TREACHEROUS C4 - and "VERY ANNIE MARY"
Wotan
which is a work of sheer genius. It is shocking that it
comes almost as a surprise that there is so much stunning
creative ability still around in the British film industry.
It has been wilfully and deliberately suppressed and pushed
out by alien racketeers for so long that most of the public
thought it was dead.
But that is nothing like as shocking as C4 running the television
premier of this glorious triumph of high talent at QUARTER
TO ONE AT NIGHT - when it should have been shown at
prime time !
Especially when during peak viewing time (on any day of
any week) all that any of the channels offer is utter garbage -
stuffed with ugly and rapacious "celebrities" - who are
talentless, boring, subversive, corrupting - and, yes, evil -
and who seem to think that they can pass off inane rapid
babble and/or obscene innuendo, cheap titillation and
foul language as a substitute for ability.
Comprised almost exclusively of the relatives and "little
friends" of the malicious aliens who have been allowed to
take over our media, by comparison with their over-paid,
illiterate, banal and offensively "pushy" interlopers
- who have, by obscenely devious means, "soaked out"
all the budgets and forced out the British talent the public
really wants to see - pigs are abstemious, more intelligent,
better dressed, better spoken - and far more entertaining.
It is very unjust that guiltless pigs, who have done nobody
any harm, end up on a hook in a butchers shop, when the
disgusting trash who have turned our broadcasting
channels into sewers of treachery and corruption deserve
that fate infinitely more.
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I only saw this masterpiece by accident, having arrived
back late from dinner with my other half on Saturday
night and idly turned on the television.
I will not spoil it for anybody by telling you the plot, but
the title gives no clue of the very amazing treat that
you may very well not have expected ! Be prepared to
be surprised !
And I defy any lady not to cry her eyes out in the last
10 minutes - when there is another surprise. And I may
say that the eyes on one distinguished gentleman were
not entirely dry by the time of the titles either !
Write to C4 (and the filthy communist hole that used to
be the BBC) and demand a re-showing at a more civilised
hour when everybody can enjoy this gem !
Needless to say, being British and not, therefore, benefiting
from the alien network of distributors who push the trash
created by their own gutter rats and who can make 20 year
old fake American garbage still available in the supermarkets
(which they also own) - it is out of print. Fortunately I
was able to get a DVD copy from a gentleman in Northern
Ireland on Ebay - but it is otherwise only available in Australia
and America in PAL format.
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"Very Annie Mary" (2001) Starring Rachel Griffiths.
Supported by both the English and Welsh (was it Cultural
Agencies - I did not quite catch that ?)
Television premier: C4, 12.45 pm, Saturday, 6/2/2005
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PS: I have a few shillings invested in another British film
called "The Drop". The first rushes look pretty good - so
go and see it - and I may not lose the lot !
I did not have any money in "Very Annie Mary", which I had
never seen or heard of before last night. I am sorry to say !
Donald McCaskey
> Needless to say, being British and not, therefore, benefiting
> from the alien network of distributors who push the trash
> created by their own gutter rats and who can make 20 year
> old fake American garbage still available in the supermarkets
> (which they also own) - it is out of print. Fortunately I
> was able to get a DVD copy from a gentleman in Northern
> Ireland on Ebay - but it is otherwise only available in Australia
> and America in PAL format.
Without wishing to rain on your parade, this film is available as a R2 DVD
from PLAY.COM, either on its own at £5.99
http://www.play.com/play247.asp?page=title&r=R2&title=94397, or along with
another quirkly brit com, Lucky Break at £11.99
(http://www.play.com/play247.asp?page=title&r=R2&title=158860).
Of course, PLAY.COM aren't the only retailers who have the film in stock.
Amazon sell it even cheaper, at £4.97
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005AFO3/qid=1107704102/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/202-9327500-6207830)
or with the afore mentioned Lucky Break at £7.97
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001KZNJM/qid=1107704102/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/202-9327500-6207830).
They even have the soundtrack available
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001KZNJM/qid=1107704102/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/202-9327500-6207830).
Although you may have loved the film, it received mix reviews when it was
released. The main criticism was the lack of originally. A film set in a
village / town full of quirky but lovable characters - now how many Brit
coms have we seen just like that?
C4 support more British films than any other broadcaster (if you check the
schedule, early this morning there were 3 short brit com films funded by the
British Film Council and Film Four, a part of C4). Hardly an act of
treachery.
Don
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The Vulcan neck pinch isn't as powerful as the
Vulcan groin kick but it is more politically correct!!
Martin Davies
"Wotan" <Wo...@Valhalla.net> wrote in message news:4206...@212.67.96.135...
> which is a work of sheer genius. It is shocking that it
> comes almost as a surprise that there is so much stunning
> creative ability still around in the British film industry.
