Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to 3410,
Key and Brownlee need to explain this today.
Why?
Good old insurance companies … they’ll do anything to wangle out of their contractual responsibilities.
Really? I've talked to other people who've had (relatively) painless dealings with their insurance companies -- because I don't accept that it's inevitable insurance carriers must be douchebags. They decide to be, and saying otherwise is letting the bastards off the hook.
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OK, I think I'll be removing my business from Tower and explaining why.
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It sounded better if you were there, of course. It always does.
And much as I adore the spectacled one, Abba always sounds better with the close-harmonies and shimmering pop production intact. (Ingmar Bergman you can dance to!)
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Muse: Emotion Pictures, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
Which reminds me - why is it that people are happy to watch foreign-language cartoons dubbed into English, but turn their noses up at the same for live-action films?
When I tooking the younglings to see Ponyo, the only screening that worked was the Japanese ;anguage version amd I had some concerns. When I warned them that there would be some reading involved, I got the cutest "oh, listen to the old man being lame " eye-rolls. :)
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Muse: Emotion Pictures, in reply to Aquila G,
Others on my still to be radically trimmed longlist include A Boatload of Wild Irishmen,
Walked into a pub?
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Muse: Emotion Pictures, in reply to Leopold,
Leopold:
Tweet from @nzff:
As long as it's a full membership, they can get the Film Society ticket price at other Festival locations.
Hope that helped.
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Muse: Emotion Pictures, in reply to Leopold,
Just wondering - Do Chch film Society members, if they venture North or South, get the same discounts as 'home' FS members for the respective festivals?
I believe that's always been the case, but will double check.
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Hard News: What the kids do, in reply to BenWilson,
Quite - don't mean to offend-troll any atheists around here, but God does enjoy obliging people who say "X. will happen over my dead body". So it does - there you go, and here we are. :)
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Hard News: What the kids do, in reply to BenWilson,
That’s one hell of a dangerous thing to wish for.
You said it, not me. :)
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Muse: Emotion Pictures, in reply to Hugh Lilly,
Also, what do you have against Malick and von Trier?
Malick’s films are a succession of astoundingly beautiful images that end up being much less than the sum of their parts. As for von Trier – well, I can really do without the increasingly sour and nasty misogyny. At least the interminable Saw franchise is a no-bullshit exercise in torture porn for fun and profit.
Or more tersely: Malick is a bore and von Trier is repugnant. I know a lot of people beg to differ on both scores, and if anyone is interested in a guest post on The Tree of Life and Melancholia drop me a line. Since it's exceedingly unlikely the New Zealand Film Festival trust has an open-ended comp in the mail, I'm paying my own way and don't see the point of seeing (or writing about) films by directors I'm totally unsympathetic to.
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