Yesterday I joined a running group.
This came after years of relative inaction as a twenty something year old. Everyone was very friendly and welcoming so the next step is to buy some kit and pay member ship fees. A bargain at 20 quid.
Unfortunately there has been very little activity on the cultural and technological front recently so I haven't added much .
I did pop to the flicks to see tinker tailor soldier spy. What I saw was very good but I can't help thinking that it suffered a little over editing with the result of me not entirely following what was happening. I then saw an advert for the BBC TV DVD. This explains everything because at around 11 hours of content the TV version would surely explain more then the film did. And they may also be preparing the audience for a sequel which is a really insipid trait of film makers to take. I like complete films, not films that only tell half the story. And a lot of sequels really aren't necessary are made. Take Matrix for instance, a film that thoroughly doesn't warrant the sequels. Getting back to tinker tailor etc notable points are that John Le Carre himself was a producer and even cameo'd in the party scene. Of which there are many. He could even have been the mystery character in the Santa Claus outfit. I may have missed some of the fine detail in these party scenes because for a cold war era some of the references to communism and Russia are spread liberally around the site.
In conclusion tinker tailor will probably be an excellent triple DVD once the sequels have been released on the public but I feel a little cheated, like there was a whole lot of story that I haven't been told or let in on. Nonetheless the look of the film is gorgeous in early 80s recreational splendor. It felt exactly like the way things looked at that time which is roughly the time I was born so it was almost like seeing the world before I even came to exist and very solid and tangible for it. It even felt similar to another film that's recently been set at that time Spielberg's Super 8. I want all the films I see from now to at least be set in that time I prefer it to full day glow colour photography circa 1985.
future coming events (at the Quad) are:
8th Oct The Big Draw.
15th Oct. Life drawing and print making combined session
27th Oct Free hand drawing competition. Draw a perfect circle if you can!
29th Oct Dr Sketchy.
There you go, that's me updating the Derby universe for now.
This came after years of relative inaction as a twenty something year old. Everyone was very friendly and welcoming so the next step is to buy some kit and pay member ship fees. A bargain at 20 quid.
Unfortunately there has been very little activity on the cultural and technological front recently so I haven't added much .
I did pop to the flicks to see tinker tailor soldier spy. What I saw was very good but I can't help thinking that it suffered a little over editing with the result of me not entirely following what was happening. I then saw an advert for the BBC TV DVD. This explains everything because at around 11 hours of content the TV version would surely explain more then the film did. And they may also be preparing the audience for a sequel which is a really insipid trait of film makers to take. I like complete films, not films that only tell half the story. And a lot of sequels really aren't necessary are made. Take Matrix for instance, a film that thoroughly doesn't warrant the sequels. Getting back to tinker tailor etc notable points are that John Le Carre himself was a producer and even cameo'd in the party scene. Of which there are many. He could even have been the mystery character in the Santa Claus outfit. I may have missed some of the fine detail in these party scenes because for a cold war era some of the references to communism and Russia are spread liberally around the site.
In conclusion tinker tailor will probably be an excellent triple DVD once the sequels have been released on the public but I feel a little cheated, like there was a whole lot of story that I haven't been told or let in on. Nonetheless the look of the film is gorgeous in early 80s recreational splendor. It felt exactly like the way things looked at that time which is roughly the time I was born so it was almost like seeing the world before I even came to exist and very solid and tangible for it. It even felt similar to another film that's recently been set at that time Spielberg's Super 8. I want all the films I see from now to at least be set in that time I prefer it to full day glow colour photography circa 1985.
future coming events (at the Quad) are:
8th Oct The Big Draw.
15th Oct. Life drawing and print making combined session
27th Oct Free hand drawing competition. Draw a perfect circle if you can!
29th Oct Dr Sketchy.
There you go, that's me updating the Derby universe for now.
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