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Read and memorise every synopsis of the greatest films made from 1920 to 2026. You will seem cultured - even if you haven't seen them -and also be able to tie the conversation together easily.

For example - at dinner parties when noveau-posh Muireann and Shane are talking about their daughter taking up the clarinet in school you can say;

"Woody Allen directed Annie Hall in 1977 - a film which famously contains very little background music. Allen himself is a clarinet player but I wouldn't ask him to give your daughter lessons. Unless you want Woody Allen as a son-in-law. Am I right, Muireann? Heyo!"

A Tribe Called Quest - "The Low End Theory"
David Bowie - "Station To Station"
David Bowie- "Stage"

Coil - The Ape of Naples
Coil - Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 1

Coil are a band that I swing from thinking are phenomenal to fairly boring and back again over the arc of their career.

"Horse Rotorvator" was lodged in my brain for weeks after I heard it. Much like Joy Division's "Closer".

Oddly enough - the same fella who gave me a tape of "Unknown Pleasures" and "Closer" also gave me "Horse Rotorvator" and "How To Destroy Angels".

TTS aren't kicking off til 11pm now?

 

"Batman" - 1989. 

There's a Tim Burton season on in The Triskel at the minute.

I've seen this countless times - it was the second film that I saw in a cinema...

Deadly!
It was my first trip to the cinema to see this. Screen 1 in the old Capital on Grand Parade. Such a shame that's gone.
I even bought the mug at the merch stand aftereards.

How long is the season running for in the Triskel?

There are two films left "Edward Scissorhands" and "Batman Returns".

They've got a 30th anniversary of "Trainspotting" at the end of the month too.

Speaking of anniversary screenings, I urge all of you to go see "the Devils"once its re-released in October. Absolutely top tier film.

The Triskel is showing this in November, I believe. Shuld be some craic seeing "The Devils" in a church.

Deadly.

Fucking maddening. I'm glad that I flicked on to here yesterday. I didn't have a ticket - I didn't see any notes that it was sold out and I don't use Facebook/Twitter etc. but a few of us were going to have a couple of cheeky Sunday pints in The Mutton and then head in.

I would have assumed that Eventbrite would hold the funds until the gig took place, no? How can you have a "No Refunds" policy for a gig that doesn't happen?

although having French subtitles on screen is always a slight minus of any Anglophone cinema experience here

I went to a screening of "Nosferatu" - the Robert Eggers version - while I was in France a while back. It was VO-SF so the French subtitles on-screen too, for some reason I found my eyes drifting down to the subtitles even though the film was in English (mainly) and I speak barely passable French.

Worse that that though was when I went to a screening of John Woo's "The Killer" in Paris one pissing rain afternoon, the lady at the desk told me, in English, that it was subtitled.

I replied, in French, with a very smart "Oui, je comprends! Ce n'est pas un probleme!" because I assumed the subtitles would be in English.

She smiled and said "Ooh! Tu parles Chinois?" which I didn't fully cop but see was smiling at me so I gave it the oul Del Boy "Oui oui! Mange tout dans combien de temps a la mode!" and strutted into the auditorium.

Then, because I'm a thick cunt, had to sit through a 2-hour Chinese film with French subtitles.

Hayden Panettiere, 36. Noise already of unpleasant circumstances, but I don't know if that means suicide or foul play.

I read the report of her death in the paper this morning. I didn't know much about her. I watched a bit of the first season of "Heroes" back in the day but it wasn't my thing.

Her personal life sounded fairly grim from how The Guardian covered it.

Speaking of battering Nazis, wee lad's first watch of Raiders last night, having left him mull over The Sound of Music and The Ten Commandments for a few months. Loved it of course  Still a 10/10 masterclass in film making.

Not sure where you live but there's a few 45th Anniversary screenings of "Raiders OF The Lost Ark" in the (appropriately named) Arc cinema in Cork starting from around 11th September.

I'm sure that  the 4K run is not confined to just Cork.

"Batman" - 1989. 

There's a Tim Burton season on in The Triskel at the minute.

I've seen this countless times - it was the second film that I saw in a cinema - but I hadn't seen it on a big screen since then. There are some fairly cheesy bits in there and a 4K remaster hasn't been kind to some of the make-up/VFX but it's still brilliant.

Some people complain - especially after Nolan started making his trilogy - that Nicholson is hammy and just mugs his way through the film. I disagree, he's playing it like he does the more manic part of RP McMurphy, the coming unhinged side of Jack Torrance and the sleaze of Daryl Van Horne.

Keaton is class as Bruce Wayne/Batman. I love the scene where he goes into Nicholson territory when they confront each other in Vicky Vale's apartment - "Yow wanna get nuts? Let's get NUTS!" 

[Hiroshi Suzuki - "Cat"]

Hiroshi Suzuki - "Cat"

LITE - "Cubic"

Death Cab For Cutie - "Asphalt Meadows"

Pretty sure that's in Freebird in Dublin currently. Check the website

Nice one for the heads up. Had a look, it's listed on their site but marked as sold out.

In case ya were still on the lookout for it
https://sentinelrecords.com/product/sleep-sleeps-holy-mountain-lp/

Sound - thanks. I'll get on that.

There was some form of vinyl copy of Holy Mountain in there at lunchtime today anyway. Dunno if it's the version you;re after but it's definitely there.

Sound. I'll get onto them.

Yes. It's excellent to my ears anyway, felt like I was hearing it to the first time again when I played it, and I actually remember checking the sleeve thinking it has to be a remaster (didn't notice the Full Dynamic Range thing when I was buying it).

Class. Nice one.


I can't bring myself to listen to the new track.

Is the album artwork A.I. generated?

 

Pretty sure that's in Freebird in Dublin currently. Check the website

Nice one for the heads up. Had a look, it's listed on their site but marked as sold out.