[Ann Drysdale]

Three goatherds killed one maiden fair.
When her father found out, he went spare.
I need this, he said,
Like a toad in the bread,
And despatched them all three, then and there.

[Marion Shore]

Chris, that's hard to beat. But there's always tomorrow...

A troubled youth headed for jail
meets up with a sad killer whale.
How the boy helps his friend
to go home in the end
makes for one splashy whale tale.

[Brian Allgar]

Originally Posted by Chris O'Carroll

Life at Tara is all glitz and glam.
Humble slaves say yassuh and yes ma’am
Then secessionist masters
Make war, and disasters
Befall the South. Who gives a damn?

So the film goes its mawkish old way
Till it ends with a lousy cliche:
Should we laugh or feel sorrow
To learn that “Tomorrow
Is” (yuckity-yuck) “another day”?

[Brian Allgar]

Ah, Ann ... "The Virgin Spring" - brilliant, but one of the most unbearably harrowing films I've ever seen.

[Marion Shore]

Brian, "The Virgin Spring" is a screwball comedy, compared to "The Passion of Anna"!


When Lillian Gish took the rap
while protecting her minister chap
by wearing the letter,
the film was far better
than that Demi Moore piece of crap.

[Pedro Poitevin]

A nurse meets an actress in trouble
who's lived for so long in a bubble
she never recovers––
the nurse soon discovers
her fate is becoming her double.

[Jerome Betts]

A girl and her brother, though hot,
Walk about in the outback a lot,
Meet a genuine Ozzie,
Have a swim minus cozzy
And that's about that for the plot.

[Brian Allgar]

Marion, I haven't seen "The Passion of Anna" (which I think in England is just called "A Passion"). Being by Bergman, I'm prepared to believe it's harrowing - but is it visually harrowing like "The Virgin Spring"?

A great director, even if I find some of his middle-to-late films tedious. But I love "Smiles of a Summer Night", "Wild Strawberries", and "Fanny and Alexander", to name but three.

And I believe Pedro's (above) is "Persona".

[Pedro Poitevin]

Wild Strawberries is gorgeous!

Pedro.

[Jerome Betts]

A man from the bush, lean and brown,
Doesn't let outback crocs get him down.
He knows every trick
And impresses the chick
So her name becomes that of a town