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Films XIX and XX
XIX: Daniel Haller, Buck Rogers in the Twenty-Fifth Century (1979)
I suppose this is a bit of a cheat - it's the pilot episode or first two episodes of the TV series, but it is feature length. Gil Gerard is the frozen astronaut who floats back into Earth orbit five hundred years after leaving, and finds a post-apocalyptic planet. He's immediately fanciable by the villainous Princess Arndale Centre and less fanciable by Col Wilma Deering - although she gets there in the end. He is also fancied by a doctor and the computer Dr Theophilis. Well, he's a real man at the fag end of the Cold War. Hilarious. Twenty-two episodes to go - part of my 1970s project.
XX: Benjamin Christensen, Haxan: Witchcraft through the Ages (1922)
Technically a DVD, but shown on a big screen at the Carbunkle. Not the 1968 version with the William Burroughs narration, but a restored, 104 minute version of the silent documentary about witches. It begins with versions of the Ptolemaic universe being explained, and plenty of pictures of witches (one of which appears in the Pratchett book). This is but chpater one of seven, which mostly do with the treatment of alledged witches in the medieval period, but ending with a depiction of 1920s hysteric.
Whilst it sets out to be a documentary, it admits it's an acted reconstruction, and talks about the background of one of the actors, and how another fancied trying out the thumbscrews. Curiously better special effects than Buck Rogers. A delight, which is touring.
It came with live dulcimers, which I cut take or leave, which I think are on the Tartan or Criterion DVD anyway.
I've left out a rewatch of No Country for Old Men, which improves on rewatching - and it was pretty good on first sight.
Totals: 20 [Cinema: 7; DVD: 12; TV: 1]
I suppose this is a bit of a cheat - it's the pilot episode or first two episodes of the TV series, but it is feature length. Gil Gerard is the frozen astronaut who floats back into Earth orbit five hundred years after leaving, and finds a post-apocalyptic planet. He's immediately fanciable by the villainous Princess Arndale Centre and less fanciable by Col Wilma Deering - although she gets there in the end. He is also fancied by a doctor and the computer Dr Theophilis. Well, he's a real man at the fag end of the Cold War. Hilarious. Twenty-two episodes to go - part of my 1970s project.
XX: Benjamin Christensen, Haxan: Witchcraft through the Ages (1922)
Technically a DVD, but shown on a big screen at the Carbunkle. Not the 1968 version with the William Burroughs narration, but a restored, 104 minute version of the silent documentary about witches. It begins with versions of the Ptolemaic universe being explained, and plenty of pictures of witches (one of which appears in the Pratchett book). This is but chpater one of seven, which mostly do with the treatment of alledged witches in the medieval period, but ending with a depiction of 1920s hysteric.
Whilst it sets out to be a documentary, it admits it's an acted reconstruction, and talks about the background of one of the actors, and how another fancied trying out the thumbscrews. Curiously better special effects than Buck Rogers. A delight, which is touring.
It came with live dulcimers, which I cut take or leave, which I think are on the Tartan or Criterion DVD anyway.
I've left out a rewatch of No Country for Old Men, which improves on rewatching - and it was pretty good on first sight.
Totals: 20 [Cinema: 7; DVD: 12; TV: 1]