h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

[Amy P]

Today's film tip, just for Solnushka: A87862981 - The Twelve Chairs.

Check out the Russian Dancing Men.

[Amy P]

Today's film tip: A87862990 - Sherlock!

How many ways are there to play this famous character? You might see some favourites, and some you didn't know about.

[Amy P]

Today's film tip: A87863043 - Bernie Sanders, Filmmaker and Performer

Yes, it's topical. Yes, it's political. And yes, he's unusual. I think you'll get a kick out of him.

And Brits: why didn't you vote for his brother?

[Amy P]

My sympathy with everyone over there in the face of terrorist attacks. I know it's scary, we've been there. Do what you have to, be safe, and carry on - don't let them change you. It's a cliche in this country to say that then 'they' win, but it's also true. May you be moved by the courage that inspired the Wipers Times.

http://torontopubliclibrary.typepad.com/arts_culture/2014/07/the-funny-business-of-war-the-trench-newspaper-the-wipers-times.html

'For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.' 2 Timothy 1:7.

Today's film tip: A87863089 - The Joy of Subtitles

I don't think God gifted me with a sound mind, I'm afraid.

Or maybe it was sound when I got it and I buggered it up myself.

A friend once described me as 'a half bubble off plumb' myself.

I think 'sound' is relative, in a mad world.

[Amy P]

A87863098 - Freebie Film Tip #15: What Art Can Do (Sunday in the Park)

We'll always have Paris, thanks to Georges Seurat.

This one sounds great, too! And not just because I like Mandy Patankin and love Bernadette Peters. Probably can't sneak it past Tom, though, unless he doesn't realize Sondheim = musical Sort of like how I got him to watch Fiddler on the Roof and The King and I, though he's wise to Rodgers and Hammerstein now ('tisn't exactly his favorite genre, though he loved Phantom of the Opera and les Miserables--then again, he saw both of them live (I didn't get to see Phantom, but I loved les Mis).

Whatever it takes. But this is a musical for people who don't necessarily like musicals, say I...

Today's Film Tip: A87863142 - Weltraumschiff 1 Startet

It's German. It's scientific. It's science fiction. And yes, there are Nazis in space...you'll like it, trust me.

Long before 'Iron Sky'...

[Amy P]

Today's Film Tip: A87863304 - What Shape Is Your Planet?

Flat, round, or disc? Anyway you look at it, you'll find something to watch here.

Re post 55:

Did you notice they said Kilimanjaro is in Deutsch Ostafrika, Dmitri?

My sister worked in Dar Es Salaam for some years where she learned this nice little ditty which ends with the lines:

"Ja, und die Neger in Ostafrika
Die schrien alle zugleich:
“Wir wollen deutsche Neger sein
Auch wir wollen heim ins Reich!"

http://cazoo.org/folksongs/EsSassenDieAltenGermanen.htm

That...that is awful on so many levels...

[Amy P]