chani | Happy Samhain (Reply)

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.