>
Ok, so you thought it was a work of sheer genius.
I've seen some great films on at odd times, and some of what I consider to
be crap at peak times. Its different tastes.
The people sorting out scheduling will put the crowd-pullers, the 'popular'
stuff on at peak time. Even if its not something everyone loves.
I didn't see that film, I was mixing some cds.
You may consider it a unique and astounding film - others may consider it
boring, lifeless, or just not something they are interested in.
Was it supressed? Or just so good they had to show it on TV rather than in
the cinema? Oh wait, it was a cinema release in 2001.25th May 2001.
http://www.haro-online.com/movies/very_annie_mary.html
Very Annie Mary
Very Annie Mary is the latest feel-good quirky comedy to come from
across the pond. Those blokes are attempting to milk The Full Monty as far
as they can. With very few exceptions, these movies are falling under the
law of diminishing returns; each additional one is yielding less and less
entertainment. Very Annie Mary has all the quirkiness and odd characters
required, but none of the charm and wit of its peers. It's hard to see what
writer/director Sara Sugarman (Mad Cows, Anthakitis) is trying to
accomplish, since this movie is all over the place. At its core is Annie
Mary (Rachel Griffiths, Blow, Blow Dry), an annoying protagonist.
Annie Mary is thirty-three, but has the mind of an adolescent.
Sugarman never really explains why this is, and in the end, nobody cares.
She dresses like a kid, is clumsy, and is probably missing a large chunk of
something upstairs. She helps her father Jack (Jonathan Pryce, The Affair of
the Necklace, Bride of the Wind), the local baker and amateur opera singer.
During his deliveries, Jack dons a rubber Pavarotti mask and sings arias
piped out on his loudspeakers. He is abusive towards his daughter, treating
her more like a slave than a family member. He forces her to cook, clean,
and sleep on his feet when he is cold. Nevertheless, Annie Mary does enjoy
accompanying her father on the piano.
When Jack has a stroke, things change drastically. Annie Mary begins
to develop a sense of independence, and she likes it. She ponders moving
out, but all her money goes towards paying the bills. She takes over the
baking, with disastrous results. The one thing she seems unwilling to do is
to follow her dream of singing. When she was a child, she had a beautiful
voice. She has a scholarship to study in Italy, but had to stay and help
Jack in the bakery once her father died. She has not sung ever since. Her
bed-ridden friend Bethan (Joanna Page, From Hell, Miss Julie) wants her to
sing. Bethan has cancer, and Annie Mary and everybody else in the town is
raising money to send her to Disneyland.
Sugarman's main problem is failing to develop a cohesive story. Or,
more likely failing to weave all the parts of Annie Mary's life together. Is
this film about Annie Mary and Jack? Or Annie Mary and freedom? Or Annie
Mary and Bethan? Or Annie Mary and her singing? These stories do interweave
to a degree, but mostly get in the way of each other. The singing story,
which is probably the most important and poignant one, appears mid-way
through the film, then disappears for a while, then comes on strong. Much of
this is also due to the Annie Mary character. She does not come off as
endearing or cute, just inept. Griffiths' performance is decent, but
consists mostly of running oddly and bumping into things. After some strong
performances, Griffiths' just seems to be in a state of decline in her film
career.
Mongoose Rates It: Pretty Bad.
1 hour, 44 minutes, English, but should have subtitles, Not Rated but
contains some language, a PG-13 or R.
Amazon.co.uk Review
Captivating and heart-warming, when it was released in 2001 Very Annie-Mary
was greeted as the latest in a long line of small, quirky British comedies.
In fact, Very Annie-Mary is a proudly Welsh film, celebrating the
eccentricity of a small town in the valleys where the inhabitants certainly
suffer deprivation but are by no means isolated from the outside world. They
simply plough their own furrow. None more so than Annie-Mary herself, a
30-year-old woman trapped in gawky adolescence by the death of her mother
and subsequent years of repression by her father, the Pavarotti-obsessed
town baker (brilliant Jonathan Pryce). In a plot slightly reminiscent of
Little Voice, she has lost her prize-winning singing voice, apparently
forever.
Played with resolute intensity by Rachel Griffiths, Annie-Mary is hardly
odder than her fellow townsfolk. But when her father has a stroke and she is
thrown on her own awkward resources to fulfil both her personal dreams and
those of her mortally sick friend Bethan, she finds unique comic ways to
cope with disaster. Redemption comes with the return of her ability to sing.
The excellent cast includes cameos from Ioan Gruffudd and Matthew Rhys as
the gay couple who run the sweet shop and Ruth Madoc as a libidinous widow.
