You have offended my family and you have offended the Shaolin Temple

More filmtastic shenanigans:

Ben Hur – I can’t believe I hadn’t seen this before. S’very good, and the chariot race bit is awesome, although there are sections t with a definite whiff of gorgonzola.

Enter the Dragon – I don’t get the Bruce Lee thing at all. The better-than-average fights did little to redeem the dreadful plot and dialogue, and the whole thing is riddled with racial and sexual stereotypes that were outmoded even in 1973.

Irma La Douce – I absolutely adore The Apartment, and this was put together by the same team. The early scenes, with Jack Lemmon as an innocent cop in the red light district, are brilliant, but it sags with a big plot development halfway through and is tedious thereafter.

The Sydney Festival 2006 is now underway. The new Robert LePage show, The Andersen Project, is brilliant, although it’s a little too similar to his earlier Far Side of the Moon. We saw it with Jen and Andrew, neither of whom had seen a LePage before and were therefore blown away. A lovely bonus was winning a pair of tix for All Wear Bowlers, which was an entertaining riff on Godot and Laurel & Hardy – a kind of existentialist slapstick. A nice bit of sample dialogue:

“What are you worried about?”
“The Void.”
“Whatever do you mean?”
“Nothing.”

PS You may wondering about our daughter. Where did I see her last? Oh yes, she’s up at Avoca being looked after by the grandparents Player. M’s back up with them tonight, so…guess I’ll watch a video.