tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21792561.post114308545547759769..comments2024-02-11T21:16:33.722+11:00Comments on boynton: On Lawn Tennis In The Modern Cinemaboyntonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14018259111564295592noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21792561.post-1144023412328324162006-04-03T10:16:00.000+10:002006-04-03T10:16:00.000+10:00Will a Tennis ball launch such a probe?Watched Mr...Will a Tennis ball launch such a probe?<BR/><BR/>Watched <I>Mr Hulot's Holiday</I> again last week. As well as Tennis its treatment of hotel Table Tennis is definitive.boyntonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14018259111564295592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21792561.post-1143761471695215702006-03-31T10:31:00.000+11:002006-03-31T10:31:00.000+11:00should have done it soonerBaseball Launches Steroi...should have done it sooner<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,189631,00.html" REL="nofollow">Baseball Launches Steroids Probe</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21792561.post-1143543816208137972006-03-28T22:03:00.000+11:002006-03-28T22:03:00.000+11:00err - that now reads as if I'm merely restating yo...err - that now reads as if I'm merely restating your argument. <BR/><BR/>I meant it's not just beliveability that may be a problem but the engagement factor in anything less than tennis served at the top level, that we are used to seeing.<BR/>After endless summers of grand slam, is lollypop compelling on the big screen?boyntonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14018259111564295592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21792561.post-1143540259235197562006-03-28T21:04:00.000+11:002006-03-28T21:04:00.000+11:00Maybe it was the vintage pics that made us think p...Maybe it was the vintage pics that made us think pictures instead of movies in the multiplex era?...<BR/><BR/>Also - could it be that all the hours of sports broadcasting has made us equate elite with credibility?<BR/>Or beyond cred, does tennis at any standard sub the Pro circuit seem only social and somehow hokey, like the funny veterans in a charity match exchanging volleys with <I>Crazy John?</I>boyntonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14018259111564295592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21792561.post-1143472159239556712006-03-28T02:09:00.000+11:002006-03-28T02:09:00.000+11:00By the way, "Behind The Green Door" is not about b...By the way, "Behind The Green Door" is not about billiards at all. Bless my cotton socks no.<BR/><BR/>However Archie assures me that another Digital Versitile Disc he's laid his hands on, "Debbie Does Dallas" is this time a genuinely fascinating expose of ancillary sporting activities in a major sporting code.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21792561.post-1143471406113214032006-03-28T01:56:00.000+11:002006-03-28T01:56:00.000+11:00Dammnit you insolent young pups - which bit of "mo...Dammnit you insolent young pups - which bit of "modern cinema" don't you understand?<BR/><BR/>I'm talking about motion pictures made in the last 40 years! <BR/><BR/>In colour! <BR/><BR/>With sound!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21792561.post-1143269491502763882006-03-25T17:51:00.000+11:002006-03-25T17:51:00.000+11:00Drat! No link for 'Green Door' Reggie?Second Serve...Drat! No link for 'Green Door' Reggie?<BR/><A HREF="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091913/" REL="nofollow">Second Serve</A> (1986)the Renee Richards biopic is probably more about sex than serving, but imdb says <BR/>'<B>Hard Fast and Beautiful</B>', 1951, Directed by one of my favourites: the totally sexy and beautiful Ms Ida Lupino, "never deviates from it's<A HREF="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043619/" REL="nofollow"> sports theme"</A>. <BR/>You must have been oblivious to the film there in the backrow of the flicks in 1951 eh Reggie?.BwcaBrowniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11500142856655553009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21792561.post-1143249336869642002006-03-25T12:15:00.000+11:002006-03-25T12:15:00.000+11:00Yes - the shadow is very Hulot(I must watch it aga...Yes - the shadow is very <A HREF="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tweedlebopper/67656632/in/set-566529/" REL="nofollow">Hulot</A><BR/>(I must watch it again to check its lawn tennis cred.)boyntonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14018259111564295592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21792561.post-1143199072194989142006-03-24T22:17:00.000+11:002006-03-24T22:17:00.000+11:00That second picture looks a lot like Jacques Tati ...That second picture looks a lot like Jacques Tati in <I>Hulot's Holiday</I> - surely the definitive cinematic treatment of the game of tennis.Gummo Trotskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13793212800261216868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21792561.post-1143182329167597452006-03-24T17:38:00.000+11:002006-03-24T17:38:00.000+11:00Althea Gibson, of New York, reaching high for shot...<A HREF="http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3c10000/3c13000/3c13200/3c13282v.jpg" REL="nofollow">Althea Gibson</A>, of New York, reaching high for shot during women's singles semifinal match against Christine Truman, of England, in All England Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon, England, July 4, 1957Jukehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02183914310591005773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21792561.post-1143175995484449962006-03-24T15:53:00.000+11:002006-03-24T15:53:00.000+11:00Reggie, old cock, remiss of you to exclude those s...Reggie, old cock, remiss of you to exclude those spiffy sequences from <I>Strangers on a Train</I>. Guy Haines, now he wasn't quite your Tilden - off the court, either, if you know what I mean, children - but he bounced around the sward rather neatly. Lovely forehand, sloppy backhand, and a little too easily distracted by the crowd, for me.<BR/><BR/>Were he still ogling blondes and knew you'd left it out, old Hitch would be mighty batey.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com