RIP Edward Woodward (1 June 1930 - 16 November, 2009)


RIP Jocelyn Quivrin D: (February 14, 1979 - November 15, 2009)

An amazing British actor, who you should remember from The Wicker Man (original from 1973, not the one with the bees...) and most recently in Hot Fuzz. And a French one, extremely promising, aged only 30 who died tragically in a car accident. It fills me with sadness because he was really a talented actor, I remember seeing him as Rastignac and it actually made me read the book because he was so good.

They will be missed.

If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, (even if we don't speak often or ever) please post a comment with a COMPLETELY MADE UP AND FICTIONAL memory of you and me.

It can be anything you want - good or bad - BUT IT HAS TO BE FAKE.

When you're finished, post this little paragraph in your LJ and see what your friends come up with.

Go crazy, kids. I want to fall asleep on my laptop and wake up to see lots of weird stories.

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Has anyone seen Inglorious Basterds yet? I'm seeing it on Friday night and I'm so excited. I loved Death Proof even though no one liked it and now that all the reviews say that IG is brilliant...I'm even more eager to see it :D

AHOY!
It feels so good to be home! The past week was slow, very boring and quite uneventful, except for Wednesday's evening where we went to the theater, to saw a very loose adaptation of The Idiot by Dostoevsky. It was amazing! Four hours of mind-blowing theater, I can't even begin to describe it. It was extremely...decadent? Violent to say the least, with rock songs, actors shouting and covering each other with paint and a guy who wandered completely naked all the time. I guess it sounds stupid but it was really original, changes from the classical, boring french plays.

The actor on the photo was playing the Prince Mychkine, aka the idiot. He's an actor that I thought didn't know but I remembered in the middle of the play that he used to be in a comedy show that me and my twin loved to watch a few years ago. I'm so glad I saw him in a play :) He was amazing, shifting from completely absurd and insane, jumping all over the scene and then really dramatic and moving.

Tonight, I also went to see The Boat That Rocked at the cinema, my mum really wanted to see it because it's the story of pirate radios in the sixties and she used to listen to them all the time. Radio Caroline and all :)
And it was great! Hilarious, with excellent music and brilliant actors. Bill Nighy is looking sweet, Rhys Ifans is a real dandy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jack Davenport, Nick Frost, Kenneth Branagh, Katherine Parkinson, Rhys Darby, Chris O'Dowd...they're amazing together <3

Any of you guys saw it? It made me want to listen to some 60s tunes again. Well, more of them anyway, it's such a sweet homage to music. Makes you proud to be a pirate, a modern day one, who doesn't have to get a boat but just a computer :)
The only weird thing is that there were no tracks of The Beatles but I guess they didn't get the rights :/

And I'm going to see Star Trek tomorrow! Yay! I'm so thrilled, I've only heard/read good reviews :D

Arrested Development Movie is in production and scheduled to be released in 2009

YEAAAAAAAAAH :DD









THIS + WATCHMEN (FINGERS CROSSED) = 2009 WONDERFUL YEAR

1. So I went to see The Dark Knight on Sunday evening, for my defense, it's only been out since Wednesday in France. OMG, it was amaaaaaaaaazing. I expected a lot and I wasn't disappointed. I don't even have anything to say, just that it was great and that I would love to see it again. Way better than Batman Begins and definitely better than the old ones, I love the realism they went for. ( spoilers? )
By the way, I think I saw lots of DK parody on the web but I never watched it because I didn't want to be spoiled, would any of you wonderful people had some links where I could see the best of them?

2. Baaaaaaaaaad news now: Fox has announced a bid to block the release of Warner Bros.' anticipated adaptation of Watchmen. This info ruined my day. Seriously, what kind of studio waits for a film to be almost finished and for trailers to be shown to the public to announce that they're gonna block it for some weird story of money and rights? This is disgusting. I'm pretty sure they can't block out the film completely but still, major suckage.

3. I finished my Buffy marathon a while ago, watching every episode, listening to every commentary and it was great and then I missed my daily Whedon dose. So yesterday I started watching Firefly with the 2 hour pilot. I meant to watch it like foreeeeeeever, I think I had the first episode (not the pilot) in my harddrive and I even maybe watched it but I didn't have any subtitles so I guess I didn't understand much and deleted it. But watching the pilot was a great idea because it's awesome and I can't wait to watch the rest, Nathan Fillion is hot (DUH) and I'm loving the Space Western vibe.

Man, that was a too-geeky-for-your-own-good entry, wasn't it?