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<blockquote data-quote="spiney" data-source="post: 253240" data-attributes="member: 192438"><p>Also Thur 30th Aug. (not much sci fi, sorry Rolf!).</p><p></p><p>(Sorry, above episode of TInker Tailor was episode 2, tonight is episode 3. However, this is where the story "takes off", so you can still follow it! I can't stand the books, but this 70s tv version was brilliant, especially Alec Guiness).</p><p></p><p>6.40pm, film4, Chariots of Fire. This so and so "inspirational" biopic got several Oscars, inc for Vangelis' music, the memorable scenes being a run round Trinity College quad, and a slow motion run along a beach. Nicely shot (the settings made it look a bit like Brideshead Revisited, possibly accounting for some of the USA success!), and a "known faces" cast of good Brit actors.</p><p>It was heralded as the "renaissence" of British film making, we were going to compete with Hollywood again (how many times has that been claimed?)! Puttnam's Goldcrest Films carried on, a while, then had several huge box office flops (Puttnam then moved to the USA, where Columbia Pictures hoped he would replicate the British "success", but he fell out with them).</p><p></p><p>10.50pm, film4, Saturday Night Fever. This "landmark" film made unknown Travolta a star, is supposedly "based on" the famous Studio 54 disco, and started a disco craze. It also helped make the Bee Gees rich(er!), via the soundtrack.</p><p>To quote Shakespeare, this film is "more honoured in the breech than in the observance", having been very widely parodied, eg in the Airplane and Austin Powers films, etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spiney, post: 253240, member: 192438"] Also Thur 30th Aug. (not much sci fi, sorry Rolf!). (Sorry, above episode of TInker Tailor was episode 2, tonight is episode 3. However, this is where the story "takes off", so you can still follow it! I can't stand the books, but this 70s tv version was brilliant, especially Alec Guiness). 6.40pm, film4, Chariots of Fire. This so and so "inspirational" biopic got several Oscars, inc for Vangelis' music, the memorable scenes being a run round Trinity College quad, and a slow motion run along a beach. Nicely shot (the settings made it look a bit like Brideshead Revisited, possibly accounting for some of the USA success!), and a "known faces" cast of good Brit actors. It was heralded as the "renaissence" of British film making, we were going to compete with Hollywood again (how many times has that been claimed?)! Puttnam's Goldcrest Films carried on, a while, then had several huge box office flops (Puttnam then moved to the USA, where Columbia Pictures hoped he would replicate the British "success", but he fell out with them). 10.50pm, film4, Saturday Night Fever. This "landmark" film made unknown Travolta a star, is supposedly "based on" the famous Studio 54 disco, and started a disco craze. It also helped make the Bee Gees rich(er!), via the soundtrack. To quote Shakespeare, this film is "more honoured in the breech than in the observance", having been very widely parodied, eg in the Airplane and Austin Powers films, etc. [/QUOTE]
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