Bizarre and extreme films I am a collector of bizarre or extreme movies.
Stuff along the lines of Antichrist, Naked Lunch, Existenz, Nekromantik, Videodrome etc.
I have a pretty extensive collection but was wondering what other people may know of that I am not aware of.
So come on, I've probably seen it but what extreme or bizarre films do you guys know about?123
FR : Chapeau! Oncle régarde la "HD" télé des années 1950s… The French had their own "HD" TV with 819 vertical lines analogue (it was only black and white though). I remember watching such a set during a school French exchange trip in 1983 (I did notice the picture was far sharper; although the film being shown wasn't particularly interesting).
Not long afterwards (1984/5) they stopped with this odd format (as it hogged 14 Mhz of the frequency allocation which is a lot for one channel) and used 625 lines like everywhere else in Europe.
some older "uncle" in France who is very brainy with electronics and has some spare time has hoarded a 819 line set, restored it and even built modulators/converters so it can be used with modern video signals.. its all docmented on his site below (en français)
819lignes
EU : I wonder what "present" Sveriges TV give us after another Eurovision win? Last time they shared full details of an entire HD playout and graphics system for a small "youth channel/local channel". I could still find the tech details somwhere; but you need about €10 000 of servers alone and some have 2 GFX cards of the kind you need for a top gaming rig. The only person here who might be able to build such things is probably Daftfader.
I shall keep a close watch on the EBU tech news. Maybe we might be treated to something like an open source radio playout system that works and can be used by those without advanced Linux knowledge?
UK : Wales/Cymru / West : old style TV snafu This sort of thing happened quite often in the early 1980s; few people could afford video recorders so things like this are only just getting on YT ( a lot of this stuff appears to be tapes ITV engineers have hoarded for 30 years or more which was highly against the rules (copyright) so they wait until they are retired and won't lose work because of uploading it - unfortunately young engineers got in a lot of trouble when things like this happened as the bosses blamed them for it even if it was caused by outside suppliers sending them defective equipment....
It may have been the teleciné scanner for the feature film that caused the fire alert; these things had strong light shining onto the film from a cathode ray tube with about 25 000 V on the anode and high current heater supplies - plenty to catch fire in these devices!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0IXLEiQtfY
EU : Eurovision song contest anyone stille watch this on the internet era ? Must confess I had a quick look to see what DR had provided and it wasn't bad, but the usual bland europop and everything seems to be forced into English. tbh I prefer the old style tunes[yt]mnjahffO7eI[/yt] she wrote this because of the Cold War and Falklands war
Recomendations for crime, thriller and action series. I feel like we are all a bit spoilt for quality television at the momemt, they seem to be taking over for movies. (which is just as well because you can make them as complex as possible this way)
Ive compiled a short list myself :
Breaking bad; School teacher starts to cook meth to pay for cancer treatment. Its a cat and mouse chase between his rise to meth empire and the DEA trying to find him. This series has claimed global and critical success and recieved multiple awards.
Game of Thrones; epic medievil fantasy based on the book series by George RR Martin. A set of lords and highborns scheme and war amongst each other to claim the Iron throne. Its unpredictable and complex. The writer never feels the ned to save beloved characters, to keep its watchers in a constant state of suspense. Oh its also FULL of nude scenes.
Sherlock (bbc drama) ; A contempary take on the classic story. Stars Martin Freeman, Benedict Cumberbach and Mark gatiss (league of gentlemen). The characters are endeering and its peppered with comedy. Sherlock solves crimes and reads people using his remarkable gift of logic and deduction.
Anyone got any more? im thinking of watch boardwalk empire next, true detective. and the walking dead.
Again and again http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lzQxjGL9S0
We are gonne see this for the 35th time tonight :crazy_diz.
They stopped it one year because our tv station thought enough was enough. They shouldn't have done that, they got a telephone storm of angry Danes.
It's a tradition sending that New Years Ewe in Denmark
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TV License So, who here doesn't watch TV and get harassed by TV Licensing?
I get letters once a month from them. They started off nice, saying you don't have a TV licence, you should probably get one. Now, every letter tells me what to expect when I go to court.
1) They started 'Dear Occupier' stating here's how to get your licence
2) I bought a TV from Curry's. They grass you in so the letters then had my name on them, for 6 months or so.
3) They revered by to Occupier, but were details on what to expect when I go to court (including I have the right to a lawyer, how nice of them!)
The funniest part to me is sending letters to The Occupier about court action. A court summons to 'the occupier' wouldn't sit too with the magistrate I'm sure.
I don't watch TV, I have a TV and use it with an Android box and as a second monitor.
They've never once been at the door. Not sure what I'd do if they came. Probably not a lot without a warrant, but I'm thinking it would be a laugh to see what they have to say.
I know you can declare you don't need a licence, but I don't really want to fill out the inter-personal form on their site.
Has anyone got some funny stories to tell or anything related to this harassment, which I can only call threatening at best. It seems guilty until declared innocent is their ethos.
Adam and Paul This is the film that in my eyes best describes what a day in the life of a heroin addict is like.
This movie follows a day in the life of 2 Dublin Heroin addicts, Adam and Paul. Adam is the taller and slightly smarter of the two while Paul is his sidekick. Since they were small boys, Adam and Paul have withered into two hopeless, desperate Dublin junkies, tied together by habit and necessity. A stylized, downbeat comedy, the film follows the pair through a single day, which, like every other, is entirely devoted to the business of scrounging and robbing money for drugs.
The difference today is that Adam and Paul already near rock bottom have finally run out of luck, credit and friends.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDxgtOsv6G0
US/UK : Speak loud, old man :) this one was from the European bit of ESPN (now bought by British Telecom for BT Sport) - with "multicultural" colour bars based on the US SMPTE ones but optimised for digital feeds. The 1970s video game style "bouncing block" is used to check for a crashed stream (as these just would repeat the last still picture) - ESPN IBCC MCR stands for ESPN International Broadcast Contributions Centre Master Control room.
it appears to be somewhere in the UK, possibly BT Tower London - the surreal note "speak loud, old man" is typically British and makes sense in broadcast engineering - traditionally every male worker in broadcast and telecoms (especially wireless) is called "old man" whether they are 20 or 70+ - and a master control room is where programme material is played out and monitored (often for more than one channel), and often sound from many channels plus the 1khz tone is played out at high volume on loudspeakers, whilst the voice quality comms line to the MCR is often connected to a telephone immediately below these loudspeakers (usually a flashing lamp is used to show it is ringing) and picks up all the racket from them (all BBC studios were set up like this..)
this may also be the Brits mocking the Americans for providing a poor quality comms line (such using VOIP with a low bitrate codec) to save a few cents :wink:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq2gIfDtYlA
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