jencat | continuing a theme...

Also, ack. Trawling the BFI website after last week, I discover the last film in their Margaret Lockwood season is something I've never heard of, Night Train to Munich. Of course, when something gets described as an 'unofficial sequel' (ie, attempt to cash in) on The Lady Vanishes, with ML playing a similar character, directed by Carol Reed with another script from Frank Lauder and Sydney Gilliat and cameos from Caldicott and Charters, I start wanting to move unreasonable mountains to see it.

Of course, it's only showing Wednesday afternoon, and with the best will in the world, I can't exactly do a runner halfway through the day and skip down the South Bank for a film. *gnashes teeth*

Would a dvd release be too much to ask...? Pretty please.

Randomly, Lauder & Gilliat also wrote the original St Trinians, the remake of which was a total blast when I saw it last week... It's not the kind of flick that would usually be able to boast two Bond girls--Caterina Murino from Casino Royale and Gemma Arterton from, erm, Quantum of Solace--but now I feel officially reassured that Gem Arterton completely rocks. Can't bring myself to watch Hitman to do the same for Olga Kuryenko as yet though, mainly because I'm pretty sure she's gonna disappoint.

Quantum has grown on me a tad since they first announced it, but, seriously... the amount of complete bull they spouted at the press conference is worrying me. "It's, like, a moment of peace in a relationship and, like, Bond can't have that with Vesper". Also, guys? You missed the part where she's dead, so basically a moot point, no?

If you want to have a wacky title, go right ahead. Please don't try and pretend it means anything by spouting psychobabble crap. You. Are. Making. A. Bond. Film. Just avoid any invisible cars, Madonna and Denise Richards and we'll be fine.