Films Watched March

[bugshaw]

Films watched: 20 (total 55). 12 cinema, 1 stream, 3 BluRay/DVD, 4 tv, 0 LoveFilm.
Waitress
Ivan's Childhood
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Hail, Caesar
Watersprite Award winners (shorts)
The Mirror
Andrei Rublev
Taxi Driver
High-Rise
Zodiac (rewatch)
Zootropolis
Nostalgia
10 Cloverfield Lane
Marguerite
High-Rise (rewatch)
Pacific Rim (rewatch on friend's New Large Telly, vg)
The Adjustment Bureau
Time Bandits
War Horse
Bad Teacher

Gigs etc (8-11)
Alice in Wonderland (exhibition, British Library)
Of Montreal (gig, London)
Akhnaten (opera, London)
Bo Ningen (gig, London)

I think I filled March with interesting things to take my mind off work! Akhnaten was amazing, stunningly staged, I was gripped throughout even though it was nearly 3 hours of hypnotic music and slow slow movements.

My film watching was driven by Bums on Seats radio show and a Tarkovsky season - I'd only seen Solaris, and the Picturehouse were showing all seven films, one per day. They're repeating them in batches to mid April and I hope to complete the set. I need to not pick my favourite seat though, it's far too comfortable, and in the snug cinema I found it hard to keep awake, which was a massive waste of the experience. I watched High-Rise, Marguerite, 10 Cloverfield Lane and Zootropolis for the radio - High-Rise twice as I wanted to catch more of how the edit and sound worked. The kaleidoscope motif used in the posters appears in the editing too; the jumble through of close living. Marguerite was just lovely, but with an interesting darker undercurrent of deception running through the whole piece, not just people kindly mis-praising her singing. I enjoyed watching the elements of that unfold and entangle. Hail, Caesar was good fun. No, I had never seen Taxi Driver or Time Bandits before March.

Comments

[coth.livejournal.com]

We saw the original production of Akhenaten in 1986, and it was wonderful then too, though we won't get to it this time.

Brazil is on Film 4 late tonight, btw.

[davidwake.livejournal.com]

Films watched in April.

The Harvest.
The Altar.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

*Like*

Were you hoping once upon a time that I would have Adobe Premiere Pro skills? And do you know anything about monthly app pricing? I fear I am about to jump through a very expensive hoop into the Creative Cloud. I'm committed to doing a sound editing project this week, got trained up in Audition, project files are Adobe, expected to buy it for a month to begin with, and maybe bolt on a bit of Photoshop etc here and there as needed - but when I click through it's all "monthly payment for annual commitment".
Frustratingly, when m'friend R goes to http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/audition.html and clicks the blue "Choose a plan" bar, he gets the option to pay (a bit more) month to month. I don't get that option.
So if I end up getting an one-year sub for all apps I will have plenty of Premiere Pro to play about with :-/

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

I should have used a more murderous face icon for that comment.

[davidwake.livejournal.com]

I use Adobe Premiere Elements 10 (also had Photoshop), which is paid for and might be a better choice for you. It seemed the best option for me. I'd have preferred Adobe Premiere 6.0, but that's 32 bit and didn't work on my new machine. Elements is very... social media savvy in a bad way. They have the 'export' option, but greyed out, because these days we don't export our files, noooo, we 'share' them now. Wasted a lot of time finding that option. It does everything I need and more, and works the same once I discovered I can press the Ctrl key when shifting and altering clips on the timeline. Why does new software suffer from designer syndrome?

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

I still have Taxi Driver on my to watch list.