Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Miniserie inglesi

Queste miniserie non le conoscevo per nulla (eccetto 'Life on Mars', per
averne letto qui sul NG). Qualche consiglio o suggerimento, tra quelle
nella lista?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Greatest-TV-British-dramas-mini-series/lm/RPU3OMDY6PH0B/ref=cm_lmt_fvlm_f_1_rlrsrs0
url breve: 
http://snurl.com/25g0r

 nella lista?
Ho sentito alcuni dei titoli ma non ho visto le miniserie. Una parte
di una puntata
di "This Life", e una parte di una puntata di "Blackpool".

Enrico C scriveva il 23/04/2008 :
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Alcune miniserie ben fatte possono essere viste su BBC Prime. Mai 
provato? Ciao  Cappellaio

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"Edge of Darkness": mi e` piaciuto molto (ma anni fa ...)
"Boys From The Black Stuff": bello; attenzione agli accenti!
"The Singing Detective": abbastanza vecchio, mi riccordo poco della trama.
Antonio
 

 "The Singing Detective": abbastanza vecchio, mi riccordo poco della trama.
Le review paiono entusiaste!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Singing-Detective-Michael-Gambon/dp/B000198ABQ/ref=cm_lmf_tit_2_rlrsrs0

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by Dennis Potter , the best English dramatist of the twentieth century 
(possibly since Shakespeare) .
Also by Potter , 'Pennies from Heaven' - another masterpiece , easier to 
follow than 'The Singing Detective' (and maybe my favourite)
'Our Friends in the North' - an excellent series , especially recommendable 
if you've any interest in British politics between the sixties and the 
nineties .
A word of caution re Stephen Poliakoff's 'Shooting the Past' - I've tried to 
like Poliakoff (whose sister I once taught) , but I just find him 
long-winded and boring .
Mike

 follow than 'The Singing Detective' (and maybe my favourite)
I haven't seen the miniseries, but the film version is one of the most 
memorable films I've ever seen. I don't generally like musicals, if you can 
call it a musical, but Pennies from Heaven is in a class of its own. It is 
clever, funny, smart, delightfully bizarre, dark, imaginative, and moving. 
Herbert Ross directed it and Potter adapted it for the screen. Of course, 
the absence of prejudicial expectation from having seen the miniseries may 
have given me the freedom to enjoy it so much.

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Very interesting to read your comments , Tony - I seem to remember being 
surprised to read that the film was a box-office flop , since I thought it 
was a powerful and fascinating film , too . I think the differences in 
setting and pace (the original being about eight hours long) etc. were 
considerable enough to be able to watch the film on its own terms - though I 
did see it a few years after the original on TV .
Did 'The Singing Detective' ever get any sort of showing over there ? Or any 
other Potter stuff ?
Mike 

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Yes, I was astounded at the poor reception that the film received from film
critics. Fortunately many began to realize, after an initial panning, that
it was a great film, but it never achieved popular success (except among my
friends, some of whom fell victim to my enthusiastic influence). There are
lines and songs from that film that so delighted me that to this day I still
insert them into somewhat appropriate situations in day to day life.
I took note of the screenwriter, who was foreign to me at the time
(figuratively as well as literally), and when 'The Singing Detective' was
offered on PBS, I watched it because of Potter's authorship. I'm not aware
that any other of his works have been shown in the US.
By the way, I don't know if it was Potter's idea, or Herbert Ross's idea,
but the film 'Pennies from Heaven' uses classic songs from the 30's
lipsynced by the actors without regard for matching the gender of singer and
actor. At first, I had trouble with this technique, but soon I was delighted
by how it was handled. I think this 30's song included in the film, sung in
a melodic barbershop harmony, captures the tone of darkness and pleasure in
the film very well.
LIFE IS JUST A BOWL OF CHERRIES
People are queer, they're always crowing, scrambling and rushing about;
Why don't they stop someday, address themselves this way?
Why are we here? Where are we going? It's time that we found out.
We're not here to stay; we're on a short holiday.
Life is just a bowl of cherries.
Don't take it serious; life's so mysterious.
You work, you save, you worry so,
But you can't take your dough when you go, go, go.
So keep repeating it's the berries,
The strongest oak must fall,
The sweet things in life, to you were just loaned
So how can you lose what you've never owned?
Life is just a bowl of cherries,
So live and laugh at it all.
Laugh at it all!