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Granny MacGregor - 2007-09-05 12:38:15
I was fiercely dismayed at the wee shites fer nickin' my name but the Chip Shop does proper mac 'n cheese. It fairly inspires gluttony but of course after watching Seven... a champeen fillum if ever there was one.
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Mr Lojban - 2007-09-05 12:45:25
Hm. Where I come from, Granny's Mac is cheating. Because anything is better with sausage. Pizza is better with sausage, e.g. Beer is better with sausage. Also (and this is surprising, but trust me), sausage is better with sausage. But intelligent people can disagree on the matter.
I have fond memories of the m&c at Mama's and the unmentioned Old Devil Moon. But that was long ago.
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amatt - 2007-09-05 13:32:08
Mac & cheese? Yuk!
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grigorss - 2007-09-05 14:19:15
"Pushing" or "Pulling" the film in the bath -- or skipping the bleach process as you just wrote about it -- can lead to all sorts of interesting effects on film. Most recently, many films are doing this sort of thing digitally; most successful at it perhaps being the Coen Bros., who for their last couple of films having been making "Digital Intermediates" -- sometimes called "Digital Interpositives" -- to color correct and adjust the density of their final films. On "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" (the first feature to use this process), for example, they were able to impart an overall sepia look to the film, but still maintain relatively brilliant greens and flesh tones; something that would be difficult or even impossible using conventional processing techniques.
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Paula - 2007-09-05 17:22:53
sausage is better with sausage
Known fact, proven by Polish kielbasa-ists in a landmark 1975 study.
Grigs: The technical side of filmmaking is purty fascinatin'.
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Alan - 2007-09-05 21:40:56
I will probably never be able to watch Seven again, which is either a testament to its power, my squeamishness, or both. I do agree it's an excellent film.
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2fs - 2007-09-05 23:40:27
That reference up above to "digital interpositives" makes me realize that, alas, what I thought was merely an inspired bit of nonsense by Frank Zappa (the reference in the "stealing the towels" bit to a "technicolor interpositive") is in all likelihood a reference to an actual film-production hoohah. Might make it funnier. Anyway: I love watching, say, commentaries by the lighting guy or whatever where, if they can make it clear, they explain why the final film looks so much cooler than the earlier version (as sometimes seen in deleted scenes that weren't finished). Problem is, there's so much *craft* in even the lamest film that I'm tempted to toss standards all out the window. Finally: _Seven_ is indeed pretty awesome. I always think I'm more squeamish than I really am (except when, in grad school taking an avant-garde film class, my body decided it couldn't deal well with what my brain had no problem with, to wit, it was a quasi-documentary filmed in a Philadelphia morgue featuring actual autopsy footage. It wasn't at all exploitative, or intentionally disgusting or anything like that (the filmmakers did a fine job of showing the way the job actually honors the dead), just that my stupid body decided it shouldn't be seeing the insides of bodies like that.
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