Tuesday, July 24, 2018

A Soundtrack for Mamma Mia 3 - Dance (While the music still goes on)


18 great Abba songs that are in neither MM nor MM2:
  1. Eagle
  2. Ring, Ring
  3. That's Me
  4. Disillusion
  5. On And On And On
  6. Cassandra
  7. Under Attack
  8. If It Wasn't For The Nights
  9. As Good As New
  10. Bang-A-Boomerang
  11. Gonna Sing You My Love Song
  12. Happy New Year
  13. Dance (While The Music Still Goes On)
  14. I Am The City
  15. Rock Me
  16. Summer Night City
  17. The Way Old Friends Do
  18. So Long [as the credits roll, Abba's best thumping rocker - all the movies' women can sing it and do Abba's own delightfully dippy choreography]
and on spotify.
I envisage MM3 taking place in Sydney, Australia and as fusing elements of MM and Muriel's Wedding. The climax is a performance by a reunited Abba where thousands of dancers whirl and co-sing around Circular Quay and The Rocks and the Opera House and even on the Harbour Bridge to, among other tunes, an extended/rearranged version of Dance (While The Music Still Goes On). The first 5 or so songs after Eagle on the Soundtrack are set in various locales around the world as characters deal with the frustrations and dissatisfactions in their lives before heading to Aus. for the big reunion. In principle I'd also support MM3 becoming a slightly more general salute to Swedish pop genius, e.g., include a couple of Robyn songs, say, With Every Heartbeat and Hang With Me.

Monday, May 28, 2018

New English subtitles for The Collector (La collectionneuse) (1967)

English subtitles aren't available in the usual places for recent, European Bluray-sourced editions of Rohmer's splendid The Collector (La collectionneuse) (1967), e.g., for releases such as The.Collector.1967.720p.BluRay.x264-MELiTE. I've filled this gap (at least temporarily) by combining old Dvd English subtitles with the timings of recent, release-appropriate Spanish subtitles (a trickier job than it sounds; it took hours), and making the upshot subtitles available without restriction here.

These subtitles are decent but far from perfect (e.g., there's a gap in all existing subtitles at around 30m 45s; the second part of the exchange between Daniel and the villa's Italian cook, to which Haydée mumblingly contributes, goes untranslated, and a joke is missed by those of us without sufficient French; things like google translate make absolutely no headway on this sort of rushed, slightly mumbled, heavily accented French conversation!). Feel free to improve them, and to share your improvements.