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The video and synopsis for the episode I directed of Bryan Enk and Matt Gray's Penny Dreadful is now online at this page HERE. If you don't know the story so far, it'd be best to go back and read the detailed synopses of the previous four episodes. Better yet, take the time and watch the really great videos.
Nice to see this record - I was stuck up in the booth so I couldn't really get a good view of the show - some great acting work here that I was only able to hope was happening - Becky Byers and Bryan Enk both shine in the close-ups. Dina did as good as job as I think could be done in taping this one (there are bits from both performances we did in the video, two different camera setups), but unfortunately due to staging and audience placement, this one winds up being not as good a video as the previous episodes - much more like a standard record-of-a-performance video than the others, which came out so surprisingly well. Oh well, the show's there.
Unfortunately, I've only been able to watch it without sound as yet - the computer I'm on up here has no sound, for some arcane reason, so I don't know how that worked out. I can check it on another computer when I sign off here.
Three excellent posts on the late Charlton Heston from Glenn Kenny, The Self-Styled Siren, and Mark Evanier - I especially like this quote from the last:
Mr. Heston's politics were not mine but I see no reason to believe they were anything but earnest on his part. People do change as they get older. I think the reason he so irked some was not that he "demagogued" but that he was the kind of speaker who sounds like he's demagoguing if he's ordering a tuna melt. Even if you didn't have in mind the image of him as Moses, he had a way of sounding like everything he uttered was chiselled onto stone tablets. It's what made him compelling as an actor, at least in certain roles...and made him seem uncommonly arrogant if he voiced a worldview you found questionable.
I really don't entirely agree with the philosophy behind this, but the man asked for it -- Uwe Boll was made aware of the fact that there is an internet petition up demanding that he stop making terrible TERRIBLE movies. He laughed at the fact that there were only about 18,000 signatures on it, and said that he would only consider it if it got to a million.
The petition is HERE. It's now up to about 64,400 names. Fans of videogames, horror, and films in general may do as they see fit . . .
And finally, Patrick Stewart gives a lovely, sharp interview to someone from New York magazine and includes an apparently serious threat to kneecap her if he's quoted out of context. Don't fuck with Sejanus, lady (or Gurney Halleck, for that matter).
