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Close to Home  -  Television One  -  May 12, 1975  -  August 30, 1983

Melodrama (818 episodes)

Running Time:  30 minutes

Stars:

Ilona Rodgers as Vivian

John Bach as Tom

Ian Gilmour as Alan Hearte

Tony Currie as Don Hearte

Bill Stalker as Alan

Dorothy Smith as Madeline Hearte

Des Swain as James Abernethy

Joanne Mildenhall as Justine Terry

Jamie Higgins as Matthew Lorvatz

Jennifer Ward-Lealand as Jan

New Zealands first Soap Opera TV series

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The Sound and the Silence (1992)

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Gallipoli (dir. Glendyn Ivin)

Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’ün Çanakkale Savaşı’nda hayatlarını kaybeden Anzak askerleri için söyledikleri; "Bu memleketin toprakları üzerinde kanlarını döken kahramanlar. Burada bir dost vatanın toprağındasınız. Huzur ve sükun içinde uyuyunuz. Sizler, Mehmetçiklerle yan yana, koyun koyunasınız. Uzak diyarlardan evlatlarını harbe gönderen analar. Gözyaşlarınızı dindiriniz. Evlatlarınız bizim bağrımızdadır. Huzur içindedirler ve huzur içinde rahat uyuyacaklardır. Onlar, bu toprakta canlarını verdikten sonra, artık bizim evlatlarımız olmuşlardır" Anzak Askerlerinin Annesinden Gazi Paşa’ya yanıt:  “Gelibolu topraklarında yitirdiğimiz evlatlarımızın acısını, alicenap sözleriniz hafifletti. Gözyaşlarımız dindi. Bir ana olarak bana, bir güzelim teselli bahşetti. Yavrularımızın sonsuz uykularında, huzur içinde dinlendiklerinden hiç kuşkumuz kalmadı. Majesteleri kabul buyururlarsa bizler de kendilerine Ata demek istiyoruz. Çünkü, yavrularımızın mezarları başında söylediğiniz sözler, ancak bir öz babanın sözleri gibi yüce, ilahi. Evlatlarımızı bir baba gibi kucaklayan büyük Ata’ya tüm analar adına şükran, sevgi, saygıyla…”

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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Obligatory Depressing and Cliff Hanging Part Two of Three, but tops both of the others

My favorite of the three Peter Jackson 'Lord of the Rings' films. Mostly because of Andy Serkis's wonderful achievement (along with no doubt an army of special effects technicians) as the character Gollum, which should have won a best actor nomination (at least), had the academy been a bit more open minded. While much of the character was computer generated, the part was actually motion captured and acted by a real actor, every move, every facial expression was duplicated by a human being, which accounts for the uncanny realism of the effect (while the computer generated characters in other films seem to be missing that certain 'spark of life').

The film picks up where the last left off, with the fellowship split up into three groups. The captured hobbits Merry and Pippin and their adventures among the Orcs and the Ents. Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas running across the Rohan riders and getting involved in their stuggles (while searching for the two hobbits). Finally, Sam and Frodo, and their new companion Gollum as they make their way toward the dark tower. Meanwhile, the wizard has come back from his fiery death as 'Gandalf the White' and has much to do with two of the storylines, and we have an epic battle for Helm's Deep (a mere teaser for the giant battle to come in the third film).

A problematic 'middle film', with no clear climax and with a dangling ending, it nevertheless proves to be a complex, multilayered enjoyable film from beginning to end. Quite the achievement when you take into consideration the sheer volume of new characters and situations the audience has to digest, the overlapping storylines and character motivations, not to mention the technical problems involved in showing all this eye popping detail to an audience and not having them claw their own eyes out from sheer mental overload.

Had this to say on Netflix at the time:

Believe me, you don't have to be a 'D&D' geekazoid to enjoy these films. I didn't read the books first, was, in fact, bored with the rings on my first attempt to read the 'fellowship' book years ago. But curiosity got the better of me after the first movie, and I worked my way through all three of the books this summer. This is now my third viewing of this 'Two Towers' movie. It just gets better each time, and I can't wait for the third one (which you get a tantalizing peek at in the bonus disc). I was really worried that Golum would end up being some sort of 'yoda'-ish computer generated embarrassment, but I was simply blown away by the expressiveness of the character's eyes and found him even more believable than some of the 'real' actors (Liv Tyler for instance). Also noticed on the third viewing, more than a few references and lines that got me thinking, re: 9-11 and another 'two towers'.

5 stars out of 5

Released 2002, First Viewing July 2002 with revisits since, including the ‘extended directors cut’ versions

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The Sound and the Silence (1992)

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Brokenwood Mysteries 12:3 "Midnight in the Garden" — some thoughts

Brokenwood Mysteries 12:3 "Midnight in the Garden" — some thoughts

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Farscape Deck

8 of Hearts – Einstein, played by John Bach

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Reunion trailer released

In Reunion a pregnant woman returns to her recently-deceased grandparents’ old family home to spend time with her estranged mother. What begins as a tenuous reunion slowly turns terrifying. It stars Julia Ormond, Emma Draper, and John Bach. It is directed by Jake Mahaffy.

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