Watched again after a long break, and having read the book
in the meantime. A fun film, a fairy-tale with its tongue in its cheek. Some
good jokes, lots of enjoyable dialogue, quite nice to look at. Fun too to spot
the actors – Mel Smith, Peter Cook, Billy Crystal…
For the record the mechanics of watching were interesting
and complex. We watched this on the screen via the projector in the Middle
Floor at Springhill Cohousing. We started watching on a laptop connected to the
projector, using a copy obtained via informal distribution. The visuals started
to stutter so we switched to watching a DVD on the built-in player of the
projector. But that gave up half-way through – apparently it does often. So we
switched to a VHS cassette (poor reproduction, and no sound) and then to
another DVD player that was also connected to the projector. Ho hum.
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