Rhombus_Of_Terror

My area is blue again.

I VOTED LABOUR and I live in a Conservative stronghold. So there's that.

Wehrlein with some inventive parking...

Alien Covenant

3 2/5

It has a look to it which I liked though not as good looking as Prometheus. It was somewhat better than Prometheus in it's story but I mostly came out of the film thinking; "you just can't make the xenomorph mysterious anymore." I was never terrified by the creatures. Alien and weirdly, Alien Isolation are still my favourite ways to experience the creature's..... purity.

That reminded me; my screening had two, TWO trailers for The Mummy.

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Film4 in the UK has been doing an Andrei Tarkovsky season and I have enjoyed that immensely. Up til this point I hadn't seen Nostalgia or The Sacrifice. I still cannot wrap my mind around Mirror though even after a second viewing. Andrei Rublev is still his best work, with Solaris and Stalker coming in a close second. I really hope there's a proper Blu-Ray collection in the works, I hear the Curzon versions are not that good unfortunately.

@scampbell: They asked to come because it was the 60th anniversary of Eurovision.

Yep, Eurovision.

Matt Rorie should bring back the table top livestream again with this game. It would be pretty cool if not warrant a somewhat difficult set-up. If they can nab the podcast room to do it in this could be a good idea.

This is my copy of Abel Gance's 1927 Opus Napoleon which I received for Christmas. It clocks in at just over 5 1/2 hours split across three discs.

It's an absolute mammoth film to watch. It took me all of seven hours in one day to finish it. I wish i had seen a previous version of the film so I can compare that to this new restoration. for a silent film of 1927 it has many of the hallmarks of great cinematography that influenced many future films to this day and it was great to see what they did with the specific image quality that they achieved with it; there's a great static shot of Napoleon, in silhouette, riding his horse in the dead of night with the moonlit mountains in the background.

It was initially jarring to see the first of many colour filters in this film, which was taken from the film notes that the restoration team had for them to use, from the traditional black and white it ranges from amber/black, blue/black and even a fever pitched purple/black. My favourite sequence is a long section entirely shot at night, in the rain, during a battle all in a glorious red/black colouring.

The film ends with a triptych image which would look even better on a 21:9 monitor, which uses the colours matching the flag of France.

An absolute masterpiece film only marred by poor packaging. My copy of Metrolpolis is in a steelbook case and is the best blu-ray package I own.

10/10

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