A (relatively) slow day...
Mar. 4th, 2010 08:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpNothing can be finer than to be paid on delivery, which happened this morning before I got up and got ready to go shopping with Drew.
More work came in, of the gotta-do-some-work-before-you-can-work variety. I've left the bulk of it for tomorrow.
Yesterday, I finally dug out a DVD I picked up during a trip to Russia, titled Корабли штурмуют бастионы (a film that IMDB says was released in English under the title Attack from the Sea).
The film would appear to continue the story that began in Admiral Ushakov, but the filmography given for the film's leading actor (Ivan Pereverzev) suggests the films appeared in "reverse order." (Be that as it may, the release date for Admiral Ushakov is given as April 1953, while Attack from the Sea is said to have been released in April 1954.)
In these films, Ushakov comes off as a brilliant, visionary iconoclast who manages to get the job at hand done despite the idiocy of the system he is a part of and the parties he is allied with, and it is probably one of the better examples of hooray-for-our-side film-making, avoiding the kind of lugubrious heavy-handedness that can be seen in other Soviet films.
In my opinion, the "sequel" (despite what IMDB may say) does tend to have more conversations between the actors instead of action, but I'm not sorry I watched it.
* * * The past couple of years I managed to miss the deadline for submitting a proposal to do a presentation at the next ATA conference. Next year's conference is in Denver, and I managed to send off a proposal today, with a full 4 days to spare before the deadline! (Go me!)
And now, upstairs, for some more French!
Cheers...
More work came in, of the gotta-do-some-work-before-you-can-work variety. I've left the bulk of it for tomorrow.
Yesterday, I finally dug out a DVD I picked up during a trip to Russia, titled Корабли штурмуют бастионы (a film that IMDB says was released in English under the title Attack from the Sea).
The film would appear to continue the story that began in Admiral Ushakov, but the filmography given for the film's leading actor (Ivan Pereverzev) suggests the films appeared in "reverse order." (Be that as it may, the release date for Admiral Ushakov is given as April 1953, while Attack from the Sea is said to have been released in April 1954.)
In these films, Ushakov comes off as a brilliant, visionary iconoclast who manages to get the job at hand done despite the idiocy of the system he is a part of and the parties he is allied with, and it is probably one of the better examples of hooray-for-our-side film-making, avoiding the kind of lugubrious heavy-handedness that can be seen in other Soviet films.
In my opinion, the "sequel" (despite what IMDB may say) does tend to have more conversations between the actors instead of action, but I'm not sorry I watched it.
And now, upstairs, for some more French!
Cheers...
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Date: 2010-03-05 03:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-05 04:54 am (UTC)There is a rumor floating about that I might be enlisted for a campaign in Baikonur, which will involve my French. I want it to be better than it is.
Cheers...