Tag: films
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Wikipedia @ 25: The Bugler of Algiers
Today's random Wikipedia article, which didn't make it into a full blog post or podcast episode like a few earlier ones did, was The Bugler of Algiers. This 1916 silent film, based on a novel called We Are The French, has no surviving copies and it's no longer even known what role some of the billed cast played in it! Among others, it starred Kingsley Benedict, who would later go on to feature in Fast and Furious! No... not that one... the 1927 silent comedy (which you can watch on YouTube... it's... about three times as long as it needs to be, IMHO).
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Something's gone wrong on the Jellyfin server I use to manage my household's film library, resulting in some unexpectedly-funny repetition...
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TV screen interface showing posters for many films. Groundhog Day is listed twice in succession. This is funny because the film is about a celebration date, 'groundhog day', repeating itself.
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Sometimes people connect my unusual name to popular culture. They say things like "Oh, Q like James Bond?" or "Oh, Q like Star Trek?".
I think their choice of franchise tells me more about them than they learn from my answer, which is usually "No, Q like the set of rational numbers."
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Dan Has Too Many Monitors
My new employer sent me a laptop and a monitor, which I immediately added to my already pretty-heavily-loaded desk. Wanna see?
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The Time Travel Movie That Doesn't Move
The Nerdwriter's done a video essay about La Jetรฉe, and it truly does justice to that remarkable movie.
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Harry Segell's 1938 play Heaven Can Wait went on to inspire such an extraordinarily long legacy of follow-ups.
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Chart showing relationships of various films and a play. Down To Eath (2001 film) is a remake of Heaven Can Wait (1978 film), but takes its name from a 1947 film upon which Xanadu (1980 film) is based. Down To Earth (1947 film) is a sequel to Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941 film), of which the 1978 Heaven Can Wait is a remake. Here Comes Mr. Jordan is based on 1938 play Heaven Can Wait, which lends its name to the later remakes.
I've only seen the most-recent few and my experience is that the older iterations are better, so I probably ought to watch Here Comes Mr. Jordan, right?
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[Bloganuary] Mission
My mission is to make cool shit on the Internet, and to periodically remind people about how awesome Monty Python is.
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Threads
Meta are launching Threads tomorrow. If you're wondering how this will impact the world and society's social connections, I direct you to the predictive powers of 1984 British cinema.
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"DOONT" โ A Bad Lip Reading of Dune
Bad Lip Reading takes on Dune: Part One, and it's the best thing Dan's seen since watching Dune: Part One.
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Hot Shots, Part Dream
Dan shares a dream in which he starts a meme about a non-existent 80s kids TV show inspired by a loose translation of a scene from Hot Shots! Wait, what?
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Sometimes, I miss Troma Night. Hanging out with my friends and watching awful/awesome films over pizza and beer.
If only there were a way to do it during lockdown?
Oh wait, there is: danq.me/homa-night/homa-night-2 -
Dune (2020)
The first trailer's dropped for the 2020 reinterpretation of Frank Herbert's Dune and Dan's super excited.
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7 things we know about the nun reading 'Boys' Life' in 'Airplane!'
Remember the scene from Airplane with the boy reading "Nuns' Life" magazine? You'll certainly never forget it after you read this...
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Chafed nipples. But we only have Frozen II themed plasters in the house. So now I'm wearing an Elsa & Anna pasties. How did my life come to this?
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The Neighbors' Window
Dan raves about The Neighbor's Window, which won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film last month.