Newspaper Free Dvd's

[Malcolm]

(Steve Crook @ Dec 3 2005, 08:02 PM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'> Posts often wander off topic. As long as they are still relevant to the main subject of the board, British Films, then we don't worry about it too much. Steve [/b]

Then what is the point of having "Subjects" and "Titles" in this forum? Those posters who wander off topic could have started a new subject entitled "Piracy"

[MrDrakesDuck]

(Malcolm @ Dec 3 2005, 05:12 PM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'> I started this topic on Free DVD's in Newspapers". Why the previous posters are discussing Piracy is beyond me. So! back to the subject in hand! In todays "Daily Mail" 5 December (Southern Edition, London area) the Free DVD is the heartwarming, amusing and romantic, Ring Of Bright Water is based on the best seller by Gavin Maxwell and stars the husband-and wife acting talents of Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna of Born Free fame. [/b]

This regionalizing is confusing , already got <span style="color:#FF0000">Ring Of Bright Water</span> weeks ago!

[Malcolm]

Carry On Christmas DVD in the Daily Express on 10th December.
This DVD is only one episode of a four episode commercial 2 DVD set that is available.
These four made-for-TV Christmas Carry On spectaculars feature favourite stories and timely traditions, including Treasure Island, A Christmas Carol, pantomime and much more, in the only way the Carry On team know how... pure slapstick comedy and scripts full of trademark innuendo.
The DVD episode given away is Carry On Christmas 1973: led once again by Sid James, this time as a department store Santa, the carry On team journey through the ages to see how Christmas was celebrated by cavemen, Robin Hood and his Merry Men, and also WW1 trenches!

[Malcolm]

The Free DVD's are back for 2006

Daily Express Saturday 7 January 2006
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982) (TV)
Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour, Ian McKellen

Sunday Express Sunday 8 January 2006
A Farewell To Arms (1932)
Gary Cooper, Helen Hayes, Adolphe Menjou

[DB7]

Daily Mirror/Sunday Mirror

BBC comedy dvd giveaway.

[arty-dave]

Learn French DVD in today's Independent

[Fellwanderer]

(arty-dave @ Jan 7 2006, 11:42 AM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'> Learn French DVD in today's Independent [/b]

A nod's as good as a wink [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img]

FELL [wondering if he has misunderstood arty-dave's coded message [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img] ]
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[arty-dave]

@ fell

[quaint1]

</div><div class='quotemain'>Daily Express Saturday 7 January 2006 The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982) (TV) Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour, Ian McKellen [/b]

I managed to miss that one somehow - though I did get "A Farewell To Arms" on Sunday.
The Guardian on Saturday 14-01-2006 has "Let Him Have It" starring Christopher Ecclestone.

Au Res.,
Paul

[Steve Crook]

(quaint1 @ Jan 9 2006, 03:55 PM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'> I managed to miss that one somehow - though I did get "A Farewell To Arms" on Sunday. The Guardian on Saturday 14-01-2006 has "Let Him Have It" starring Christopher Ecclestone. Au Res., Paul [/b]

Is A Farewell to Arms as boring & turgid as the rest of Hemmingway's writing or films made from his stories? I use them when I have insomnia. I've never managed to finish one of his books or see much more than half of any of the films made from them.

Steve

[foha80]

(Steve Crook @ Jan 9 2006, 09:42 PM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'> Is A Farewell to Arms as boring & turgid as the rest of Hemmingway's writing or films made from his stories? I use them when I have insomnia. I've never managed to finish one of his books or see much more than half of any of the films made from them. Steve [/b]

I always thought it curious that in the U.S. John Steinbecks work was not held in the same esteem as Hemmngway,maybe his macho personna appealed to the american psyche whereas Steinbeck eulogised the underdog.Just a thought in passing.

[Steve Crook]

(foha80 @ Jan 9 2006, 10:05 PM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'> I always thought it curious that in the U.S. John Steinbecks work was not held in the same esteem as Hemmngway,maybe his macho personna appealed to the american psyche whereas Steinbeck eulogised the underdog.Just a thought in passing. [/b]

An interesting thought. I know I always much preferred Steinbeck, the books as well as on screen, to Hemmingway. But I've never understood macho.

Steve

[Fellwanderer]

(Steve Crook @ Jan 9 2006, 11:38 PM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'> An interesting thought. I know I always much preferred Steinbeck, the books as well as on screen, to Hemmingway. But I've never understood macho. Steve [/b]

Me2 on both counts.

I suspect foha80 has a point as I somehow doubt if The Grapes of Wrath is bedtime reading or viewing in the White House - certainly not with the present redundant [no, that's not a typo!].

FELL
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[Steve Crook]

(Fellwanderer @ Jan 10 2006, 08:11 AM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'> Me2 on both counts. I suspect foha80 has a point as I somehow doubt if The Grapes of Wrath is bedtime reading or viewing in the White House - certainly not with the present redundant [no, that's not a typo!]. FELL [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/angel_not.gif[/img] [/b]

I thought he was going for the part of Lenny in Of Mice and Men [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]

Steve

[Malcolm]

<span style="font-size:18pt;line-height:100%">Essential viewing: Two free DVDs </span>
Free with The Independent and The Independent on Sunday print editions this weekend,
A pair of Academy Award winners for Best Foreign Language Film.
Closely Observed Trains
(Free with The Independent on Saturday, 14 January)
Milos Hrma, a bumbling dispatcher's apprentice at a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the war and the resistance that surrounds him, he embarks on a journey of sexual awakening and self-discovery, encountering a universe of frustration, eroticism, and adventure within his sleepy backwater depot. Milos becomes involved in a plot to blow up a German ammunition train, but when the plan backfires, he is forced to commit the ultimate act of courage.
The Official Story
(Free with The Independent on Sunday on 15 January)
In the mid-70's, Argentina's military dictatorship carried out a brutal campaign of torture and murder against thousands of its own citizens. The Official Story follows Alicia (Norma Aleandro), the sheltered wife of a wealthy businessman (Hector Alterio), who begins to unravel the horrifying legacy of her country's past. She looks into the background of her own daughter, adopted at birth, to find that she may have been stolen from a family of "los desaparecidos" (the disappeared ones). The Official Story is the true account of a woman faced with the hardest choice she could make - to live a lie or risk tearing apart her own life and family.