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<blockquote data-quote="spiney" data-source="post: 242244" data-attributes="member: 192438"><p>Thursday (10 August).</p><p></p><p>The Time Machine, Ch5, 1.35pm (Afternoon, so set the video)</p><p></p><p>George Pal's very justly famous 1960 film of H G Wells' classic sci fi novel (which isn't sci fi, but social criticism!). Got the special effects Oscar, watch it and see why (remember, no cgi graphics in those days ...).</p><p></p><p>The time machine itself, although following Wells' description, looks too flimsy to work, very like something out of Heath Robinson.</p><p></p><p>Pal was very famous for sci fi films, especially with special effects, eg Tom Thumb, Destination Moon, When Worlds Collide, and War of the Worlds.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_P%C3%A1l" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Pál</a> .</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.colemanzone.com/Time_Machine_Project/project.htm" target="_blank">http://www.colemanzone.com/Time_Machine_Project/project.htm</a> (the film's tribute website, takes a while to load, but some great stuff!).</p><p></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Machine" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Machine</a> (Wells' novel).</p><p></p><p>(Most of H G Wells' fiction, and some of his non fiction, is downloadable free from Project Gutenberg).</p><p></p><p>Nashville, 11pm, BBC4.</p><p></p><p>Heck, I'm cheating again, this has nothing at all to do with sci fi or science. However, it is one of the most important films of the 1970s, highly entertaining and watchable, well worth the effort if you've never seen it.</p><p></p><p>The film was released in 1975, and set in a fictitious country music festival in Nashville in 1976, in the same year as the USA bicentennial celebrations. Stars actors famous at the time, who all had to become country singers and perform their own songs, just for this film. Watch out for the bogus "message from our sponsors" introduction!</p><p></p><p>In parts it's extremely funny. Watch out for Shelly Duvall's (? - I think!) hypochondriac singer, Henry Gibson's running joke about his size (he's a very small man), Carradine's obsessive womanising, and Geraldine Chaplin's bizarre clueless behaviour as the BBC lady. However, the political bits are now likely to seem just strange (a lot's changed in the last 30 years!).</p><p></p><p>Like the earlier MASH, Nashville features director Altman's famous "ensemble" method, where the actors reherse together and improvise, before filming starts (a theatre technique, unusual in films). The final film then incorporates some situations and dialogue arising from the improvisation. </p><p></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_(1975_movie)" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_(1975_movie)</a> .</p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Altman" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Altman</a> .</p><p></p><p>PS, those following the rerun of I Claudius, BBC4, were last night treated to the spectacle of Patrick Stewart in a curly hair wig, we're so used to him being bald that somehow it just didn't seem right!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spiney, post: 242244, member: 192438"] Thursday (10 August). The Time Machine, Ch5, 1.35pm (Afternoon, so set the video) George Pal's very justly famous 1960 film of H G Wells' classic sci fi novel (which isn't sci fi, but social criticism!). Got the special effects Oscar, watch it and see why (remember, no cgi graphics in those days ...). The time machine itself, although following Wells' description, looks too flimsy to work, very like something out of Heath Robinson. Pal was very famous for sci fi films, especially with special effects, eg Tom Thumb, Destination Moon, When Worlds Collide, and War of the Worlds. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_P%C3%A1l[/url] . [url]http://www.colemanzone.com/Time_Machine_Project/project.htm[/url] (the film's tribute website, takes a while to load, but some great stuff!). [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Machine[/url] (Wells' novel). (Most of H G Wells' fiction, and some of his non fiction, is downloadable free from Project Gutenberg). Nashville, 11pm, BBC4. Heck, I'm cheating again, this has nothing at all to do with sci fi or science. However, it is one of the most important films of the 1970s, highly entertaining and watchable, well worth the effort if you've never seen it. The film was released in 1975, and set in a fictitious country music festival in Nashville in 1976, in the same year as the USA bicentennial celebrations. Stars actors famous at the time, who all had to become country singers and perform their own songs, just for this film. Watch out for the bogus "message from our sponsors" introduction! In parts it's extremely funny. Watch out for Shelly Duvall's (? - I think!) hypochondriac singer, Henry Gibson's running joke about his size (he's a very small man), Carradine's obsessive womanising, and Geraldine Chaplin's bizarre clueless behaviour as the BBC lady. However, the political bits are now likely to seem just strange (a lot's changed in the last 30 years!). Like the earlier MASH, Nashville features director Altman's famous "ensemble" method, where the actors reherse together and improvise, before filming starts (a theatre technique, unusual in films). The final film then incorporates some situations and dialogue arising from the improvisation. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_(1975_movie)[/url] . [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Altman[/url] . PS, those following the rerun of I Claudius, BBC4, were last night treated to the spectacle of Patrick Stewart in a curly hair wig, we're so used to him being bald that somehow it just didn't seem right! [/QUOTE]
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