Everyone delivers all-stops-out performances in even the smallest roles. The
promising script is loaded with one-liners; but its constituent parts
promise more than they eventually deliver. --Piers Ford
So it looks like some like it, some don't.
It doesn't mean that aliens supressed it. If it had been a 1991 film that
was only being shown now, then maybe. But the DVD release date was April
2003, and for a film to be shown on C4 thats about right from DVD release.
Hardly suppression then.
It gets released at the cinema, it comes onto DVD, and gets shown on
terrestial TV.
Gosh, that sounds just like any other film I have come across in the last
few years.
Martin <><
John of Aix
> "Very Annie Mary" is a unique and astounding British film
> which is a work of sheer genius. It is shocking that it
> comes almost as a surprise that there is so much stunning
> creative ability still around in the British film industry.
Credit where credit is due Wotan. What you wrote wasn't too much of the
usual tosh and, for once, well written and pleasant enough to read
thanks to the restraining order that must have been placed on your use
of adjectives. There were lots still, flowery as usual, but wisely used
rather than just strung out as a list (you should set up a key
combination for them). Don't know the film of course but well understand
your ire at the best stuff being on when the average person has long
since gone to bed, their TV watching hours being full of the pap you
describe.
Wotan
"Donald McCaskey" <don...@mccaskey.freeservedotco.uk> wrote in message
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| "Wotan" <Wo...@Valhalla.net> wrote in message
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| > Needless to say, being British and not, therefore, benefiting
| > from the alien network of distributors who push the trash
| > created by their own gutter rats and who can make 20 year
| > old fake American garbage still available in the supermarkets
| > (which they also own) - it is out of print. Fortunately I
| > was able to get a DVD copy from a gentleman in Northern
| > Ireland on Ebay - but it is otherwise only available in Australia
| > and America in PAL format.
|
| Without wishing to rain on your parade, this film is available as a
R2 DVD
I tried. It was out of stock. And that was the case with
every other source I tried this morning.
I have, for example, been trying to get a new copy of
I Lomardi for all of the last two years, without success.
| Although you may have loved the film, it received mix reviews when
it was
| released. The main criticism was the lack of originally. A film
set in a
| village / town full of quirky but lovable characters - now how many
Brit
| coms have we seen just like that?
I have seen very few that match this one.
| C4 support more British films than any other broadcaster (if you
check the
| schedule, early this morning there were 3 short brit com films
funded by the
| British Film Council and Film Four, a part of C4). Hardly an act of
| treachery.
|
Bullshit ! Giving a TV premier to this gem at quarter to
one in the morning is hardly "supporting British films,
now is it ?
Wotan
"Malcolm" <Mal...@indaal.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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|
|| But this information, as well as all of what you've said, would
have
| deprived him of his opportunity for a silly rant and his somewhat
| inaccurate phrases like "wilfully and deliberately suppressed.....by
| alien racketeers" and "the filthy communist hole that used to be the
| BBC", as well as being able to make a fool of himself by claiming
that
| "it is otherwise only available in Australia and America in PAL
format".
|
It is as I have said. And I spent the morning looking.
But then it would be a shame to deprive a hostile communist
parasite who never has a good word to say of anything that
comes out of Britain of an opportunity to sneer.
You really are a disgusting little leech.
Wotan
"Martin Davies" <mart...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Yes, but the review you have printed comes from an
American, for God's sake ! You don't actually expect
them to understand it, do you ?
And, yes, I know it was released in 2001, and said as much
in my closing comments.
Wotan
"John of Aix" <j.mu...@libertysurf.fr> wrote in message
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Thank you John. I am at least glad that for once I am not
a lone voice crying in the wilderness.
Martin Davies
The Americans watch other of our films. And programs.
I copied 2 reviews, one good one bad. I daresay you can find many reviews
about it. The US is still a large market for films though.
I'm glad you know it was released in 2001. Do you know how well it did at
the cinema? And would that and its DVD sales have any impact on what time C4
would decide to show it?
Come to think of it, did you see it at the cinema?
Martin <><
Martin Davies
"Wotan" <Wo...@Valhalla.net> wrote in message news:4206...@212.67.96.135...
>
You didn't look very hard.
Amazon.co.uk have 14 copies available from £3.63, including 2nd hand.
http://www.sendit.com/video/item/7000000068309 (formerly known as Blackstar)
will send you a copy within 72 hours. HMV have it.
MVC have it, at £2 cheaper than HMV (£7.99 instead of £9.99).
Those are just the 4 retailers I buy DVDs from. Thats besides ebay.
Took me less than 5 minutes looking to find it available from all 4 places,
two of which are high street shops.
