BruceH

Have you seen The Red Circle? Also essential Melville, also out on Criterion. I saw it on the big screen when it was re-released a few years ago. I also own the Criterion. Time to watch it again! Indeed! Actually, seeing the restored Red Circle on the big screen when it was re-released a few years ago was what inspired me to go on a bit of a Melville binge and see La Samouri, Un Flic, and several others. He remains one of my favorite "second tier" directors.

But then, if I truly were restricting myself to ones I don't already have, I could only get the Hill and Morgan, so go figure...

Which five? Well, all but the Turrentine, which I think I may already have on a Mosaic.

Have you seen The Red Circle? Also essential Melville, also out on Criterion.

I paid a fortune for the previous Japanese CD edition of this one, just a few weeks ago!!!! If I had had enough patience.... The story of my life.

I like the March 24th lineup. Hodges, Hackett, Basie, Berigan... Yum.

Sue you??? I want to shake yer hand, buddy!

....Watson and Crick? Ok, forget that. To get back to the Feb. RVG's, looks like I'll probably get five of 'em.

Bing and Hope? Cramden and Norton? The Burrs? (I'm not making sense anymore?)

I saw this in a bookstore the other day. Holy freakin' crap that is one enormous book!! Nice photos though.

No, thanks.

Geez, with a title like that I would have expected it to be a thoughtful and scrupulously accurate book. I picture a bunch of nursing home denizens zealously rushing through a tangle of video-tapes just to get in under the wire! For what it's worth, Ride Lonesome has the perhaps the best and most satisfying closing shot of any film I've ever seen. Same here, but you knew that already. I wasn't exactly expecting deathless prose, to say the least, but when you spot half a dozen inaccuracies in just a few minutes you realize it's a "bathroom book" in more than one sense.

Shorty Rogers turns up in one as well. Yeah, I just saw that! Gunn's girlfriend introduced him and he said, "Hi ya, Shorty!" Got to hear quite a bit of Shorty soloing too.

1001 Films You Must See Before You Die Catchy title; got this out of the library. The capsule reviews are very hit and miss, often riddled with inaccuracies, and more often than not just plain lame. Oh well. Decent review of Ride Lonesome though.

Well, the Peter Gunn is interesting to watch, but like seemingly all "action" shows of that era, seems to move very slow. There was one scene in the first show where I caught a glimpse of Shelley Manne and His Men playing in Mother's nightclub. A real jazz band in a TV show...wow. There's something you don't see nowadays.

Indeed. Perhaps THE great combo. Better than Oliver and Armstrong? Bird and Diz? Monk and Trane? Holmes and Watson? Laurel and Hardy? Martin and Lewis? (Well, yeah, better than them.) One of the great combos in any case. Jeeves and Wooster?

BTW, just got a Peter Gunn DVD from the library, will check it out tonight or tomorrow.

You mean you like High and Low more than The Seven Samurai? Seven Samurai's great, but on the whole I do like the modern-dress flicks better. I loved High and Low since I first saw it on the big screen in a sparkling, new-minted print. Never seen The Seven Samurai with a better than ok print, and then there's the issue of bathroom breaks... I love Ikiru, it's one of my top favorite Kurosawa films, but I must admit that the other favorites are all historical (which is to say, Samorai). But hey, to each his own.

Indeed. Perhaps THE great combo.

Wet, wet, wet. I wish we could give some of our rain to the parts of the midwest that are suffering drought and fires right now.

One of my favorite Teddy Edwards albums. Great choice! I'll be spinning this tonight.

I have the un-Enrighted Kilmartin revision of Moncrieff, though would pick up the Enrighted version if I was buying it today, as that seems to be the best available translation according to my research. I do the same thing with poetry as you do, ejp626. It has occurred to me that the same approach might be beneficial when reading novels, as well: different "angles" on the book, so to speak. I read the Constance Garnett Crime and Punishment years ago, but I'll read the recent Pevear & Volokhonsky translation next time around. I read the Ciardi translation as my first Dante as well. It seems to be out of favor at the moment. When my book group read the Pinsky translation of The Inferno, I re-read the Ciardi alongside it (whatever you think of the translation, the Ciardi has great footnotes). Which new translation of Dante are you referring to? Seemingly every time I go into a bookstore, I see yet another new translation of Dante. You could say Dante is going through translation Hell. Don't get me started on these "corrected" editions, such as Ulysses. I think the edition that was proofed by Joyce himself should be good enough for anyone.

I've been hoping to read that Durrell series for quite awhile. Re: Proust, beware the new translation of WITHIN A BUDDING GROVE (retitled IN THE SHADE OF FLOWERS OF YOUNG GIRLS, or something like that). It's crap. Lydia Davis' new translation of SWANN'S WAY, otoh, is pretty good. I've read it and the entire Kilmartin translation, but folks on the Proust List seem to generally give the most thumbs-up to D.J. Enright's revision of Kilmartin (published by the new Modern Library). But....what about the revision of the revision of the revision of D.J. Enright's revision of Kilmartin? Man, I'm looking forward to that.

THREE hours????? What in the heck did Jackson fill all that extra time with? Long takes? Unnecessary dialog? Product placement? What?