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John W
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« Reply #15 on: 15:21:26, 28-06-2008 »
Quote from: Philidor on 14:45:58, 28-06-2008
I do think classical music should be for everyone. It’s something of a cracked record of mine so if I say it too often please take the p*ss and tell me to stow it.


Not much chance of that happeneing here Philidor, really, not much chance


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« Reply #16 on: 15:45:38, 28-06-2008 »
Welcome indeed Philidor! I assume you're also in favor of chess in the schools...



never understood the point of ...d6 -- does Black not want to commit the Queen's Knight too early?
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« Reply #17 on: 16:40:05, 28-06-2008 »
Quote from: Turfan Fragment on 15:45:38, 28-06-2008
Welcome indeed Philidor! I assume you're also in favor of chess in the schools...

LOL I'm a poor chess player, but admire the Danican-Philidor family. There was a hell of a lot of them, mostly composers. One co-invented the oboe with Hotteterre (Michel) another was a chess champion (François-André) another a fantastic flute composer (Pierre) but there's no portrait of him so I had to use François-André, plus Anne who founded the Concert Spirituel and was that rare flower - a female baroque composer. It turns out they were SCOTS - Danican being a Frenchification of 'Duncan.' If memory serves, François-André not only had a chess move named after him - shown above? - but appears in 'A Matter of Life and Death' - one of my favourite films. So, all in all, they're good eggs.







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« Reply #18 on: 12:11:14, 29-06-2008 »
Philidor,

From your biog, I guess you may just like this thread.....

http://r3ok.myforum365.com/index.php?topic=373.0

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« Reply #19 on: 12:36:15, 29-06-2008 »
LOLOLOLOL Great minds......



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« Reply #20 on: 15:31:18, 29-06-2008 »
Philidor,

I expect you are doing some searching around this site for interesting old threads. There is a search field at the top of the page but the best search results are obtained if you click the little magnifying glass to its left and there you can specify thread titles or individual messages when searching.

Happy hunting!


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Thank you for the music ...


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« Reply #21 on: 17:18:03, 29-06-2008 »
You certainly are very welcome here Phil. Do I remember a chess connection? Would love to stop and chat more, but a shoulder injury is interfering.  Cry (It would have to be a shoulder injury to shut the moggie up!)
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« Reply #22 on: 17:41:28, 29-06-2008 »
Welcome Philidor. Very good to have you here.
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« Reply #23 on: 18:42:09, 29-06-2008 »
Quote from: Philidor on 12:36:15, 29-06-2008
LOLOLOLOL Great minds......



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Oh I think this is the one that really does the trick:
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« Reply #24 on: 18:47:00, 29-06-2008 »
Quote from: Philidor on 16:40:05, 28-06-2008
'A Matter of Life and Death' - one of my favourite films.




Also one of my favourite films, Philidor. You'll probably discover very soon that there are more Powell & Pressburger enthusiasts to be found on this message board. Wink
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« Reply #25 on: 09:51:48, 30-06-2008 »
Quote from: John W on 15:31:18, 29-06-2008
I expect you are doing some searching around this site for interesting old threads. There is a search field at the top of the page but the best search results are obtained if you click the little magnifying glass to its left and there you can specify thread titles or individual messages when searching.

Thanks.  Cool There's so much here it would take a week to read. I'll dig into it gradually. The myforum365 software's impressive. I help run a proboards site and it's clunky compared to this. Their servers exploded (literally) the other day and a million boards went down. LOL

Quote from: pim_derks on 18:47:00, 29-06-2008
Also one of my favourite films, Philidor. You'll probably discover very soon that there are more Powell & Pressburger enthusiasts to be found on this message board. Wink

I was reading up about Colonel Blimp recently (another fave) and discovered there was a tremendous brouhaha in 1942 when they started making it. Apparently in 1942 there was real popular anger in Britain against the army and their stream of battlefield losses. Ordinary troops were loved, but the leadership was seen as incompetent: stuffed with officers only there because they went to the right school, and were now getting ordinary soldiers killed. The memory of WW1 was strong, when idiot Public School officers had ordered men to "Walk, not run!" into German machine gun fire. So Churchill was nervous about what could be interpreted as an anti-officer film. Even more interestingly, he failed - a war leader with exceptional powers - and the film emerged in 1943, just as the tide was turning. It makes yers proud to be British! Livesey is fantastic. Such an English* face. He could play an upper class officer or a ploughman playing cricket on a village green.



Thanks for the other welcomes - much appreciated.



* He was Welsh.  Grin
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« Reply #26 on: 20:02:02, 30-06-2008 »
Great film indeed, Philidor. I admire Deborah Kerr so much for the three roles she played in this story. Churchill didn't aprove of the film at all and because of that the crew didn't have access to any military personnel or equipment. I'm amazed by the wonderful details in this film. The English speaking German nurse in Berlin for instance. She describes the knife cut on Candy's face as being almost ten centimeters in length. In any other English film this German (!) nurse would have used the word inches instead of centimeters. Allan Gray's score is also full of beautiful details: just listen how the romantic melodies from the Boer War segments return as dance band tunes in the scenes from the Second World War. Another triumph is the make-up: in many epics from that era the ageing faces of the characters are hardly convincing, but in Blimp the results are marvelous. In the early 1990s the Americans were amazed by Forrest Gump: I remember very well the hype around that film, but I can't call it a masterpiece. No, the best "biopic" based on a fictional character is simply Powell & Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, released in 1943!
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