian Hellman. She was a playwright, the most likely film you've seen made from one of her plays would be "The Little Foxes" (1941) (Bette Davis) which was directed by the same director, William Wyler.