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I'm sure you'll form them into an impenetrable wall of logic…

Thanks Baddie, but I was really looking for translations in book form, I'm not a big fan of e-books.

that’s a shame, but the production still sounds good. Well, yes, if. I’m sure those in charge of Russia understand that, but they can still be unhappy with loss of influence on countries with which they share boarders. My understanding/interpretation of post war Russia is of a country that has...

Steven Wright One-Liners 4th one down... Edit: Must I hijack every thread? Hangs head in shame...

Well, I found time to read the play over the holidays and was rather disapointed. Not with Ibsen but with a rather out-of-date translation. Does anyone Norwegian, or not, know of a good translation of this work? The version I read was an anonymous one used by Dover Thrift and I'm afraid I found...

Hi Baddie, welcome to the forum. There is a "Norwegian Literature" thread if you want to make some recommendations. Regards, K-S

Well, I do normally comb my back hair before having a picture taken. I was clearly going for the "windswept and interesting" look in this snap...

I think you'll find that's more Pinewood than Bollywood...

I've worked with several guys from Bombay (Mumbai after 9 pm) itself, and I can't remember any of them liking Bollywood films either...

Just correcting the links, which weren't working for me, and seperating out the Norwegian books before getting the mods to create a new "Norwegian Lit" thread...

Yes, it's a small world but I wouldn't want to have to paint it etc etc...

Yes, I wondered about the cat, which was always going to be the most difficult thing to reproduce. They really needed the same technology used in the Lord of the Rings films and more recently King Kong, but I guess that would cost a lot. I use a normal dial-up connection so it’d take too long...

I'd say the similarity was mainly in the cinematography, in particular the way the night scenes are shot. Lost in Translation is a good film, not as good as the hype but better than some of the slateing it got, just don't go in expecting the same subtly and depth you'd find with a Wong Kar-Wai...

Yojimbo is available on DVD now and is well worth a look, as indeed is the follow-up Sanjuro. 'Beat' Takeshi is an interesting guy, bit of a renascence man, stuff like Zatoichi and Dolls are pretty deverse, let alone Takeshi's castle! Ha, I've had that as my current read setting for ages...

The second link was from the BBC website; it was detailing a Russian TV dramatisation of 'The Master and Margareta' which is supposed to be very popular. I was wondering if you had seen it. Ah, but all sides are playing politics with a situation that has been waiting to happen since the 'Orange...

I sit at my keyboard with your entertainment my primary goal...

Now Kurosawa, that's a director. I'd choose as personnal favs Yojimbo and Dersu Uzala. Hopefully some time this year I'll get round to reading this biography of his work with Toshiro Mifune (in my opinion the greatest screen actor of all time). K-S

Can't you melt it with all that extra gas you're holding on to? Btw, have you been watching this?

You do like a good old muse don't you Siraram. Anyway, thanks for the recommendation, I've had Britain's Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya by Caroline Elkins on my TBR list for a while, I shall make sure to follow it up with Something of Value by Robert Ruark. Regards, K-S

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