@Moonie posted:Still, £30 is £30 isn’t it El?
@El Loro posted:Thanks
Helen Ostafew's "Endymion" is her choral adaptation of Longfellow's poem of that name. Here's a link to the lyrics of that:
https://www.helenostafew.com/endymion
@El Loro posted:@Rocking Ros Rose Helen Ostafew is part of the World Choir for Peace. A link to their Youtube list of videos:
https://www.youtube.com/channe...J_6pC05fIdb6A/videos
There's one which stands out, the John Rutter "A Ukrainian Prayer" which is unforgettably powerful
EL loved the Choral adaptation - beautiful words-
I have never been fond of singing pieces by Rutter but agree that Ukrainian prayer is Gorgeous and very powerful it reaches the soul- I also enjoyed Karl Jenkins - very simple but again a quietly powerful message thank you EL
night EL slim moonsieee velvet
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:EL loved the Choral adaptation - beautiful words-
I have never been fond of singing pieces by Rutter but agree that Ukrainian prayer is Gorgeous and very powerful it reaches the soul- I also enjoyed Karl Jenkins - very simple but again a quietly powerful message thank you EL
night EL slim moonsieeee velvet
@El Loro posted:Announced yesterday that the French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant had died at the age of 91. Even if you've never seen any French film, there is one film of his, made in 1966, which had one of the most famous pieces of film music ever:
wow EL didn't realise that music came from a French film -love it as well
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:wow EL didn't realise that music came from a French film -love it as well
That piece of music was performed by Nicole Croisille and Pierre Barouh. In the same year Francis Lai expanded the piece of music for Mireille Mathieu's first album and that would be the version generally heard
Nothing new on Talking Pictures tv channel over the coming week of note. The only film of note I haven't mentioned before is "I'm All Right, Jack" (1959) which is on Tuesday afternoon. Shown many many times over the years so unlikely not to have seen it before. Incidentally, it's a sequel to "Private's Progress" (1956) in the sense that both films had Ian Carmichael as Stanley Windrush and Terry-Thomas as Major Hitchcock.
@El Loro posted:Nothing new on Talking Pictures tv channel over the coming week of note. The only film of note I haven't mentioned before is "I'm All Right, Jack" (1959) which is on Tuesday afternoon. Shown many many times over the years so unlikely not to have seen it before. Incidentally, it's a sequel to "Private's Progress" (1956) in the sense that both films had Ian Carmichael as Stanley Windrush and Terry-Thomas as Major Hitchcock.
Peter Sellers causing mayhem again
Yes I've seen 'It's Alright Jack' before El 
'Private's Progress' sounds like a fun film, might give that one a watch if I can ...Thanks El
@slimfern posted:Peter Sellers causing mayhem again
Yes I've seen 'It's Alright Jack' before El
'Private's Progress' sounds like a fun film, might give that one a watch if I can ...Thanks El
Thanks
"Private's Progress" was the first of the four comedy films directed by John Boulting starring Ian Carmichael, The second was "Lucky Jim "(1957), third was "I'm All Right Jack". The last (and least) was "Heaven's Above!" (1963). That was the only one of the four I did not like (Eric Sykes very unlikeable role).
@El Loro posted:Thanks
"Private's Progress" was the first of the four comedy films directed by John Boulting starring Ian Carmichael, The second was "Lucky Jim "(1957), third was "I'm All Right Jack". The last (and least) was "Heaven's Above!" (1963). That was the only one of the four I did not like (Eric Sykes very unlikeable role).
John Boulting worked with his twin brother Roy on many of their films with one of them as director and the other as producer taking turns as to which role they would be credited for, John was credited as directed for the four films above though both of them were credited as director for "Heaven's Above!".
Those films were very different from two of their previous films - "Brighton Rock" 1948) and "Seven Days to Noon" (1950).
@El Loro posted:That piece of music was performed by Nicole Croisille and Pierre Barouh. In the same year Francis Lai expanded the piece of music for Mireille Mathieu's first album and that would be the version generally heard
Thank you EL
Extraordinary photo - a photographer has captured an image of the International Space Station silhouetted in front of the sun.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...amptonshire-61856975
@El Loro posted:Extraordinary photo - a photographer has captured an image of the International Space Station silhouetted in front of the sun.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...amptonshire-61856975
That's amazing, what a stroke of luck for him
The first image looks a bit like a cricket ball don't you think El
I have just been watching American college baseball, Notre Dame v Oklahoma. The commentator kept referring to the Norte Dame as ‘the Irish.’
The most generally accepted explanation is that the press coined the nickname as a characterization of Notre Dame athletic teams, their never-say-die fighting spirit and the Irish qualities of grit, determination and tenacity.
You learn something new every day
Channel 4 found in breach of the provision of subtitling for weeks last year by Ofcom:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ent...inment-arts-61863696
The fire at a broadcasting centre had affected other broadcasters including the BBC and Channel 5 but they got back to subtitling much faster than Channel 4. For instance Channel 5 had a back up system. You may have noticed on Channel 5 that for some weeks there was a small black square at the top right corner of the screen - that signified that it was the back up system running.
Ofcom's lengthy report on this:
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__dat...itling-channel-4.pdf
Ofcom sets requirements as to which channels have provide subtitling and what proportion of programmes which they are increasing each year:
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__dat...of-Channels-2022.pdf
The Talking Pictures tv channel isn't required to as it's a small channel and to have to provide subtitling on all programmes would be prohibitively expensive given that much of its output is old films and tv programmes. They do provide subtitles on quite a substantial proportion though.