As he has before, Edgar Chaput has inspired me with one of his pieces, this one – part of Sos’s recent Bond Fest — concerning the loopy 1967 Casino Royale. As I commented on Edgar’s piece, I didn’t disagree that Royale was a royal mess after having passed through the hands of one director after another (and one screenwriter after another as well). Mess though it was, however, I found it – as I wrote – a “fascinating mess.” Maybe that’s just a holdover from seeing it as a 12-year-old when so much about the movie seemed so dizzyingly novel at the time: it’s casual sexuality, bawdy humor, wink-to-the-audience jokes, hallucinogenic visuals, Burt Bacharach’s poptastic score. In a way, the fact that the movie didn’t make much sense and caromed from one directorial style to another only added to the sensory overload it unloaded on a pre-adolescent.
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- 11/24/2012
- by Bill Mesce
- SoundOnSight
Newcastle United lined up for their first pre-season friendly of the summer this evening in their brand new black and white Puma home kit in front of a small but spirited crowd in the Stadion an der Gellertstraße, Chemnitz, Germany, and were beaten by the home side, after a ninth minute goal from Anton Fink.
6,700 fans turned out to see the home side, who have already played three pre-season games, rebuff a host of Newcastle chances, thanks to outstanding goalkeeper Philipp Pentke who saved from Dan Gosling, Haris Vuckic and Shola Ameobi.
As is the nature of these games, Alan Pardew took the game as an opportunity to give some new and fringe players a run out, with every single one of the named substitutes playing some part apart from veteran goalkeeper Steve Harper, and in truth Newcastle fans shouldn’t look at the result as indicative of anything.
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6,700 fans turned out to see the home side, who have already played three pre-season games, rebuff a host of Newcastle chances, thanks to outstanding goalkeeper Philipp Pentke who saved from Dan Gosling, Haris Vuckic and Shola Ameobi.
As is the nature of these games, Alan Pardew took the game as an opportunity to give some new and fringe players a run out, with every single one of the named substitutes playing some part apart from veteran goalkeeper Steve Harper, and in truth Newcastle fans shouldn’t look at the result as indicative of anything.
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- 7/13/2012
- by Simon Gallagher
- Obsessed with Film
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