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Jun. 25th, 2005 02:03 pmThe Continuum timetable is up! Yays! And wonderfully there are actually not too many clashes for me. The only one that makes me go "noooooooo!" (/Vader) is that "Gender Reconceptualisation in Science Fiction" is on at the same time as Neil Gaiman's Guest of Honour speech. It's no contest really, but I did want to go to that panel quite a lot.
Speaking of, I have a lot of time for Mike Carey and Glen Fabry, but I was totally underwhelmed by the Neverwhere comic adaption. ( spoilers )
Anyway, I'll keep buying it--it wasn't terrible--but I hope it picks up.
Saw M last night, finally. It's an interesting movie, a mix of the incredibly dated and the incredibly powerful. It shows its age and origins in the large number of very talky scenes that aren't necessary to the story. The cinematography is wonderful: despite the amount of dialogue, this is a movie that really tells its story in pictures, stills, ominous shadows, montages. It could almost be a silent film if it wouldn't mean the loss of part of Peter Lorre's incredible performance (his trial scene at the end blew me away) and the thematically (and plot-ly) important whistling of Greig's In the Hall of the Mountain King, so lighthearted and so awful. Anyway, I think I like Metropolis more, but this was still excellent.
Speaking of, I have a lot of time for Mike Carey and Glen Fabry, but I was totally underwhelmed by the Neverwhere comic adaption. ( spoilers )
Anyway, I'll keep buying it--it wasn't terrible--but I hope it picks up.
Saw M last night, finally. It's an interesting movie, a mix of the incredibly dated and the incredibly powerful. It shows its age and origins in the large number of very talky scenes that aren't necessary to the story. The cinematography is wonderful: despite the amount of dialogue, this is a movie that really tells its story in pictures, stills, ominous shadows, montages. It could almost be a silent film if it wouldn't mean the loss of part of Peter Lorre's incredible performance (his trial scene at the end blew me away) and the thematically (and plot-ly) important whistling of Greig's In the Hall of the Mountain King, so lighthearted and so awful. Anyway, I think I like Metropolis more, but this was still excellent.
