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3月, 2007:

Daily Quote: Jane Austen on marriage

Kathryn Hughes explains Jane Austen’s philosophy is more about pragmatism than romance.

Everyone in Austen’s world comes with a price tag that announces, in terms as clear as a livestock auction, just how much money is on offer and how much is expected in return. Thus a stonking great income of £5,000 a year is quite enough to wipe out body odour and the fact that no one in three counties can stand your screechy laugh. But with only a paltry £100 a year, you’d better have the kind of cleavage Andrew Davies dreams about.


Never mind the cleavage

Andrew Davies: writer of Sense and Sensibility (2007 TV series), Bridget Jones 2, Bridget Jones’s Diary

Koya Moments / 爱丁堡 time-lapse 录像

一个爱丁堡的摄影师/电脑教师 Ewen Meldrum 制作的爱丁堡的 time-lapse 录像: Koya Moment / Edinburgh time-lapse video 。据BBC报道说是花了一年的时间,多半的时间是在等待、祈祷、失望之中度过。以爱丁堡的天气,在山上等待几个钟头--这种艰难,在爱丁堡呆过的人相信不难理解。

这部 6 分多种的录像,在我看来,就象是写给爱丁堡的情书。

爱丁堡本身很美,这段录像是把美丽浓缩了。其实我也曾有过这样的想法--当看到头顶飞过的白云(有时候是黑云),Arthur’s Seat 山边的彩虹,夏季的深夜北边天际永远的一抹橘红,总让人产生把美丽记录下来的冲动。几年前我还有想法去挪威北部的北极圈内拍摄midnight sun 的time-lapse。但能完成这种计划的,非得是 Ewen Meldrum 这种异常执着的人了。

录像中不少爱丁堡城市的远景,应该城市南部的 Blackford Hill 拍摄的。

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再看《小城之春》

昨晚去 Filmhouse 看了《小城之春》。虽然不至于象“张曼玉讲座”、《神女》那样开映前还有人排队等退票,但Filmhouse 的大厅还是坐满了人,中国观众并不占多数。还是要再次称赞一下爱丁堡观众的水平。

小城之春 (1948)

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【旧文重拾】Heimat 三部曲

以下是我当时在BBC FOUR看 Heimat 时记录下来的感想,当时都发在英华论坛上。BBC FOUR 当时为播放 Heimat 3,在短短的时间内,先放 Heimat,然后 The Second Heimat,最后 Heimat 3,对喜欢 Heimat 三部曲的人来说,非常过瘾。 不过当时我对它还没有什么认识。Heimat 是零零星星地看了大概一共一集半的样子。The Second Heimat 开头也漏了,然后慢慢开始越看越多,越看越喜欢,然后正式成为 Heimat 迷。Heimat 3 就一集没漏了。现在把所有文字合在一起。

27 Aug 2005, 13:46
长,非常长。现在BBC4 播的第二部 Heimat (Die Zweite Heimat)每集动则2个小时,昨晚的第10集长达2小时12分钟。节奏慢,人物多,又说德语,很难看下去。第一部 Heimat 播放时,真的很难坚持看,也因此看漏了不少。

Heimat 号称是 People’s history of Germany,现代德国的史诗,Edgar Reitz自编自导。第一部 Heimat (A German Chronicle) 1984年播出,11集,全长16小时;第二部 Heimat (The Second Heimat: Chronicle of a Generation) 1994年播出13集,全长 26小时。第三部 Heimat (A Chronicle of The Endings and Beginnings) 2004 年播出,6集全长约700分钟。

Heimat

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BBC Four Drama: Reichenbach Falls 《莱辛巴赫瀑布》

Reichenback Falls (《莱辛巴赫瀑布》) 是 BBC FOUR 为庆祝频道开播5周年而制作的单本电视剧,长度很奇怪,75分钟。看了这部片子,让我对犯罪小说作家 Ian Rankin 有了兴趣。

Reichenbach Falls

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BBC 宣布与 YouTube 合作

BBC今天公布与YouTube合作计划,将在YouTube为BBC开三个频道:

From the BBC: Clips of new shows and specially commissioned promotional content linked to popular series such as Doctor Who and Life On Mars. At launch, the YouTube community will be able to enjoy a range of specially- created video diaries including David Tennant and Freema Agyeman, who’ll take viewers around the set of Doctor Who; John Simm going back in time for Life On Mars; and Clive Myrie on the streets of the red zone of Baghdad.

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Daily Quote: Michael White on 2020 Vision website

Guardian’s Michael White explains Charles Clarke and Alan Milburn’s 2020 Vision website is about to those uninitiated:

Does yesterday’s call by Charles Clarke and Alan Milburn for a wholesome debate on Labour’s future policy direction mean what it says on the website tin. Or is it really a surrogate leadership campaign, one in which Corporal David Miliband is pushed up out of the Flanders trench by a couple of grizzled old sergeants who want someone else to test the machine guns?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2023852,00.html

Blair: The Inside Story part 2

Blair: The Inside Story part 2

纪录片的第二部份,记录布莱尔如何从宣称“在我们这一代,也许可以实现不用再把我们的士兵送上战场的理想了。” 到一个发起战争最多的英国首相的过程。制作人 Michael Cockerel 的出色之处,在于发掘布莱尔的动机,又能做到平衡中肯。当然除了布莱尔,没有人知道他的真实心路历程,但这是我看到的最有信服力的解释了。

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