Martin Freeman (75/366)
Boy Meets Girl (2009)
TV miniseries
Dirección
Alrick Riley
Writer
David Allison
Danny Reed, a lonely DIY store employee obsessed with conspiracy theories, finds himself trapped inside the body of Veronica Burton, an affluent female fashion journalist. Rachael Stirling is the real star of this series.
*I have been very sick. Little by little recovering.
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Past and future sci-fi royalty: Veronica Cartwright after Lost in Space and Brent Spiner before Star Trek: The Next Generation, in Robert Kennedy and His Times (1985)
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I have no plans to see Oppenheimer. Here's why:
To begin with, the last film directed by Christopher Nolan that I saw was Dunkirk, and I enjoyed that in spite of two important things: the sound design, which was realistically noisy but got in the way of, y'know, intelligible dialogue; and Hans Zimmer's derivative, repetitive score (seriously it was just the chord progression from the "Nimrod" section of Elgar's Enigma Variations, over and over and over again. And both won Oscars! What the actual fuck?)
More to the point, though: this is not exactly an undertold story — quite the opposite, in fact. It has already had (at least) two dramatizations that can be described as essential. Here's some information about one of them.
This was a major departure for Masterpiece Theatre at that time. Sadly, it doesn't seem to be available for streaming anywhere.
The other one can be streamed at the link below, although it may be blocked outside the U.S.
It's a definitive performance of this work, which is by John Adams and Peter Sellars; through July 28th only, it can also be streamed free of charge and, as far as I know, from anywhere in the world, here:
And finally, here are some things that you really ought to know about the subject matter, and which I gather are more-or-less completely ignored in the film:
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Kafka (2024) es una miniserie austriaca que aborda la vida del escritor Franz Kafka, la tensa relación con su padre, sus parejas y la amistad con Max Brod. La protagoniza Joel Basman como Kafka y participa la gran Liv Lisa Fries (Berlin Babylon) como Milena Jesenská. "Esta es la mejor dramatización de la vida del gran Kafka que es posible imaginar", escribió Salman Rushdie de la serie. Por ahora, 'Kafka', de seis episodios, solo se ha emitido en el canal austriaco ORF 1 y se ignora que plataforma de streaming tiene los derechos en España y Latinoamérica.
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So I watched the TV miniseries Jewels (1992) and I wasn't mad at it. I also ended up reading the novel because I was kind of digging the story...
This moment had me in a chokehold though, both in the movie and in the book.
Posting gifs of my favorite moments from ep.1
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Does anyone else remember the Alice in Wonderland mini-series made in 1985? I was reminded of it today by the poem "Father William". I'm pretty sure it was my first exposure to the story. It still feels the most iconic.
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Martin Freeman (70/366)
Angelyne (2022)
TV miniseries
Dirección
Matt Spicer
Lucy Tcherniak
Created
Allison Miller
Nancy Oliver
Writer
Gary Baum
Allison Miller
Nancy Oliver
Nora Mariana Salim
Brendan Kelly
Andy Siara
Cara DiPaolo
An unauthorized limited series based on the Hollywood Reporter’s investigative article about Angelyne, L.A.’s mysterious billboard icon.
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