Martin <><
Wotan
|
| In article <4206...@212.67.96.135>, Wotan <Wo...@Valhalla.net>
writes
| >I have, for example, been trying to get a new copy of
| >I Lomardi for all of the last two years, without success.
| >
|
| The Levine and Gavazzeni recordings (I have the latter) are in stock
and
| available on Amazon.com, though I suppose your "beliefs" prevent you
| from buying from across the Atlantic, not to mention a record
conducted
| by someone called Levine :-)
|
You are quite correct that I do not want a third rate
amateur production.
I am looking for a copy of the La Scala production
with Jose Carreras on video or CD.
Wotan
| >news:Qp3lcsTc...@indaal.demon.co.uk...
| >|
| >|| But this information, as well as all of what you've said, would
| >have
| >| deprived him of his opportunity for a silly rant and his somewhat
| >| inaccurate phrases like "wilfully and deliberately
suppressed.....by
| >| alien racketeers" and "the filthy communist hole that used to be
the
| >| BBC", as well as being able to make a fool of himself by claiming
| >that
| >| "it is otherwise only available in Australia and America in PAL
| >format".
| >|
| >
| >It is as I have said. And I spent the morning looking.
| >
was
| pretty incompetent. See my response elsewhere in the thread.
|
| >But then it would be a shame to deprive a hostile communist
| >parasite
|
|
| >who never has a good word to say of anything that
| >comes out of Britain of an opportunity to sneer.
| >
| >You really are a disgusting little leech.
| >
|
| More zoology :-)
Is this included in the paper you wrote for your "PhD" ?
Donald McCaskey
>
> "Donald McCaskey" <don...@mccaskey.freeservedotco.uk> wrote in message
> news:cu5ecm$9d9$1...@news6.svr.pol.co.uk...
> | "Wotan" <Wo...@Valhalla.net> wrote in message
> news:4206...@212.67.96.135...
> | > Needless to say, being British and not, therefore, benefiting
> | > from the alien network of distributors who push the trash
> | > created by their own gutter rats and who can make 20 year
> | > old fake American garbage still available in the supermarkets
> | > (which they also own) - it is out of print. Fortunately I
> | > was able to get a DVD copy from a gentleman in Northern
> | > Ireland on Ebay - but it is otherwise only available in Australia
> | > and America in PAL format.
> |
> | Without wishing to rain on your parade, this film is available as a
> R2 DVD
>
> I tried. It was out of stock. And that was the case with
> every other source I tried this morning.
Mmm - they still have it in stock when I tried the site just now - perhaps
it's a conspiracy to claim they've got in stock but then, when you've
ordered it, claim that they don't!
> I have, for example, been trying to get a new copy of
> I Lomardi for all of the last two years, without success.
>
> | Although you may have loved the film, it received mix reviews when
> it was
> | released. The main criticism was the lack of originally. A film
> set in a
> | village / town full of quirky but lovable characters - now how many
> Brit
> | coms have we seen just like that?
>
> I have seen very few that match this one.
Off the top of my head, I can think of "Brassed off", "Gregory's Girl",
"Local Hero", "The Man Who Went Up a Hill & Came Down a Mountain", "Doc
Martin" (and it's sequels, and not forgetting the TV series) and "The Full
Monty" (Very Annie Marie even contains a homage to this one).
> | C4 support more British films than any other broadcaster (if you
> check the
> | schedule, early this morning there were 3 short brit com films
> funded by the
> | British Film Council and Film Four, a part of C4). Hardly an act of
> | treachery.
> |
>
> Bullshit ! Giving a TV premier to this gem at quarter to
> one in the morning is hardly "supporting British films,
> now is it ?
They actually put money up to fund many British films. Much more important
than when they schedule the film, I would say.
Wotan
|
| >
| >Is this included in the paper you wrote for your "PhD" ?
| >
| haven't yet got round to calling me - or anyone else!
|
And are you prepared to tell us the name of the "university"
where this paper can be seen ?
John Gilbert suggests that you bought it from a degree
factory.
Did you, or are you able to prove otherwise ?
Deirdre Sholto Douglas
Wotan wrote:
>
> "Malcolm" <Mal...@indaal.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:qwc7qeNw...@indaal.demon.co.uk...
> |
> | >
> | >Is this included in the paper you wrote for your "PhD" ?
> | >
> | My PhD was on a zoological subject, yes, though it is a species you
> | haven't yet got round to calling me - or anyone else!
> |
>
> And are you prepared to tell us the name of the "university"
> where this paper can be seen ?
Given that I just found one of his books on my shelves,
I'd say his credentials are better established than
yours. (Sorry, Malcolm, it took a bit before the pen-
ney dropped...the avian shelf is, as fitting, rather up
there.)
> Did you, or are you able to prove otherwise ?
Why should he have to prove anything to a non-entity
like you?
Deirdre