Network's Peter Finch 'Mad as Hell' remixed
Peter Finch in Network tells it how it is, remixed by videobeats/pixm.
Free online premiere of excellent lowfi Scots comedy feature, One Day Removals
French-based video sharing site Dailymotion is continuing its short-run free streams of independent British films with the Online World Premiere of the new feature One Day Removals, directed by Scottish filmmaker Mark Stirton. The 88-minute film will be available online from 12pm GMT on Friday 30th January, until midnight on Monday 2nd February.
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[the ALLVideos embed link doesn't seem to be working, so best view it on Daily Motion (def worth a look)]
As one of the Daily Motion commenters, stepgib says:
"I was expecting an amateur movie with dodgy acting and mismatched scenes, yet I intended to be positive about it to support Scottish talent. But after watching it, I can honestly say that it was a joy to watch.
It was incredibly funny watching these two unlucky guys attempting to get themselves out of a mess but making it worse along the way. There was not one point in the movie I thought to myself "Yeah, right. THAT'S gonna happen", even though the situations themselves were a freak of nature.
That was the beauty of the film, it did not feel
contrived or made me feel I was watching something that I had seen done
many times before, it developed with some "common sense" which is
lacking in most UK movies these days. The ending alone was priceless.
How unlucky can you get?
‘One Day Removals’ follows the adventures of two unremarkable Scottish removal men in Aberdeen, Andy and Ronnie. They have been running their business for several years and nothing interesting has ever happened. But it just takes one bad day to change everything, and suddenly no one is safe.
See trailers, clips and cast and crew interviews on Dailymotion here.
Darth Vadar Sings the Blues
We were chatting the other night about how the Death Star, for all its evil genius as a total killing machine, was really badly designed. I mean from a defensive point of view – a huge open port, with no gun turrets inside, leading to a big self destruct button. And Darth, despite all his Jedi training, is a pretty lousy pursuer of Luke.
So we wondered if, at the end of Episode 3, aware that the Emporer is set to win, and that not much can be done about this, he reisgns to a life inside a giant gimp suit while secretly making plans to allow it all to come crashing down when the time comes, knowing that his son would one day come to avenge his death.
I await the calls of derision from proper fans, but meantime, keep this thought in your mind as you watch the latest Darth Vadar film doing the rounds.
Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and Howard Hawks Triple Bill
When
I was very young I was never as excited by films as I was by going to
the theatre - it wasn't until my teens that I started geeking out on
films. The only only exception to that is Buster Keaton, I
watched anything and everything by that man. The fact that he directed
and wrote and stared in his films was one thing. But that he did his
own stunts - that made him a God in my five-year-old eyes.
Well,
it's Friday and with all this talk of the wonders of the web, new
techology and copyright issues it's easy to forget what it's all about.
Thanks to the wonders of public domain (and a certain video service)
here on Netribution are three comic delights: Charlie Chaplins'
masterpiece (and final film) Modern Times, Howard Hawks' hilarious His Girl Friday (tears were coming out of my nose when I first watched this at the NFT) and of course Buster Keaton - with a selecton of shorts.
So please sit back, have your Excel spreadsheet on standby for when your boss passes, and enjoy.