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Saddam and Ollie
"Well, here's another fine mess you've gotten me into!" - when they never actually met.
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Saddam and Ollie
"Well that's another fine mess you've gotten us into!" - when they never actually met.
"Well that's another fine mess you've gotten us into!" - when they never actually met.
That might be yet another example of reality changing around us.*flies out of pedant cupboard*
It's was actually "Well , here's another nice mess you've gotten me into"
*swoops back, job done*
I think that's the second time I've corrected someone about that quote on this board.
Two years later...The Other Side of the Wind is meant to be out later in the year (I know, heard it before).
http://www.avclub.com/article/netflix-finishing-and-releasing-one-orson-welles-f-252079Orson Welles left behind a number of unfinished projects when he died in 1985, but most critics regard The Other Side Of The Wind—the Hollywood satire that ate up most of the director’s creative energy in the 1970s—as the crown jewel of the unfinished Welles collection.
The footage was all shot well before Welles’ death, and only awaits an editor—and a giant bag of money—to free it from the French film lab where it’s been sitting untouched for years.
Said giant money bag has now arrived, in the form of Netflix, which announced today that it had acquired the rights to The Other Side Of The Wind in order to finally complete it and release it to the public.
https://qz.com/1035897/the-bizarre-...tirely-in-esperanto-starring-william-shatner/The film is set in an imaginary village where travelers come to use a magic well with mysterious healing properties. It’s there where Shatner, playing a wounded soldier, meets and falls in love with a succubus.
Shatner and the film’s other actors were not Esperanto speakers. They learned their lines phonetically in just a few weeks, and filmed them without an Esperanto expert on set. Unsurprisingly, the film was slammed by actual Esperanto speakers when it debuted at the San Francisco Film Festival in 1966. Film critics, unaware that the Esperanto pronunciation was atrocious, tended to enjoy the film.
But then things turned tragic.
Although it says "long-lost", it's been on DVD for ages now, and youtube!
The bizarre story of a long-lost horror film made entirely in Esperanto, starring William Shatner
https://qz.com/1035897/the-bizarre-...tirely-in-esperanto-starring-william-shatner/
And its subtitled on youtube. IMDB give it 6.2 out of 10. Saved for later viewing. Thanks for that.
It does exist, but it has burned in subtitles that can't be removed. It's a good film though, nice and atmospheric.Although it says "long-lost", it's been on DVD for ages now, and youtube!
The bizarre story of a long-lost horror film made entirely in Esperanto, starring William Shatner
On the Animal Planet channel in the UK at 7 tonight...Here's a new trailer for ROAR. It's a wonder anyone was left alive to finish it...
Roar: The Most Dangerous Movie Ever Made
The story behind Roar, the controversial film which included 150 untrained lions and tigers. With 70 crew members injured, it became known as “the most dangerous film ever made”.
Matheson's lifelong interest in the paranormal (Come Fygures, Come Shadowes) shapes every element of this massive unproduced screen treatment, whose hero, Robert Allright, is a writer scripting a TV mini-series about modern psychic phenomena. As Allright works with paranormal investigator Cathy Graves and explores a mystery uncovered by his archeologist father in the Arizona desert, he discovers his own latent psychic talents and truths that build to cosmic revelations at the finale. Matheson peppers the story with innumerable historical incidents of supposed paranormal activity that make fascinating reading, but show just how impossible this story would have been to film. This lightly fleshed out screenplay is purely for Matheson completists.
https://medium.com/@filmsonwax/unearthing-david-shires-apocalypse-now-ca7f0971567cIt might sound fairly crazy to some — “So it’s a record made up of music that wasn’t actually in the movie?” — but there is a fascination with so called “unused scores” that has seen many of them released as separate albums, if not restored back to the actual picture. It’s a kinder term than “rejected” but that’s what these works ostensibly are, scores that for whatever reason didn’t end up in the film.
There have been some big examples over the years but one of the most interesting is for Francis Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, which originally had a score by David Shire. Unused in favour of music by the director’s father Carmine, the score is now being issued by Californian soundtrack label La-La Land Records, providing a tantalising glimpse into an alternate version of a film that’s not only an iconic piece of cinema, but that also already has an incredibly strong musical presence.
“It has that rich, analogue Moog synthesizer sound common to the work of Wendy Carlos, John Carpenter, and Giorgio Moroder at that time,” Greiving states. “David, with the help of a man named Dan Wyman (who was his “synthestrator” on the score, and who had also helped Carpenter realize Halloween and The Fog), created some really interesting, bespoke synth voices. Stylistically, it’s avant-garde and psychedelic in how it attempts to evoke the drug-addled horrors of the Vietnam War… but it’s also David Shire, who is a melodist at heart (and a showtune composer), so it’s full of melodies that are both beautiful and disturbing. It’s definitely trippy, but it’s a hauntingly addictive trip.”
Here's more on Bandersnatch, post-Black Mirror:Speaking of games, I remember that in the mid 1980s, a super-game called 'Psyclapse & Bandersnatch' was winging its way towards the 8-bit wonders we knew and loved, and that it was so good, all other games paled by comparison. I distinctly recall the teaser ads in Your Computer - a group of programmers huddled round a glowing screen, working their way deep into the night, the desktop and monitor bestrewn with empty takeaway cartons.
But it never happened, of course - the company producing it (Imagine) went bust, and it was later revealed that P&B was little more than vapourware - existing only as a couple of sketches on paper. A potted history of the super-game that never was can be found at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandersnatch_(video_game)
BANDERSNATCH: THE GAME THAT KILLED A COMPANY AND INSPIRED A BLACK MIRROR EPISODE
https://tiredoldhack.com/2019/01/02...-company-and-inspired-a-black-mirror-episode/Bandersnatch is loosely – very loosely – based on an actual ZX Spectrum game that ultimately never saw the light of day. Here, then, is the story of the original Bandersnatch: what it was, what happened to it, and what it eventually became.
A film that remained unfinished after the original production ceased (1972) yet was subsequently finished and released (1978), but really shouldn't have been, was Bruce Lee's 'Game of Death'. At the time of it's release, Bruce had been dead for 5 years and it's other big star, Hollywood legend Gig Young had blown his brains out after murdering his 5th wife.
You'd have thought the 5th one would have been a bit cautious after hearing about the previous wives.At the time of it's release, Bruce had been dead for 5 years and it's other big star, Hollywood legend Gig Young had blown his brains out after murdering his 5th wife.
At least we got to witness Bruce fighting Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, which is... unusual. There's also a Game of Death 2.
You'd have thought the 5th one would have been a bit cautious after hearing about the previous wives.
http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2019/06/03/43211/unearthed:_the_1980s_sitcom_pulled_after_two_episodesEpisodes of a British sitcom so bad they have never seen the light of day – despite featuring the likes of Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson – have emerged on YouTube after 32years.
Hardwicke House was yanked from the ITV schedules in February 1987 after just two episodes in the face of a hugely hostile critical reaction.
The Ghost of Peter Sellers is a feature length documentary directed by Peter Medak about his unreleased film 'Ghost in the Noonday Sun', starring Peter Sellers and filmed in Cyprus in 1973.
It was eventually released - I watched it on a professionally produced VHS in the 80's... it is quite weird, and not exactly funny, but not a complete wreck.