Happy Samhain

[chani]

I can't stop listening to that album of Queen Of The Stone Age (Lullabies To Paralyse that is), especially those 2 tracks that are just terrific! Burn the Witch is also very catchy, and Long Slow Goodbye makes my toes curl... I couldn't more recommend that CD to everybody who really loves Rock n' Roll. I found that Josh Homme oozed sensuality on stage when I saw him in August at Rock en Seine Festival, but the sensuality is still there on the CD...it's just the way he sings.

Speaking of music, I bought Franz Ferdinand's new album finally....and another CD (Anaïs, a French singer), and 3 books (one is a Colombian novel, the two others are thrillers/crime novels, one is Swedish, the other French) and a bunch of DVDs, among them a Gregory Peck box of DVDs (3 films inside). Don't ask me how much I spent in 1 hour! 

Oh and...I saw Polanski's Oliver Twist!

I don't have much to say actually. It isn't the best Polanski nor a film I will remember. It's well done, but it didn't impress me much. It was very OliverTwistesque actually.

Ben Kingsley was certainly an interesting Fagin, quite ambiguous almost likeable, and the bizarre/unhealthy(kinky even) relationship between the kids, especially Oliver, and Fagin is probably the most intriguing bit on screen. But is it enough to make a good movie? Oliver himself was rather annoying, never touching, but he enlightened the other characters around. Nancy could have been more fleshed out though. But of course it wasn't her story to tell.

I loved the "Fierce Dog" and the poster made me laugh. I noticed that Polanski almost made the same shot as in Frantic on the roof when Bill tries to escape with Oliver.

Fortunately there were subtitles, because the slang and the accents made the lines hard to get for my French ears.

I think that Roman Polanski mostly pampered himself with that film.

Comments

[candlelightfrot.livejournal.com]

That's the reviews a lot of people have been giving it in the US. Most reviews asked, 'why did Polanski even make this film? Like we needed another Oliver Twist!'

On the other hand I just figured that he probably got caught up reading the Nifty Archive (http://www.nifty.org/).

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

Huh?

Chani

[candlelightfrot.livejournal.com]

Yeah... queer logic, hard to grasp, isn't it. ;~P

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmm...if you say so.

Didn't Polanski like little girls btw?

Chani

[candlelightfrot.livejournal.com]

Yeah.... he did, I was just being a generalist when pointed out Nifty as the last story I read there - Middle-class Slave Revisited (as good as the original) - had a bit about younger boys being enslaved (an alternate US with slavery legal) for 5 years as indentured servants by their parents and, yes, it explored their sexuality to a small degree. Though after the age of 16 except for the one boy who knew he was gay, then at 15 he was topping another 35 year old slave, who eventually fell in love with him, but ultimately lost him when the boy's indenture ran its course -- but I digress.

I don't know of a place to look for little girls, they were never in my sights even as a little boy. Though I guess he could look on the lesbian side of Nifty, but I never have.

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

Naughty boy...

[candlelightfrot.livejournal.com]

It helps me with my ... attitude. In other words it gets me in the right frame of mind to even think about allowing myself some pleasure.

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

Good then...keep going!

I had a nice dinner with my friend PH and I'm going to bed now.

Bye trésor.

[candlelightfrot.livejournal.com]

Bonne nuit, ma maîtresse... sweet dreams.