[Nigel Mace]

Young bro of a pro-Nazi nutter,
As king, feared he never could utter
Such words as "Dec-lare"
Aloud 'On the Air'
Yet bwoadcast without any stutter.

[Nigel Mace]

Brian - Brilliant on La Regle du Jeu which, like the following, is one of my favourites too.

A niece lost a leg in Toledo
While flouting her uncle's strict credo
"He claims to be free -
Let's try it for me!"
She chose - and let in a tornado.

[Ann Drysdale]

Oh, no - not Hollywood, Jerome...

Six Samurai, swordplay and pain,
But the seventh had far more to gain
And far more to give;
And as long as I live
I'll remember his howl in the rain.

[Brian Allgar]

Jerome -

“The Magnificent Seven” - well, damn your eye!
This remake’s a film that can wham your eye,
But I find Kurosawa
Has far greater power,
And so I prefer “Seven Samurai”.


(Our postings seem to have crossed, Ann!)

(Nigel - "Tristana", by Bunuel)

[Ann Drysdale]

Had they met in that palace before?
To this day I confess I'm not sure
But the ceilings, the sun,
The mysterious gun
Lead me on through each blind corridor.

[Brian Allgar]

Since we have turned this into a guessing game -

L'Année dernière à Marienbad

[Pedro Poitevin]

This black and white movie incites
to hush like a God in the heights
and watch a knight strive
as Death comes alive
in a chessboard of long days and nights.

[Jerome Betts]

I rebut Ann's implicit aspersion.
The remake's a Tex-Mex excursion
Which has lots of pistols,
Hints of cleavage and bristols,
And less art than the Japanese version.

[Brian Allgar]

Pedro, I'd been thinking of doing "The Seventh Seal", but you beat me to it.

[Jerome Betts]

A man in an unredeemed state
Whose clock never changes its date
Lays on charm with a trowel
And wins Andie McDowell
Which suggests that it's never too late.