Sinister: Through the Olive (from On The Buses) Trees

[PJMiller]

I had the misfortune of seeing it at the Dublin Film
>Festival and it's this sort of plotless humourless junk that give foreign
>films a bad name

Unless you're a plotless humourless Iranian...I once sat through an entire
season of Islamic (or Islam-related) films, one of which was the same
director's Through the Olive Trees, which also featured a Range Rover
(surely no accident?). I thought it was a lovely film, there's a whole
section that you have to sit through twice, totally freaky, and it's got as
nice an ending as you could hope for. Either I didn't know it was from Iran
or I had forgotten. All hail the conquering genius of Abbas Kiarostami. It
should appeal to B&S fans as well, as it is a clumsy love story in the
Gregory's Girl mould. Sort of. Another goodie from that season was El Bab
Boo Bob City or something, which touches on the importance of P!O!P! in a
rather unusual manner. But the best one was a short film about a little boy
who can't get past a big dog in an alley and eventually has to give the dog
some bread. All to the groovy sounds of Ob La Di Ob La Da in a proto
loungecore style. In glorious black and white.

>If anyone knows of record shops in Paris/Toulouse/Bordeaux could they
please
>let me know.  I'm heading over next week for a couple of games, being one
of
>the jammy sods who got through on that hotline.

Are you going to that Saudi Arabia - South Africa game I've got my eye on?
My envy knows no bounds. Bulgaria were funny today, weren't they?

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